Bionic Commando has arrived on Steam.

The PC version will run you $39.99 and there is also a bundle up for grabs which includes the game plus Bionic Commando: Rearmed for $44.99.

More details are through the link.

Bionic Commando Rearmed will be getting a patch and Trophies.

According to Capcom Unity, Grin has reworked Easy and Normal difficulties, and fixed a bug with Super Joe Machine Gun and allowing a larger clip and more damage.

The patch will be made available on Xbox Live and PSN soon, with the later getting the addition of Trophies.

More patch notes are through the link.

Nelson’s confirmed that Bionic Commando Rearmed is a mere 400 MS Points to Gold Live subs this week, a 50 percent reduction.

Which is pretty cool. Certainly better than taking a third off DLC so long and forgotten you’d need a handsome prince to break into its castle and kiss it awake.

Buy it.

Capcom dropped the price of the PS3 version of Bionic Commando Rearmed today, in celebration of the fact its big brother comes out next week.

Running from today to next Thursday, the 2D side-scroller will cost £3.99/€4.99 on PSN instead of the usual £6.99/€9.99.

Amazing. Buy it.

According to this post by producer Ben Judd, Bionic Commando: Rearmed has sold 130,000 copies in a week on sale.

The Capcom remake is available for download on PS3, 360 and PC.

“That may not seem impressive compared to package titles that sell in the millions but compared to other digital titles that is a friggin juggernaut,” said Judd.

“Basically, we have set a standard in digital gaming. The bar has been raised and you have let developers around the world know that if they invest the time, money, and heart into making (and remaking) some great games, you will support that initiative.”

More through the link.

According to this post from Capcom producer Ben Judd, Bionic Commando: Rearmed has topped 110,000 downloads.

Translated by AndriaSang.

The levels are challenge rooms, which are kind of like the VR missions from Metal Gear, but with bigger arms. Take a look.

According to this Kotaku post, Capcom and Valve were “unable to reach mutually agreeable terms” over a Steam release, so that explains that.

The Major sends word that Bionic Commando: Rearmed is now up on Live at a cost of 800 MS Points.

Capcom’s action remake got a whopping 9.4/10 from IGN yesterday, so it’s probably worth a sniff.

IGN’s given Bionic Commando: Rearmed 9.4/10, a score that’ll no doubt brighten Capcom’s day. In a nutshell:

Bionic Commando Rearmed sets a new benchmark for downloadable console games. The best elements of the original are back, but have been upgraded to be better than before. The new bosses add a more interesting challenge and the final level is one for the ages. And, of course, the visuals are brilliant. The remastered soundtrack is fantastic as well. From top to bottom, Bionic Commando Rearmed is an incredible game that’s well worth owning.

Video review after the break. Game’s out tomorrow worldwide.

The news comes after the Japanese Xbox site yesterday confirmed the game for an August 13 release.

Nothing’s confirmed as yet, but it’s good to know we’re getting close. Sorry, we would write more words, but our fingers are melting. Someone needs to turn the sun off.

Here’s what you can expect from Capcom’s Comic Con games-wise:

Bionic Commando
Bionic Commando: Rearmed
Dark Void
MotoGP 08
Mega Man 9
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Neopets Puzzle Adventure
Flock!
Plunder
plus Capcom Mobile games

Exclusive trailers:
Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil: Degeneration CG movie
SF IV CG animated mini-movie trailers

- plus, some surprise game demos and trailers!

Vivendi’s making a big showing there as well, we’re told, so if you’re in the area following the LA show it may be worth hiring a car and driving south. We did that once. We were trying to get to Mexico. We’ll tell you about that another time.

Posting on the US PlayStation blog, Capcom’s confirmed a number of things about Bionic Commando: Rearmed, including the fact it has DualShock 3 support.

Producer Ben Judd also talks about helicopter pilot Haley, the game’s medal system and the 13-gauge “Hagle Breaker” Assault Shotgun.

This column’s going to be a regular thing. Take a look.

The embargo’s up on content from Capcom’s CAPTIVATE08 event, and Eurogamer’s done some work for once. We’ll just link to Tom’s stuff, as everyone else appears to be asleep.

Update: Some alarm clocks have gone off now. Links added.

