Choice Provisions News Articles
Tuesday25th Feb 2025
News Atari And Choice Provisions' New Take On 'Breakout' Gets March Release Date
If it ain't broke...
Atari and Choice Provisions, the team behind the BIT.TRIP games, have announced that Breakout Beyond is launching on Switch (and other platforms) on 25th March 2025. We're flipping things from horizontal to vertical and going "beyond" (sorry) what Breakout has ever done before. Moving through neon-drenched levels and puzzles,...
Tuesday4th Feb 2025
News BIT.TRIP Runner Dev Is Bringing Back An Atari Classic With A Twist
Le brick, c'est chic
Atari has announced that the 1976 brick-breaking arcade classic Breakout is making a comeback. Breakout Beyond is being developed by Runner3 team Choice Provisions and sees the classic's vertical orientation getting flipped on its side. As you can see in the reveal trailer above, the Pong-like paddles now slide up and down the...
Friday23rd Feb 2024
News 'Runner2' Leaps To Switch Next Week, Complete With Charles Martinet
He did a Runner
Charles Martinet may have hung up his cap as the voice of Mario, but next week you'll get to hear his dulcet tones in a new Switch release. On 29th February, the snappily named BIT.TRIP Presents: Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien is making the leap from Wii U to Switch (see what we did there?) with Martinet's narration pr
Wednesday10th Nov 2021
News Riot Announces Rhythm Runner 'Hextech Mayhem: A League Of Legends Story' For Nintendo Switch
Arriving next week
Riot Forge and Choice Provisions have lifted the lid on their new "fast-paced" rhythm runner for the Nintendo Switch. It's officially titled Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story, and will be arriving on the hybrid system on the 16th of November (that's next week). You can get a better idea of what to expect in the trailer...
Monday15th Jul 2019
News Take A Look At The Bubsy: Paws On Fire! Launch Trailer For Nintendo Switch
Game arrives next month
Publisher Accolade and developer Choice Provisions have released a new trailer to promote the upcoming release of Bubsy: Paws on Fire! The game arrives on Switch on 29th August. This follows on from a delay in May, when it was revealed the title had been pushed back to this summer "to allow a bit more time for final...
Thursday9th May 2019
News Bubsy's Next Outing Has Been Delayed For The Nintendo Switch
Now arriving this summer
Yes, we know we said Bubsy: Paws On Fire! was coming to the Switch this month, whether you wanted it or not, but it turns out the game's publisher Accolade and developer Choice Provisions have decided to delay the return of the infamous video game mascot from the '90s. Instead of launching on the Switch eShop next week on...
Wednesday31st Oct 2018
News Bubsy The Bobcat Brings His Next Adventure To The Nintendo Switch In 2019
What could possibly go wrong?
If you at all heard about the recent revival of Busby in The Woolies Strike Back and naturally assumed this outing was the final nail in the coffin for the anthropomorphic bobcat, think again. Accolade has now revealed the infamous video game mascot from the '90s is returning in Bubsy: Paws on Fire. The title is being...
Wednesday2nd May 2018
Video Check Out The Launch Trailer For Runner3
Just a few weeks to go
Choice Provisions was responsible for BIT.TRIP, one of the standout game franchises to arise from Nintendo’s original Wii Shop Channel. Favoring musically driven, arcade-like gameplay, the series jumped from genre to genre, but one of its most popular entries was BIT.TRIP RUNNER, which eventually went on to get its own...
Thursday5th Apr 2018
News Choice Provisions Reveals New Information About Retro Challenges In Runner3
“The-game-within-the-game”
Choice Provisions’ Runner3 is one of the most highly anticipated indie releases on the eShop, as the third instalment in the studio’s delightfully crazy rhythm platformer series. The previous two games were both known for their extremely high difficulty, but it was the special stages in those predecessors that...
Friday16th Feb 2018
News Runner3 Completes Development, Submitted to Nintendo
The last leg of the race
Runner3 is one of the higher profile indie games on the horizon for the Switch, continuing the rhythm-platformer gameplay in what seems like an even more outlandish adventure than the last. The game was promised for a 2018 release date, and it seems that the developers are closing in on announcing that release date, as...
