SEGA has released a launch trailer for SEGA Ages: Space Harrier, the latest in the SEGA Ages line of retro rereleases for Nintendo Switch, this time featuring Yu Suzuki’s classic arcade shooter. You can watch the trailer below, followed by a breakdown of the game’s features. The Ultimate Port, Even Further Evolved Than the 3DS Version Sega Ages: Space Harrier
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Earlier this week, the crowdfunding campaign for Mike S. Miller’s Lonestar: Soul of the Soldier ended successfully, raising 15,243% of its original goal for a total of over $150 thousand dollars. Six figures, bit young lady! Written and illustrated by Miller, Lonestar is a superhero action/adventure featuring a main character designed as a “star-spangled” hero in the same vein as
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Earlier this week, independent comic book creator Wyatt Holliday launched a crowdfunding campaign for Ardanna #0, a 22-page, full color comic intended as the starting point of a four-issue arc, and possibly even the beginning of an ongoing series if the project is successful enough. Written by Wyatt Holliday and featuring artwork by D. Flores, colors by B. Salaberry and
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In a recent interview with Game Informer during E3 2019, Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka indicated that SEGA has big plans for Sonic the Hedgehog’s 30th anniversary 2021. According to Iizuka: “2017 was a big year for Sonic. The next big year for Sonic is 2021. That’s the 30-year anniversary for Sonic. We are now preparing”. The interviewer noted that
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Comic book creator Kyle Ritter (Cyberfrog: Blood Honey) is inching ever closer to launching a crowdfunding campaign for his new sci-fi graphic novel, Starblades. After dropping teaser images for months, Ritter has now started dropping artwork of fully colored pages, and it looks like comic art aficionados have quite a bit to look forward to. Ritter intends to launch the
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Bluepoint Games has announced that the company’s co-founder and Andy O’Neil passed away on 10 June. Below is the official statement from the Bluepoint Facebook page: We are sad to announce the passing of one of our founders, Andy O’Neil. Andy was key in the formation of Bluepoint Games and his engineering prowess helped catapult a tiny two-person studio to
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Late last week, Cautionary Comics launched a crowdfunding campaign for Offworlder – The Protectors of Sa’Ra. Written by Mike Baron and featuring artwork by Jordi Armengol, Offworlder is a 48-page, sci-fi/fantasy graphic novel about an out-of-time Scottish warrior who is thrown into an intergalactic battle…. uh, sounds pretty much like John Carter of Mars in a kilt. Here’s a better
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In a recent interview with Korean outlet GameFocus, Samurai Shodown director and art director Nobuyuki Kuroki revealed that SNK executives rejected an exclusivity offer from an unnamed “PC sales platform.” While the chief suspect is certainly the Epic Games Store, as Niche Gamer astutely points out, the platform could very well have been GOG, Itch.io, Steam or others. According to
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Last week, renowned comic book artist and Cyberfrog creator Ethan Van Sciver revealed several details for an upcoming trading card set based on his cybernetic amphibian. The set is humbly named the Cyberfrog Deluxe Ultra Premium Trading Card Set. The set itself is made up of 18 base cards, 6 line art cards, puzzle cards, and 6 throwback cards featuring
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Last week, the creative team behind the upcoming comic book Oddity released a short teaser trailer for the project. Written by “Indie Dave” and illustrated by Sean Sweeney, Oddity appears to be a sci-fi adventure featuring an anthropomorphic amphibian hero. There’s still no word on when the Oddity crowdfunding campaign will launch on Indiegogo, but you can watch the new
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On Friday, YouTube comic book commentator Doug Ernst launched an Indiegogo campaign for an all-new graphic novel project titled Soulfinder: Demon’s Match. Written by Ernst and featuring artwork by Timothy Lim (Black Hops G.I.) and colors by Brett R. Smith (Jawbreakers), Soulfinder is a 56-page, supernatural graphic novel about a combat veteran-turned priest who investigates a string of mysterious deaths.
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At E3 2019, publisher XSeed released a trailer for Arc Systems Works’ new weapons-based fighter Granblue Fantasy Versus. At the moment, the game is a PS4 exclusive there’s no confirmed western release date, but it’s still a really slick looking game. You can check out the trailer below.
