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July 12, 2023

Abandoned GBA Shantae Game To Be Resurrected

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We suspect, eventually, a sixth game in the Shantae series will show up. For now, it must not be ready, so developer Wayforward — who has been with the half-genie hero from the beginning — dug around in their basement and found a lost chapter in her saga. After the original Shantae was released for Game Boy Color to wide critical acclaim, Wayforward started tinkering with a sequel for the Game Boy Advance. But since the GBC original didn’t sell very well (it was one of the last games released for the system, and the GBA had been out for a year), no publishers were interested in a deal. Eventually the team had to mothball the code and sprites they’d made and move on to other projects. Shantae wouldn’t get to return until Risky’s Revenge was released for the DSi years later. Every now and then series director Matt Bozon would be asked about the lost GBA Shantae game, until finally recently he just said “why not bring it back.”

March 18, 2021

Scarlet Moon Releases Dale North’s Marble Knights Soundtrack

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We’ve spotlighted the work of video game music artist Dale North here before. His latest work is the soundtrack for Marble Knights, a competitive brawler where all the fighters have giant round marbles for lower bodies and victory involves mastery of rolling physics and ricocheting off each other in just the right way. Marble Knights was developed by Wayforward, who always does good work, but unfortunately the game is currently exclusive to Apple Arcade. The soundtrack, however, isn’t. Scarlet Moon just released North’s score, which they describe as “a playful and grandiose orchestral fantasy soundtrack with retro accents.” “I had a lot of forward momentum rolling into my work on the soundtrack for Marble Knights,” North recalls for this one. “The fantastic art, gliding gameplay, and outstanding voice work all made spinning up the music very easy. And, of course, I almost lost my marbles when I heard I’d be working with Studio Trigger, one of my favorite animation studios ever. Needless to say, being able to write this fantasy/chiptune

July 8, 2020

Full List Of Announced Games From Limited Run’s “E3” Presentation

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Even though there’s no E3 this year, that didn’t stop Limited Run Games from holding their usual mega conference in a fake coliseum, with cheesy green screen effects aplenty. This year’s video was the longest ever, running over 40 minutes long and containing over thirty announcements. A Boy and His Blob (PS4) — September 2020 This year’s presentation started with a massive dump of Wayforward titles, not that we’re complaining about that. This remake of the NES original is a classic in its own right, first appearing on Wii. Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 (Switch, PS4) — TBD Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling (Switch, PS4) — TBD Castlevania Anniversary Collection (Switch, PS4) — Q3 2020 Demon Turf (Switch) — TBD Garou: Mark of the Wolves (PS4) — July 2020 Grandia HD Collection (Switch) — August 7, 2020 Yes! Katana Zero (Switch) — November 2020 Mighty Gunvolt Burst (Switch, PS4) — August 28, 2020 Papers, Please (Vita) — July 24, 2020 Wondering why the very last Vita release took so

June 2, 2016

Shantae Returns To The Physical World With “Half-Genie Hero”

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Here’s some news that will make you shake your booty: you’ll be seeing Shantae in stores again soon. Created (and 100% owned) by Matt Bozon and his wife, the spunky spirit made her first appearance in a Game Boy Color game that shot its developer, Wayforward Techonologies, into stardom. It’s now considered one of the best (and rarest) games the system had. From that point, though, Shantae became a harder sell. The Bozons struggled for the next few years trying to convince the big publishers to support a sequel, but they wouldn’t fund a game starring a woman (seriously, this was the reason they were told). It was only due to the rise of Steam and the ability to easily release games digitally that Wayforward was able to make the return of Shantae on their own with Risky’s Revenge in the late 2000’s. Her fans hadn’t forgotten her, and that sequel resulted in another sequel, Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse. While Pirate’s Curse was in development, the next Shantae game

January 6, 2016

Oh Boy! And His Blob! Wii Classic Being Resurrected

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Wayforward Technologies has been responsible for a lot of top-quality video gaming ever since they announced themselves to the world with Shantae on the GBC (though they released a couple games before that point). One of their high points was the Wii revival of the NES game A Boy And His Blob. The original was one of the more quirky NES offerings, and I can’t explain it better than my old friend Polas did many years ago. Wayforward got the old license and created a masterful revamp of the game, powered by hundreds of frames of hand-drawn 2-D animation. It came out for the Wii in 2008, but you can be forgiven if you never knew that….it’s just one of many great games in the Wii library no one picked out among the shovelware. The remake was published by Majesco Games, who apparently still holds the rights because they’re the ones publishing an HD version soon. The conversion isn’t being done by Wayforward (it’s some smaller company no one has

April 14, 2015

Watch Quest Shows The Way Forward On Apple Watch

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Still skeptical about the idea of playing a video game on a smartwatch? Still laughing at the thought of a balding man waiting for a bus while tapping on his wrist and making weird grunt noises? Maybe that’ll be you soon, because Wayforward Technologies is getting into it. And that purple-haired woman sure looks familiar. Wayforward has announced Watch Quest, to be available April 24, as one of the first video games to be made for Apple Watch. They thought about the impracticality of that tiny screen and came up with a solution: the game also runs on the iPhone while the wrist version acts as a supplement that you can play in short bursts wherever you find time. Their official description provides more details: Gameplay revolves around choosing a hero and equipping them on the iPhone, and then guiding the Hero via the Apple Watch as he or she travels lands, battles monsters, solves puzzles, and searches for treasures. Players are invited to play passively by selecting longer, easier

November 18, 2014

Adventure Time: Secret of the Nameless Kingdom’s Journey Into The Unnamed Starts Today

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4CNDof1ou0 Know what I’m not going to do? I’m not going to start a post about something related to Adventure Time with a “What time is it?” line. That horse is dead. You killed it, most of the people who have ever written about Adventure Time. Please stop beating it. What I will do is say that publisher Little Orbit’s new Adventure Time video game, Adventure Time: Secret of the Nameless Kingdom, gives of a strong original Legend of Zelda vibe, and that is not a bad vibe to give off. The new game is developed by Wayforward Technologies, the studio that that made 2012’s amazing Adventure Time: Hey Ice King, Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?, which also took heavy inspiration from Legend of Zelda, that time from Zelda II: Adventure of Link. They also made 2013’s less satisfying Adventure Time: Explore The Dungeon Because I Don’t Know, but we’re hoping this one will be a return to form. The story of the game is about Finn and Jake exploring

September 11, 2011

Shantae: Risky’s Revenge heads to iOS

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Wayforward, as promised, has unveiled some Shantae news…

September 9, 2011

Review: BloodRayne: Betrayal

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The BloodRayne series has been one that has been poorly received by critics since its original incarnation. Can BloodRayne: Betrayal breathe new life in the series or is it destined for failure? Find out how it stacks up after the jump!