Everything you need to know about the Resident Evil 4 remake: Trailer, release date and more

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(Pocket-lint) — Not for the first time, we're going back to Resident Evil 4 — Capcom confirmed during June 2022's State of Play presentation that one of its most successful ever games is being remade for next-gen consoles and PC.

The game is going to be updated to 2023 standards, according to Capcom, and should therefore look absolutely superb, given how impressive Village looked last year. Here are all the key facts for you.

Resident Evil 4's trailer appeared during a PlayStation State of Play event in early June 2022, and was that rarest of things — a gaming reveal that ends with a concrete date.

Thanks to that trailer we know the game will be arriving on 24 March 2023 — so you've still got a little while to wait before you can step into Leon's shoes again.

While the game was shown off as part of a PlayStation event, it's not going to be exclusive to Sony's platform — Resident Evil 4 will release on PlayStation 5, but also on Xbox Series X/S and PC. Finally, it'll have support for " rel=«noopener» target="_blank">PSVR 2, Sony's next-generation virtual reality headset. 

This means that the game is skipping last-gen consoles, a significant step. That said, by its release the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S will have been out for well over two years, so we're very much in the phase where release do start to skip the older consoles for the sake of more focussed performance.

We're going to keep things vague in case you've never played the original Resident Evil 4, on any of the many, many platforms it has been re-released on since it first came out.

The game sees Leon Kennedy, star of Resident Evil 2, take on a perilous mission to rescue the American President's daughter. She's been abducted by a cult based in rural Spain, taking