A new Dead Rising game may be set for announcement later this year as part of the series’ 20th anniversary celebration.
The official Capcom store in Japan has reveled new Dead Rising merchandise (via Emiska3 on Reddit), featuring a plushie of protagonist Frank West wearing a blue suit and what appears to be a new hair cut. Given that Capcom has talked about having new title launches before the end of its fiscal year ending March 31, 2027, it’s not outside the realm of possibility for a new Dead Rising title to get announced sometime soon.
As seen in the image above, the Frank West plushie will go on sale later this moth on July 31, 2026. It is part of a series of Dead Rising 20th anniversary merchandise.
Back in February, 2023, details and never before seen gameplay footage from Capcom’s canceled Dead Rising 5 were leaked online. In addition to gameplay videos from 2017, new information appeared via a portfolio showcasing a level design and milestone presentation on the Unreal Engine title . It included details regarding gameplay features, such as a loot container system and the addition of camps.
The portfolio stated that previous Dead Rising titles had loot strewn all over the ground, making it difficult to tell what was important or useful. It was also extremely taxing on GPU resources to render it all out. The loot container was, therefore, the technical level designer’s proposed solution, allowing the designers to contextualize different drops, clean up the environment, and free up some memory. The technical level designer worked on an early prototype of a jungle level, which featured plenty of zombies to kill and several gang bases to raid, leading up to a boss. They also created the fence spawners, bush spawners, and trunk spawners tech for this level. Another boss fight against a drug lord with an electrified metallic fake arm known as the El Guapo was mentioned to be in its early phase back in 2017.
