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Vampyr, Onrush, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, more coming to Xbox Store this week
Monster, motorsports, and a new expansion for Bethesda’s MMO highlight this week’s Xbox Games Store update…
Focus Home Interactive and Dontnod will bring Vampyr to the Xbox One this week. The moody action RPG takes place in Victorian London and tasks players with curing the influenza epidemic before they succumb to their vampiric urges. Also available to download for the Xbox One this week is Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, a retro-styled prequel to the upcoming Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night from Koji “IGA” Igarashi and developer Inti Creates.
If you’d rather drive like a speed demon, two new racing games will launch for the Xbox One this week. And in the case of Codemasters’s Onrush, I do mean LAUNCH, as racers will regularly drive off cliffs in the unique racing title. Also available this week is MotoGP 18, the latest motorcycle racing sim from Milestone and Square Enix.
Finally this week, Bethesda will expand The Elder Scrolls Online once again with the new Summerset expansion. Players will save the world (naturally) by unraveling “a dark conspiracy that threatens the world’s existence.”
You can learn more about the rest of this week’s additions to the Xbox Games Store (including Aragami: Shadow Edition and Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr) after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, Xbox One
Tagged Bloodstained Prequel, The Elder Scrolls Online, Vampyr
Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, Ikaruga, more coming to Nintendo eShop this week
It’s another big week for the Nintendo eShop as two of the greatest games of all time come to the Switch alongside a handful of new releases.
Capcom is bundling together a dozen Street Fighter games in this Tuesday’s Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection. The collection features the original Street Fighter, as well as Street Fighter II (plus its four revisions), Street Fighter III (plus its two revisions), and all three games in the Alpha sub-series.
This week’s eShop update is also a big one for fans of 2D shooters, who will have the opportunity to download Treasure’s Ikaruga for their Switch. The beloved polarity-switching shooter regularly appears on “Best Games of All Time” lists, and it’s available to purchase beginning today.
Switch owners who also consider themselves retro gaming fans can also look forward to the ninja platforming of N++, the Castlevania-inspired Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, and tower defense shenanigans of PixelJunk Monsters 2.
On Tuesday, Switch owners will also be able to download Natsume latest farming sim, Harvest Moon: Light of Hope – Special Edition, and a new RPG from NIS America, Fallen Legion: Rise to Glory.
Finally this week, Dillon the Armadillo makes his 3DS debut in Dillon’s Dead-Heat Breakers, a post-apocalyptic western where players must defend the people from an invasion of transforming rock monsters.
You can learn more about the rest of this week’s additions to the Nintendo eShop (including Knights of Pen and Paper, Legend of Kay Anniversary, Punch Club, and more) after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, News, Switch
Tagged Bloodstained Prequel, Harvest Moon: Light of Hope, Ikaruga, N++, Street Fighter II
Detroit: Become Human, Gorogoa, Dark Souls Remastered, more coming to PS Store this week
This month’s second-to-last PlayStation Store update is a big one for both PS4 and Vita owners…
PS4 owners will have several highly-anticipated titles to choose from today, including an Open Beta for the long-in-development H1Z1: Battle Royale; Devolver’s crossover shooter, I Hate Running Backwards; and Jason Roberts’s award-winning visual puzzler, Gorogoa. Even Vita owners will get a chance to farm some new games as Stardew Valley is now available for Sony’s handheld.
Things pick up even more on Friday, as Koji Igarashi and Inti Creates will release the side-scrolling Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon for the PS4 and Vita, Bandai Namco will bring the hardcore action of Dark Souls Remastered to the PS4, Quantic Dream will tell a futuristic sci-fi tale examining what it means to be a human being in Detroit: Become Human for the PS4, and Q-Games will return to the tower defense genre with PixelJunk Monsters 2 for the PS4.
You can learn more about the rest of this week’s additions to the PlayStation Store after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PS4, Vita
Tagged Bloodstained Prequel, Dark Souls, Detroit: Become Human, Gorogoa, Stardew Valley
Bloodstained becomes most-funded video game in Kickstarter history (and there’s still 13 hours to go)
As its wild (and wildly successful) Kickstarter campaign comes to an end, Koji Igarashi’s Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has risen to the top of the pack as the most-funded video game of all time. Currently sitting at $4.7 million, the campaign proves that gamers still care deeply about Igarashi’s Metroidvania-style gothic castle crawlers. And Igarashi still has 13 hours to gather more pledges as the campaign isn’t scheduled to close until 11:00 PM (Eastern Time) tonight.
