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Keiji Inafune’s Mighty No. 9 is fully funded after 36 hours
The Kickstarter campaign for Keiji Inafune’s Mighty No. 9 is now fully funded, just a tick over 36 hours after it began. Inafune and his team at Comcept asked donors for $900,000 to complete development on the side-scrolling platformer, which was heavily inspired by Inafune’s most famous creation, Mega Man. As of this writing, backers have pledged over $940,000.
So now that Mighty No. 9 is a mighty success, it’s time to talk about stretch goals. In the initial pitch, Inafune expressed a desire to bring the game to the PS3, Wii U, and Xbox 360. And if fans can reach the priciest goal, $2.5 million, that’ll be a reality. Other stretch goals include:
- $1.2 Million: Two More Stages
- $1.35 Million: Mac and Linux Versions
- $1.5 Million: New Game Plus and Turbo Mode
- $1.75 Million: ???
- $2 Million: The Making of Mighty No. 9 Video Documentary
- $2.2 Million: ???
- $2.5 Million: PS3/X360/WIIU CONSOLE VERSIONS!!!
Congratulations to Keiji Inafune and his team at Comcept on a MEGA successful Kickstarter campaign.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Wii U, Xbox 360
Tagged Mighty No. 9, PAX Prime 2013
Capybara confirms Super Time Force in 2013, Below in 2014
Capybara Games confirmed a few release dates for us this weekend during the PAX Prime expo.
GameSpot caught up with Capybara’s President, Nathan Vella, and he told them that Below, a roguelike the company has in development for the Xbox One as a timed exclusive, would be released in 2014. Meanwhile, Polygon also chatted with the studio head yesterday and he revealed that their fourth dimensional shooter for the Xbox 360, Super Time Force, is “feature locked” and will be released in 2013.
They’re vague release dates, but it’s more than we had pre-PAX Prime.
Posted in News, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Tagged Below, PAX Prime 2013, Super Time Force
XCOM: Enemy Within trailer brings “War Machines” to the fight
“War Machines,” the latest trailer for Firaxis Games’ XCOM: Enemy Within, made its debut at this weekend’s PAX Prime. The trailer depicts many of the new abilities your XCOM soldiers will have at their disposal including biological augmentations (such as telekinesis), cybernetic enhancements, and massive mechs. The aliens will counter with two new enemy types including a hulking mech of their own (known as Mechtoids) and the ghost-like Seekers.
The PC version of XCOM: Enemy Within, which requires a copy of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, will be released on November 12. The expansion will also be available as a standalone release for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on the same day.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged PAX Prime 2013, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, XCOM: Enemy Within
Mass Effect Edition add-on coming to Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition this week
Microsoft wants to infuse a little Mass Effect into your Minecraft with a new add-on pack. The “Mass Effect Edition” will add 36 Mass Effect Skins, a “Pre-Built Mars Facility” World, a Mass Effect Texture Set, a Mass Effect-themed UI, and 22 music tracks from Mass Effect 3 to Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition. The add-on pack is priced at $3.99 and will be available this Wednesday, September 4.
Microsoft is referring to this add-on as the “first” mash-up pack, so there’s a very good chance that more are in the works. Minecraft: Halo Edition, anyone? Be sure to check out the trailer above and you can view a ton of “Mass Effect Edition” screenshots at Microsoft’s Play XBLA blog.
Posted in News, Xbox 360
Tagged Minecraft, PAX Prime 2013
Gearbox to publish Hardware: Shipbreakers as third Homeworld game
Gearbox picked up the the rights to the Homeworld series during THQ’s franchise fire sale earlier this year. After the acquisition, they quickly announced that high definition re-releases of Homeworld and Homeworld 2 were in the works. And now they can add a third Homeworld game to their development slate… sort of.
At PAX Prime this weekend, Gearbox announced that they’ve partnered with Blackbird Interactive, a small developer that was founded by several members of the original Homeworld team at Relic Entertainment. As part of the deal, their current project, Hardware: Shipbreakers, will be folded into the Homeworld franchise. The game will now be known as Homeworld: Shipbreakers and it will serve as a prequel to the entire Homeworld series.