Friday19th Jan 2018
News Space Dave! Lands on the Switch eShop on 25th January
Woah
One of the most delightfully strange experiences that you could find on the Wii U was that of Woah Dave!, a Mario Bros.-like arcade game with nearly endless replay value. Though that game would be a perfect fit for the Switch, developer Choice Provisions has ensured that its sequel, Space Dave!, will be coming to the platform next week. Unlike...
Wednesday30th Aug 2017
News Runner3 Gets a Shiny New Trailer, Due for Release in 2018
For those of you wondering
Today's Nindie Showcase featured a lot of games, but one notable absentee was Switch exclusive Runner3. Though it wasn't in the broadcast, it does have a new PAX West trailer on Nintendo's YouTube channel that also confirms it'll be a 2018 arrival. It's a shame we have a little while to wait for this one, but it'll be...
Friday7th Apr 2017
News Choice Provisions Got Runner3 Running on Switch in Just One Day
"It's been smooth sailing ever since!"
Much noise has been made over the past couple months about how the Nintendo Switch is a significantly more developer friendly console than the Wii U or 3DS. It's a bit more powerful, the architecture is more PC friendly, and there's support for many widely used engines like Unreal. We already saw an example of...
Tuesday28th Feb 2017
News Runner3 to 'Launch Exclusively' on Nintendo Switch
Welcome back CommanderVideo
We're big fans of Choice Provisions and its BIT.TRIP series, in particular the recent BIT.TRIP Presents: Runner 2 Future Legend of Rhythm Alien. During today's Nindies Showcase it was revealed that the aptly-titled sequel Runner3 will be headed to the Nintendo Switch eShop this Fall (Autumn), described as launching...
Tuesday27th Sep 2016
News Choice Provisions Announces Runner 3 for 2017
A hat trick for Commander Video's platforming escapades
The BIT.TRIP series was one of the standout experiences of WiiWare, offering up a handful of artistic games that told of the bizarre journey of Commander Video. The fourth game in this series, BIT.TRIP Runner, was arguably one of the better games, mixing rhythm game elements with platforming to...
Tuesday23rd Feb 2016
Video Check Out This Teaser Footage of Space Dave!
Out of this world
Woah Dave! is an extremely bizarre, but nonetheless enjoyable, retro inspired game from Choice Provisions that launched last year. Featuring gameplay that appears to be partially inspired by the classic Mario Bros., it's a good pick up and play kind of game; one that encourages that "just one more try" mentality. Interestingly...
Tuesday26th Jan 2016
News Shutshimi Will Bring Shmup Mayhem to Wii U in North America on 4th February
Don't shoot these fish in a barrel
We've been looking forward to Shutshimi for quite some time - developed by Neon Deity Games and published by Choice Provisions, it's a shoot 'em up in a WarioWare style with extremely short levels and plenty of chaos on screen. It's previously arrived on PSN but has taken a little while to make it over to the Wii...
Sunday13th Dec 2015
Rumour PEGI Rating Outs the Development of a Tharsis Port for Wii U
The latest from Choice Provisions
Choice Provisions is a prolific studio responsible for engaging and quirky gameplay experiences. Titles such as Woah Dave!, the Bit. Trip Saga, and Dragon Fantasy: The Volumes of Westeria, are its most notable releases and they've all done pretty well commercially and critically. Perhaps in an effort to provide...
Tuesday10th Nov 2015
News Get Ready To Blast Off With Space Dave!
Dave in space
We really liked Choice Provisions recent frantic arcade-inspired platformer Woah Dave!, next up from developer MiniVisions is Space Dave! which is described as a spiritual successor to this readily-avaible eShop entry; you can think of this new title as a modern take on the fixed shooters of yesteryear. Taking a page from classic...
Tuesday25th Aug 2015
News Shutshimi Is A Shooter For Those With Short Attention Spans, And It's Coming To Wii U Soon
"We didn't set out to reinvent the Goldfish SHMUP genre"
In our April interview with Choice Provisions we spoke briefly about Shutshimi, a unique 2D shooter being published by the firm. The game is launching on North American PS4 and Vita consoles today, and creator Neon Deity Games has been speaking about the title's
Thursday13th Aug 2015
News Woah Dave! Arrives On The Wii U eShop 20th August, Cross-Buy Promotion Also On Offer
Double Dave
If you live in the US and purchased the 3DS eShop title – Woah Dave! – when it was released in October last year, you’re in for a treat, with the publisher Choice Provisions today announcing the game will be available on the Wii U eShop on 20th August, with a cross-buy promotion also on offer for existing 3DS owners – making the...
