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Super Paperman casts you as the titular Paperman, a literal paper man who delivers dreams from one person to the other. Naturally, the dream world where Paperman resides is in danger, as it begins to drift apart and leave our leading (paper) man lost in a broken land. As the sole Paperman, it’s up to you to fix the world and once again deliver dreams to the people. But maybe one isn’t enough? That’s where Super Paperman’s defining feature comes in. Four player local co-op creates an entirely different experience, adding another dimension to Super Paperman’s 2D exterior, with foreground and background elements adding an immersive depth as players race through 35 levels over 7 worlds.

Super Paperman features non-linear platforming, players can choose through multiple routes, switching between different layers to bypass enemies, use different environmental tricks, and discovering hidden areas. The game encourages to experiment with the level design, and expands on platforming from route A to B in a fun, unique way.

Source: 8-Worlds News

Secret Items Games is looking for backers to help achieve their goal of €35 000. Super Paperman is currently being planned for multiple platforms such as the Wii U. If the Kickstarter is successfully funded, the game should release sometime in March 2016.

Developer WizByte Games’ upcoming dual stick shooter Vector Assault is hitting the Wii U eShop soon. The shooter, which looks very similar to Activision’s Geometry Wars, will be available on May 21, 2015 for $4.99.

Vector Assault boasts several features as it will support online leaderboards and cooperative local multiplayer. The arcade-style game will also feature several game modes and different levels to shoot and evade enemies on.

Vector Assault is the first game developed by one man studio WizByte Games.

Source: 8-Worlds News

The game looks quite fun from the trailer. Can’t wait to try it out!

Pelikan13 has released Wii U footage for 90’s Arcade Racer. He’s currently working with Nicalis to bring the title to the Wii U.

Combat Core is a fast-paced arena fighting game currently in development for PC!

Customize your fighter and battle in interactive arenas using a variety of weapons and special abilities!

Fight against challenging AI or your friends, online or offline!

Source: Official Site

According to Mabmanz’s website, a Kickstarter campaign will be starting on May 15th for Combat Core. I contacted Mabmanz about the Wii U version earlier today and he stated that it will be listed as one of the stretch goals.

@twinworld Hey Shaun, console versions are actually stretch goals, but the funding target is comparatively low compared to…recent games 🙂

— MABManZ (@MABManZ) May 13, 2015

Here’s hoping for a successful campaign!

CIRCLE Ent. is releasing Link Kit, Inc. / FLYHIGH WORKS developed Samurai Defender on the 3DS eShop next week on May 21st for $3.99.

Previously only available in North America as a mobile game, Samurai Defender is described as a, “simple defense type action game set in the Warring States period of Japan.” In the game the player defends a castle from oncoming waves of enemies by attacking them with various weapons and schemes controlled via the touch screen. The trailer also teases 5 “participated famous warlords of the warring states period,” which seem to be challenging boss fights of some sort.

Source: 8-Worlds News

After writing an article titled “Should the Wii U get classic computer games on the Nintendo eShop?“, I decided to contact DotEmu regarding this possibility.

Here’s how that went:

@twinworld Th'at's not a bad idea dude, we will think of it. For now, you can still find a phone controller! Some are very good!

— DotEmu (@dotemu) May 7, 2015

While browsing through the eShop games list, I came across Ultratron by Puppy Games / Curve Digital with a May 14th release date. Here’s some info from the Puppy Games website:

Enter the world of Ultratron and experience the addictive gameplay of old-school arcade favourites such as Robotron: 2084, updated and improved for the 21st century!

Blast your way through 40+ glowing neon levels, avoiding Chasers, Turrets, Spawners, Minelayers, bombs, and bullets, and take on the four giant boss ‘bots of the Apocalypse – Ieiunitas, Bellum, Lues and Letum!

Boost your battledroid with ever more powerful weaponry, destroy Spiderbots to gain extra special weapon abilities and field defence and pet drones to help you along.

While we wait for the Wii U release, check out the PC trailer below!

Yooka-Laylee is an all-new 3D platformer from the creative talent behind the Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Country games. We’ve come together to form Playtonic Games and create a spiritual successor to our most cherished work from the past!

Playtonic Games launched their Kickstarter not even 24 hours ago and have already received 886,000 pounds in pledges from 24,540 people. All stretch goals have been hit except one, which is day one launch for the console edition of the game. I have a feeling the final stretch goal will be achieved within the next few hours based on how fast pledges keep coming in.

You can check out their kickstarter page by clicking here!

They say that the apple never falls far from the tree, and that’s certainly true of UK startup Playtonic Games. Based on an industrial estate in the middle of the rolling English countryside, this team of former Rare developers is but a stone’s throw away from the historic town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, where Rare founders Chris and Tim Stamper founded Ultimate Play the Game back in the 1980s. Just a little further down the road you’ll find Twycross, where Rare relocated during its Nintendo years – first to a converted farmhouse and later to a state-of-the-art, purpose-built office complex, where it remains to this day under the ownership of Microsoft.

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Looking at Yooka-Laylee in action, it’s clear that this kind of game is going to be of massive interest to Nintendo fans, who are arguably more accepting of this kind of cute platformer than their Xbox One and PlayStation 4-owning counterparts. “I think it certainly could be the case that there will be a lot of Nintendo fans in what we’re doing,” Sutherland says. “In fact, of all the emails and communications we get, a high percentage of them are asking us about Nintendo-related features. It’s quite exciting for us because of where we’ve come from and our history.”

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You can see the full interview, with a look at the game and Playtonic’s development studio, in the video below.

Source: Nintendo Life

StarLight is a reaction-based, physics puzzle game in which players guide a star through over 75 levels in 3 different environments. Ever moving, never stopping, players must grapple or repel off of surfaces and pivot points in the levels to help them avoid colliding with any edges.

• Over 75 levels
• Mirror Mode
• 3 Difficulty Modes
• Record and watch back every level
• 10 Great music tracks
• 10 Unlockable Achievements
• 5 Secret Levels
• Supports multiple controllers
• Play the whole game with or without the TV
• Owners of Internal Invasion save 20%

When you think you’re up for the challenge, players can take on the Hardcore mode, where a single crash means it’s all over. Can you get through all 75 levels? Are you hardcore?

StarLight should be out sometime this quarter on the NA eShop!

Source: Bear Box Media