Finally I found something that proves this! I'm so happy. The game has never actually contradicted anything but still, this was a neat find.


2002
-September
The t-virus in the development laboratory of Umbrella's Paris branch is stolen.

The luxury cruise liner "Spencer Rain" owned by Umbrella is sea-jacked and turns into a stage of bioterrorism using the stolen virus. In order to raise funds for the revival of his company, Spencer secretly prepared a B.O.W. auction here. But in this terror, Umbrella loses many precious samples and customers.


This is from a Capcom book titled "Inside of Biohazard Darkside Chronicles" which includes a timeline ranging from 1960s to the event of RE5 in 2009.

That's cool. I thought it was already officially canon.

The book isn't that new so you're right. It's just that I had not known of such printed publication existing. Until this point the canonicity of the game was always debatable as it had not been previously mentioned in anything official.

Directly from Capcom? Nice. Also, I just recently visited a comic book/video game store near me. It's heaven in there! I saw Dead Aim, Code Veronica X for Dreamcast, some Outbreaks and other RE games. I also saw the first 2 golden Zelda games, Super Mario RPG ($40! I almost got it), Mortal Kombat 1 for Genesis...all sorts of goodies! It was epic.

I always thought it was canon, but just beacuse there isn't anything for it not to be canon