Games by Comcept
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Mediocre No. 9, more like
There are few Kickstarter projects that have gained as much attention as Keiji Inafune and Comcept's Mighty No. 9. Billed as a spiritual successor to Capcom's seemingly dormant Mega Man series - a lineage Inafune is closely connected with - this new project was supposed to bring back everything fans loved about the Blue...
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Thursday19th May 2022
News NFT Project With Artwork From Mega Man Artist & Mighty No. 9 Creator Keiji Inafune Confirmed
Update: 'Beastroid' project unveiled
Update 2 [Thu 19th May, 2022: 17:00BST: The project has now been formally unveiled, with an introductory video by Keiji Inafune and an official website. Sadly it has no update on the 3DS version of Mighty No. 9. Update [Wed 18th May, 2022 03:45 BST]: It seems the same countdown webpage on PolkaFantasy has now...
Saturday11th Aug 2018
Comcept to blame
It’s fairly evident the handheld versions of Mighty No. 9 are stuck in video game development hell. Comcept has not provided an update on these iterations of the game since 2017 - essentially leaving backers in the dark. Following up from its investigation earlier this week, Destructoid has since explained how port specialist...
Thursday9th Aug 2018
News Mighty No. 9 Developer Comcept Remains Tight-Lipped About Handheld Releases
Playing the waiting game
Mighty No. 9 by Comcept had a rough development cycle, suffering from a series of delays and then a bumpy launch filled with performance problems and middling reviews. It's safe to say, the game didn't live up to expectations. As a result of these issues, the handheld versions appear to be stuck in limbo. The title was...
Thursday27th Jul 2017
News Mighty No. 9's Long Overdue Kickstarter Reward Sums Up The Game In General
Some assembly required
Ah, Mighty No. 9. Keiji's Infaune's Kickstarter smash was born in a blaze of hype, but the end result wasn't quite what people were expecting when they gleefully pledged their cash back in 2013. At least Comcept is following through on its promises, even if they're a little late. During the campaign, a special...
Thursday15th Jun 2017
News Mighty No. 9 Dev Comcept Acquired By Level-5, 3DS Version Is Still Coming
"The possibilities are limitless here"
Mighty No. 9 studio Comcept has been acquired by Level-5 - custodians of the Professor Layton and Yo-Kai Watch franchises - to create a new company named Level-5 Comcept. This will be an entirely new studio built upon the foundations of Comcept’s existing staff, which currently consists of about 15...
Wednesday17th May 2017
News Sinking Keiji Inafune’s Kaio: King of Pirates Cost Marvelous $3.8 Million Dollars
Glug glug glug
Those of you with good memories will no doubt recall Kaio: King of Pirates. The brainchild of former Capcom staffer Keiji Inafune, this 3DS action title was announced in 2011 and was supposed to the hit the console in the following year. Jointly developed by Comcept and Intercept, Inafune's new studios, Kaio was picked up for...
Thursday30th Jun 2016
Video Digital Foundry Puts Mighty No. 9's Wii U Framerate and Performance to the Test
It's not mighty, sadly
Mighty No. 9, it's fair to say, wasn't exactly greeted with glowing recommendations and open arms when it arrived recently. After an extended and troubled development the final result underwhelmed, and we decided it was more like Mediocre No. 9 in our review. Playable and with some good moments, it also has flaws that aren't...
Wednesday22nd Jun 2016
News Mighty No. 9 Problems "Totally My Fault", Admits Creator Keiji Inafune
"I'm the key creator. I will own that responsibility"
Mighty No. 9's launch hasn't exactly been a success. The title has shipped to middling reviews and performance problems, and a live stream to promote the game
Tuesday21st Jun 2016
News There's an Early Patch Inbound for Mighty No. 9 on Wii U
Hopefully not a mighty file size
Mighty No. 9 on Wii U has been in a quirky situation, with Kickstarter backers and early buyers in North America getting stuck into the release while publisher Deep Silver has been slow to roll-out review code for the Nintendo system's iteration. We've had some highlight to us on social media that on Wii U the game...