Wednesday15th Jul 2015
News Dragon Fantasy: The Volumes of Westeria is the Next Wii U and 3DS Cross-Buy Release
Out next week in North America
Choice Provisions - which we feel obliged to point out was formerly known as Gaijin Games - has confirmed that its next title will also be the latest cross-buy offering between Wii U and 3DS. The company is publishing Dragon Fantasy: The Volumes of Westeria, a quirky RPG originally developed by Muteki Corp. It's a...
Tuesday14th Apr 2015
News Choice Provisions Considering a Release for Tharsis on Wii U
Ground control to Major Tom
In case you missed the memo, Choice Provisions is what was once known as Gaijin Games, the studio that graced the Wii with the BIT.TRIP games and brought the snappily titled BIT.TRIP Presents: Runner 2 Future Legend of Rhythm Alien to the Wii U eShop. Choice Provisions is also a publisher, too, with Woah Dave! a recent...
Thursday26th Feb 2015
News Woah Dave! Getting Free Deluxe Update On 3DS, Also Coming To Wii U
New levels and characters promised
Woah Dave! developer Choice Provisions has revealed that the game is getting a "Deluxe" update on the 3DS. Woah Dave! Deluxe - which has just hit Steam - features two new levels, a host of new characters, boss battles, fresh enemy types, UFOs you can ride, a "classic" mode which returns everything to how it was in...
Monday19th Jan 2015
News Woah Dave! May Become a Real NES Cartridge Release
Woah!
Woah Dave!, a 3DS eShop title that we reviewed late last year, may just be arriving on the console that inspired the game's alien-exterminating mechanics, as well as gaming as a whole - the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Tiny Cartridge has spoken with Choice Provisions Director Jason Cirillo and learned that the company has tentative...
Monday10th Nov 2014
Weirdness Dan Adelman's Made a Game, Albeit a "Turd That Looks Like Woah Dave"
10/10 for effort
We're fans of Woah Dave! here at Nintendo Life; it's not easy to release a chaotic retro-style arcade cabinet experience for $5 while delivering fun and value, but developer MiniVisions seems to have pulled it off. Available now on the 3DS eShop in North America, it's published by Choice Provisions — formerly Gaijin Games — and...
Monday9th Jun 2014
News Gaijin Games Changes Name to Choice Provisions, Woah Dave! Due This Summer on 3DS
"We are but humble purveyors of video games"
Gaijin Games is a name familiar to keen Nintendo download gamers, as it's the studio behind the terrific BIT.TRIP series on WiiWare and Wii U eShop gem BIT.TRIP Presents: RUNNER 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien. The name may be iconic, but the company has decided to change its identity to the rather...
Tuesday22nd Apr 2014
News Gaijin Games' Woah Dave! Reportedly Coming to 3DS
Whoa, that’s awesome!
According to a recent GameZebo interview with Jason Cirillo of Robotube Games – a sub-label of Gaijin Games – retro-inspired platformer Woah Dave! is set to make an appearance on the 3DS in the near future. No doubt in the form of an eShop release. During the recent PAX East, one extract of the GameZebo interview...
Saturday8th Mar 2014
News Californian Mobile Developer Robot Invader Expresses Interest In Wii U and 3DS Development
"Maybe someday" for Wind-up Knight
Californian game studio Robot Invader has recently expressed interest in bringing its medieval platform runner Wind-up Knight to the Wii U and 3DS. A question posed to the Android and iOS developer via its official Twitter account asked if it had any plans to bring Wind-up Knight to the 3DS or Wii U in the near...
Monday27th Jan 2014
News Nintendo Is "Wonderful" To Work With, Says BIT.TRIP Studio Gaijin Games
Unannounced projects currently being worked on
Nintendo's Wii U may be struggling to make the desired impression at retail, but that doesn't mean the system — and Nintendo itself — isn't held in high regard by some sectors of the development community. Last week, we heard Wales Interactive speak positively about the console, while Dakko Dakko's...