Gearbox will provide financial support to Blackbird as, in the words of CEO Randy Pitchford, they are not the best team to develop a sci-fi RTS. Pitchford also commented on the production support they plan to offer to Blackbird: “We’ve become expert at production and that’s where we can help. I mean, we shipped Duke Nukem Forever, we didn’t build it but we made sure it came out. And that’s a ****ing miracle.”
[Source: Polygon]
Posted in News, PC
Tagged PAX Prime 2013
Mighty No. 9, a spiritual successor to Mega Man, announced by Keiji Inafune
See if this sounds familiar to you…
You play as Beck, the 9th in a line of powerful robots, and the only one not infected by a mysterious computer virus that has caused mechanized creatures the world over to go berserk. Run, jump, blast, and transform your way through six stages (or more, via stretch goals) you can tackle in any order you choose, using weapons and abilities stolen from your enemies to take down your fellow Mighty Number robots and confront the final evil that threatens the planet!
Is this the plot to a lost Mega Man game? No, it’s Mighty No. 9, a new project announced today at PAX Prime by Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune. His team at Comcept have taken to Kickstarter to fund the 2D side-scrolling title and want to bring the same collaborative design process to the game that Inafune previously attempted with Mega Man Universe and Mega Man Legends 3.
Inafune and his team are looking for $900,000 to bring Might No. 9 to PC download services. A console edition of the game (PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii U platforms were mentioned) may also be developed if appropriate (but currently unknown) stretch goals are reached. If you believe in Inafune’s vision for a Mega Man spiritual successor, I highly recommend giving Mighty No. 9’s Kickstarter campaign a look. Let’s just hope Capcom doesn’t decide to sue him, because it really does resemble a lost Mega Man game.
If all goes well, Inafune expects to release Mighty No. 9 in the Spring of 2015.
Posted in News, PC
Tagged Mighty No. 9, PAX Prime 2013
Zeboyd’s Cosmic Star Heroine coming to PS4, Vita
Back in March, the developers at Zeboyd Games told us they were getting “very friendly” with Sony and hinted that their next project might appear on one or more Sony systems. Yesterday, at PAX Prime, the duo of Robert Boyd and Bill Stiernberg confirmed that their 90s-inspired RPG, Cosmic Star Heroine, will be released for the PS4 and Vita.
The titular Cosmic Star Heroine is Alyssa L’Salle, a famous spy in the Samus Aran mold. She has saved the galaxy more than once and the people in charge have asked her to do it again. But this time, “her own government outs her as a legendary spy and the people’s champion!” So keep that in mind as you watch the game’s opening cinematic above and shelve your Jem and the Holograms: Space Spies fan-fic, because Cosmic Star Heroine got their first.
In addition to 80s/90s cartoons, Cosmic Star Heroine has said to have been inspired by one of the greatest RPGs ever, Chrono Trigger. It’ll be available for the PS4 and Vita as a Cross-Buy title soon, but not until Zeboyd completes a Kickstarter campaign to ensure they have enough funding to finish it.
Cosmic Star Heroine is also in development for the PC.
[Source: PlayStation Blog]
Posted in News, PC, PS4, Vita
Tagged Cosmic Star Heroine, PAX Prime 2013
New Killer Instinct trailer shows Chief Thunder combos and a NEW CHARACTER
Microsoft has released a new trailer for Killer Instinct starring the world’s most second-most third-most popular Native American fighting game character… Chief Thunder. Watch as the Chief puts the smackdown on Jago with his special “Thunder Combos” in the video above.
And be sure to stick around until the end of the trailer, because developer Double Helix has revealed their first original addition to the Killer Instinct lineup. The unnamed female ninja has the fashion sense of Mileena, the dagger arms of Baraka, and the spider powers of Spider-Man.
Killer Instinct is playable on the PAX Prime show floor this weekend. It’ll be officially released for the Xbox One in November.
Posted in News, Xbox One
Tagged Killer Instinct, PAX Prime 2013