Category Archives: Platformer

This week’s Famitsu has announced a Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz demo for PlayStation Vita will arrive in Japan tomorrow. No word on what it will actually contain, though. The game is out now in the west.

Thanks, Andriasang.

Rockin’ Android has announced it’s to publish Gundemonium Collection’s Bunny Must Die: Chelsea and the 7 Devils. The action-platformer will be released worldwide for multiple languages on PC and consoles. For those unfamiliar with title, players much traverse the Devils’ Labyrinth to defeat the seven devils after Bunny becomes cursed with cat ears and decides to seek revenge. Upon release it will contain a connected map, magical items, an optional remixed soundtrack, and a nice, graphical update. It’s out sometime this summer, and while exact consoles are to be announced, we’re assuming for the time being it will hit PSN and XBL.Thanks, Siliconera.

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Hot off the heels of confirming Mario Wii U for the show, Nintendo has said that Pikmin 3 will finally make its bow at E3 in June.

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Media Molecule has tweaked a number of community features in littleBigPlanet 2 in order to reduce negativity and encourage collaboration.

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Mike Reagan is the man behind Trials Evolution’s soundtrack, Ubisoft has announced.

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Nintendo has confirmed it will show a new Super Mario Bros game for Wii U at E3 2012 in June.

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Nicalis have announced that a remake of the 8-bit homage Aban Hawkins & the 1000 Spikes is in the works for 3DS and Wii U, featuring all new visuals and sound.

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FEZ developer Polytron Corporation has said it is aware of issues being reported with the game on Xbox 360 and is working with Microsoft to get the problems resolved as quickly as possible.

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Polytron’s 2D/3D, optical illusion puzzler was released yesterday through Xbox Live Arcade. Below the break you can watch a 15 minute video of VG247′s Sam Clay having a go with Phil Fish’s long-awaited title.

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Long awaited dimension-bending puzzle platformer Fez has now arrived on Xbox Live Arcade today. Nathan Grayson explains why it was worth the wait.

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After years in development, Phil Fish’s platformer Fez has gone live on Xbox Live Arcade. Get it queued to your 360 here at the measly file size of 273Mb for 800 MS points. Reviews have been exceptionally great for the game this week: Eurogamer gave it a ten yesterday.

Watch out later today for a piece on it from Nathan.

It could just be a sudden defensive domain purchase, But Nintendo has snapped up SuperMario4.com.

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Rising Star Games has announced Aksys will exclusively distribute the company’s 2012 North American line-up starting with Akai Katana, the developer’s side-scrolling adventure for Xbox 360. The game places players in a “parallel world resembling Japan’s Taisho period,” where the player must utilize the power behind the world’s Blood Swords for “leverage, and fight alongside rebel warrior kin.” It releases later this spring.

A famous series of clues within RedLynx’s 2009 release Trials HD have been revealed to point squarely at – well, not a great deal.

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Beefy Media has announced the release of World Gone Sour on PSN today, a game which stars the sweet-then-sour candy, Sour Patch Kids. The game’s narrator is Creed Bratton from NBC’s The Office and the Wu-Tang Clan’s Method Man created the soundtrack. Created by Playbrains, the puzzle-platformer will run you $4.99 when it launched later today in the US and tomorrow in Europe. Have a look at the trailer below.

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AGB‘s posted a video of Epic Mickey 2 in action. The video, which is ten minutes in length and taken from the Wii version, is below the break.

It’s out on PS3, 360 and Wii this fall alongside a spin-off on 3DS.

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Titles included in the Indie Royale April Fools Bundle have been announced as: Defense Grid: The Awakening; Hack, Slash, Loot; Alien Zombie Megadeath; Explodemon, and the bonus title Astro Tripper. So far, 4,904 bundles have been sold, and the current minimum is $4.21.

Square Enix have announced that 774 Deaths, an all new brutal action-platformer, is out now on the App store for iPhone and iPod Touch.

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Team Meat’s confirmed Super Meat Boy: The Game for iOS, as well as assuring the touch platformer won’t be restricted to Apple devices.

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Team 17 has announced Worms Revolution will launch on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 in the fall. The game was created using a new engine and contains new challenges along with tried and true staples such as the Holy Hand Grenade. More information is to be made available closer to launch. Check out the teaser for it below courtesy of Viso Games.

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