According to Japanese developer Spike Chunsoft’s website, two of the company’s upcoming releases will be censored on PS4, Crystar and Conception PLUS: Maidens of the Twelve Stars. Here are the disclosures from Spike Chunsoft: Crystar We would like to inform the community about a content change in the PlayStation 4 version of the title, the pre-title screen cinematic has had
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The long-awaited follow-up to Jawbreakers – Lost Souls is now funding via Indiegogo, and it was fully funded in the first hour. Jawbreakers – GØD-K1NG is the 100-page graphic novel featuring the culmination of the events which began in the smash hit Lost Souls. Here’s how Jawbreakers creator Richard C. Meyer breaks down the GØD-K1NG project. JAWBREAKERS: GØD-K1NG contains four
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Over the weekend, Mandy Summers launched a crowdfunding campaign for Wart the Wizard, a 90-page graphic novel intended for readers of all ages. Written and illustrated by Summers, Wart the Wizard is a fantasy/comedy tale inspired by fantasy/RPG video games such as King’s Quest and World of Warcraft. Here’s a plot summary taken from the Indiegogo campaign page: Wart The
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If you still need yet another example of how awful “news” organizations are at doing their jobs, look no further than today’s comic book coverage on CNN, who apparently believes that Marvel must publish every comic out there without a bat in the logo. As we (accurately) reported yesterday, Image Comics has ended the long-running series The Walking Dead this
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Last month, publisher Deep Silver and developer Ys Net confirmed that Shenmue III is going to be exclusive to the Epic Games Store on Windows PC. That surprise announcement decision disappointed many Shenmue fans, particularly the backers of the original Kickstarter campaign. Not only did the Epic Game Store not exist back when Shenmue III was crowdfunded in 2015, but
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After 16 years, Robert Kirkman’s zombie horror series The Walking Dead ended this week. Kirkman hinted on social media that issue number 193 would be a big one, and that certainly turned out to be the case. Kirkman penned a farewell message at the end of this week’s issue, confirming the series’ finality. It’s certainly the end of an era,
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On Monday, independent comics publisher Good Dog Press launched a crowdfunding campaign for The Unbreathable Skunk Girl: No Squirrel’s Allowed, a sexy, tongue-in-cheek action/comedy filled with “violence, gunfire, smoking, drinking, and oh my lorrrd BEAUTIFUL women!” Written and illustrated by Manuel “Manny” Correia, The Unbreathable Skunk Girl is a girthy 80-page graphic novel that isn’t exactly intended for younger children, if you haven’t
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Compile Heart has announced that Death End re;Quest 2 is coming to the PS4. The first Death End re;Quest game was a genre mish-mash of visual novel and turn-based RPG mechanics released in February 2019, so it stands to reason that the follow-up will not stray too far from the formula of the original. Fine details are scant at the
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The Indiegogo campaign for Mike S. Miller’s Lonestar: Soul of the Soldier recently ended successfully, raising over $150 thousand. It’s no wonder then that fraudsters would try to capitalize on Miller’s good fortune. Yesterday, “Musky Elon” pointed out on social media that a fraudulent Lonestar: Soul of the Soldier page had been created by one “Tevin Adam” on the crowdfunding
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The long-awaited third installment of the Bill & Ted series has finally started filming as of 1 July. Titled Bill & Ted Face the Music, the movie reunites stars Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves for the first time since 1991’s Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey. Members of the original supporting cast are also back to reprise their roles in the
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Late last week, comic creator Vinnie Tartamella (Through the Woods) launched a crowdfunding campaign for the first issue of City of Venus: Dead City, a 28-page sci-fi comic set in a post-apocalyptic future. City of Venus is written, illustrated, colored, lettered all by Tartamella himself, who has worked as a cover artist for Image Comics, former lead designer of McFarlane
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Regista recently announced that it is bringing the action horror game Shadow Corridor to Switch this summer. The publisher also released a video featuring ten minutes of gameplay, which you can watch below. Shadow Corridor is already available on Steam, but Regista has added a few new features to the Switch port including difficulty adjustments like the addition of a
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The crowdfunding campaign for Iron Skies has been live for weeks, and up until last night, it has failed to catch fire, at least as far as attracting cash is concerned. The project has raised over $2 thousand dollars in the past 24 hours after Iron Skies creator Kristopher Rue appeared on Ethan Van Sciver’s Comic Artist Pro Secrets YouTube
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Earlier this month, independent comic book creator Brenden Swan launched a crowdfunding campaign for Strangelove: I Want to be Chrome via Indiegogo. The project recently achieved its funding goal, putting it one big step closer to becoming a reality. Strangelove is a 40-page one-shot book written and illustrated by Brenden Swan, who warns that the story draws from sci-fi and
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My Friend Pedro was a favorite of ours since it was revealed at E3 2018. Now that the game is available, it seems as though many others have been similarly drawn to DeadToast Entertainment’s bizarre, hyper-violent action title. Publisher Devolver Digital announced yesterday that My Friend Pedro has sold over 250 thousand copies in its first week. To celebrate, Devolver
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The development team behind Rock of Ages and Zeno Clash have unveiled their next game project, SolSeraph, a new fantasy action game coming to both PC and consoles in July. You can watch the debut trailer below, and when you’re done, tell me that it doesn’t look like Enix’s Actraiser… What’d you think? Looks like Actraiser, right? It’s pretty clear
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According to a recent interview with the game’s director Takahisa Taura, the upcoming Nintendo Switch action game Astral Chain will have no post-launch DLC. However, if the game sells well enough, developer Platinum Games intends to turn Astral Chain into a trilogy. According to Taura: “There are currently no plans to release extra content for Astral Chain… This is different
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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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The biggest comic of July 2019 may not be Batman, Spider-Man, or The Walking Dead, it could very well be Vampirella. Dynamite Comics has announced that their upcoming Vampirella #1 is the company’s best-selling debut of all-time, with the initial print run totaling more than 130,000 copies. That also makes it the best-selling Vampirella book in the character’s 50-year history.
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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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It’s crazy to think that the Ouya first launched its Kickstarter campaign more than seven years ago. When it did, it promised to revolutionize the game industry by offering a cheap, Android-based game box that allowed game developers to create innovative, yet inexpensive games. Along the way, it somehow captured the hearts of the game industry, raising more than $8.5
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Square Enix recently revealed that Final Fantasy VII‘s Tifa Lockhart is the next post-launch DLC character for Dissidia Final Fantasy NT. You can check out Tifa’s announcement trailer below. Nice looking character design, don’t ya’ think? Very ethical. Developed by Koei Tecmo’s Team Ninja, Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is a crossover action game featuring characters spanning the entire Final Fantasy series.
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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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After releasing on Nintendo Switch last September, Senran Kagura Reflexions is finally getting a PC release via Steam on 24 June. Reflexions is a visual novel game set in the typically action-heavy Senran Kagura universe in which the player’s goal is to help the beautiful kunoichi heroines relax through the power of massage. The game features branching paths leading to
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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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In a recent interview with Weekly Famitsu, Final Fantasy VII Remake director Tetsuya Nomura confirmed that several elements of the long-awaited RPG were being altered from the original. While the physical magazine is not available online, summaries of key points have been translated and provided by Ryokutya2089 and Games Talk. Among these changes, there are two which will stand out for those
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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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The Splintering 