His name is Chuck

There couldn't be a better name for the hero of the Capcom sequel to the brilliant but tragically flawed Dead Rising. His name is Chuck Greene, and from the looks of it, he is ready to rock you.

In case you haven't seen it here is the strange Dead Rising 2 trailer.

1942 is coming! Bionic who?

Six or seven months ago Capcom showed us footage, of fun looking game play in a redux version of Bionic Commando called, Bionic Commando: Rearmed. Terrific, awesome, great. They even gave us a date for the release, sometime at the end of May.

Just a few months before Bionic Commando: Rearmed was to be released, Capcom announced that it was making another reskinned game, a new version of 1942. Alright! Our special weapon is flipping in the air! High-fives!

So now we have 1942: Joint Strike. The airplane flipping game. Which looks really cool and will be released in the near future. By announcing, 1942: Joint Strike, Capcom is able to give the consumer the impression that it is going create a line of reskinned games. "You gave me a release date for Bionic Commando: Reamed, you even are going to release a soundtrack.I love this stylized look you have for Bionic Commando! It's so cool! TF2 is an awesome game! How could I possibly not trust you? Are you ever going to make up for the mistake of Dead Rising?"

Bionic Commando is not coming out on time, and for all the hype the game had, you can barely find more than, "it will be out when it is ready, and let us never speak of this again." They already released the soundtrack to the game, back in May, when the game was supposed to come out.

So in a few weeks what will we get? We will get the airplane flipping game of 1942: Joint Strike. It is being hyped like it is a gift from God himself. We don't get more chocolate, we get less chocolate. Let's just compare the past versions of 1942 and Bionic Commando. Bionic Commando is cooler, you have a robot arm, and that is better than your B button letting you flip in the circle.

I'm not saying that this isn't how they might have intended it all along, get us hooked on an idea, take it away and give us the dumber down version of the idea first, like you were going to do anyway. We don't get more chocolate, we get less.

Capcom list of games at E3 2008.

Bionic Commando, Street Fighter 4, and Resident Evil 5, I can get behind any of these games. Let's look closely and the 2 untiled projects, hopefully one of them will be Dead Rising 2, and not 2 MegaMan games or some wiggle and poke game for the Wii.


Capcom

* Bionic Commando (PC, PS3, X360) NEW
* Bionic Commando Rearmed (PC, PS3, X360) NEW
* Capcom Project #1 [untitled] (other) NEW
* Capcom Project #2 [untitled] (other) NEW
* Dark Void (PC, PS3, X360) NEW
* MotoGP 08 (other) NEW
* Neopets Puzzle Adventure (PC, Wii) NEW
* Plunder (PC, PS3, X360) NEW
* Resident Evil 5 (PS3, X360) NEW
* Spyborgs (Wii) NEW
* Street Fighter IV (PC, PS3, X360) NEW
* Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (PS3, X360) NEW

The public wants to know when Bionic Commando Rearmed is going launch! JDG scrambles for an answer!

I was standing in my kitchen yesterday when I was asked by a man on the street, "Hey when does that new Bionic Commando Rearmed come out? Wasn't it supposed to be this month?" I had no answer. I knew that he was right, the game was supposed to be released in May, on XBox live and I suppose whatever PS3 uses, but whatever the case the public must be informed.

Official words from Capcom high command.
Note key words like problems, regret, and won't.

"This is MA-1. Sir, we know you've been waiting to get your hands on the finished Bionic Commando Rearmed, but it appears we've run into a few problems in the closing stages. I regret to inform you that we have received confirmation that the game won't be making its scheduled May release.

This is always the hardest part of any battle, sir. All we can tell you is that the game is done and is more awesome than pure liquid awesome sir! Our troops right now are in the trenches, battling with bugs and submission procedures. Fatigue is starting to set in but they won't give up until that game is on the shelves!

What's that, sir? There are no shelves, it's a downloadable title? You sure told me, sir. What a world we live in!"

There you have it. Much like Duke Nukem Forever, coming out, "when it's done."

In the mean time you can get the Bionic Commando Rearmed soundtrack from iTunes or any of your favorite avenues of downloading.

Bionic Commando Rearmed Official response

Pay location other than iTunes for the soundtrack