Capcom has issued a set of screenshots as well as this trailer for Bionic Commando, showing off the recently unveiled followup to the original 1988 grapple-heavy sidescroller.

In development at GRIN, developer of the PC version of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and its sequel, the new Bionic Commando will see the light of day on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. A release date has not yet been announced.

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Media from Capcom's recent Gamers Day press event is now available, and among it is this new trailer for Devil May Cry 4. The video runs for three and a half minutes showing a wide variety of cinematic and gameplay sequences. There are also five somewhat dark screenshots from the game, which is due out on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 next February.

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Joining Bionic Commando (PS3, X360) in recently resurrected Capcom franchises, top-down run-and-gun Commando 3 will be arriving on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network this winter. A followup to the Commando series of arcade games that began in 1985 with Commando, followed by Mercs in 1990, Capcom announced the new title this week at its London Gamer's Day.

Coming from developer Backbone Emeryville, the game will feature three-player cooperative play complete with co-op vehicles. The cast of characters comprises former marine Animal, female operative Smoke, and demolition man Boomer.

The game will cost 800 Microsoft Points ($10) on Xbox Live Marketplace or $9.99 from the PlayStation Store. Though it was announced in London as an upcoming European release, the game's American developer essentially assures a North American release as well.

GameTap, the Turner Broadcasting-owned PC digital distribution platform, will celebrate the addition of its 1,000th game on November 15. With the milestone less than a month away, the lead-up will be marked by a number of high profile game releases for paying members.

Subscribers will gain access to Mercury Steam's creepy shooter Clive Barker's Jericho (PC, PS3, X360) on October 23, the same day it hits retail. The conclusion to the current season of Cyan Worlds' episodic series Myst Online: Uru Live (PC) follows November 1, with the second season of Telltale Games' episode-based adventure franchise Sam & Max (PC) beginning November 8.

Along with its new and original games, GameTap will continue adding older PC and console titles to its lineup each week. Codemasters' ... Read more

Update 2: Eurogamer marks the latest site to claim the port is confirmed, saying that it was indeed announced at Capcom's UK Gamers Day and will feature a combination of gesture-controlled brush strokes and motion-controlled combat.

Update 1: Shacknews has learned that the embargoes related to Capcom's UK Gamers Day event lift this Friday, October 19, though we were unable to verify claims of Okami for Wii. Capcom US is expected to make its respective announcements later this week.

Original Story: A fresh rumor regarding the now-defunct Clover Studio's brilliant PlayStation 2 adventure Okami indicates a revival of the game on a fitting system: the Nintendo Wii.

"Long fantasized by the players, then mentioned in many rumors, Okami is finally confirmed on Wii," reads a Google translation of French site Jeauxactu.com. Capcom recently held its Gamer's Day event in London, so it is ... Read more

Following word of the ridiculously long-awaited Street Fighter IV, we now present a brief teaser trailer that proves Capcom can indeed count to four. Said to arrive no earlier than 2009, the game's platform or platforms have yet to be revealed, but still, enjoy!

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At the Capcom Gamer's Day in London, game developer and publisher Capcom revealed it's begun work on Street Fighter 4, the first new title in the central Street Fighter series of seminal fighting games since 1997's Street Fighter 3, according to a now-removed story at Games Radar. Work on the title has just started for unannounced platforms, and Capcom insinuated a 2009 release would be the earliest gamers would see the fighter in arcades or at retail.

The company additionally confirmed its newest IP, revealed in trademark filings earlier this week, called Dark Void. The title is a sci-fi action-adventure in the third-person, with steampunk trappings like jetpacks, airships, gyrocopters and the like. No platforms or estimated release dates were announced for the title.

Capcom also announced that last year's ultra-cold shooter Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (PC, X360) will be making its way to PlayStation 3 early next year. The game will thankfully include all the downloadable content and bonuses available for the PC and Xbox 360 versions when it retails, so gamers won't have to wait for Sony's PlayStation Network to get its expanded downloadable content stream in working order.

A current-gen update to Capcom's 1988 grappling-hook sidescroller Bionic Commando will be coming to PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, Capcom has announced. No estimated release date has been given to the project.

