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The Battle Chasers: Nightwar Documentary by Gameumentary is out now! The doc goes through the formation of  Airship Syndicate  and the development of the game based on Joe Madureira's classic Battle Chaser comic book series.

The crew over at Gameumentary is fresh off of finishing the Darksiders documentary and have released a trailer for their next project, a documentary on Battle Chasers: Nightwar. If it's anything like the Darksiders doc then expect lots of great behind the scenes insight on the development and design of the game. You'll see creative director Joe Madureira and the whole team at Airship Syndicate discussing the process of bringing their kickstarter idea to life and the hurdles they had to jump along the way. Looking forward to this! The full documentary will be releasing on May 8th.

Airship Syndicate just announced that they have released a major patch for both PS4 and Xbox One to fix bugs/gameplay issues to Battle Chasers: Nightwar. The patch notes for PS4 can be read here: http://community.airshipsyndicate.com/t/ps4-1-04-patch-notes/4206/2 Xbox One Patch notes can be read here: http://community.airshipsyndicate.com/t/xbox-one-patch-notes/4207/2 And a bonus for Xbox One X owners, the game visuals have been updated to 4K for combat and Dungeons run at a much higher resolution. Check out these two 4K examples. Also, those of you that backed the kickstarter campaign should be happy to know that the physical rewards for your pledge are almost ready to ship out. The 'sketchy' tier of Kickstarter backers get one of these amazing Joe Madureira character sketches of your favourite Battle Chasers characters.

For those patiently waiting for the Nintendo Switch release of Battle Chasers: Nightwar (me included) Joe Madureira posted this image of Ryan Stefanelli playing the game on the popular console. The game will be released digitally and in stores on May 15th. If you can't wait that long the game is available now on Xbox One, PS4, PC and Mac. If you can't wait that long the game is available now on Xbox One, PS4, PC and Mac. Amazon has great prices as you're reading this!

Gameumentary  has released an amazing documentary on the Darksiders video game series. It's a must watch for any fans of the game or just fans of Joe Madureira (since he was the creative director of the series). The documentary starts from the very beginning when the game was just an idea on a napkin right up until the development and release of Darksiders 2. If this documentary wasn't enough, Gameumentary will be releasing a new one on the development of Battle Chasers: Nightwar in the coming weeks. I'm looking forward to it! Hopefully we'll learn some interesting things about the design and development of the game. Also, maybe we'll finally hear some news about Joe Madureira's progress on continuing the Battle Chasers comic series.

The day is almost here! Battle Chasers: Nightwar is being released on October 3rd on Xbox One, Playstation 4 and PC with a Nintendo Switch release to follow. I backed the game on Kickstarter back in December of 2015 and have been enjoying playing the beta release on my MacBook Pro. I have to say, being a Joe Madureira fan it has been an amazing experience to dive back into the Battle Chasers universe that is so near and dear to Joe. I'm so happy that he had the opportunity to create this game for his fans. Other big news is that Udon is doing an art book for Battle Chasers: Nightwar and apparently it is almost complete! Here's a sneak peak of a few of the pages. Airship Syndicate also released the first of six videos featuring the playable characters in the game. First up, Knolan! Check it out below. Another video recently released was the opening cinematic by Powerhouse Animation (who did the recent Castlevania Anime on Netflix). Watch below! Here are some miscella...

Over at GamingBolt they had an exclusive interview with game lead and designer Ryan Stefanelli as well as product development director at THQ Nordic Reinhard Pollice. Read it below! What inspired you to bring Battle Chasers into the video game realm as a JRPG? How difficult has it been translating the comic’s tone and style to gameplay? When we decided it was time to bring Battle Chasers back, one of our first questions was… which character do you play? Is there a way to play all of them? Those of us who started Airship all love the RPG genre, the classic JRPGs in particular, so when the thought occurred to us to bring the two together, it seemed like a perfect fit. Translating Battle Chasers into an RPG has been pretty easy, especially since the series itself was directly inspired by JRPGs. So in a way, it’s like the whole thing coming around full circle. What is the overarching plot for Battle Chasers: Nightwar and how does it tie into the comic book? The powerful wiza...