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“In handheld mode, no one can hear you scream.” During the E3 2019 Nintendo Direct presentation, SEGA revealed that their critically-acclaimed sci-fi horror game Alien: Isolation would be coming to the Nintendo Switch by the end of 2019. Originally developed by Creative Assembly for PlayStation, Xbox & PC platforms, Alien: Isolation follows the terrifying adventures of Amanda Ripley as she
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SNK and developer Athlon Games have released yet another character trailer for the upcoming Samurai Shodown. You can find a SNK’s bio of Galford below: Meet the all-American ninja and self-proclaimed “Superhero of Justice,” fan-favorite Galford. Traveling the world on a quest for peace, he is accompanied by his pet dog Poppy and his Justice Blade. Together, Galford and Poppy
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Earlier this week, Blood Realm creator Robert Geronimo joined Alterna Comics founder Peter Simeti on the official Alterna YouTube channel to discuss the future of the Blood Realm universe. Blood Realm has been quite a successful book for Alterna, and it seems that fans of the books will have plenty to look forward to for a long time to come. During
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Tripwire Interactive revealed Maneater at E3 2018. and this year during the PC gaming press conference, the company released an all-new trailer for their submarine RPG, this time featuring the game’s antagonist, Scaly Pete (voiced by Chris Parnell). You can watch the new trailer below. Maneater is an open-world, action RPG set in the Gulf Coast where players control a giant
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At E3 2019, game publisher GungHo revealed quite a bit of information on their upcoming Grandia HD Collection for the Nintendo Switch and PC. Grandia HD Collection bundles both Grandia HD Remaster and Grandia II HD Remaster in one package on the Switch, while the two titles will be available separately on PC, with Grandia II HD already available as
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Comic book “bad girls” Shi and Lady Death already have a bit of a history together, but both characters are also sharing their 25th anniversary this year. 25, eh? They look great. So how will these two deadly femme fatales celebrate? In true comic book fashion, of course- with variant covers! Shi creator Billy Tucci recently revealed that his is
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At the E3 2019 PC Gaming press conference, game developer Honig Studios unveiled a trailer for El Hijo, a “non-violent, spaghetti-western stealth game.” You can watch the trailer for yourself below, followed by a description of the game from El Hijo publisher HandyGames. The journey begins when a farmer and her son El Hijo are attacked by bandits who raze
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Yesterday during Twitch’s E3 2019 coverage, Konami revealed their plans to jump on the mini-console bandwagon with the TurboGrafx-16 Mini. You can watch the full reveal trailer below. The console will ship in 3 different versions depending on your region, with the TurboGrafx-16 Mini coming to North America, the PC Engine Mini in Japan, and the PC Engine CoreGrafx Mini
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During the E3 2019 Nintendo Direct presentation, Square Enix announced Trials of Mana, a remake of Seiken Densetsu 3 which was originally released only in Japan for the Super Famicom. Below is the reveal trailer followed by an overview of the game according to Square Enix. “Trials of Mana is a full high definition remake of the third entry in
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At the E3 2019 PC Gaming press conference, game developer Steel Mantis (Slain: Back From Hell) debuted a new trailer for their upcoming heavy metal-infused 2D action-platformer Valfaris (which oddly looks more like Contra than the new Contra). Here’s the new trailer below followed by a synopsis of the game from Steel Mantis. “After mysteriously vanishing from galactic charts, the
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SEGA Saturn fans heard those horns sounding off and instantly knew that they were heralding the return of Panzer Dragoon, a fantasy-themed shooter which helped usher in the 3D era in the mid-90s. During Tuesday’s E3 2019 Nintendo Direct presentation, SEGA unveiled a trailer for Panzer Dragoon, which looks to be a modern reimagining of the Saturn classic. You can
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When other E3 presentations bore you to tears and the hollow platitudes and corporate speak of other game companies pushes your head to the brink of exploding, the delightfully bizarre E3 offerings from game publisher Devolver Digital come to the rescue just in time. At E3 2019, Devolver did not disappoint. Ripping off the Nintendo Direct format, Devolver also used
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At their Xbox E3 2019 press conference, Microsoft showed off a gameplay trailer for their Battletoads revival, and the new, updated art style to go with it. You can check out the Battletoads trailer below. The trailer showcases 3-player couch co-op, the classic Battletoads theme music, and a simplified art style that some are accusing of being shit “CalArts“-inspired (the
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At the Microsoft Xbox E3 2019 conference, SEGA announced that the long wait for a Western release of Phantasy Star Online 2 would finally end in Spring 2020. Described as “Japan’s greatest online RPG”, Phantasy Star Online 2 has been available on a number of platforms outside Western territories since 2012. The announcement trailer indicates that this latest release of
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Some backers of Mitch Breitweiser’s Red Rooster: Golden Age Indiegogo campaign have raised concerns over the lack of updates on the project. On a recent livestream with Edwin Boyette, Breitweiser answered these concerns, revealing that he has in fact been a very, very busy man. As Breitweiser puts it, “We set out to make an Indiegogo comic book, and ended
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Veteran comic book letterer Eric Weathers is marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day by launching a crowdfunding campaign for Flying Fortress: Remastered, a girthy 200-page graphic novel collecting all eight issues of 2011’s Flying Fortress with updated artwork and lettering. Wait, did I say letterer? Indeed I did. Eric Weathers is a very active letterer for other independent comics projects
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Dynamite Comics originally planned to release Billy Tucci‘s take on the Golden Age character Miss Fury in late 2018. After a significant delay, Miss Fury – Joy Division is now set to release this fall, with issue #1 hitting comic shop shelves on 25 September. Here’s a breakdown of Miss Fury – Joy Division from Previews World: Multi-Eisner nominee Billy
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There are now multiple reports suggesting that DC Comics may be shutting down its Vertigo Comics imprint. These rumors should come as no surprise to those following Vertigo’s abysmal sales numbers and the controversies surrounding some of the imprint’s creators. Created in 1993, Vertigo was designed as a place for top-tier creators to produce content directed at mature audiences in
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The Splintering 