The virtual reality “remake” of the horror video game Resident Evil 4, developed by the Japanese studio Capcom, will be available from October 21 for Facebook Oculus Quest 2 viewers.

Resident Evil 4, the fourth installment in Capcom’s horror video game saga, was originally released in 2005 for the Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2 consoles, and later made its way to PC, Wii, later consoles, and even mobile devices.

Now, this title considered “one of the best video games ever made” according to Oculus, will arrive exclusively on its Quest 2 virtual reality headset on October 21 in the form of a new “remake” adapted for virtual reality, the company has informed in a statement.

The new video game maintains iconic aspects of the original title, including support for teleportation and movement between rooms as a means of exploring its universe.

Although the player’s movement occurs through the Oculus control stick, the developer Automature included a series of commands to be performed with the upper body through touch controls with both hands.

This new release of Resident Evil also redesigned the operation of weapons and other objects, so that the player can collect and interact with them as if they physically existed, and even remove them directly from the body instead of with the traditional weapon menu.

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Facebook is working internally on the development of a new version of its Instagram social network aimed at underage users, specifically those under 13 years of age, below the current minimum version of the app for adults.

This has been revealed by internal documents of executives of the social network. In them, Instagram VP of Product Vishal Shah assured her employees that “youth work has been identified as a priority” in the first half of 2021.

In this way, the Instagram Product group will focus on “developing a version that allows people under 13 to use the app for the first time“.

As an additional aspect, Instagram also plans to “accelerate work on integrity and privacy” so that its main version and the new version for minors “ensure the safest possible experience for teenagers.”

According to the internal Facebook document, those in charge of supervising the new project for the version of Instagram for minors are the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, and the vice president of the social network, Pavni Diwanji, who participated in the development of YouTube Kids in his previous stage in Google.

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Nintendo’s plans do not include a new Switch model soon, when it will be four years since the platform’s arrival worldwide, and two of the Lite version, as indicated by the company in the presentation of financial results.

Nintendo Switch has sold 11.6 million units during the Christmas period, an increase of 7 % over the previous year, despite supply problems due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The President, Shuntaro Furukawa, explained that sales of this hardware remain strong and that Nintendo has enough components to maintain the supply, as reported in Bloomberg.

Furukawa also indicated that the Japanese company has no plans to announce a new Switch model soon, when four years from the launch of the original Switch (March 2017), and two of the Lite version will be completed in 2021 ( September 2019).

In August, Bloomberg reported that Nintendo was working on a new Switch expected to be released this year to compete in the market with the new hardware from Sony and Microsoft.

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