Like the original title, players will use a grappling hook to traverse levels designed for vertical ascent. The new title will be in 3D, of course, and the grappling hook has been updated to feature more practical uses--like dispatching foes and heaving vehicles across the city.

Swedish developer GRIN, responsible for the PC versions of Ubisoft's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter series, will head up the development of the title. Hopefully, GRIN will as skillfully implement the grappling hook as Capcom did in its third-person shooter Lost Planet: Extreme Condition.

Mario will apparently be taking America's favorite pasttime beyond what was seen in Wii Sports, as Nintendo has announced Super Mario Stadium Baseball for Wii. No details, including whether the game is being developed or by another studio, are available. The plumber's last baseball outing, Mario Superstar Baseball on GameCube, was developed by Namco.

Also en route to Wii is Monster Hunter 3, the latest edition of Capcom's huge-in-Japan adventure series revolving around capturing and training monsters. Significantly, the game was originally announced only for PlayStation 3.

The news was released during Nintendo's Conference 2007 Fall, as reported by Japanese publication Gemaga and translated by IGN.

Industry print publication Game Developer has released its 2007 list of Top 20 Publishers in video games, and the top slot has changed for the first time in the history of the annual feature, with third-party industry heavyweight Electronic Arts ceding the #1 crown to first-party manufacturer Nintendo. The title is the latest in a seemingly unending string of good news for the Kyoto-based hardware giant, which recently saw its stock hit a record high.

EA moved down to #2, with Activision coming in at #3, Ubisoft moving up to #4, and THQ rounding out the top five. Take-Two Interactive and Sega of America took the next two slots. As far as the other first-party publishers, Sony Computer Entertainment came in at #8, one slot above Microsoft Game Studios. Fans of niche Japanese gaming will be pleased to know that Atlus has joined the Top 20 for the first time at #18, while ailing Atari has dropped off.

Game Developer publisher CMP Game Group compiled its list by considering detailed responses from over 300 members of the game publishing community, as well as sales and review data, release portfolios, and employee pay.

A full list of the Top 20 Publishers follows. The full 100-page report is available for purchase from Game Developer Research, with a summary in the October 2007 issue of Game Developer. ... Read more

Action Trip has a Devil May Cry 4 Q&A up, asking Capcom producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi about the action game sequel.

Sega's Clockwork Knight, the company's toy-oriented side scrolling Saturn launch title, marks one of the three latest additions to GameTap's expansive lineup.

Subscribers of the Turner Broadcasting-owned PC service will be able to stream the new titles, the other two of which are Frictional Games' PC survival horror adventure Penumbra Overture and Sixteen Tons Entertainment's strategic PC disaster simulator Emergency 3, beginning today.

The company will also be updating the rotation of its free ad-supported offerings with 27 more PC and console titles, bringing the total number of current free-to-play games to 43. The new games are as follows:... Read more

Harvey Birdman, his sidekick Peanut, sex-toy happy Peter Potamus and the rest of the crew from Cartoon Network's Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law will soon make their way to PlayStation 2, PSP, and Wii courtesy of High Voltage and Capcom. To learn more about the upcoming title, the Shack called High Voltage lead designer Micah Skartika to the stand. Here is his sworn testimony.

Well, let's put it this way, an average show is about 20 pages of script, and we are looking at about 140 pages for the whole game. I remember the first time we submitted our scripts to the writers, and they were like, "Hey look, it's the Harvey Birdman interactive movie!"

Capcom has issued a couple more screenshots for Devil May Cry 4 (PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360), this set showing Dante's Gilgamesh in action. There are also screenshots from Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, the new Wii on-rails shooter. The shots show some hot menu action, as well as the undead.

Seeds, the independent studio formed from the remnants of Okami and Viewtiful Joe series developer Clover Studio after Capcom shut it down, will be known as Platinum Games as of October 1. The name change comes about as a result of Seeds' merger with ODD, a Japanese company about which little is known.

