It's been rumoured for a while, but today Capcom have officially confirmed via press release the existence of Dead Rising 2. The sequel is set several years after the first game with the zombie virus having spread beyond the mall and town of Willamette, featuring a new lead (and as yet unnamed) protagonist and with the action taking place in "gambling paradise" Fortune City. The game is being handled by Blue Castle Games, with Capcom promising that members from the original Dead Rising team will be involved with the production. And it's going to be on the big three platforms (the Wii getting Chop 'Til You Drop later this year), which i have already seen for pre-order in local game shops. The main complication holding back a sequel to Dead Rising was the legal battle with the MKR Group.The MKR Group, who holds the copyright to both the 1978 Dawn of the Dead film and its 2004 remake, sent letters on February 6, 2008 to Capcom, Microsoft, and Best Buy, claiming that Dead Rising infringes on the copyrights and trademarks of these films. In a complaint filed February 12, 2008 to seek an injunction preventing a lawsuit from MKR, Capcom asserted that "humans battling zombies in a shopping mall" is a "wholly unprotectible idea" under today's copyright laws; Capcom further points to the warning "label" on the box cover as a preemptive measure to separate the game from the films. The MKR Group has since filed a lawsuit after failing to reach an agreement with Capcom over the dispute.The lawsuit was dismissed in October 2008, with United States Magistrate Judge Richard Seeborg stating that MKR failed to demonstrate the similarity of any protected element of Dawn of the Dead to that of Dead Rising, with many of the elements MKR claimed were similar being part of the "wholly unprotectable concept of humans battling zombies in a mall during a zombie outbreak".
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