News Even If It’s Not Perfect, It’s Better Than Nothing, Says Mighty No. 9 Creator Keiji Inafune
UPDATE: Translator's comments could have been attributed to Inafune
Update: We've been pointed to a debate around who said 'it's better than nothing' in this context, whether translator Ben Judd added it as an aside or whether it was part of his translation for Keiji Inafune. In the context of the stream both men were encountering a lot of negative...
Monday20th Jun 2016
Round Up First Mighty No. 9 Reviews Suggest The Wait Hasn't Been Worth It
Mega also-ran?
Mighty No. 9 was supposed to be one of Kickstarter's real success stories. After smashing its original funding total the game looked set to become the true spiritual successor to the largely dormant Mega Man franchise, but a series of embarrassing delays took the shine off proceedings. To ma
Wednesday8th Jun 2016
Video Feast Your Eyes On This Footage Of Mighty No. 9's Boisterous Bosses
Feeling the burn
The much-delayed Mighty No. 9 might have taken a credibility hit thanks to its recent trailer, but this spiritual successor to Capcom's legendary Mega Man is still shaping up nicely - as the following gameplay footage attests. GameSpot has captured video of three different bosses from the game, proving that creator Keiji Inafu
Thursday26th May 2016
News Inti Creates CEO Takuya Aizu Really Doesn't Like The New Mighty No. 9 Trailer
"Unforgivable"
Yesterday, we reported on a new Mighty No. 9 trailer which featured such gems as "combo on combo action" and gameplay that will "make the bad guys cry like an anime fan on prom night." The trailer hasn't gone down well, and currently has over 14,000 downvotes on YouTube. However, anime fans aren't the only people dissatisfied with...
Wednesday25th May 2016
Video Latest Mighty No. 9 Trailer Dials Up The Ridiculousness
"Combos ON combos"
After several annoying delays, Mighty No. 9 finally has a release date, and to remind us that it's coming Deep Silver has released this action-packed trailer. Showcasing plenty of gameplay and some amusing daft commentary, the footage should hopefully stir up some excitement after months of wondering just when the game is...
Monday2nd May 2016
News Mighty No. 9 Has Gone Gold for a June Release
3DS version still due to come "at a later point"
Comcept's Mighty No. 9 has had a troubled route to release, with art design and multiple delays being among points of contention for the Keiji Inafune-led title. It's all been a far cry from the excitement and success of its original Kickstarter campaign, but the good news is that we'll get to play it...
Friday29th Apr 2016
News EB Games Display Lists Mighty No. 9 for a Summer 2016 Release
The saga continues
At this point, the journey that Mighty No. 9 has taken to development has become almost comical. After a record breaking Kickstarter, hype was at an all-time high, but things quickly began to deflate after numerous delays and an attempt at doing a second fundraising campaign. The development team has remained worryingly quiet as...
Tuesday26th Apr 2016
Rumour Xbox Store Listing Indicates That Mighty No. 9 Has Been Delayed Until December
UPDATE: Or perhaps not...
UPDATE: Well, this is embarrassing. Thanks to kindly people on Twitter like Prof.9, it has come to our attention that "12/02/16" is actually using the European date system (12th February 2016) and not the American system (2nd December 2016). The 12th was the original launch date for the game in Europe. It would appear that...
Thursday7th Apr 2016
Video Have a Gawk at Keiji Inafune's Super Mario Maker Stage
Insert your own Mighty No. 9 joke here...
Keiji Inafune is one of the best known game creators in the industry, and a designer that commands a great deal of respect. As a result it's intriguing to see him create a stage in Super Mario Maker while citing some principles first formed in the early Mega Man games. That's the idea behind a Polygon video...
Tuesday5th Apr 2016
News Mighty No. 9's Release Date Remains A Mighty Mystery
No comment from publisher on "Spring" launch
Kickstarter success story Mighty No. 9 hasn't had the smoothest of routes to market. After smashing its crowdfunding goal by some margin the title was expected to launch in September last year, but missed that original release window and was given an "early 2016" date. It then slipped from its new release...
