May2013
News Shovel Knight's Order of No Quarter Boss Lineup is Finalised
A motley crew
Of the many crowd-funded projects to align themselves to Nintendo systems in recent times, perhaps Shovel Knight has been the most prominent success. The first title to come from Yacht Club Games — founded by former employees of WayForward Technologies — has attracted rave previews and waltzed past its Kickstarter target with...
April2013
News Shovel Knight Kickstarter Campaign Ends After Reaching All Stretch Goals
Over $300,000 was raised
Yacht Club Games announced its first project a month ago in the form of Shovel Knight. The developer set up a Kickstarter campaign in order to achieve further funding for the game and it has been astonishingly successful. The campaign has now come to an end and the developer managed to obtain a further $311,502 in funding,...
News Yacht Club Games: Shovel Knight Aims to be a "Next-Gen 8-bit Game"
"Should feel the wonderful way you remember classic games feeling"
With its Kickstarter fundraising campaign in its last week and well past its original total, Yacht Club Games' Shovel Knight is picking up stretch goals and becomingly increasingly promising as a result. So far, for example, it's added a playable boss character and a New Game+ mode...
News Mega Man Composer Manami Matsumae Writing Two Songs For Shovel Knight
Mega Matsumae
We reported earlier last week that upcoming 3DS and Wii U title Shovel Knight was closing in on its Kickstarter goal, only to find that it hit the target three days later. The game is described as "a hot mashup of new and old that may remind you of Mega Man", and now there's another reason why Yacht Club's platformer will remind you...
March2013
Developer Interview Yacht Club Games On Shovel Knight And Loving Nintendo
"We grew up playing Nintendo games on the NES and SNES"
Yesterday we reported that Yacht Club Games' Kickstarter campaign for Shovel Knight had hit its funding target with two weeks to spare. Fresh from this success, studio founder Sean Velasco kindly took some time out of his busy schedule to speak to us about the split from WayForward...
News Shovel Knight Hits Kickstarter Target, Stretch Goals Set
Still 2 weeks to back and secure your copy
Well, it's official, Shovel Knight — the debut title from Yacht Club Games — has met its Kickstarter funding goal of $75,000 and is coming to both Wii U and 3DS. There's been a lot of hype about the retro-styled platformer since the former WayForward team announced its arrival, while hands-on...
News Shovel Knight Closing In On Kickstarter Goal
17 days left to reach its target
Two weeks ago, Yacht Club Games said it was hoping to bring Shovel Knight to the Wii U and 3DS. Three days later, it had been confirmed that both versions will see a release. The 2D platformer is the studio's first title, and i