The excellent indie platformer Guacamelee! is coming to a whole bunch of new consoles, developer Drinkbox Studios just announced. It's coming to the PS4 July 1st, and the Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Wii U the following day. Huzzah!
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Bayonetta skin for Guacamelee:
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This is Severed, a game where the heroine has to put herself back together. Literally.
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Guacamelee! is coming to the Wii U, PS4, Xbox One and Xbox 360 as Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition. This version includes all previous DLC for the game and adds some new levels and boss battles. No word yet on a release date, other than "coming soon."
IGN reports that the lovely, meme-tastic PSN action-platformer Guacamelee! is coming to PC on August 8. For $15, you get the base game, two pieces of DLC, and, should you buy Guac during its first week on Steam, a copy of the developers' earlier game, Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack.
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The Diablo's Domain DLC was released Tuesday, and it adds a new area, El Infierno. Guacamelee's hell zone adds a series of challenge rooms and is also filled with well-dressed skeletons desperate for some paperwork to do, and more of the game's many easter eggs.
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Guacamelee! already has its share of great video-game references and in-jokes. But this one, from the game's new Diablo's Domain DLC, takes the cake.
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With all the top-notch game engines out there, and next-gen on the horizon, video games are impressive in both their technology and their art. But let's play around with c64yourself to squeeze recently released games into an old timey skin anyway.
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On its own, nostalgia isn't worth a whole lot — It takes a truly special game like Guacamelee! to make you realize why you became nostalgic to begin with.
The Many Memes, References and Homages of Guacamelee!
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To say that the game Guacamelee! contains a few references would be a massive understatement — The game is absolutely brimming with them.
Guacamelee! suplexing PS3 and PS Vita April 9th: bit.ly/13sw4kG @drinkboxstudios #PlayStationIndies
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March 26, 2013
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Indie-curious attendees of this week's PAX East gaming show in Boston can get a "passport" stamped for every game they check out in the show's indie mega-booth. They can't just stop by the booth. They have to do something.
This Weekend's Best-Named Game Is Guacamelee
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The word "Guacamelee" looked indecipherable when I first spotted it on a sign in the indie games booth at the big PAX East show this weekend. I sounded it out. And then I was smitten.