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Nintendo Releases Mysterious “Smiling Man” Teaser [Watch]

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Nintendo has gone the creepy route with a cryptic new video that, well, doesn’t explain a whole lot. Published across their regional social media accounts, the video is entitled “Emio,” while the Japanese version of the video is titled “The Smiling Man.”

The 15-second video (which is now age restricted) carries an ESRB rating of Mature, featuring various shots of a man in a trenchcoat wearing a paper bag on his head that sports a smiley face. The Japanese kanji that appears at the end is the aforementioned “Smiling Man.” The only description for the video is “#WhoIsEmioVisit”.

Making things even more interesting is that the Japanese version of the video leads to this teaser site. Staying on the teaser site has the man changing the paper bag for a split second for an alternate smiley face. Other than that, we’re stumped.

Nintendo has obviously tried to shed its image as being predominantly kid friendly in the past, so whatever this next title is, we’re all for it.

Thanks to Gematsu for the info!

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‘Resident Evil’ Cast Reunite With Rebecca Chambers’ Actress [Watch]

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Director Andrew Saullo has just dropped the second Resident Evil cast reunion. And this time, Charlie KraslavskyGreg Smith and Eric Pirius (who played Chris Redfield, Barry Burton and Albert Wesker, respectively) are joined by the surprise addition of Rebecca Chambers’ actress, known as Linda! The quartet were joined by Saullo, as well as Residence of Evil founder JJ Trulock to discuss (what else?) their experience with Resident Evil, as well as some behind-the-scenes info on the shoot for the cutscenes.

Regarding the shoot for the cutscenes, Linda said that the experience “left a really big impact” on her at the time. “It was a big day. It was a wild shoot and it was very different than anything else that I had been doing in Japan at the time when I was modelling.” Still, Linda did remember her fellow actors, though she admitted that they all “looked a little bit different” at the time, including herself. “I remember for the shoot, I actually had blonde hair, and they spray painted my hair that morning so I would look more like Rebecca.”

As for her knowledge of Resident Evil, Linda admitted that she’s still learning about the series and her character. “I didn’t know a lot about the job, or that anyone was looking for [me] up until probably about four years ago, where someone reached out to me and they found me. But even then, I didn’t understand the magnitude of the entire situation. Only now I’m realizing like wow, there’s maybe someone out there that you know it’s like ‘Wow, that’s Rebecca Chambers!’. So it’s new to me, and I’m kind of just going with it.”

The interview (which you can check out below) also includes a special announcement of a four-part fan-made web series, which will be directed by Andrew Saullo (who also directed the fan-made short The Keeper’s Diary, in case you missed it). All four of the actors will be reprising their roles in the web series. It will not be an official Resident Evil series (for copyright reasons). Crowdfunding for the project will be launched “soon”.

 

 

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