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Retro City Rampage

Official poster for Retro City Rampage released
13 years ago

Official poster for Retro City Rampage released

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Vblank Entertainment, the developer of Retro City Rampage, an 8-bit fusion of classic video game genres, has released RCR’s official poster, featuring a collection of characters and items from …
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Brawler Week: Brian Provinciano of Vblank Entertainment
13 years ago

Brawler Week: Brian Provinciano of Vblank Entertainment

I recently had a chance to sit down to do a short interview with Brian Provinciano of Vblank Entertainment. What I had intended to be a short interview that wouldn’t take up too much of his time turned out to be a great 30 minute conversation about his roots in the gaming industry, Retro City Rampage, and its predecessor, Grand Theftendo. Below you’ll find just a few of the highlights from our conversation. Special thanks to Brian for giving us such an in-depth interview. We’ve  posted the audio below. Give it a listen and see some of the highlights after the jump.

[podcast]https://xblafans.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/XBLAFancastRetroCityRampageInterview.mp3[/podcast]

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Brawler Week: Retro City Rampage Hands On Preview
13 years ago

Brawler Week: Retro City Rampage Hands On Preview

One of the beauties of being an indie studio is the ability to experiment; there is a freedom to development as there are no true limitations. The game can become a total fan service to the developers themselves. Brian Provinciano of VBlank Entertainment took the time to sit down with us recently and discuss this very fact. His title Retro City Rampage is a culmination of various pop culture references and game design mash-ups that merge into a totally unique game. We were given the opportunity to test it out and loved what we saw.

For the uninitiated, Retro City Rampage parodies the open-world action genre combining dozens of game mechanics into an 8-bit game. The game has a beautiful sense of humor, lampooning an entire era of movies, games and pop culture. Players take on the role of THE PLAYER, an anti-hero, who signs up as a henchman for a local crime syndicate. But things go chronically awry and he must soon defeat the EVIL GOOD GUYS, who will stop at nothing to end his RAMPAGE OF DOOM.

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Retro City Rampage gameplay shows off tank…rampage
13 years ago

Retro City Rampage gameplay shows off tank…rampage

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The folks over at GameTrailers are grabbing a load of gameplay footage from games on the show floor at GDC. One such video shows off the destructive …
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Grand Theftendo to be shown at GDC today
13 years ago

Grand Theftendo to be shown at GDC today

Grand Theftendo, the game that started indie developer Brian Provinciano’s drive to create Retro City Rampage, is being shown today at Game Developer’s Conference 2011. The game is a demake of Grand Theft Auto III’s Portland area and runs on a Nintendo cartridge. Provinciano described the game as:

“a port of Grand Theft Auto III for the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It is Grand Theft Auto III running on an 8 bit, 256×240 resolution, 2 bit colour x 2 bit palette, 1.79 Mhz system, written entirely in 6502 Assembly Language! It includes the entire Portland city!”

See the entire press release after the jump.

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XBLA Fans Anticipated 2011 XBLA Game Release Master List
13 years ago

XBLA Fans Anticipated 2011 XBLA Game Release Master List

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Huge thanks to the entire team of writers who worked on this article: Andrew Crews, Cameron Titus, John Carson, Todd Schlickbernd, Tyler Cameron and Xeserox

We’ve spent the past week searching the internet and hounding our industry contacts in an effort to compile the ultimate 2011 XBLA Game Release List. We anticipated one heck of a year for Xbox Live Arcade. So epic we couldn’t even fit everything on one page. So without further ado, check out the list:

For detailed descriptions of each of the games and videos check the links below.
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XBLA Fans Anticipated 2011 XBLA Game Releases: N-R
13 years ago

XBLA Fans Anticipated 2011 XBLA Game Releases: N-R

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We’ve spent the past week searching the internet and hounding our industry contacts in an effort to compile the ultimate 2011 XBLA Game Release List. We anticipated on heck of a year for Xbox Live Arcade. So epic we couldn’t even fit everything on one page. So without further ado, check out the list:

Check out the rest here:

XBLA Fans Anticipated 2011 Releases: A-C
XBLA Fans Anticipated 2011 Releases: D-F
XBLA Fans Anticipated 2011 Releases: G-M
XBLA Fans Anticipated 2011 Releases: N-R
XBLA Fans Anticipated 2011 Releases: S
XBLA Fans Anticipated 2011 Releases: T-Z
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