Monday25th Jan 2016
News Mighty No. 9 Has Been Delayed Once Again as Keiji Inafune Offers Sincere Apologies
Now targeting Spring
Mighty No. 9 began with a spectacularly successful Kickstarter campaign, with the project leadership of Keiji Inafune and the sense of it being a spiritual successor to Mega Man being factors in its popularity. Since that period of hype in mid 2013 it's endured some tougher times, though - the final visual style has been...
Monday30th Nov 2015
Video New Mighty No. 9 Trailer Aims to Bring Back the Hype
Leaving those troubles behind
Comcept's Mighty No. 9 has had a curious development history. It stormed to success on Kickstarter seemingly off the back of Keiji Inafune's reputation and its potential as a spiritual successor to Mega Man, yet as development wore on and more footage emerged opinions cooled. The reaction to the visual style hasn't...
Wednesday11th Nov 2015
News Keiji Inafune is Interested in Implementing amiibo in His Games
Just don't delay Mighty No. 9 again, Inafune
Up until recently, amiibo had been exclusively first party affairs. There are already dozens of the evasive figures available for a wide array of Nintendo franchises, but the question always remained: will amiibo ever be utilized by third parties? This was answered by a rather surprising reveal by Yacht...
Monday28th Sep 2015
News Deep Silver And Comcept Confirm Launch Date For Mighty No. 9
Physical and digital versions coming at the same time
Publisher Deep Silver - along with Mighty No. 9 developer Comcept - has confirmed that the physical and digital editions of the game will launch in North America on February 9th and the rest of the world on February 12th. This revised release date was down to the game slipping from its expected...
Monday10th Aug 2015
News Mega Man And Mighty No. 9 Creator Keiji Inafune Admits He Doesn't Make Games That He Can Play
"My staff, though, are really good"
Keiji Inafune is responsible for some of the most joypad-crushingly difficult games of the 8-bit era, with the Mega Man series being considered the ultimate test of skill by many Nintendo players. However, Inafune has admitted to Kotaku UK that he is in fact a mere mortal and doesn't create games which he himself...
Friday7th Aug 2015
"We are upset as well, just as much as the backers"
As we suggested in our article regarding Mighty No. 9's delay into early 2016, Comcept has endured a tough and damaging period for its image with fans. After the giddy highs of the game's successful Kickstarter campaign in 2013, multiple delays and some poor communication / decision making around...
Wednesday5th Aug 2015
News Mighty No. 9 Delayed Until Early 2016
Bugs and online issues to blame
Mighty No. 9 has had an interesting history. Its Kickstarter campaign was a spectacular success, with the desire for a spiritual successor to Mega Man and the leading role of Keiji Inafune causing a huge buzz. As it stands now, however, it's had a visual redesign that's been criticised by some, and now its release has...
Wednesday8th Jul 2015
Weirdness A Mighty No. 9 Live-Action Movie is On the Way
Sounds... interesting
Not so long ago it was announced that there'll be a new Mega Man cartoon in 2017, which is something to look forward to, but Keiji Inafune and his Comcept team evidently don't want their spiritual successor to Capcom's IP - Mighty No. 9 - to be outshone. In an announcement that sent our collective eyebrows skyrocketing it's...
Monday6th Jul 2015
Mega Man Legends veteran developers brought on board
As was promised in teases last week, Keiji Inafune and his Comcept team have launched Kickstarter campaigns for new projects, both a game and animation. RED Ash: The Indelible Legend is a sci-fi adventure with the aim of "immersing players in a freely explorable anime world." The game project is...
Thursday11th Jun 2015
News Mighty No. 9 Features on Wii U and 3DS Versions are Outlined
So long, amiibo dreams
Mighty No. 9 is just a few months away, a project treated by many as a spiritual successor to Mega Man. Though we don't yet have a final date for the 3DS port, it's heading to Wii U in September on the eShop and as a physical retail release. A development update has now been posted outlining features for each platform, and...
Friday5th Jun 2015
News Mighty No. 9 Signature Edition Will Not Be Available For Wii U
Ouch!
