He got even more candid when Joystiq pressed the question further and inquired about strange things in the game like the revelation towards the end of Bionic Commando *SPOILER* that the bionic arm is partially made out of the main character’s dead wife.

From the Joystiq story:
“I don’t even know what happened there,” Inafune lamented. The project was apparently rife with development issues, which Inafune exemplified with a phrase that represented the attitude Grin and Capcom had for each other at the time: “Whatever, do what you want, I don’t care.”

“At the beginning, things are very, very good between the two companies. Things get kind of weird from the middle, and it gets really bad at the end — especially for the Japanese companies,” Inafune said of Capcom’s developer relations. “They should be more flexible about things. If you don’t do that, everything will become messed up from the middle. And that’s the most important part. Not the beginning, but in the middle and finishing the game.”

Thanks, Joystiq!

I never claimed to be a poet, by the way.

• Checkout this awesome Call of Duty 4 Star Wars mod called Galactic Warfare.
• Bionic Commando is now available via Xbox Games on Demand.
• Ubisoft is offering UbiCollectibles of AssCreed and more.  Here’s some extra shots.
• An artist has re-imagined Mario Enemies which are much scarier and cooler than before.
• SOCOM Mobile HQ is now available on the Android Marketplace.
• Check out this video for Preloaded‘s next game for Channel 4, The End.
• The Archbishop of Denver has an opinion about violent video games.
• Star Trek Online is celebrating diversity.
• Trion is offering free RIFT character transfers.
• Digital Arrow and White Rabbit Interactive have announced the inMomentum beta.
• The open beta for Operation Gamma 41 launched yesterday.
• An update for Allods Online: Renaissance has been announced, and here are some pretty pictures.
• EndWar and Splinter Cell staffers have formed a new mobile studio called The Game Bakers.
• Bioware’s Mass Effect game designer, Christina Norman, has moved from Edmonton to Santa Monica. Wonder where she is going to be working?
• Tiny Tower is an iPhone game which sounds cool.
• The latest Aion community update has detailed server-first boss kills and more. Read on about it.
• Eutechnyx’s upcoming racing game and car community title, Auto Club Revolution, will enter closed beta this month. Here are some pictures too.
• Yuji Naka and Takashi Iizuka have hinted that there may be more NiGHTS into Dreams in our future.
• Rock Band 3 DLC includes Buffalo Springfield , R.E.M., System of a Down, The Vapors, and a chance to win a Soundgarden pack.
• The Atelier series has topped 400,000 units for PS3.

The game’s product page on the PlayStation Store is quite clear, requiring a log-in to the PlayStation Network at every play session.

Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 does support multiplayer – but not online.

Don’t blame custom PS3 firmware for this one: this isn’t Capcom’s first PSN title to utilise the much-derided always-on DRM. Final Fight: Double Impact was revealed to sport the same system in April of last year.

Thanks, Joystiq.

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

Capcom has released a new trailer for Bionic Commando Rearmed 2, and we have it for you below. It features the MegaCopter.

There’s also some nifty character artwork there as well, featuring Sergent Dean Wilcox, Joseph “Super Joe” Gibson and General Vicente Sabio.

Last week’s artwork can be found here.

Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 is slated for Q1 2011 for PSN and XBLA.

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.

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.

CAPCOM® PREPS A TRIPLE THREAT OF GAMING EXCELLENCE FOR WINDOWS®-BASED PERSONAL COMPUTERS
Resident EvilTM 5, Street FighterTM IV and Bionic CommandoTM Coming to PC Starting This July
London — May 1, 2009 – Capcom®, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, today announced that three of its blockbuster hit console games of 2009 will be coming to the PC beginning this summer. Bionic Commando, Street Fighter IV and Resident Evil 5 will all be coming to the PC, beginning in July with Street Fighter IV and Bionic Commando, while Resident Evil 5 comes later in the year. All three games will be optimized for the PC platform and will have new PC-specific features added to the already great games. All three games will be available both at retail and via various digital distribution methods.

Street Fighter IV features a mix of returning favourites such as Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li and Guile along with new characters created for this game, such as Crimson Viper, Abel, El Fuerte, and Rufus. Characters and environments are rendered in stylized 3D, while the game is played in the classic Street Fighter™ 2D perspective with additional 3D camera flourishes. Instantly familiar six-button controls are the hallmark of the game, with a host of new special moves and features. Mixing classic genre-defining game mechanics the franchise is known and loved for with all-new, never-before-seen gameplay systems, Street Fighter IV brings a brand new fighting experience to fans the world over. The PC version of Street Fighter IV will feature online play, higher screen resolutions and three new shaders based on three of the “artistic” trailers released in 2008 that will change the visual appearance of the game: “watercolour,” “poster” and “sumi-e ink” styles. Street Fighter IV PC is scheduled for release throughout PAL territories on July 3.

