Posts tagged gaijin-games 
Bit.Trip dev Gaijin Games rebrands, announces new projects
Bit.Trip series creator Gaijin Games has rebranded its studio, changing its name to Choice Provisions and revealing a slate of new games in the works for PC, iOS, and portable consoles. Choice Provisions' first announced title is Laserlife, a music-themed action game that promises to deliver "a ...
Runner 2 celebrates a million sales with its own limited-time sale
Rhythmic auto-platformer Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien is a million-seller for Gaijin Games, and the Californian studio is celebrating the fact with a limited-time price cut. The game is $5 on all platforms - it launched at $15 - while iOS adaptation Bit.Trip Run is down from $4 to just 9...
Destructamundo is a game about interplanetary destruction from Robotube Games
Destructamundo is a new puzzle game from Robotube Games, a smaller label acquired by Gaijin Games that operates out of the studio's Santa Cruz offices. In Destructamundo, players must aid a race of scavenging aliens whose only means of survival is to travel to various star systems and detonate plan...
Bit.Trip Run sprints to iOS
Gaijin Games' rhythmic platformer, Bit.Trip Run, is now available on iOS. The game costs $3.99 and includes three worlds with 30 normal levels, 15 retro levels and 12 challenge levels playable with eight different characters that can be customized with 40 unlockable costumes. Bit.Trip Run is the...
Bit.Trip Run devs consult demonic bird for advice
Commander Video has completed the race to mobile devices, with Bit.Trip Run due out on iOS on October 31 – that's right, just in time for your rainbow ninja costume to finally be relevant. Bit.Trip Run launched a little early (Commander Video is really fast, you guys) in New Zealand, and a...
Runner 2 slides onto PlayStation Plus tomorrow
The next free PlayStation Plus game has been lined up for tomorrow: Gaijin Games' Runner 2. The punishing ever-runner will be a free download for PS Plus subscribers after the PlayStation Store update drops. PlayStation Plus also gets a special bundle including Tomb Raider and select DLC, plus a...
Friendly Steam bundle has Runner 2, Portal 2, Psychonauts, more
In an inspired move, today Gaijin Games announced a Steam bundle based on the Runner 2 Good Friends DLC. The limited time collection includes Runner 2 and the DLC, along with five games whose characters starred in it, namely Portal 2, Psychonauts, Super Meat Boy, Machinarium, and Cave Story+. The a...
Indie developers cautiously optimistic about self-publishing on Xbox One
Microsoft's reversal of its publishing philosophy for the Xbox One has obvious and wide-reaching implications for the indie development community. While the original plan mandated that developers release games through a third-party publisher or broker a deal with Microsoft itself, indies will now b...
Bit.Trip Fate runs into Steam just in time for Summer Sale
Bit.Trip Fate now available on Steam, arriving just in time to take part in the Steam Summer Getaway Sale. It's 50 percent off, or just $5, through July 22. Bit.Trip Fate launched for Wii in 2010 as the fifth of six games starring everyone's favorite rainbow-running pixel-fest, CommanderVideo. L...
Portal 2, Spelunky characters join Runner 2's DLC cast
Gaijin Games has revealed its final trio of guest stars bundled in Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien's upcoming "Good Friends" DLC pack, including characters from Mossmouth's Spelunky and Valve's Portal 2. The newest additions to Runner 2's playable roster include Portal 2's co-op robot ...