• Resident Evil 5 preview (new screens) – Eurogamer
• First Resident Evil 5 gameplay impressions – Kotaku
• Resident Evil 5 impressions – 1UP
• Resident Evil 5 devs 60 percent done, aim for more than 20 hours – Joystiq
• Street Fighter IV hands-on – Eurogamer
• Street Fighter IV hands-on – 1UP
• New details on Street Fighter IV’s home versions – Kotaku
• Bionic Commando hands-on ( new screens) – Eurogamer
• Bionic Commando hands-on – Kotaku
• Dark Void preview (new screens) – Eurogamer
• Dark Void dev explains Capcom choice – the return of Ed Fries – Eurogamer
• SF IV to feature anime storytelling (and an example of how it looks) – Eurogamer
• Hands-on with new Puzzle Quest dev game, Neopets (screens) – Eurogamer
• Spyborgs announced for Wii (screens) – Eurogamer
• Bionic Commando Rearmed in July – Eurogamer

The game is finished though, apparently.

“All we can say right now is that the game is done, and is more awesome that pure liquid awesome,” said Capcom through its virtual mouthpiece.

No further date has been issued on the downloadable action remake as yet.

Couple of impressions of the multiplayer side of Bionic Commando: Rearmed just popped up. No online, unfortunately, but it still sounds great. There’s one on Destructoid and one on IGN. Some new shots here too.

Bionic Commando: Rearmed’s out on Live, PSN and PC in May.

According to its official site, Bionic Commando: Rearmed has been given a mature rating by the ESRB in the US.

Click on the communicator to get a message confirming the news and some other stuff about monsters and people’s heads exploding.

The remake is scheduled to hit PC, PSN and XBLA in May.

“While the results may suggest that $10 is the sweet spot for most people (in the US the final tally was 83% in favor of the $10 price point and 17% in favor of the $15 price point), there is another side of the story which wasn’t represented by the poll results – and that is the huge number of user comments that we received, where a majority were suggesting they would pay $15 or even $20 for the game,” said producer Ben Judd.

More of this please, publishers. Pricing for the European version hasn’t been announced yet. Bionic Commando: Rearmed releases in May.

In theory, this means you should be able to play the Capcom remake on your PSP anywhere you have a WiFi connection. Obviously, this is a unique feature to the Sony version of the game, which releases in May for PS3, 360 and PC.

According to this, Bionic Commando: Rearmed producer Ben Judd has been telling people at GDC that the XBox 360 version of Bionic Commando: Rearmed won’t be as good looking as the PS3 version because of the 150Mb file-size limit placed on Xbox Live content.

Microsoft responded today.

“That’s surprising to hear,” says John Schappert, Microsoft’s corporate VP of Xbox Live, Software, and Services, when we asked him about Capcom’s issues later in the day. “Last I checked it was Capcom that had an exception to our file size with Street Fighter II [Hyper Fighting]…. We raised our limit to 150 megs, which seems pretty darn great…. I don’t think it has limited our games in any way. Look at Rez HD. Look at Poker Smash. Look at Undertow. These are very, very, very good games.”

More through the link.

Capcom’s upcoming remake of the grapply NES shooter Bionic Commando should be released in May.

That’s according to a Capcom representative who spoke to videogaming247 in the publisher’s flashy hotel suite in San Francisco today.

Said representative added that it should launch on PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade and PC at the same time. We can but hope.

The game’s quite close to completion then, obviously, and is looking very smart. Some bits are still being worked on – we weren’t allowed to see the hacking sections, for example – but the general 2D-with-3D-graphics gameplay of swinging around shooting people was intuitive and gratifying.

We particularly like the way that the enemies flop to their knees ragdoll-like and then tumble off the near side of 2D platforms and off the screen when they’re shot. More of this please, developer-folk.

The arcade build of Street Fighter IV – the same as that being shown at this week’s AOU show in Japan – is to be shown at GDC next week, VG247 can confirm. The game, which is probably the best thing ever despite the fact we’ve only seen a few screenshots, will be playable.

In addition, both the 3D, next-gen re-envisioning of classic shooter Bionic Commando, and the anticipated XBLA remake Bionic Commando Rearmed, are to be shown. The former will be demoed, but will not be playable. The latter is likely to be playable, but that hasn’t been confirmed just yet.

All of which should make you extremely happy. We’ll be at GDC in San Francisco next week, so keep it here for all the Californian gaming news you can stomach.