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Boom Buster recently hit Kickstarter, with Switch support confirmed in the final hours of the campaign.The game has already reached its funding goal of $50,000. With a stretch goal of $70,000, it was unclear whether there would ever be a Switch port, but the campaign ended just above that amount. While the project likely won’t be completed for at least two years, Nintendo fans can look forward to it in the future.As for the game, Boom Buster is a hand-drawn platform adventure that takes inspiration from the early 2000s, including the music, with the development team having in mind classics…
Pluto Dinerama is a cooperative/competitive board game set in a quirky retro-futuristic diner in space. 2-5 players compete to serve the most customers and outlast unscrupulous rival corporate diners. In the game, you’ll manage resources, hire staff, and improve your diner’s facilities to attract a variety of alien patrons. A game can take 60 minutes or more. Each round presents new challenges and opportunities as players navigate the diner’s bustling atmosphere, trying to balance speed and quality of service. We are reviewing a copy provided to us by the game designer. This is a prototype, i.e. pre-Kickstarter version, of the…
Image credit: Marvel/Images/Hasbro 1984 was a big year for pop culture icons, especially characters whose names, for some reason, started with T or G. Among other big franchises, The Terminator, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters, and Gremlins all debuted in 1984 and are still around 40 years later. And of course, there’s another creation that starts with a T: Transformers. Hasbro brought Transformers to the West, a repackaging of several different Japanese toy lines, and asked Marvel to help with naming the characters and creating a legend that would tie the different characters together. Although the Transformers animated series is…
A third-party supplement to the Shadowdark RPG that brings untold chaos to a local town.With Venger’s sudden departure from the OSR publishing world, the Shadowdark RPG Kickstarter The Shucked Oyster: A Cursed Brothel has suddenly taken on a new level of prominence. Looking at the title alone, this is the kind of content you’d expect from V. Unfortunately, this isn’t Venger’s work, as he’s not a huge fan of Shadowdark, but this would have been a hell of a crossover ;)The Shucked Oyster Kickstarter is available in 14 books in PDF, 24 books in PDF and softcover POD, and 34…
The publisher will publish Weetago War Loss Book 1, an Indigenous horror epic by Richard Van Camp and Christopher Shye, described as “an Indigenous twist on a Walking Dead-style tale, deeply rooted in Dene lore” and “a new take on the apocalyptic zombie/monster tale, based on stories passed down for hundreds of years.” For more information, please see: “Never call their names out loud unless there is snow on the ground. The more they eat, the hungrier they become, and they starve.” “It’s the Native American walking dead!” They were meant to remain in peace, strewn with severed limbs and…
Storm King Comics has announced their latest project, John Carpenter’s Night Terrors: Blood of the Taken. The story focuses on a new vampire legend, a wandering vampire of old who roams the night in search of blood, but this vampire carries with him an undead heart that can only be filled with love. Storm King said: Meet Theo, a 500-year-old vampire at the heart of Sian Mandrake’s stunningly stylish Night Terrors: The Reclaimer, a film based on John Carpenter’s Theo must find his new “family.” They say there’s no love like a mother’s, but Theo might disagree. There’s no love…
Mad Cave Studios is pleased to announce String, a new supernatural comic series from Eisner Award-winning writer Paul Tobin (Bandette, Bunny Mask) and artist Carlos Olivares, with colors by Sara Colella and letters by Taylor Esposito. Read more from the publisher: Yoon-sook Nam-goong is a 25-year-old Korean-American woman who has the uncanny ability to see two types of “threads” that connect different people. The first is blue and stretches between sexual partners. The second is jet black and connects murderers to victims. If you have a murder case you need to solve, Yoon can help you. Worried that your partner…
Macross has always occupied an unusual place in the pantheon of giant robot anime. Its robots shift between traditional humanoids and fighter planes. Its history is determined not just by violence or politics but by pop music. Not to mention that while the series played a crucial role in spreading love for anime abroad, it did so as part of Carl Macek’s mash-up Robotech. Some fans might not even know that Macross continues to see new installments to this day, under the supervision of creator Shoji Kawamori. Kawamori attended this year’s Anime NYC convention along with many other prestigious guests.…
The idea of low fiction carries with it certain expectations. It evokes memories of crime and horror comics of old, where sensationalism and violence pushed the boundaries of what could possibly be the dark side of the human psyche. As such, morality was almost always at the forefront. Men and women with the means and will to take the lives of others, for personal reasons or what was deemed the greater good of society, were commonplace. This is a storytelling technique that lends itself well to genre mash-ups and combinations. In this respect, the combination of horror and crime thrived,…
This new era of ThunderCats comics continues to bring excitement to fans old and new, and to celebrate the incredible support from our readers and fanbase, Dynamite is pleased to announce the debut of a new character, Apex, in September’s ThunderCats #8. The series was a massive hit, selling a record 170,000 copies of the first issue alone. It eventually topped 200,000 copies across multiple printings, breaking records in Dynamite’s 20-year publishing history. Now, we’re on the cusp of issue 6, where new stories will begin and fans will join the Thundercats craze in a new phase. Throughout the series,…