Developer Jin Wave Studio has announced Jin Conception, described as a “social deduction fantasy thriller turn-based RPG” will be launching for Steam PC sometime in 2021. Details are scant at the moment, but here’s the official breakdown of Jin Conception from the game’s Steam page: Jin Conception is a social deduction fantasy thriller turn-based Japanese RPG. Eight playable characters’ stories
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Hot on the heels of the success of his creature horror book The Chenoo, veteran comic book artist and Bane co-creator Graham Nolan (Monster Island, Batman) is preparing his next sci-fi horror project set in The Chenoo universe: Alien Alamo. This time featuring furry crab-like aliens (“crab people”, if you will), Alien Alamo is set in the Lone Star State,
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Update 1 – This listing for a Nintendo Switch port of Kingdom Come: Deliverance Royal Edition has since been revealed to be an error, with no Switch version being planned at this time. Update 2 – Sike! As of June 2021, Warhorse Studios has confirmed that a Switch version of Kingdom Come: Deliverance is in development. Check out the latest
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Over the weekend, independent comic book creator Michael Derrick launched a crowdfunding campaign for The Abductables 2: Reticulous!, the follow-up to to sci-fi/comedy from 2019 (which The Splintering reviewed here. Spoilers! We liked it). Once again written by Derrick (Grayskale) and illustrated by Ibai Canales (Iron Sights) Reticulous! picks up shortly after the first book left off. Here’s the official
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Late last week, Hall of Fame baseball manager Tommy Lasorda passed away at the age of 93. While I wasn’t the biggest Dodger fan as a kid, there are two things that come to mind when I think about the legendary MLB icon: Ultra Slim Fast commercials and Tommy Lasorda Baseball for the SEGA Genesis. In that spirit, we decided
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Now that independent comic book creator Patrick Thomas Parnell is putting the finishing touches on Johnny Phantasm 1985, he’s preparing to launch his next crowdfunding project: Ultra Star.* Previously referred to as “Project Supermen”, Ultra Star is a superhero story intended to restore “faith in superhero comics again.” Here’s the official plot synopsis taken from the Ultra Star Indiegogo campaign
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Developer Suzaku has officially released Sense – 不祥的预感: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story on the Nintendo Switch eShop. Successfully crowdfunded in 2018, Suzaku’s Sense – 不祥的预感: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story is inspired by retro horror classics Clock Tower and Fatal Frame, Sense is described as a 2.5D horror RPG that blends cyberpunk elements with Cantonese folklore. Here’s the full breakdown of
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On Wednesday, Alterna Comics founder Peter Simeti marked the 15th anniversary of his comic book publishing company with a special edition livestream on the official Alterna YouTube channel. Joined by Alterna creators such as Frankie B. Washington (It Came Out on a Wednesday), and David Lucarelli (Tinseltown), Saint Publishin’ Pete took a trip down memory lane, showing off books from
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Independent comic book creator Michael Oden is currently hard at work preparing his next project for a crowdfunding launch on Indiegogo. Inspired by dark superhero stories such as The Crow, Oden’s The Embrace will be a 30+ page story about “Loss, Fatherhood, and Justice as a father gets saved by the ghost of his son.” Oden himself is no stranger
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Over the weekend, independent comic book creator Vinnie Tartamella launched a crowdfunding campaign for Shadow of the Kraken, a 50-page pirate graphic novel (Is “Pirate” it’s own sub genre at this point?). Written and illustrated by Tartamella (Through the Woods, City of Venus), Shadow of the Kraken promises action, brutality, and plenty of booty! Here’s the official plot synopsis taken
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Is this particular chapter in the New Year’s Evil collection still worth tracking down over twenty years later? If you find it in your local shop’s discount bin (as I did), then sure. Why not?
