Resident Evil 6 was a divisive game for many this year. Some felt it was a complete betrayal of the series’ roots while others enjoyed the more action-packed scenarios. Either way, PC gamers were left out of the fun until a later date that had yet to be decided – that decision came today.

Capcom announced that Resident Evil 6 will launch on the PC on March 22, 2013. The game will feature all of the additions that just launched on the console version including a better camera, the “No Hope” difficulty mode, and having Ada’s campaign unlocked from the start.

The PC-specific additions are the usual features that you see on Steam supported games. The game will feature cloud saves, Steam achievements, Friends support, game overlay and leaderboards. More interesting, however, is the game’s required and recommended system specs. They imply that the game is going to get some visual upgrades as well if the recommend specs are any indication:

Minimum specs

OS: Windows Vista/XP, Windows 7, Windows 8

Processor: Intel CoreTM2 Duo 2.4 Ghz or better, AMD AthlonTM X2 2.8 Ghz or better

Memory: 2 GB RAM

Hard Disk Space: 16 GB free hard drive space

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS or better

DirectX: 9.0c or greater

Sound: Standard audio device

Recommended specs

OS: Windows Vista/XP, Windows 7, Windows 8

Processor: Intel CoreTM 2 Quad 2.7 Ghz or better, AMD PhenomTM II X4 3 Ghz or better

Memory: 4 GB RAM

Hard Disk Space: 16 GB free hard drive space

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 or better

DirectX: 9.0c or greater

Sound: Standard audio device

In other news, a second update will be hitting Resident Evil 6 on January 22. This update unlocks Agent Hunt mode from the start, adds stage selection from within chapters, and a QTE assist mode that completes all those pesky QTE challenges automatically. This update will also ship with the PC version in March.