Though Seeds has yet to unveil its first title, the studio has drawn much attention due to what Shacknews editor-in-chief Chris Remo describes as a "preposterously talented staff." Among the company's all-star game development staff are Resident Evil creator and God Hand director Shinji Mikami, Devil May Cry and Viewtiful Joe creator Hideki Kamiya, and Shadow of the Colossus veteran Yuta Kimura.

"We are the Seeds that caused the vibrant flowers Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Steel Battalion, Viewtiful Joe, and Okami to come into bloom," the company announced when it was formed this past February. "Now, with a renewed spirit, we want to once again challenge the world of entertainment. But to do this, we need many, many more seeds... Would you like to make some 'preposterously amazing' games with us?"

Contrary to official reports from Sony, Kojima Productions' Ryan Payton has gone on the record to state that the rumble in the DualShock 3 is more advanced than its DualShock 2 counterpart.

While discussing the rumble in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3) on the studio's podcast, guest John Ricciardi brought up the game's use of positional rumble--a feature not found in the DualShock 2.

"Is it safe to definitively say that the rumble in the DualShock 3 is better than the rumble in DualShock 2?" Ricciardi asked.

"Absolutely, yeah," responded Payton. "I mean, it feels better."

Payton went on to reveal that Kojima Productions and several other developers, including Capcom's Devil May Cry 4 team, had only received the tools to implement rumble a week before the Tokyo Game Show. The last minute rush to integrate new functionality calls to mind similar reports regarding the unveiling of Sixaxis motion control at Sony's E3 2006 press briefing.

Following last night's announcement of the PlayStation 3's rumbling DualShock 3 controller--which arrives in Japan this fall, then North America and Europe next spring--SCEA has issued a lengthy list of all current and upcoming titles that will support vibration functionality in North America and Europe.

Particularly noteworthy games on the list include Kojima Productions' Metal Gear Solid 4, id Software's Rage, Epic Game's Unreal Tournament 3, Insomniac Games' Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Sony Liverpool's WipEout Wipeout HD, Capcom's Resident Evil 5, Monolith's Condemned 2: Bloodshot, and Ubisoft Montreal's Assassin's Creed.

Already-released titles such as Evolution Studios' MotorStorm, Insomniac Games' Resistance: Fall of Man, Housemarque's Super Stardust HD, Ninja Theory's Heavenly Sword, and Incognito's Warhawk will be updated with rumble support through online patches. Those that will receive rumble functionality in this manner are marked with an asterisk (*) on the following list:... Read more

With the Tokyo Game Show underway in Japan, Capcom has released new media from several upcoming titles that they are showing there. Take a look at screenshots from We Love Golf! (Wii), Devil May Cry 4 (PC, PS3, X360), Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure (Wii) and Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (Wii), as well as this trailer for Devil May Cry 4.

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Capcom confirmed today its previously announced We Love Golf! from Mario Golf and Hot Shots Golf developer Camelot will be released in North America. The Wii-specific title will be available sometime in 2008.

The title will retail in Japan this winter. The visuals from the project's Japanese website and the similar name indicate it is most likely an adaptation of Camelot's canceled PC project Golf Daisuki: I Love Golf. The PC title was supposed to be offered as part of an online entertainment service that never materialized.

The announcement describes We Love Golf! as "a realistic golfing experience with a fresh new spin," and the game incorporates detection of fades or draws with wrist movements. Hopefully the title will bring more to the table than Tecmo's Super Swing Golf, released for the Wii last year.

Shares of Capcom's stock on the Tokyo Stock Exchange reached a five-year highpoint today, according to Bloomberg. The Osaka-based game company's shares hit 2,855 yen and have been riding high in anticipation of mega-busting Wii software sales.

Analyst Jay Defibaugh told Bloomberg he expects Capcom's first Wii title, Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition, to exceed the company's predicted shipments of 620,000 units by March 31. Upcoming Wii games from Capcom include the Nintendo Zapper-supporting rail-shooter Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, coming in November, and the preposterously named adventuring title Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure, also coming this fall.

Check out the Shack previews on both Umbrella Chronicles and Zack & Wiki for more on these titles.