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Sure, 2020 is almost over, but just like any other year, saying goodbye to the Christmas holiday season is still bumming me out a bit. Still, we at The Splintering like to keep our Jolly Jinglings festivities going all the way to the New Year, and one easy, cost-free way to hold onto the holiday spirit all year long is
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Welcome back to Jolly Jinglings, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of all things merry and bright! Yes, another take on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. What kind of Christmas stories would comic creators come up with if A Christmas Carol never existed? But all is well, because if there is any superhero team that fans were clamoring to see reenact the Dickens classic,
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Over the weekend, the crowdfunding campaign for ROBERT the Graphic Novel ended successfully, raising more than $3,600 at the time of this writing. Written and illustrated by “Boogie Bot,” ROBERT combines sci-fi, steampunk, and western genres into one 60-page adventure. But what is ROBERT about? Here’s the official plot synopsis taken from the ROBERT Indiegogo campaign page: Y3K, a catastrophic
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On Friday, independent comic book creator and Splatto Comics founder Richard C. Meyer launched a crowdfunding campaign for 499, a 72-page graphic novel written and illustrated by Foreign Agent creator Narwal (aka Per Berg). Set in an alternate history, 499 blends elements of Cold War-inspired thrillers with the slasher films of the 1980s. Here’s the official plot synopsis taken from
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Earlier this week, Groupees.com launched Holiday Helpings 7, the site’s annual fundraiser benefiting the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP). So how does it work? Game, music, comic and manga creators freely donate digital copies of their work to be bundled together and sold to support the charity. This year’s offerings include both a $3 and a $5 tier, which
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Welcome back to Jolly Jinglings, the Splintering’s month-long celebration of all things that shake like a bowl full of jelly! Today we’re going to pick apart Batman: Noël, the graphic novel written and illustrated by Lee Bermejo and published by DC Comics in 2011. Wait, Batman: Noël… Batmanuel!? Anyway, using Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol as the backdrop, Batman: Noël
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Welcome back to The Splintering’s Jolly Jinglings holiday event! Today we’re going to take a look at another lesser-known title from the Xbox Live Indie Game (XBLIG) catalogue, Hurdle Turtle: Celebrations! Developed by Adam “Holmfry” Holmes in 2013, Hurdle Turtle: Celebrations! is a sequel of sorts to 2010’s Hurtle Turtle. It’s an arcade-style endless runner game where players control their
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2020 has claimed yet another casualty! Sort of…. Publisher NEOWIZ and developer JellySnow Studio have announced that their roguelite action-platformer Metal Unit has been delayed until January 2021. Originally scheduled to launch before the end of December, the creators felt that Metal Unit needed more polish, tweaks, and additional content based on user feedback. “How’d they get the user feedback
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Overnight, the crowdfunding campaign for issue 3 of Replicator closed successfully, raising more than $32 thousand from 516 backers. Replicator #3 is a 32-page sci-fi comic written by Rob Arnold and featuring illustrations by William War Reyes and Chis Arieswendha, colors by Corey Barton and lettering by the prolific Eric Weathers. Several of the book’s creators celebrated with a nine-hour,
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Over the weekend, ALL CAPS COMICS launched a crowdfunding campaign for Snowman: A Cold Day in Hell, a revival of the 90s horror book created by Matthew Martin and originally published by Hall of Heroes. The original story followed a malevolent Native American spirit that could control ice and snow. This reimagining of Snowman is once again written and illustrated
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‘Tis the season, ya’ zombie bitches! Tripwire Interactive is once again bringing Christmas cheer to their multiplayer zombie shooter Killing Floor 2. The annual Christmas Crackdown event brings with it a festive community map as well as several holiday-themed cosmetic items, achievements, objectives, enemies, weapons (namely the HRG Vampire for the Field Medic, and the Frostfang for the Support and
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Earlier this week, the crowdfunding campaign for issue 2 of BRIC-A-BRAC successfully hit its funding goal, making a very merry Christmas for BRIC-A-BRAC’s writer and creator, Ryan Haack. But “isn’t there anyone who can tell me what is BRIC-A-BRAC is all about?” Sure, Charlie Brown. I can tell you what BRIC-A-BRAC is all about. Here’s the official pitch taken from
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Publisher Eastasiasoft and developer Lillymo Games have announced that retro-inspired shoot ’em up Habroxia 2 will be coming 3 February to PC and consoles. Despite its old school aesthetics, Habroxia 2 mixes up the formula by adding both vertical and side-scrolling stages, non-linear progression, and twin-stick aiming controls. There’s also options to upgrade and customize your ship and a New
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Successfully crowdfunded in 2019, Stoker & Wells: Order of the Golden Dawn follows the time-traveling adventures of literary visionaries Bram Stoker and H. G. Wells that is kinda-sorta based on actual events. Now, the Stoker & Wells creators have set up an Indiegogo page with the express intention of using it as an in-demand storefront, as the books are already
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Now that Shi creator and Crusade Comics founder Billy Tucci has launched Shi: Haikyo on Indiegogo, now seemed to be the time to do a “Crowdfunding Review” for Shi: Return of the Warrior, the first book in the Shi revival trilogy. For those of you not familiar with the crowdfunding review format, we grade a crowdfunding campaign on four distinct
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On Sunday, renowned comic book artist and Cyberfrog creator Ethan Van Sciver launched the long-awaited crowdfunding campaign for Reignbow the Brute, a 48-page graphic novel that is a “high-testosterone” parody of girls’ toy franchises from the 1980s. Much like Van Sciver’s other crowdfunded projects, Reignbow the Brute is already a runaway success story, raising well more than $200k in the
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Over the holiday weekend, first-time comic book creator Noah T. Mactutus launched a crowdfunding campaign for Maverix Decimation, a 76-page, graphic novel featuring an entirely standalone story. Co-written by Noah T. Mactutus and Luke Iannone and featuring illustrations by Mactutus, Maverix Decimation described as a “heartfelt, heart racing story chock full of everything you could ever want in a comic:
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Modus Games has unveiled gameplay of guest character Ultraman in their 3D mecha brawler, Override 2: Super Mech League. The “Ultraman Deluxe Edition” will be available at launch, and can be pre-ordered with the Ultraman Season Pass, which includes Ultraman, Bemular, Black King, and Dan Moroboshi. The retail version of Override 2 will also include Ultraman cosmetic items. Developed by Modus
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Like sands in the hourglass, so are the seasons of our lives… Independent comic book creator Nandor Fox Shaffer recently launched a crowdfunding campaign for volumes 1 and 2 of Seasons, graphic novels that began as a dramatic web comic. We were fortunate enough to get a chance to discuss his Seasons campaign which is still available to support here. As always, the answers
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