One of my favorite games of all time, Strider, might be due up for a remake from what we can tell. Leaked artwork has popped up on Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade website in addition to an achievement found in Steam’s databases. While these clues are short of a real announcement, Capcom will supposedly be revealing 2 new games at PAX East this weekend in Boston.
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The side scrolling beat’em up RPG Dragon’s Crown now has a release date in Japan according to Japanese gaming paper Famitsu. It’s being released for Playstation 3 and PS Vita on July 25, 2013.
Amazon.com & Gamestop both list show the US release date of Dragon’s Crown as August 06, 2013 for both PS3 and Vita.
The title is being developed by Vanillaware and published by Atlas.… [ Read More... ]
If you’re like me, then you love classic side scrollers like Mega Man, Contra and Castlevania. Yacht Club Games is making a love letter to the days of 8-bit side scrollers with their game, Shovel Knight. Retro looking side scrollers are indeed a dime a dozen these days, but what I like about this one is how it looks like it’s sticking true to the 8-bit graphical … [ Read More... ]
After the SimCity always online craze, almost instantly a SimCity clone, Civitas, was announced that will be offline and DRM free. They began funding the game via Kickstarter and it was on pace to hit 100% funding up until yesterday. That’s when project lead Brandon Smith announced that the Kickstarter has been cancelled because Civitas is now 100% funded by a private backer.
Announced via the Kickstarter page they … [ Read More... ]