It seems Wii U owners have once again been excluded from the pack, with publisher Deep Silver revealing the recently announced US-only signature edition of Mighty No. 9 will only be made available to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One owners. The collectors edition deal – including a physical copy of the game, DLC, a foil signature and a posable...
Wednesday3rd Jun 2015
News Mighty No.9 Looks Rather Neat in This 60fps Trailer
Mega Man says hi
Keiji Inafune may not always spin gold in the many projects with which he's associated, but the hype is very real for Mighty No. 9. A hugely successful crowdfunding campaign, it drifted off the radar a little - while also missing its original release window - but is rapidly coming back into view. At the end of April it was given...
Tuesday28th Apr 2015
News Mighty No. 9 Confirmed for September Release, Along With Physical Retail Version
Deep Silver publishing, 3DS release due "at a later point"
Mighty No. 9, the upcoming title from Keiji Inafune's Comcept studio that has Mega Man fans rather excited, finally has release dates. As many have guessed it won't arrive this Spring, but is hitting the Wii U in North America on 15th September and other territories on 18th September. In...
Friday13th Mar 2015
News Kaio: King of Pirates, by Keiji Inafune's Comcept, is Officially Cancelled
Publisher Marvelous loses around $3.8 million on project
Kaio: King of Pirates, an adventure game in the works by Keiji Inafune's Comcept development studio, has officially been confirmed as cancelled by publisher Marvelous. That's perhaps no surprise considering the continual delays and silence on the 3DS release, but it's nevertheless still rather...
Friday2nd Jan 2015
News Keiji Inafune's New Year's Message Includes Fresh Mighty No. 9 Stage Footage
"We're pretty much finished"
Mega Man and Mighty No. 9 creator Keiji Inafune has posted a New Year's greeting in which he reveals that production on his latest epic is almost complete -- as well as showing off a hitherto unseen level. He refers to the development of the game as a "pleasure" and states that he can't wait for players to experience...
Monday1st Sep 2014
News New Mighty No. 9 Trailer Builds The Hype as Keiji Inafune Talks of a Retro and Modern Fusion
Same old pew-pew, but faster
As the weeks and months drift by we get closer to the release of Mighty No. 9, so close that certain Kickstarter backers will be receiving playable beta builds on PC right about now. The title seems to be making solid progress ahead of its arrival next year, which is sure to have action platformer — and Mega Man —...
Monday21st Jul 2014
Video More Mighty No. 9 Footage Arrives to Tempt Us
Including some new scenes
To its credit, Comcept continues to go above and beyond in utilising its Kickstarter page to provide regular updates on Mighty No. 9, which will come to Wii U, 3DS and a host of other platforms in 2015. As part of a regular update it's posted a new video with around two minutes of game footage, a good indication of recent...
Monday7th Jul 2014
News Mighty No. 9 Has Another Crowdfunding Campaign, in Addition to Pre-Orders
"For this new funding campaign we are looking to add new content"
Mighty No. 9 caused a lot of buzz when announced in summer 2013, with its Kickstarter campaign proving to be one of the most successful to date. What began with a $900,000 goal rapidly stormed past that target to close on $3,845,170; with PayPal contributions added the total reached...
Video Mighty No. 9: The Animated Series Gets A Slick Teaser Trailer
Japanese studio Digital Frontier does the honours
It was confirmed a while back that we could be seeing a Mighty No. 9 live-action movie in the not-too-distant future, but it would appear that Beck and friends could be hitting our screens sooner than expected. Japanese studio Digital Frontier has put together a teaser trailer for a proposed...
Thursday20th Mar 2014
News Keiji Inafune Discusses the Indie Experience in Japan and Shows New Mighty No. 9 Footage
"It feels like a return to the golden days"
GDC (Game Developers Conference) 2014 is now approaching its close in San Francisco, and has hosted a variety of games, demonstrations and reveals. As is also the norm there have been presentations from various figures in the games industry, with a particularly high profile example being that given by...
