March2024
News Celeste Creator's Next Game 'Earthblade' Gets Delayed, Will No Longer Release In 2024
"It feels like the start of a new era"
It has been a whopping three years since we first heard about Earthblade, the 2D "explor-action" game from Celeste developer Extremely OK Games. This pretty pixel art platformer was given a 2024 release window back in late 2022, but now, it seems, things are going to be pushed back a little as the developers...
January2024
News Celeste Devs Making "Something Small But Cool" For 6th Anniversary
"We just need a bit more time to sprinkle that extra love on it"
Celeste, the challenging platformer focused on mental health and overcoming the odds to climb a mountain, celebrated its 6th anniversary yesterday, 25th January 2024. And it sounds like we've got something to look forward to. The official Celeste Twitter teased a little something...
January2023
News Celeste Gets Beautiful New Collector's Edition For Fifth Anniversary
Open for pre-order now
Celeste turns five years old today, and in celebration of the platformer being old enough to go to school, the developers have announced a totally new collector's edition of the game. Here are the contents of the anniversary edition, which can be pre-ordered through Fangamer for $64: Reflection Art Album and Journal...
December2022
News Celeste Creator Shares "First-Look" At New Title Earthblade
"Coming 2024"
At The Game Awards earlier today, the team behind the award-winning indie hit Celeste, gave fans a first look at its new 2D platformer Earthblade. Platforms and a specific release date have not been announced yet, but it won't be out until 2024. "NEW game by EXOK Games, the creators of Celeste! You are Névoa, an enigmatic child of...
December2021
Lena Raine talks Chrono Trigger and wanting to write "a really rowdy anime opening"
Lena Raine's meteoric rise over the past few years has taken her from working in Quality Assurance at ArenaNet, all the way to being nominated for a BAFTA and an award for Best Music at The Game Awards — pretty impressive for someone who's technically only nine...
August2021
Quick Beats Celeste Composer Lena Raine On Her Love For Ghibli, Hurdy-Gurdies, And Her Cat
The cat is called Bobbin
Throughout the Nintendo Life Video Game Music Festival we'll be speaking to a range of composers and musicians with a mixture of in-depth interviews and shorter, sharper (and perhaps a little goofier) Q&As where we ask just ten rapid-fire personal questions; we're calling these shorter features 'Quick Beats'. Today's...
April2021
News Celeste's Creators Are Working On A New "2D Explor-Action Game" With Secret Of Mana Vibes
It's called "Earthblade"
It's been three years since Celeste, the pixel-perfect platformer, first came out. Since then, the people who made it have banded together to create a whole new studio — Extremely OK Games — and have been hard at work on what comes next. Today, that question finally has an answer: Earthblade, a "2D explor-action game"...