Now I was going to preface this one with a whole “don’t leak stuff, you assclowns” rant, but since I know some people won’t care (or don’t want to be nagged at), I’ll just leave it at this: Capcom, like other video game companies, 99 times out of 100 don’t mean for things to be leaked on purpose.

Case in point: Someone on Reddit wanted their 15 minutes of fame, and leaked an image of a redesigned Ada Wong from Capcom’s upcoming remake of Resident Evil 2. We know that it’s real, because in a now-deleted tweet, Capcom Community Manager had stated that the image was uploaded by someone (from the looks of the watermark, a Chinese source) breaking an NDA. Furthermore, if you caught the E3 2018 trailer, you saw a millisecond shot of someone hidden in shadows wearing a trenchcoat that looks exactly like Ada does in the leaked image.

As with Claire, Ada has undergone a redesign from her original RE2 incarnation, which is what Capcom was hoping to keep secret. Well, now it’s out there. Given that we were probably supposed to see Ada at some point (at Capcom’s choosing), Capcom will probably now have to pivot their direction on reveals as the January 25 release date creeps closer.