[STEAM] Resident Evil Requiem Launches Today, Though Its Amiibo Figures Won't Arrive For Another 5 Months

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Nintendo has finally detailed when its

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amiibo figurines will be ready — and there's still a significant wait yet for fans, despite the game's official launch today.

As detailed in a fresh post on Nintendo's website,

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will go on ***** on July 30 — a date which is still five months away.

There's no word on why the amiibo won't be ready sooner, and an image of the two posted today shows the same figures as revealed previously (which attracted some fan criticism for the design of Leon's rather basic-looking features). Perhaps July will mark the arrival of some new Requiem content? Or perhaps Nintendo knows fans will buy the amiibo regardless.

Amiibo figures for third-party games are rarer than those for Nintendo's own titles and characters, but far from unheard of. Dark Souls and Diablo both received a tie-in amiibo figurine, while Nintendo has also decided to create one for Resident Evil publisher Capcom's upcoming Pragmata.

Earlier today,

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was now available, which the company said contained "several fixes" for issues that fans should install before booting up the game. While the game has only been available a few hours

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. Meanwhile,

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— it's more complicated than anything seen in the franchise to date, and something we're keeping a close eye on.

"Like the result of an experiment conducted in an underground Umbrella Corporation lab, Resident Evil Requiem successfully splices two separate strains of survival horror together into the one highly infectious new mutation," IGN wrote in our human-authored

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, awarding the game 9/10.

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Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You can reach Tom at [email protected] or find him on Bluesky

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