Originally announced as a single project, CrashGem’s new RPG “Churbles” will now be released as an episodic series.
CrashGem shared the news in a Kickstarter update yesterday, confirming plans to bring the title out “as an ongoing series of episodic games rather than one large beefy indie RPG.” Each entry will last about 4-6 hours. According to CrashGem, “Some episodes will have stand alone stories, while others, like the ‘Ghosts of War’ storyline, will tell smaller interconnected stories that weave together to form a larger, grander tale.”
The first episode of Churbles has a strong chance of landing on PC in December, followed by Linux and Mac versions. Console editions will follow “after that”, so we’re probably looking at an early 2015 launch for Churbles on Wii U.
This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
3DS
Coaster Creator 3D – €7.25 (£6.00)
Me & My Furry Patients 3D – €29.99 (£24.99)
Castle Clout – €4.00 (£3.59)
Blue Exorcist Manga Vol. 3 (not available in the UK) – €4.49
3DS Virtual Console
The Mysterious Mursame – €4.99 (£4.49)
Mario Golf – €4.99 (£4.49)
Wii U
Mario Kart 8 – €59.99/£49.99 (from May 30th)
** Special offer – For those who have downloaded Super Mario Kart, the price is €52.00 (£44.50) until June 30th
Gravity Badgers – €4.99 (£4.99)
Wii U Virtual Console
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap – €6.99 (£6.29)
=====
Price Reductions
Wii U
Batman Arkham City: Armoured Edition – €14.99/£12.49 (Ends June 5)
Batman: Arkham Origins – €14.99/£12.49 (Ends June 5)
LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes – €12.49/£9.99 (Ends June 5)
Injustice: Gods Among Us – €14.99/£12.49 (Ends June 5)
Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara – €8.99/£7.19 (Ends June 8)
Resident Evil Revelations – €29.99/£23.99 (Ends June 8)
3DS
Resident Evil Revelations – €17.99/£14.99 (Ends June 8)
Resident Evil The Mercenaries 3D – €5.99/£5.39 (Ends June 8)
Super Street Fighter IV 3D – €11.99/£10.79 (Ends June 8)
Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate – €9.99/£8.74 (Ends June 5)
Real Heroes: Firefighter 3D – €4.99/£4.49 (Ends June 19)
Funfair Party Games – €6.99/£6.99 (Ends June 12)
Gardenscapes – €5.99/£5.99 (Ends June 12)
3D MahJongg – €3.99/£3.29 (Ends June 12)
Secret Agent Files: Miami – €6.99/£5.79 (Ends June 12)
SpeedX 3D Hyper Edition – €0.99/£0.89 (Ends June 19)
10-in-1: Arcade Collection – €0.99/£0.89 (Ends June 19)
Rage of the Gladiator – €3.49/£3.09 (Ends June 19)
PIX3D – €1.99/£1.79 (Ends June 19)
Angry Bunnies – €4.85/£4.49 (End July 31)
Bubble Pop World – €3.74/£3.35 (End July 31)
Fishdom H2O: Hidden Odyssey – €3.74/£3.35 (End July 31)
Today’s screenshot shares an interesting little tidbit about one of the mainstay Super Smash Bros. assets – the revival platforms. Sakurai explains the upgrade:
Here’s a look at the revival platforms. The color of the bottom mechanism changes from yellow to red to warn you how much time you have left before you drop into the fray.
ON THIS EPISODE: What we played? Moon Chronicles makes up most of the new games we’ve run through this week, but Squids Odyssey makes a brief appearance as well as some discussion of a book on game criticism by Ian Bogost titled “Unit Operations”. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze makes its return as Austin laments the lack of attention the game gets (given how incredible he says it is), and Super Mario 64 becomes the catalyst for a discussion about when bias becomes too strong to ignore.
PLUS: A mid-segment this week about our memories of the now-dead Nintendo Wifi Connection, plus some short discussion about Hyrule Warriors.
AND: Complaint Corner makes its return because Austin is extremely upset about the way some people analyze or perceive games; he thinks game critics still have a long way to go before coming into their own. Listener mail about a variety of topics rounds out the ending!
This Week’s Podcast Crew: Austin, Jack, and Laura
Download this episode (click this link)
Subscribe via iTunes by clicking this thing!
Subscribe with Google by clicking this thing!
Subscribe with Yahoo something-or-other by clicking this thing!
Reload Game Studio has shared with us a couple of extra tidbits about its indie title CheeseCake Cool Conrad.
First, we’ve been told that the game has four playable characters. There are also plans to include a multiplayer mode, which supports up to 4 players simultaneously.
We’ll have more on CheeseCake Cool Conrad in the future.
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed finally reached Japan very recently. With the game’s arrival, 4Gamer caught up with a couple of the game’s developers, including executive producer Steve Lycett.
One of Lycett’s more interesting comments came about when 4Gamer mentioned how choosing the characters must have been tough. Lycett said in response:
Selecting the characters really was difficult. Basically, one of the premises we wanted to represent in the game was a correct balance between old and new IPs from SEGA. From such a wide range of material, as well as a balance between male and female, animals, and robots, I chose not to be biased.
Lycett followed up by discussing what the criteria was in selecting characters. While talking about this, he revealed how he originally wanted to include Ristar on the roster, but things sadly didn’t work out.
Today we’ll be continuing our look at the Nintendo Wi-Fi lineage with a focus on Wii titles. The Wii’s online infrastructure surprised us time and time again with what it could (and couldn’t) do, with experiences ranging from the cohesive and fleshed out Mario Kart online to a slideshow crawl through Super Smash Bros. Brawl matches. With the rise of homebrew, we saw some interesting mods to popular games, some of which also found their way into the online scene (like Project M and CTGP). Here’s a look at some of the more popular and interesting titles that used the service and what we’ll miss most about them:
