Mighty No. 9 Kickstarter rakes in over $4M, releasing on eight platforms

Comcept’s upcoming Mighty No. 9 seems to be living up to its title already, at least monetarily. Headlined by Keiji Inafune of Mega Man fame, the 2D platformer amassed $4,031,428 between over 67,000 backers and hit all of its announced stretch goals in the process.

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Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z has just hit the top of my "do want" list

Preview by Matt S. 

I was able to get some hands-on time with Tecmo Koei and Keiji Inafune's upcoming Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z. It's a game that didn't really appeal to me beforehand - it's another zombie game, after all.

But then I started to play and something happened. I played for five minutes, put the controller down, pulled out my phone and navigated over to Wikipedia. I just could not believe that Goichi Suda wasn't involved in this game. And he isn't, but it still surprises me that he isn't. From that moment on I was interested; its fair to say of all the Japanese developers out there Suda is the one I respect most for his taste in surrealism and subversive art, and any game that is able to successfully emulate what Suda does has my undivided attention.

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