![]() ![]() ![]() With Streets of Rage 4 coming, we decided to dig into the surprisingly vibrant selection of indie beat-em-ups on PC that have kept the genre’s stylistic violence going. There are still gang-laden streets that need to be cleared by the fists of heroes. After the rush in arcades, with classics pouring in from Konami and Capcom, they slowed to a trickle as interest in walking right and punching faded. In the meantime, Steam says the promotional price is good until August 10 but remember-August 8 is the hard deadline.īeat-em-ups didn't die with the arcade, but they did enter a recession after the heyday of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Final Fight. I've emailed Capcom to ask why the remastered tales of the duck are going away and I'll let you know if and when I receive a reply. As for why it's being delisted, Capcom didn't say, but I'd guess that it has something to do with expiring license deals. And two, at 4:59 pm PT (or thereabouts) on August 8-two days from today-it's being removed from sale.ĭisc-based versions of DuckTales: Remastered will continue to work as they always have (although that's probably more relevant to console versions of the game) and if you've purchased it digitally already, you'll still be able to download it after it's delisted. One, it's currently on sale on Steam for $4/£3/€3.50, which is a pretty great price. ![]() If you haven't tried it yet, you'll probably want to get to it very quickly, for two reasons. It wasn't bad, really, just a little too faithful to its roots-"very much a 24-year-old game," we said in our review-yet lacking the touches that would enable players to enjoy the game as it really was, like an 8-bit mode or the original soundtrack. Everybody was excited about DuckTales: Remastered, the 2013 update of the hit NES platformer from 1998, until it actually arrived and we all learned an important lesson about nostalgia. ![]()
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