The original Super Meat Boy was released 10 years ago in 2010. It was an instant hit and helped put indie games on the map. It is now widely regarded as one of the greatest platformers of all time. The game, thanks to its own merits and the details its development and release journey being chronicled in Indie Game: The Movie, wormed its way into a lot of hearts. I’m not sure what happened. I haven’t seen any discussion on this sub and the only media coverage I’ve seen is a mention on RPS, a review on The Young Folks, and as of this morning a review on Nintendo Life.
I’m not saying that there aren’t some obvious reasons that people could be skeptical about the quality of the game – it began its life as a mobile-only endless runner (and remained an auto-runner for its full release), uses procedural generation (sort of), has been delayed a bunch and co-creator Ed McMillen is no longer involved in the project. That said, basically no discussion or …
There’s a lot for project backers to unpack in Chris’ latest Letter From The Chairman: news about Sq42, new development Roadmaps, Star Citizen backer and player numbers, sales revenue growth, and a year in review.
For this post I’d just like to focus on the letter’s Squadron 42 news, which was originally estimated for a 2014 release and has now missed numerous release/milestone dates since, including a Q3 2020 internal beta.
The Squadron 42 section from Chris’ letter, with some sections bolded to highlight key points:
#Squadron 42
The new Roadmap is not meant to give people an early estimate on when Squadron 42 will be completed. We made a conscious decision to only show the Squadron 42 work concurrently with the Star Citizen work over the Roadmap’s four-quarter window. This is because it is too early to discuss release or finish dates on Squadron 42.
As I said earlier this year, Squadron 42 will be done when it is done, and will not be released just …
Hi guys, I know it’s kind of hard to find M.2 screws but I bought a pack so I have a few extras. If you need one because your mobo came without one or you lost yours just shoot me a message and I’ll mail you one.
Update: That’s it guys I’m out! Happy holidays!
[Details in Comments] Today we are discussing about Tencent Acquires Warframe Developer Digital Extremes Leyou Technologies in a $1.5 billion deal and several other Studios and Sony Fails to complete the deal. Companies like Epic have in the past responded robustly to any suggestion that Tencent is an overbearing or censorious partner, though the Chinese conglomerate’s holdings are now so wide and deep that it’s attracting attention from the U.S. government. There remains suspicion among western audiences about Tencent’s enormous holdings in gaming: after all, in recent weeks we’ve seen that Western digital storefronts are too scared to sell a Taiwanese horror game for fear of offending China. But its continued growth and reach seem unstoppable.
I know it really isn’t much, but I’ll even try finding old humble bundle keys to give out as well. But that might take some time since i stopped tracking them in a spreadsheet. In order to enter this giveaway you’d need to comment with a cheerful story, doesn’t have to be real. Ill pick a user by random, winning won’t be determined by the story or upvotes, so you don’t have to write a great story :)
EDIT: Will choose a winner by tomorrow morning, so 24 hours from when the post was created.
I just got notified this morning through Newegg’s promo email about Death Stranding, same price as Steam Store at $29.99 but with a $6 off promo. So $23.99, best price I’ve seen for this game. Just thought I would share. Link to Newegg.