The fruit of a collaboration between Housemarque and Eugene Jarvis, Nex Machina is an arcade-style twin-stick shooter with a focus on fast-paced action. Featuring a thumping synthwave soundtrack, plenty of boss fights, and classic coin-op gameplay, the game serves as a modern day love letter to the arcade era.
Check out the official Gamers Sphere review of this game here.
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Do it! It’s a seriously addictive experience. Housemarque is the master of modern arcade classic gameplay. Curious to see how Returnal turns out tbh.
Thanks. Downloaded it and will be playing it shortly.
Pre-ordered Returnal too.
Yep, had a lot of fun playing it with my kids. Although they always fight over the drops.
Rise along with Housemarque's Mikael Haveri and Nex Machina's game director Harry Krueger as they give their thoughts on AShinyBlackPhoenix's incredible speedrun through their game.
Housemarque director Harry Krueger talks Nex Machina, what we can expect from the studio's AAA title, whether Arcade truly is dead, and more.
If I were a betting man, and I am, I would say that Stormdivers won't be successful. There's too much competition, from the mammoths like Fortnite, Apex and PUBG, to further competition from AAA games with a battle royale mode like CoD.
There's too much competition and unless Stormdivers brings something unique to the mode, it just isn't going to work. "Simple yet deep" already exists.
Yeah, they came to the battle royale genre too late to make an impact. I'm not sure what they can do with the game -- you don't want to release the game if you're just going to have to shut it down immediately.
They have even admitted it already. No turning back from the stupid move of turning into a generic studio.
Great devs, one of favs, but I have to say they've been alittle off point with there last 2 entry's.
Think they need to go bk to basics imo.
Nex Machina was the best game they have ever made and Matterfall was excellent, but lacked content.
I think Stormdivers has been put on hold or canceled at this stage.
They have 70 people in their studio currently working on a AAA new IP.
Sony is working with them on their next project, so that's probably it. Sony also knows it can't compete with third-party multiplayer / battle royale games which are on its consoles anyway so it doesn't bother. I reckon Housemarque's new game is going to be something different.
Storm Divers isn't their AAA game tho. They've got two projects going, StormDivers and the unannounced assumed to be PS5 Exclusive AAA title
Finally a beautiful article/interview. This was a really great read since I miss the Housemarque arcade games but this interview made me respect their decision a little more. Either way I will continue to support this dev team through thick and thin.
Yeah, it's unfortunate they're leaving the arcade stuff behind, but you can't blame them.
A battle royale side scroller like Resogun would be pretty cool. Don't think we need more shooter .
Love Housemarque, but I don't like they're chasing the current fad. It's going to be a hard market to break into without serious marketing backing.
I still want a 3D version of Dead Nation. Love the game and the overhead gameplay but wish there was a camera option to make it more straight ahead or closer. The initial videos made the game look closer than it actually was.
We need more Dead Nation.
Yeah I absolutely loved Dead Nation, and to be fair I didn't mind the camera angles at all. Just Dead Nation 2 is all I need.
