With its release last year, Blue Manchu’s sci-fi “FPS strategy game” Void Bastards made a splashy debut with its comic-inspired art style and progressively challenging gameplay. While the game originally debuted on Xbox One and PC last year, PS4 and Switch owners will soon get a chance to try and escape the clutches of outer
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If you are into indie games, Void Bastards shouldn’t sound unfamiliar to you. Hitting Xbox One and PC back in May last year, it seems the unofficial console exclusivity is going to expire soon as Void Bastards has been rated for Nintendo Switch. While the news on Void Bastards‘ PS4 ESRB rating dropped earlier this
As 2019 comes to a close, DualShockers and our staff are reflecting on this year’s batch of games and what were their personal highlights within the last year. Unlike the official Game of the Year 2019 awards for DualShockers, there are little-to-no-rules on our individual Top 10 posts. For instance, any game — not just
This year has been an odd year for gaming, hasn’t it? We may not have followed a boy and his godly father or became a cowboy in one of the most realized worlds in a video game, but 2019 was filled with bangers, some of which I will remember for years to come. With it
After being first unveiled late in 2018, Humble Bundle and Blue Manchu have today announced the release date for the first-person action title Void Bastards. Void Bastards is slated to come to both Xbox One and PC later this month on May 29. It’s a much earlier date than I originally expected, but one that I’m sure
Since February 2017, Nintendo has held a Nindies Showcase every couple of months to highlight some of the cooler independent titles hitting their platform. Today, Microsoft revealed that it will be entering the ring as well next week with ID@Xbox Game Pass, a livestream highlighting upcoming indie titles. ID@Xbox Game Pass will premeire at 9:00am PT
GDC 2019 is quickly approaching (man I gotta pack at some point) and ahead of the conference ID@Xbox has announced the thirty games they will be showing off in San Francisco from March 18-22, 2019 that includes 13 new titles. ID@Xbox (Microsoft’s indie-focused department) will be at the Microsoft Booth in the lower level of
Next year, Blue Manchu’s latest game Void Bastards will be making its way onto shelves for PC and Xbox One. The project was officially announced at X018 in Mexico City last month and caught our attention quite quickly. The game’s comicbook-inspired art direction combined with the strategic gameplay is a sight to behold when in action.
When you first hear about Blue Manchu’s Void Bastards, roguelike seems like it would be a fitting term. Players move through randomly generated areas and even become a newly generated character after dying while retaining a bit of progress, both of which are hallmarks of roguelike games. That being said, roguelike actually isn’t a term that
In an interview with DualShockers, Void Bastards creators Blue Manchu talked about the workings, thoughts, and actions behind the creation and development of the game. In one of our questions, we asked Jonathan Chey (original co-founder of Irrational Games and lead programmer/designer on Void Bastards) about inspiration and lessons he took from the development of BioShock and System Shock 2 when
In an interview with DualShockers, Void Bastards creators Blue Manchu talked about the workings, thoughts, and actions behind the creation and development of the game. In one of our questions, we asked the team about accessibility due to the game being a color-driven project. “Good question, we’ve definitely thought about this although it’s probably not something we’ve