Thursday13th Mar 2014
Video Extended Mighty No. 9 Footage and Details Released
Running, dashing, backward jumps and, of course, a death animation
In February we posted a video of Keiji Inafune testing Mighty No. 9, a short clip in which he seemed rather pleased with the work in progress. An extended version has now been released that shows a ledge climb animation, more of the background test and, right at the end, a...
Saturday8th Mar 2014
Video Manami Matsumae Performs Her Awesome Mighty No. 9 Theme Song
Tune those retro ears
Update: Unfortunately the live performance video and the related source article have been taken down. Below is another version of the theme tune in the meantime... Original Article: The release of Mighty No. 9 may still be over a year away on multiple platforms — including the Wii U and 3DS eShop stores — but we can...
Wednesday5th Mar 2014
News Inti Creates Explains the Development Processes Behind Mighty No. 9
Keiji Inafune gets at least one fresh build every month
In terms of Kickstarter success stories, Mighty No. 9 is undoubtedly in the top tier. With last year being an anniversary year for the Blue Bomber and Capcom making no moves to produce an official game, Keiji Inafune rather cleverly gauged the mood and seized the moment. As the figurehead well...
Saturday8th Feb 2014
Video Keiji Inafune Plays Some Mighty No.9, Seems Pleased
"Perfect!"
We suspect that Mighty No. 9 is high on the wishlists of many Mega Man fans; it is a "spiritual successor" being led by Keiji Inafune, after all. Nintendo fans will no doubt be pleased that Comcept's title is coming to the Wii U eShop, while it's incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign also means that Abstraction Games will produce a...
Wednesday5th Feb 2014
News Mighty No. 9 Is Getting The Live-Action Movie Treatment
That's mega, man
Mighty No. 9 — perhaps better known as Keiji Infafune's spiritual successor to Mega Man — is still in active development following its triumphant Kickstarter campaign, but the fact that no one has actually played it yet hasn't stopped associated projects from springing up. Tim Carter — writer & producer over at...
Thursday12th Dec 2013
News Mighty No. 9 Studio Comcept Facing Fan Backlash Over Community Manager Appointment
"This is basically not what we were promised"
Mighty No. 9 creator Comcept appears to have irked some of its fans by appointing a female community manager known for her outspoken personal views on social issues. It has been revealed in a recent update that Dina Abou Karam has taken up the position, and will be in charge of engaging with fans across...
Wednesday9th Oct 2013
News Keiji Inafune Won't Rule Out Publishing Mighty No. 9 With Capcom
Would consider Mega Man options with an "offer we couldn’t refuse"
Kickstarter is an interesting model, in that a developer can seek investment from the public — or perhaps you think of it as advance pre-orders, donations? — but then still seek a traditional publisher after using crowdfunded money to make the game. In theory there's nothing...
Tuesday1st Oct 2013
News Mighty No. 9 Confirmed for 3DS
Wowza
Mighty No. 9, the project from Keiji Inafune's Comcept studio that, in the eyes of many fans, is a true follow-up to the iconic Mega Man franchise, has been a crowdfunding phenomenon. Despite having a target release of April 2015 gamers have been quick to rush and show support. Having previously hit its Wii U stretch goal with relative ease,...
Friday27th Sep 2013
News Mighty No. 9 Sets an Ambitious 3DS Stretch Goal
Nearly $900,000 needed in four days
Mighty No. 9, the action-platformer from Keiji Inafune's Comcept studio — with a heavy Mega Man influence — has caused quite a stir since it launched its Kickstarter campaign. Its initial target was broken quickly, and a follow up stretch goal was soon hit to confirm a Wii U release. With just four days...
Tuesday17th Sep 2013
News Mighty No. 9 Passes Wii U Stretch Goal With A Fortnight Remaining
That's Mega news
Keiji Inafune's crowdfunding for Mighty No. 9 has, unsurprisingly, been progressing rather well. After a few frustrating years for fans of the Blue Bomber, Capcom's former employee and the man many consider to be the father of the series is working on a game with undoubted conceptual similarities. Not only that, but he's brought in...
