The Most Violent Game Boy Game Isn't On The Game Boy
"Adventurer Lenna sets out on a quest to hunt down the Archangel that killed her child-prodigy students." Well, we're off to a good start.
Starbound Studio Possibly Working on a New "Open-World Pirate Game"
On Starbound's official site, Tiy, Chucklefish Games head honcho and lead developer for the side-scrolling sandbox RPG, shared the team's plans for Starbound, Chucklefish themselves, and their upcoming second game. Yes, there's gonna be a second game. No, it won't affect Starbound's beta at all.
It hasn't been a week and someone's already put the TARDIS from Doctor Who in Starbound. The game's also got other great mods since its December 4 launch, including a new Toxic planet type and a whole new family of gathering tools, all hosted on their own dedicated modding site—and this is just the first five days.
Starbound's First Official Trailer is Four+ Minutes of Pure Magic
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Welp, it's launch day for Starbound. It took almost two years.
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Starbound's beta version will be available "around the fourth of December," according to lead developer Tiy's recent tweet. Mark your calendars, RPG/sandbox fans.
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Starbound is nearing its Beta release. The side-scrolling Terraria-like RPG which I just can't seem to shut up about just got an official blog post outlining its three-stage Open Beta program, which, according to lead developer Tiy, is "really not very far off now."
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For goodness' sake, have some manners. They might be robots, but they still have feelings—as evidenced by this screenshot of a rather awkward situation in Starbound.
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One hour of Starbound for everyone. Over the weekend, at the UK's Multiplay Insomnia Gaming Festival, developers Chucklefish held a "world premiere" one-hour demonstration of their upcoming side-scrolling sandbox Starbound in the form of a Let's Play starring Duncan, Sips and Sjin of the Yogscast. Take a look above.
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Incredibly pretty and probably just as fun, Starbound is shaping up to be one hell of a game, if the daily progress screenshots are anything to go by. Now, if only we'd get an exact release date...
Starbound, AKA The Best “Performing ‘Still Alive’ in Space” Simulator
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Yeah, let's go with that.