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Sunday Comics: Dead Island I’m just about done with Kard Combat, the duelling iPhone card game by the developers of DeathSpank (and a little help from Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield). When it’s said and done, my next mobile conquest will either be Star Command, the Game Dev Story-inspired ship simulator or The Wasted Land, a tactical RPG based on the Call of Cthulhu pen-and-paper RPG by Chaosium.
I’ve yet to play a Deathspank game. I want to at some point, I just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
There will be a new DeathSpank game this summer and it will involve a quest for the Fires of Bacon. It will also be a greatly improved follow-up to last year’s downloadable DeathsSank adventures, two comedic riffs on Diablo.
Hothead Games, developers of the Penny Arcade series, is working on a new Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy game. For the record, the original is one of the greatest games ever made. [VG247]
Hothead Games, the studio that brought you Deathspank, has been showing off their new IP at PAX recently. Swarm is a cute, humorous platformer with a cool art style in which you control up to 50 swarmlings at once – and occasionally sacrifices need to be made for the good of the many.
