Bionic Commando Rearmed

Steams Midweek Madness sale this week is Bionic Commando Rearmed, saving you 50%.

Capcom is to apply increased focus on online gaming and digital distribution, including download content for existing games, in a plan to hit a wider audience.

Joystiq writes; GRIN may be no more, but some of the talent behind the studio is coming back. The team responsible for Bionic Commando Rearmed, arguably GRIN's greatest title, have announced plans to return to game development with a new studio: Might&Delight.

This week saw the release of Bionic Commando, Bionic Commando Rearmed, East India Company and a few other games. The Weekend Deal is 50% off on all Relic developed games.

Steam has listed both Bionic Commando and Bionic Commando: Rearmed on their service as available for download. Capcom's title's are offered individually as well as together in the BC Pack at a discount.

Sir Paul McCartney's ex contacted the publisher offering to promote the game, and demanded a six-figure fee and also suggested that a character based on her should star in the game. The producers, having finished the game, were apparently not keen and called the deal off.

Bionic Commando Rearmed has set the gold standard for downloadable games, the game's producer has claimed. Capcom's Ben Judd, producer on the Bionic Commando series, told VideoGamer.com that the Xbox LIVE, PSN and PC remix of the classic NES game has led to developers calling Capcom arseholes because of the high quality and cheap price of the game. He said: We've actually got phone calls from other developers saying 'you arseholes, now because you've made a game at such high quality and priced it at $10, now that's the gold standard. If we try and put out a game for $15 people are going to say, well what about Bionic Commando Rearmed? What if we put out a game that's just meta emulated, they're going say we're being greedy'. Because we've raised the bar to that level now we've got other developers on their toes, where they should be. There's a lot of potential there, but right now people are being too damn lazy. They're not paying the respect to the old classic games that they should.

In an interview with VideoGamer.com, Ben Judd said that gamers now only want to die once or twice in games. When we asked the Capcom producer if he reckons games are too easy on gamers these days, Judd replied: Yes, I do. I think that if you look at one of the highest praised games of last year, BioShock, BioShock was easy as Hell, I don't care what anybody says. That's what people want. They want to play through it. They want to die once or twice. It's like an interactive movie, sort of. Gamers have lost their will to continually drill down on something.

If you're the owner of a PC with a single-core processor and are having problems running Bionic Commando Rearmed, a patch has been released that should take care of the problem.

GamingShogun writes, Bionic Commando Rearmed, the modern remake of the classic game, was just released on the Xbox 360 LIVE Arcade. Today, however, it has been released for PC gamers to purchase and download as well, via GamersGate! Bionic Commando brings the classic into the modern age with 2-player co-op as well...