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Hyper Light Breaker hands-on: I'm here for the hoverboard
Hyper Light Breaker is a hoverboard sim — and so much more.
‘Hyper Light Breaker’ early access pushed back to early 2024
Hyper Light Breaker, the action rogue-lite previously scheduled to enter Steam Early Access this fall, has been delayed a second time. The launch window for the spiritual successor to 2016’s Hyper Light Drifter is now rescheduled for early 2024.
First 'Hyper Light Breaker' gameplay trailer reveals fall early access release
Nearly a year after it was first announced, Hyper Light Breaker finally has a gameplay trailer, and a new release date.
The follow-up to 'Hyper Light Drifter' is a full 3D co-op slasher
The follow-up to 'Hyper Light Drifter' has been revealed — and it's not a sequel.
Dreamlike platformer 'Solar Ash' is delayed until December 2nd
Heart Machine will use the time to polish its follow-up to 'Hyper Light Drifter.'
'Solar Ash' brings surreal 3D platforming to PC, PS4 and PS5 on October 26th
In which Alx Preston tries to clear up whether Solar Ash is a sequel to Hyper Light Drifter, once and for all.
See 'Solar Ash' in action for the first time in a PS5 gameplay video
Rei flies like neon butter in the new game from Heart Machine.
'Detroit', 'Heavy Rain' and 'Beyond' will hit the Epic Games Store
Detroit: Become Human, Beyond: Two Souls and Heavy Rain are all making their way to PC for the first time in 2019 through the Epic Games Store. To date, the games have only been available on PlayStation 3 and/or PS4. The Quantic Dream titles are a bit of a coup for Epic as it takes aim at the likes of Steam, though Epic had plenty of other news about its store at GDC, including a Humble Bundle partnership and deals for upcoming games.
'Hyper Light Drifter' devs' next game goes rollerblading across clouds
The developers of Hyper Light Drifter have introduced their second game, and it's about as strange as you'd expect... if not more so. Heart Machine has offered a brief peek at Solar Ash Kingdom, a game that blends a "surreal" world, "massive enemy encounters" and, importantly, "wild high-speed traversal." From all indications, it's like rollerblading on acid -- we hope you like gliding effortlessly through the clouds on your way to attack giant eye creatures.
Hyper Light Drifter preview build goes live on Sept. 26
Backers eager to get their hands on the sleek action-RPG Hyper Light Drifter won't have to wait long. A preview build for Windows and Mac is set to go live on Steam next week, developer Heart Machine announced today. The build is designed to give an early glimpse at Hyper Light Drifter's standout features resulting from its extended development period, though some key elements are being saved for the final release. "Some game features are locked, some have been hidden, others are being refined, and content is always being generated for the world," Heart Machine notes. "So, to help communicate a bit better we're calling it a Preview Build." Steam keys for Hyper Light Drifter's preview build will be sent to backers who pledged $25 or more to the team's Kickstarter project. The game will go live on September 26, and will be playable through September 28. [Image: Heart Machine]
Hyper Light Drifter's combat mode is beautifully punishing
Hyper Light Drifter's combat mode is a solo or co-op evil-beast explosion – it begins in a training room lined with dummy targets, and a seafoam platform that recharges your magic. A door etched in rune-like symbols waits at the end of the room. Behind it, when you're ready, lies an arena filled with creatures bent on your destruction. First, the training room allows you to play with mechanics: Plugged into a MacBook Air, playing with an Xbox 360 controller, press the right bumper to see a circle of weapons and map the ones you want to the Y or B buttons. These weapons include an enemy-seeking mine ball, a shotgun that shoots in a diamond formation, a boomerang, and a close-up attack that embeds a fucshia crystal in an enemy, which you then detonate into huge crystal splinters covering the surrounding area. These attacks drain magic. The A button is a (very useful) dash, and X is a sword slash. Left bumper displays magic and health bars, and your weapons. Unfortunately, there's no button to halt the flow of angry, violent creatures that swarm you once you open that door.
Hyper Light Drifter scales up development, closed beta set for June
Heart Machine's stylish action-RPG Hyper Light Drifter is gunning for a closed beta release in June, its developers announced via Kickstarter. While the full version of Hyper Light Drifter was originally set to launch in June, Heart Machine has since decided to scale up the game in response to an unexpected outpouring of backer support. Pitched as a modest project developed by a team of two with a funding goal of $27,000, Hyper Light Drifter ended up earning more than $645,000 over the course of its Kickstarter campaign. Developer Alex Preston explains that the project evolved as a result, demanding "polish and finesse that I was not originally afforded." Hyper Light Drifter is now set to launch for Windows via Steam in December. Ports for Linux, Mac OSX, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Wii U, and Ouya will be released in the months afterward. [Image: Heart Machine]
Hyper Light Drifter adds PS4 and PS Vita to its launch platforms
Hyper Light Drifter, the alluring RPG project pitched as a blend of The Legend of Zelda and Diablo, has added PS4 and PS Vita to its list of launch platforms, an update on the Kickstarter page reads. Anyone who pledged $15 or more can choose PS4 or PS Vita as their preferred platform; those who pledged $10 will have to choose between PC, Mac or Linux. Since its debut last week, the Hyper Light Drifter Kickstarter campaign has secured over $225,000 in support from backers. The Kickstarter pledge drive only sought $27,000 to create the game, but due to the excessive outpouring of cash the game will now be bolstered by a co-op campaign and competitive mode, two extra areas to explore and a full soundtrack from Disasterpiece. Developer Alex Preston has said he hopes to launch Hyper Light Drifter in mid-2014.
'Hyper Light Drifter' pitched as a blend of Zelda and Diablo
Alex Preston's Hyper Light Drifter is a beautifully pixelated 2D action RPG being made in collaboration with Samurai Gunn programmer Beau Blyth, with tunes by Fez composer Disasterpiece, aka Rich Vreeland. Hyper Light Drifter is set in a post-apocalyptic future in which players assume the role of a Drifter – a person who goes out and collects old technology and artifacts from the world-that-was. But in Hyper Light Drifter, the protagonist isn't an ordinary Drifter: He's suffering from an unknown illness and is on the hunt for a cure. The Kickstarter post describes gameplay as a hybrid between The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Diablo, with "lightning fast combat, more mobility, an array of tactical options, more numerous and intelligent enemies, and a larger world with a twisted past to do it all in." $27,000 will fund the game, while $35,000 will help expand the game world with two new areas and a New Game+ mode. $42,000 will net two more boss battles and improved cutscenes, and $64,000 will allow Preston to hire another animator and expand the game even more. $75,000 will provide a "fully realized soundtrack" by Disasterpiece and, if the Kickstarter campaign reaches $100,000, then co-op campaign and competitive modes will be instituted. Right now the plan is to bring it to PC in mid-2014, but Preston "would love to expand to other platforms."
