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'Furi' brings its relentless fighting to the Xbox One
You no longer have to be picky about where and how you play Furi, The Game Bakers' distinctive (not to mention incredibly challenging) boss battler. The studio has released its indie darling on the Xbox One with both an extra boss fight and "polished" content, giving you a reward for your patience over the months between now and the PC/PS4 versions. If you haven't played it before and you're up for the difficulty, you should be in for a treat.
'Furi' unleashes nothing but boss battles on PS4 and Steam this July
The Game Bakers' Furi is a neon-soaked fever dream in which you tackle boss after boss after boss in the vein of Shadow of the Colossus. It was certainly one of the more visually standout titles on show at E3 2016, and it's streaking forward to PlayStation 4 and PC this July 5 for $24.99.
Boss-battle game 'Furi' gets a soundtrack full of electro artists
You might not know much about The Game Bakers' upcoming one-on-one action game Furi, but you're about to hear a lot more about it in a very literal sense. The studio has revealed that its boss-battles-only title will have a soundtrack created by a slew of known electro artists, including Carpenter Brut, Danger and The Toxic Avenger. The Game Bakers are confident enough in it that they're both selling the soundtrack (€15/$17 for digital, €30/$34 vinyl) and holding a concert in Paris on July 8th.
Daily iPhone App: Combo Crew does beat-em-up on a touchscreen
Combo Crew is an interesting experiment that just showed up this week on iOS. Beat-em-ups and fighting games are great on consoles, where you've got plenty of buttons and d-pads to pull off various moves with. But while they've appeared on iOS a few times (Capcom's Street Fighter IV has done fairly well on the App Store), usually these games on a touchscreen tend to just fall back on virtual buttons, which are generally way more clunky and less precise than physical moving parts. Combo Crew, however, is an attempt to make a beat-em-up redesigned from scratch for the iOS touchscreen. It's a game made by the Game Bakers, a really excellent team based in France that's done a great job with the Squids turn-based combat series. Combo Crew has everything you'd want a beat-em-up game to have, including multiple characters, combination-based and counter attacks, and lots of cool super moves and punches. But the difference here is in the controls. Instead of pressing buttons, you swipe across the screen to perform your moves in sequence: Swipe once to attack, swipe and hold to charge up, swipe two fingers for a combo attack or tap the screen for a counter. It works -- mostly. Just like a traditional beat-em-up game, Combo Crew's moveset gets more complicated over time, so that once mastered, you're able to keep combos going for a long time, scoring tons of points and taking down the bad guys with ease. Unfortunately, the biggest issue is that you're swiping right across the screen you're playing on, so sometimes it can be hard to see where you need to go. Thus, precision isn't always exactly where you want it to be. If you swipe the screen, you will do an attack, but there's no way to move around the screen independently, and as a result, you don't always attack the exact enemy you want, which can be a problem at higher levels. Combo Crew is still a lot of fun, however, and The Game Bakers deserve a lot of credit for taking on such a tough genre to do on a touchscreen in such a creative way. There's even a co-op mode, and an endless-scoring game with plenty of various progression items to unlock and earn. If you like beat-em-ups and want something to enjoy on your iPhone, this one is a must-play for sure, just to see how it all works. The game is currently just $1.99, too, so if you're interested at all, give this one a download.
Gone Fishin' indie bundle now live with seven indie games
Indie Royale's latest gaming bundle is now live, and features seven indie games. Labeled the "Gone Fishin' Bundle," the pack will be available for the next full week, and includes Seamless Entertainment's SOL: Exodus, All Zombies Must Die! by Doublesix Games, and Squids, the colorful RPG from TheGameBakers.VectorGeddon and Cubemen from 3 Sprockets are also included in the the bundle, alongside two platforming games by Magiko Gaming: Platformance: Temple Death and Platformance: Castle Pain. Each game in the bundle is available for PC, and some are on the Steam and Desura platforms. Check out the trailer for the entire bundle above, and head over to Indie Royale to buy it.
