Tag Archives: bionic commando

Mega Man creator and former big wig over at Capcom, Keiji Inafune said that a bad working relationship with GRIN caused some oddities in Bionic Commando.
More »

The holiday is over, the fireworks were cool; let’s have some shorts, there’s no Dana only Zuul.

More »

Don’t go knocking your router out halfway through a level of the newly-released Bionic Commando Rearmed 2. Capcom have chosen to protect the retro side-scroller with the most hated form of DRM.

More »

Anyone else think Sergeant Dean Wilcox looks like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, the People’s Eyebrow and all?

More »

Capcom confirmed in its Q1 financial release last night that Bionic Commando’s shipped 550,000 units to retailers worldwide.

Note: shipped. Not sold. Sales in the US were less than inspiring, so don’t be too shocked if there’s some mumbling and coughing going on here.

Thanks, Kotaku.

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.

Capcom just clarified yesterday’s news that Bionic Commando would release for PC on July 17, saying the US version will, in fact, hit on July 28.

The previous date was European.

Here’s the tweet, if you don’t believe us.

Capcom has announced that Bionic Commando will be released on PC next Friday, July 17.

The gameplay included in the PS3 and 360 copies will stay intact.

It will support both DirectX 9 and 10, online options, higher resolutions and remappable controls.

Thanks, Eurogamer

Whoops. NPD’s confirmed to Gama that Capcom’s Bionic Commando only managed 27,000 unit sales in the US in May, its debut month.

The reboot shipped on May 19. That figure’s a total score across both 360 and PS3.

Nicht so gut. Hit is for more.

The PS3 leaderboards for Bionic Commando are now live on PS3.

No issues were reported with the Xbox 360 version, but apparently there was some sort of glitch with the one on PS3.

Don’t worry though, all is fixed, and right as rain again.

More over on Capcom Unity.

This was never going to be pretty. Following a Sun story this afternoon that claimed Paul McCartney ex Heather Mills demanded a “six-figure sum” to appear in Capcom’s Bionic Commando, the amputee model has said she’d like to appear in a game in which journalists from the paper were shocked at the genitals from a lie detector.

“I know one game I’d happily appear in and I’d do it for free,” she said on her Twitter account.

“Connect Sun journalists to a lie detector machine which triggers an electric current attached to their privates.

“If they tell the truth they’d get a good boy drop. But if they tell a porkie pie… it’d give them a short sharp shock to the privates.”

Mills went on to say the Sun’s journalists would likely have fun at the treatment.

“They’d probably enjoy it and not only would we all be able to tell Sun fact from fiction,” she said. “One day’s power surge from their uncontrollable bullshit would generate enough power to light up England each and every week.

“Now that’s what I call alternative energy.”

The Sun’s original story said Mills had turned down involvement in the game after Capcom refused to pay a significant sum of money.

Mills reacted, saying the money was to be a charitable donation.

Capcom declined to comment on the matter this afternoon.

Update: Capcom just mailed this over: “We will not be commenting on the matter.”

Update 2: Mills has apparently confirmed the truth of the story on her Twitter, saying the large sum was to be for a charitable donation.

The ex-model lambasted Capcom as “stingy” in the process. Here are the tweets:

Got offered to promote an amputee bionic computer game, from a wealthy computer games company I said if you donate a large sum to charity

The stingy company came back saying they couldn’t, what happened to charitable businesses, seems they just want to exploit and give nothing

Update 3: Mills has responded, saying she’d appear for free in a game in which Sun journalists were attached to a lie detector by their genitals.

Original story:

This is awesome. The Sun’s claiming that Heather Mills, Paul McCartney’s one-legged ex, demanded a “six-figure sum” to appear in Bionic Commando, and wanted the game to revolve around a character based on her.

Capcom approached her about the game “because of her charity work with amputees,” according to that piece.

Said a source: “She was insistent she wouldn’t do it for a smaller fee and said the producers should make her the star.

“The request was way, way over budget and they certainly weren’t keen on basing the game on her.”

Just mailed Capcom. In between bouts of choking.

Capcom plans to release its future titles on Steam the same day as retail.

Speaking with ButtonBasher, Capcom VP Christian Svensson told the site that Dark Void and Bionic Commando will be available on Steam at the same time as retail, as the company is taking digital distribution “very seriously.”

Svensson also said that more DLC for Resident Evil is being considered, however “there’s nothing to announce by any stretch,” despite the forum thread requests for it being “hundreds of posts long.”

Via Joystiq.

Rumor that a Bionic Commando sequel is in the works hit the net earlier via a strange Morse Code image.

Once the code is deciphered its reads the following in German:

“Bestaetige Ausfuehrung von Phase Zwei Vorbereitet Aktiviere Projeckt Albatross”

Translated into English:

“Confirm the Implementation of Phase Two Project Prepared Active Albatross”

Apparently in the first Bionic Commando, the purpose of Project Albatross was to resurrect Master-D. Not sure if this means a sequel is in the works or if it’s something to do with the upcoming release.

You can see the full thing over on PerezStart, and the image is posted after the break.

More »

Capcom’s Shawn Baxter has announced over on Capcom Unity that a community play session for the Bionic Commando multiplayer will go into full swing this evening.

To play along with the guys from Capcom, log into Xbox Live by 6:00pm EST and send a friend request to gamertag Snow Infernus.

Those added will be invited to an online party and into the game.

More through the link.

Capcom has revealed the goods it will be presenting to attendees at E3 this year.

Here’s what being shown:

• Dark Void (PS3, 360, PC)
• Lost Planet 2 (currently 360, PC)
• Dead Rising 2 (will be “behind closed doors”)
• Spyborgs (Wii)
• Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles (Wii)
• Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (PSP)
• Marvel vs Capcom 2 (digital release for PS3, 360)
• Fate Unlimited Codes (digital PSP release)
• Street Fighter IV (PC)
• Bionic Commando (PC)
• Mega Man Star Force 3 (DS)
• Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil (Wii)
• Capcom Mystery Game #1 (playable in booth)
• Capcom Mystery Game #2 (announced at a press conference)
• Capcom’s mobile group, Capcom Interactive

Loads of stuff to be seen, plus members of Capcom Unity will be on hand at the main booth to interact with.

Fun times.

Capcom confirmed both Resident Evil 5 and Bionic Commando for PC today, putting to bed months of speculation.

Bionic Commando will launch in July, while Resident Evil 5 is to arrive “later in the year”.

Street Fighter IV has now been confirmed for a July release on PC in Europe.

Press release after the break.

More »

Capcom Unity is giving Bionic Commando players a chance to win 8,000 MS Points a Bionic Commando lunch box, and a code for Bionic Commando: Rearmed on 360.

The site is giving away over 64,000 points and the only thing you have to do is download the Bionic Commando demo, change your motto to “Bionic Commando = RAD”, and send a message with your gamertag, and 7 other friends’ gamertags who’ve also downloaded the demo and changed their mottos.

If your message and list of friends are picked you get the lunch box, 8,000 MS Points, and a code for BCR. And each of your friends will get 8,000 MS Points and a code for BCR.

More contest details and rules after through here.

It’s bloody Live-tastic this morning. The Bionic Commando multiplayer demo just went up, Nelson’s confirmed, which means you should probably go and get it now.

You’ll get eigth-way deathmatch for your trouble. The full game’s out next month.

Capcom’s releasing a multiplayer Bionic Commando demo on Xbox Live tomorrow.

The demo lets players compete in Deathmatch battles on the Vertigo map.

No word on a PSN demo yet.

Game’s out May 22 for PS3 and Xbox 360 with a PC version coming later on.

Thanks, Videogamer.