The developer has responded to this deluge of money by running one of the most bizarre campaigns in recent memory. He included “achievements” to “unlock” stretch goals, he asked for fan art for a game that barely exists (and which he received by the bucketful), and he created a series of whimsical videos to respond to fans. Igarashi also expanded the scope of Bloodstained considerably through a ridiculous number of stretch goals, including these recently funded features:
- Online Challenge Mode… FUNDED
- Third Playable Character… FUNDED
- Standalone Prequel for PC/Consoles… FUNDED
- Standalone Prequel for 3DS/Vita… ALMOST FUNDED
If the campaign reaches $5 million, Igarashi has promised to create a roguelike mode that reshapes the game into a series of procedurally-generated hallways. But for now, Bloodstained will definitely receive an Online Challenge Mode, a third playable character (details coming soon), and a retro-styled standalone prequel developed by Inti Creates for the PC, PS4, Wii U, and Xbox One. Igarashi and his team are also reasonably confident the standalone prequel will come to handhelds as they’re only a few thousand away.
And they’re not done. This morning, a new update revealed that Yacht Club’s Shovel Knight will be included in the game in some way. Is he friend? Is he foe? Igarashi isn’t saying, but his inclusion is sure to be interesting.
After all these reveals, it’s hard to believe we’ll have to wait until 2017 to play Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Hopefully, Igarashi can keep the crazy updates coming for the next two years.
Posted in 3DS, News, PC, PS4, Vita, Wii U, Xbox One
Tagged Bloodstained Prequel, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Bloodstained officially coming to Vita; final stretch goals announced
Koji Igarashi’s Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is officially coming to the PlayStation Vita after crossing the $3.5 million mark in total pledges over the weekend.
Like the Wii U version, the portable port of Bloodstained will be developed by Armature. They plan to offer a music import option to transfer Bloodstained’s soundtrack to your Vita music library, PS4 Cross-Save support, touchscreen map support, and PlayStation TV compatibility. Like all other versions of the game, digital and physical copies are currently available to backers.
With the campaign scheduled to conclude in just four days on Friday, June 12 at 11:00 PM (Eastern Time), Igarashi and his team at Inti Creates have revealed the final stretch goals, which include another playable character and a separate prequel game created created in a retro style:
$3,750,000 – Orchestrated Tracks: Yamane and Yamada are thrilled to see this goal on the horizon, as it will enable them to have some of their compositions performed and recorded by a live, professional orchestra! These tracks will, of course, end up in the game, not to mention on the soundtrack.
$4,000,000 – Online Challenge Mode: Compete and cooperate with a friend to earn points in specially designed stages by clearing challenges, killing enemies, collecting items, and more. Rumor has it there there may even be incredibly powerful bosses which drop rare crafting materials…
$4,250,000 – 3rd Playable Character: Iga and Inti Creates will include a third playable character in Bloodstained! They don’t want to give away too much—it might even be a character you haven’t met yet.
$4,500,000 – Prequel Mini-Game For Consoles: Inti Creates is so excited about Bloodstained that they’re hoping to create a 2D, pixel-based, retro-styled mini-game that sheds some light on the world of Bloodstained before Miriam awoke from her coma. This is a complete game which will be sold separately, but every $28+ backer copy of Bloodstained will come with a FREE download of this game on PS4, XB1, Wii U, or PC! (Backers at Physical+Digital tiers will be eligible for 2 copies of the mini-game.)
$4,750,000 – Prequel Mini-Game For Portables: At $4.75 million Inti will port their side story game to the PS Vita and Nintendo 3DS. Backers $28 and up will be able to choose any platform for their free copy (or copies)!
$5,000,000 – ?????
More than 44,000 backers have pledged over $3.6 million to Bloodstained so far. Can Igarashi find more folks to push it to $5 million? Check back Friday to find out.
Posted in 3DS, News, PC, PS4, Vita, Wii U, Xbox One
Tagged Bloodstained Prequel, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night