The first true sequel to the classic 1988 Nintendo Entertainment System original, Bionic Commando sees the return of the bionically-enhanced Nathan “Rad” Spencer. Time has not been kind to Spencer: 10 years after his heroic defeat of the Imperials, he has been betrayed by the government he swore to serve, imprisoned for crimes he didn’t commit, and sentenced to death. Bionic Commando transposes the swing-and-shoot gameplay of the 8-bit original onto a stunning 3D environment of towering buildings, suspended roadways and monorails, deep canyons and sheer rock faces, where every environment is scalable using swinging, repelling, climbing and wall-walking techniques. The PC version of Bionic Commando will support higher resolutions than the console version, remappable controls including mouse and keyboard support, support for both DirectX®9 and DirectX® 10 and online connectivity for multiplayer sessions.

In Resident Evil 5, returning hero Chris Redfield is sent to Africa to investigate a biological weapon that is transforming the populace into aggressive and disturbing creatures. Joined by another local BSSA agent, Sheva Alomar, the two must work together to solve the truth behind the frightening turn of events. Featuring a revolutionary new co-op mode of gameplay, Resident Evil 5 will let players experience fear together as terror moves out of the shadows and into the light of day. The PC version of Resident Evil 5 will feature online play for co-operative play sessions over the internet and will also take advantage of NVIDIA®’s new GeForce® 3D Vision technology (wireless 3D Vision glasses sold separately).

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.

Capcom’s put out another trailer for Bionic Commando, this one showing off the game’s general combat. Get it after the break.

The third-person actioner’s out on May 19 in the US, June 25 in Japan and May 22 in Europe.

Thanks, Kotaku.

Capcom has announced that a multiplayer demo for Bionic Commando will land on Xbox Live soon.

In all, the game will contain 16 multiplayer maps, but the demo will focus on Deatmatch mode, the map Vertigo, and support up to eight players.

A demo for PC and PS3 has yet to be announced.

Game lands on consoles May 19.

Capcom’s put out a new trailer for the soon-to-be-released Bionic Commando, and it’s fair to say the game’s looking officially “better” than it used to. A good thing.

The movie shows off abilities of our hero’s robot arm, and it looks as though a ton of work’s been done on general presentation. Hooray for that.

It’s out in May.

CVG’s put up some direct-feed Bionic Commando videos from a near-final version. And here they are.

The game’s out in May. We would tell you what’s in the movies, but CVG’s videos always crash Firefox for us. So we can’t.

Shame.

Destructoid is reporting that Capcom’s Bionic Commando will “hit retail” on May 19.

Yesterday, Capcom also gave us a Japanese date of June 25. This goes alongside a Euro date of May 22.

The triumvirate is complete.

Dengeki’s reporting that Capcom’s Bionic Commando is to release on June 25 in Japan.

The action listed as May 31 in Europe.

Thanks, Kotaku.

Grin’s Bo Andersson has said that the Swedish developer has started work on three new projects.

The firm will talk to publishers about the games next week at GDC, Andersson said.

He said the meetings are “more to do with what we will work on in 2011 and 2012″.

“One of the things we will have to gauge is when the next generation will kick off,” he said.

“I think the financial situation has delayed the start of the next generation. I’m hoping it will start late 2012 at the earliest or early 2013.”

Grin’s Wanted: Weapons of Fate is due out next week, and the company has Bionic Commando and Terminator Salvation in the works.

Bionic Commando fans — your patience has finally paid off.

Circle the month of May on your calenders, because that’s when Capcom’s revamped classic is set for release according to CVG.

There’s no exact date for the PC, PS3 and 360 game as yet, but it’s doubtful you’ll be waiting too long.

More through the link.

Capcom has just announced what it calls its “stellar line-up” for the first half of 2009 which includes titles like Street Fighter IV and Resident Evil 5.

The titles and release dates are as follows:

• Flock! (XBLA/PSN) – February
• Street Fighter IV (360/PS3) – February 20
• Dead Rising Chop Till You Drop (Wii) – February 27
• Neopets Puzzle Adventure (Wii/DS/PC) – February 27
• Resident Evil 5 (360/PS3) – March 13
• MotoGP (Wii) – March
• Bionic Commando (PS3/360) – March

By Mike Bowden

Capcom’s put out five new shots of Bionic Commando’s multiplayer, as seen after the break.

Not really “feeling” it, to be honest. It’s out next year for PC, PS3 and 360.