Dead Rising Port Coming To America In Winter

The best part about a port is that it never takes very long from announcement to release date. Merely a handful of days ago it was discovered that part-time zombie slayer and full-time journalist Frank West would be getting a second swing at things. Initally we only had confirmation of a release date for Japan with a rather gloomy “TBA” given in place of a North American release date.

Today things aren’t looking quite as bleak. We’ve got at least a general range of time when we can expect to waggle our Wiimotes to make zombie parts fly across our screens. It’s an unsurprising time too, given the nature of the industry: Winter.

A perfect time to release a game; it’s too cold for many to spend much time outside and with several holiday seasons coming up our rampant commercialism is likely to breathe some life back into the game, along with plenty of cash into Capcom’s coffers, especially since they’re retooling some aspects of the game that were major complaints the first time around including the save system. The port will officially be titled Dead Rising: Chop Til You Drop and will be based on the game engine used in Resident Evil 4.