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Homeworld 3’s Weird Crowd-Funding Scheme Has Been Cancelled
It was very exciting to hear back in 2019 that Homeworld 3 was in development. The news was tempered a little at the time, though, by a very strange crowd-funding scheme that was attached to the project, despite the fact the game was being bankrolled by Gearbox, a major publisher.
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Blazing Strike Is A New, Old-School 2D Fighter
Because there’s no such thing as too many anime-inspired 2D fighting games, Aksys and RareBreed Makes Games just announced Blazing Strike, an homage to classic pixel-art fighters with modern game mechanics that’ll hopefully make it play as good as it looks.
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Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Is Coming Back — Again
In 1997, Mike Nelson and his robot friends, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot, watched a bad sci-fi film called The Thing That Couldn’t Die. We might as well rename the beloved TV series Mystery Series Theatre 3000 with the same title, because the fan-favourite show looks like it’s almost certainly going to be resurrected…
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X-COM’s Beloved Tactical Gameplay Took Months To Get Just Right
Monsters in the Dark: The Making of X-COM: UFO Defence tells the story of the early years of legendary strategy game designer Julian Gollop and the making of the original X-COM, and is funding now on Kickstarter. In this excerpt from the book, Julian and designers from publisher MicroProse UK reveal how the atmosphere of…