Bubsy: Paws On Fire taking the rubbo bobcat autorunning

enWed, 31 Oct 2018 16:18:16 +0000Bubsy: Paws On Fire taking the rubbo bobcat autorunninghttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/bubsy-paws-on-fire-autorunner-announcedAlice O'ConnorWed, 31 Oct 2018 16:18:16 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/bubsy-paws-on-fire-autorunner-announcedPlatformerChoice ProvisionsAccoladeBubsy: The Woolies Strike Back

After years as a punchline, it seems Bubsy has again become an active series. And we're supposed to accept that. We're supposed to tell our children that's the world we've created for them. Our children, who'll grow up knowing Bubsy not from the astonishing Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits The James Turrell Retrospective but from collectathon platformers with awful puns. Our children. You tell my child, you tell them that one year after the release of Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back, publishers Accolade have announced Bubsy: Paws On Fire! This time, the developers stepping up are Choice Provisions, the makers of the BIT.TRIP games.

]]>Trick or trick? New Bubsy game hits on Halloweenhttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/bubsy-the-woolies-strike-back-release-date-announcedAlice O'ConnorThu, 24 Aug 2017 13:30:32 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/bubsy-the-woolies-strike-back-release-date-announcedBubsy: The Woolies Strike BackBubsyAccoladePlatformerBlack Forest Games

"Trick or treat?" we're asked every year on Halloween by children menacing us for sugary payment. This October 31st, Black Forest Games don't offer the choice: we're getting tricked. Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back [official site], a revival of the bad '90s platformer series, will launch on Halloween. Hell will come to Earth and we'll all meet our doom. Sure, go on, end the world for a joke. Of course, there's a chance it might not be rubbish. Black Forest make the modern Giana Sisters games, which are actually pretty decent platformers.

]]>Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective remasteredhttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/bubsy-3d-bubsy-visits-the-james-turrell-retrospective-remasteredAlice O'ConnorMon, 03 Jul 2017 14:33:44 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/bubsy-3d-bubsy-visits-the-james-turrell-retrospective-remasteredBubsy: The Woolies Strike BackBubsyArcane KidsPlatformerFree gamesBubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective

Against all odds, a new Bubsy game is coming this autumn. Some cynics might say that such a rubbo '90s platformer series apparently reaching 'retro icon' status is yet more evidence that video games mistake recognisability for merit, but me, I know this is proof that Arcane Kids saved Bubsy with their 2013 bootleg game Bubsy 3d: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective [official site]. After the bobcat rode a coffin luge into the afterlife, how could he not life forever? Well! Aging plugins made the browser game a bother to play, but Arcane Kids have now released a standalone downloadable version with an added epilogue chapter. In it, Bubsy reflects on his career as an artist.

]]>What could possibly go wrong? New Bubsy announcedhttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/bubsy-the-woolies-strike-back-announcedAlice O'ConnorFri, 09 Jun 2017 11:24:25 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/bubsy-the-woolies-strike-back-announcedBubsy: The Woolies Strike BackBubsyAccoladePlatformerBlack Forest Games

Mate, I don't know what's going on in the world. Have you seen? Have you heard? Did you wake up, rub your eyes, and say "Nahhh" then "Wuhhh?" followed by "Ohhh?" It's real, it really is real: Bubsy the bobcat is back, baby! The rubbish platformer series will return this autumn with the all-new Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back [official site], because 2017 is the year we deserve. I'm being a mite over-dramatic. Bubsy was of course perfected by the Arcane Kids with Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective but I suppose someone thinks they can live up to that golden standard.

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