There will be another Resident Evil, but Capcom still hasn't decided who should head up the next installment. At Comic-Con, Resident Evil 5 producer Jun Takeuchi revealed several producers were playing blackjack to determine who was saddled with the responsibility of the next Resident Evil. At GamesCom, however, Takeuchi told Billy Berghammer that's not working.

"There are three candidates and we've been playing blackjack for a long time in order to pick the role of producer for the next one," he said, "but we haven’t decided yet. So, we have to switch to something else – poker or something. Blackjack was not working."

Since the release of Resident Evil 5, Takeuchi has expressed exhaustion over the game's development and a desire to let someone else take the helm.

"It’s [Resident Evil] a great project to work on," he said, "but it’s really, really hard."

I got one question. How can I get in on this?

They should just bring back Mikami for the game. I can't imagine the disaster the next one will be.

Isn't the next one for the psp?

Mikami is gone, he'll never com back

The series is burdened by a horribly cumbersome story. One of the key reasons why RE4 was a better game (still very fond of RE5) was because of the departure from Umbrella and Tyrants and all that. It was a fresh and interesting new start. RE5 screwed the pooch by crossing the Las Plagas and T-Virus streams into some grand nonsensical farce of a plot.

There are too many games, too much backstory to reference, too many things that may be canon or not canon. This series really just needs a reboot.