Data East's classic arcade game, Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja, was recently delisted from consoles and Steam due to expired licenses. New Joe & Mac is still available, but that's a full remake rather than a truly classic experience. Thankfully, French publisher Red Art Games (publisher of Sonic Wings Reunion) is on the case. They h...
Back in the memorable year of 1995, a French developer called Arcade Zone toiled away on a Super Nintendo game called Nightmare Busters. Sadly, the arrival of the PlayStation led to the game's cancelation. It is now 100 years later, and that injustice is finally being corrected. Aurora Game Studio and Pix'n Love are teaming up to bring that long-lost game back on modern platforms as Nightmare Busters Rebirth. The Kickstarter is going strong already and will end on June 19.
There are plenty of gaming controllers available for mobile phones. Folks love to play their emulators on the go, after all. How do you improve on the mobile controller solutions that are already out there? You add Hall Effect analog sticks, for starters, and then you design the controller to fold up and tuck away under the phone itself. That's what the MCON from Ohsnap! does, and it looks really sweet.
Last month, a small Australian developer called Timesea Studio announced that it would be making a Secret of Mana-style action RPG called Infinity Knights: Xross. Fundraising via Kickstarter was always the developers' plan, and now the Kickstarter campaign has begun. By donating to the campaign, gamers can preorder a console or PC copy of the game and some cool digital bonuses for cheap.
All the cool RPGs are going 3-player co-op these days. First, Sea of Stars announced its co-op mode earlier this year. Now, Australian developer Timesea Studio has followed suit by announcing their new game, Infinity Knights: Xross. The upcoming game promises beautiful pixel art, an epic soundtrack, a title that people can't fully pronounce, and 3-player local co-op. Take that, Sea of Stars!
In the long-ago days of the early 1990s, a sci-fi RPG called Star Control II came out on PC and 3DO, and it knocked the socks right off of anyone who played it. Now, the creators of the series are working on a modern sequel called Free Stars: Children of Infinity. This will be the first installment in the series to feature 2-player online co-op, an early stretch goal for the fundraising campaign. The Kickstarter will end on Friday, May 17 at 11 PM PT, and before that happens, it needs more support in order to fund the addition of voice acting. Let's make it happen, co-op lovers!
You can't throw a rock without hitting a survival game these days. I just threw one, and it hit Smalland: Survive the Wilds! Well, Solarpunk, the upcoming survival game from Cyberwave and Rokaplay, differentiates itself with a fantastic setting: the sky. Players will travel between floating islands on an airship and work together to build, farm, and craft gadgets. The developers plan to first launch on Steam Early Access next year, followed by console versions. To make all that happen, they've just launched a Kickstarter.
I loved Subset Games' FTL, and the only thing about it I didn't like was that I couldn't bring in some friends to help crew the ship and save the galaxy. I'm guessing I wasn't the only one that felt that way because Undercrewed, a new co-op title that's currently in development, seems to be drawing some strong inspiration from not only FTL, but also Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime.
According to the official JanduSoft website, their Kickstarter campaign for Cavemen Warriors was successful, meaning the game will move forward towards its planned Spring 2017 release date.
While the game got Greenlit on Steam, development on Ruin of the Reckless isn't done. The two-man development team of Faux-Operative Games launched a Kickstarter campaign a couple weeks back and just hit their funding goal of $10,000 today.
Just a few months ago we heard about a new co-op survival game, The Wild Eight, that was in development by a studio based out of Yakutia, Russia. The team's goal was to get the title out on the PC this year, but they needed a little help to make that a reality.
The co-op adventure Knights and Bikes, which is inspired by titles like The Goonies and Earthbound, has finally reached its funding goal of $142,577. This means that the game will definitely be coming out on PC, Mac, and Linux (via Steam), in addition to the previously announced PlayStation 4 version. As the campaign is getting close to the end, a very important stretch goal is in sight: online co-op.
