Being that developer GRIN did such an excellent job of recreating the original Bionic Commando with its Rearmed remake, the game retains its excellent qualities, as well as the baggage of bad that accompanied it 20 years ago. While the still-original gameplay is both fast and fun, it is also difficult to the point of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 20, 2008
The port that no one expected Capcom to do, the transition for Dead Rising onto Wii is looking to be a great development for the franchise. Rather than choose to do a direct port of the action orientated survival horror game to PS3, the developers chose to adopt the same engine they used in Resident Evil 4: [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 15, 2008
MegaMan 9, the next instalment in the hugely popular franchise, is coming to all three consoles this Fall. Showing new screenshots at E3 today, Capcom have gone back to MegaMan’s roots by taking the graphics from the NES and making a new experience around them. This drastic step back for the series could be the best move [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Initially underwhelmed with the first couple minutes of the E3 2008 demo of Resident Evil 5, I was wondering what Capcom was going to do to prove to me that this was not just RE4 with a pretty coat of paint, and a bunch of African zombies. While that is not exactly something to complain [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Capcom detailed the release date(s) of its upcoming revamp of its classic WWII-era shooter, 1942: Joint Strike. The airplane blastin’ redux can be purchased on July 23rd on the Xbox Live Arcade, presumably for 800 MS Points ($10), and on the PlayStation Network the following day at a similar price. Capcom’s upcoming re-makes/re-imaginings of their classic [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 30, 2008
With the recent relaunch of Capcom-Unity, in all of its legit social-network glory, we got a chance to sit down with one of the community team members of Capcom, Seth Killian. As expected, he’s a total badass when it comes to Street Fighter, and an equal badass when it comes to serving the Capcom community So, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 19, 2008
In 2005 there was one survival horror game that on everyone’s minds. Resident Evil 4 was heralded as a return to form for the franchise and was widely known as one of the best games on Gamecube. Now it’s on its way to the Nintendo Wii, following a detour on the PS2, keeping all the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 16, 2008
Chris Kramer is Capcom’s Senior Director of Communications and Community, and after a lengthy and informative interview this Sunday, he divulged to Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry Hryb (better known as Major Nelson to the Xbox community) that Resident Evil 5 will be coming to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2009. There’s been [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 5, 2008
There’s been a lot of chatter recently about the GRIN developed, Capcom published ressurection of Bionic Commando. Sure, gamers everywhere are naturally apalled at the idea of a direct canonical sequel to the 8-Bit classic, but hate comes naturally on the Internet. Many are speaking their mind about how excited they are for the fantastic [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 16, 2008
The news that Bionic Commando Rearmed, Capcom’s 3D re-imagining of the 8-bit classic, is being released with an ESRB “M” rating isn’t exactly head-explodingly surprising. Still, news is news, and that’s what we’re here to deliver. Bionic Commando’s Senior Producer, Ben Judd, addressed the rating of BCR today in both the Top Secret Podcast and [...]
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