Resident Evil Requiem Hides a Secret Website Address — But the Domain Has Now Been Snatched Up By a Gabe Newell Fan

A concealed website code hidden wrong Resident Evil Requiem looks to person been snatched up archetypal by a instrumentality of Valve laminitis Gabe Newell.

Peer intimately into the screens of Leon's Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance computers and you'll spot the pursuing URL listed amid a drawstring of code: NEWDAWN-capcom.com. But alternatively than an authoritative website owned by Resident Evil's publisher, the website present redirects to a holding leafage owned by Gabe Follower, a contented creator and instrumentality of Valve.

According to domain ownership information seen by IGN, the website code was lone claimed and registered this week, connected March 9. Ownership has been secured for 1 year, meaning that immoderate plans Capcom had for the tract whitethorn request to wait, oregon beryllium changed.

Among the gibberish words connected the BSAA's machine successful RE9, there's a domain called “NEWDAWN-capcom . com” one tried searching it, but thing came up. The lone narration to “NEWDAWN” one could deliberation of are “Through the Darkness” lyrics & Wesker's quotes successful RE4R/RE5. #REBHFun pic.twitter.com/SRdn9rKZZn

Interestingly, March 9 is the aforesaid day that the website code was spotted and shared connected societal media by RacconSurvivor, a instrumentality who cleverly utilized a limb scope to adjacent person astatine the BSAA machine surface and sift done its gibberish code.

Did Gabe Follower spot this tweet and promptly drawback up the domain? We've asked what happened present — and contacted Capcom to spot what its ain plans are now.

Of course, the beingness of a website code with "Capcom" successful the sanction appears to beryllium a deliberate tease wrong Requiem for thing promotional (or, alternatively, Capcom is present canon wrong the Resident Evil universe). Was the steadfast readying to usage it for its upcoming Resident Evil Requiem DLC? We whitethorn present ne'er know. Capcom could present take to edit the website code in-game, oregon yet unreal the full happening ne'er existed.

In the meantime, fans are trying to enactment retired what "New Dawn" mightiness notation to. As Automaton notes, the initials "ND" are featured connected Leon's car, which features the licence sheet "ND=9642." And yes, those are the numbers for the Resident Evil games that Leon S. Kennedy has appeared successful — Resident Evil 9 (Requiem), 6 (as 1 of a fewer playable protagonists), 4 and 2. Mysterious.

For now, if you're inactive playing, IGN's Resident Evil: Requiem usher volition assistance you each measurement of the mode done RE9. Take enactment of these cardinal tips and tricks earlier you get started, and absorption connected uncovering these important items early. Plus, our broad walkthrough volition marque definite you don't miss a azygous Bobblehead oregon record arsenic you effort to past from the Rhodes Hill Chronic Care Center each the mode to Raccoon City.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social