Dropping a fiver at your local GameStop location for Lost Planet 2 will score you a code granting you access to the skin of Resident Evil’s superhuman Umbrella Corporation operative. Sure, you won’t get Albert’s superhuman strength, speed, and regeneration, but you will also unlock his revolver, which is just as handy to have around.

Resident Evil #3 Written by Ricardo Sanchez. Drawn by Jheremy Raapack and Al Barrionuevo.

Summary Via Publisher Wildstorm:
Videogame industry writer Ricardo Sanchez brings the bio-weapons of Resident Evil to the jungles of South America! Follow two agents as they unravel the connections between a Space Station, a telepathic G-Virus and Geisel Industries.

Modern Warfare 2 #3 Written by David Lapham. Drawn by Kevin West.

Summary Via Publisher Wildstorm:
In anticipation of the sequel to the groundbreaking game, WildStorm brings you a no-holds-barred, brutal tale of the mysterious Task Force 141 soldier known as “Ghost”. Learning the motivation behind his mask and moniker is the tip of the iceberg in a story spanning the globe from the United Kingdom to war-torn Afghanistan to the drug war in Mexico. Believe us, this will be talked about for years to come! Award-winning creator David Lapham (YOUNG LIARS, Stray Bullets) is joined by artist Kevin West in a shattering 6-issue tour-de-force epic!

Street Fighter IV #4 Written by Ken Siu-Chong. Drawn by Joe Ng.

Summary Via Publisher Udon Entertainment:
Street Fighter IV #4, the final chapter of our four-issue SFIV miniseries, goes on sale November 11! This issue features the epic match-up Seth VS Akuma, plus appearances by Sakura, Dan, C.Viper, Abel, El Fuerte and more! Also, the issue will feature the first in-story appearance of one of the all-new characters for Super Street Fighter IV(heck, they game won’t even be out until Spring 2010!). So don’t miss it!

The decision comes after a poll the company held, with users overwhelmingly voting in favour of picking up the game as DLC when it’s released next year, rather than opting for a boxed copy.

Interestingly, instead of simply leaving it at “well, the people have spoken”, Capcom’s Chris Kramer has specifically urged on the company’s blog for customers to hold off “thinking about selling RE5 back or handing it off to a friend” in the meantime, which makes it sound like the decision had a lot more to do with saying “f—k you, GameStop used game sales” than bowing to the will of the great unwashed.

Director Paul W.S. Anderson is currently filming Resident Evil: Afterlife and star Milla Jovovich tweeted this tidbit: “Valentine MAY be back.” That also means she may not be back.

Perhaps, Guillory worked out her contract issues or perhaps the producers are bringing on another actress altogether to play Valentine.

Valentine to Return in Resident Evil: Afterlife? [ShockTillYouDrop.com]

Don’t believe us that Jovovich is a serious twit. Check out her updates from the last 24 hours or so, which provide all sorts of details about Afterlife. Deep breath, here goes, Jovovich’s selected tweets:

they were of the big action sequence with Alice and Claire fighting THE EXECUTIONER who in reality is an 8 ft. tall heavy weight boxer!

he has a HUGE axe and we’re in a prison shower, so everytime he swings the axe, showers explode!

so thru the whole scene its literally raining! so beautiful!

…so before we started shooting Paul met with the creators of the game and they are too much! so sureal!

he”s sitting in this very “umbrella” style boardroom and there”s like 6 japanese guys, very serious, all staring at him. kind of akward.lol!

so the japanese are all staring at him and he trys to make some conversation you know? and he says”so whats some future plans for umbrella?”

thinking they will laugh or something right? i mean its a fictional corporation for heavens sake!

but they VERY seriously look at him and the main dude goes(imagine the japanese accent please) “umbrella corporation has many secrets.” lol!

its so creepy right? i laughed so hard when he told me that. its like, relax a bit guys! they act as if they really are umbrella! scary.

…we’re doing a great scene where Alice walks into umbrella headquarters and there are 6 huge V22 Ospreys lined up in a huge hangar.

the ospreys are VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) planes, otherwise known in the US military as “widowmakers” because they crash so often

of course umbrella’s ospreys don’t malfunction and they look a million times cooler cause umbrella is very into aesthetics! lol!

…someone asked if the executioner looks like the ax man in silent hill. well, kind of, but much cooler!

cause he doesn’t wear a triangle on his head and doesn’t show man arse.

…so, for anyone interested in the guns i use in this movie, here is the list:

2 smith&wesson 460 revolvers, 2 sawed off double barrel shotguns,1MPSK submachine gun,2MP9 submachine guns and 1 M4 assault rifle. phew!

so, Wentworth, Ali and i are doing this scene right now where chris r. and clair r. run into the V22 hangar, guns blazing,

trying to shoot Wesker, but to run in groups firing weapons is VERY dangerous.

cause shooting a gun with full loads, even though they are blanks could make your head cave in at short range. fun right?! hehehe… not.

and the last time we all did a scene when we were all firing together, i could feel my hair flying up from the guns behind me.

Twittering at a break-neck pace — but can she keep it up?! The account isn’t verified, so your mileage might vary. And sadly, Milla Jovovich follows no one. Somebody explain the concept of Twitter to her and quick.

Milla Jovovich (MillaJovovich) on Twitter [Twitter via ShockTillYouDrop.com via http://io9.com/5397578/doctor-who-and-resident-evil-both-have-scary-shower-scenes-but-theyre-very-different">io9]

The horde descended on Tate Modern in London on Saturday, with more than 50 zombies aided by the Viking Hats Zombie Crawl Team making up the shambling, moaning, and decomposing army of Resident Evil fans.

If you ask me, there’s not enough mass hysteria in mass marketing. Nicely done, Capcom UK PR team!

And as a mother and star of a series of action films based on zombie games, she probably has a good take on entertainment, kids and parenting.

She does! The actress tells Parade.com, “I think parents need to take a lot more responsibility than they do about whether it’s OK for their children to go to Resident Evil or any other movie with violence or sex or whatever. It’s really easy to blame Hollywood for violence having an effect on kids, but movies would have no power if parents would just set their own standards. And it’s the same with video games.”

Milla Jovovich ‘It’s Really Easy to Blame Hollywood For Violence’ [Parade Thanks mr_raccoon!]

Screen Gems offers this:

In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead leads them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.

In a world destroyed by sucky game movies and populated with profitable sequels, humanity has been left searching for answers. Now, one woman and one man have the power to change that and spread their voice all across the Earth for all of mankind to hear. This time, they’ve decided to make another Resident Evil movie.

Full Synopsis and Cast for Resident Evil: Afterlife [ComingSoon via One Last Continue]

The current films have strayed far from the source material, and according to website Bloody Disgusting, the concept for the quasi reboot “is to redo the story of a special military unit who fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.”

The project is to be called Resident Evil Begins and is still quite early in the planning stage. It does not appear to be a vehicle for actress Milla Jovovich. Her husband, Paul W.S. Anderson, has produced, written or directed all the Resident Evil films to date. No word on whether he’ll be involved with this quasi reboot or not.

RE Franchise Getting Quasi Reboot [Bloody Disgusting] [Pic]

The director and Jovovich were wed at their Beverly Hills abode in an outdoor ceremony, attending by friends and family. This is Jovovich’s third marriage and his first.

Anderson is best known for turning video games like Mortal Kombat and Dead or Alive into feature films. Jovovich is best known for being really pretty.

Milla Gets Married [The Sun]