Ever wonder what it’d be like to play a massive 100-person game of Bomberman? Well Konami read your mind and released 100-Person Battle Bomberman late last month for smartphones in Japan.
You’re surrounded by walls and loaded with bombs. In the distance an explosion erupts, sending bricks flying in every direction. Another explosion, this time closer. And another still, even closer than that. It’s not just Bomberman — it’s first-person Bomberman, and it’s glorious.
Chinese studio Balanced Worlds, headed by some ex-Insomniac developers, is working on a game called Bomb Buddies. If you like Bomberman, it’s aimed right at your face.
A pair of Team Fortress 2 modders have taken the game’s bones, a bunch of angry Scottish men and the classic Hudson game Bomberman and turned it into something wonderful.
Because today is Saturday, and because while we know the entire Kotaku community enjoys video games, we also know a few of you might also enjoy consuming alcohol with friends — we thought it would be a good idea to share a way for you to combine those interests.
Explosives and destructible blocks have always played an important role in Minecraft, so it was only a matter of time before some blockheads recreated Hudson’s classic multiplayer maze game Bomberman utilising Mojang’s building blocks. Let’s blow some shit up!