Back in January, we reported on the fact that Angry Video Game Nerd: I & II Deluxe was coming to consoles although – at the time – a Switch version wasn’t confirmed. It seemed incredibly likely that a Switch version was on the way, though, and we now have actual, definite proof that it is. Hooray!

The confirmation comes via FreakZone Games’ Twitter account, as you can see below. It seems like an appearance at PAX East was needed before anything could be revealed.

As you can likely tell from its title, the bundle will contain both of the 2D Angry Video Game Nerd games already available. Both are 2D platformers centred around the online, mature-themed comedy series of the same name, tasking you with blasting your way through levels with a NES Zapper. The first of these actually launched on Wii U and 3DS back in 2015.

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At Microsoft for Startups our goal is to connect innovative co-sell ready startups with our top enterprise and industrial customers and our broader partner ecosystem. As part of our engagement with the manufacturing sector, we are bringing nine highly innovative startups to Hannover Messe – the world’s leading manufacturing event attended by over 200,000 visitors from 75+ countries.

The startups will take part in a Startup Showcase at the event where they can present their highly innovative and disruptive solutions to leading industrial partners and join networking events to meet executives from some of the world’s largest companies.

Hannover Messe brings together a broad cross section of industrial and manufacturing companies that represent “all key technologies and core areas of industry – from research and development, industrial automation, IT, industrial supply, production technologies and services to energy and mobility technologies.”

You can find out more about the participating startups below:

AirMap

AirMap is the world’s leading airspace management platform for drones, supporting more than 100,000 drone flights per day. AirMap connects airspace authorities with the drone ecosystem to unlock safe, efficient, and scalable drone operations.

Current customers include: 3DR, DJI, DroneDeploy, Intel, Matternet, and senseFly.

Crate.io

Crate.io is the developer of CrateDB, an Industrial IOT database technology for enterprise manufacturing and industrial organizations needing to scale the use of machine data to enable advanced real-time analytics and insights. CrateDB is an addition to Microsoft’s IoT suite, delivering a fundamental advantage to companies reliant on industrial time series data to operate and scale production facilities.

Current customers include: Alpla, Tracknamic, RAUCH, Unilever, and BAE Systems.

KrypC

KrypC enables IT leaders to accelerate their company’s Blockchain adoption in short time with rapid and iterative application development capability. KrypC empowers enterprises to adopt blockchain in a seamless manner that integrates their personalized business models with their technological needs.

Current customers include: Maersk, Accenture, and Honeywell.

Markforged

Markforged is an end-to-end 3D printing system that expands the applications for additive manufacturing with purpose-built industrial technologies and a wide range of manufacturing-ready materials. Markforged is transforming manufacturing by addressing 3D printing as a holistic problem.

Current customers include: NASA, ZEISS, Airbus, Bentley, and John Deere.

Prevedere

Prevedere allows companies to enhance the accuracy of their financial, marketing and operations forecasting. Using global data, and the enterprise’s own historical data, Prevedere conducts a robust forecasting analysis with a high degree of accuracy and increases customers’ forecasting accuracy from the low 80%+ to the mid-high 90% range.

Current customers include: ADS, Nationwide, Hershey, RaceTrac, and Timken.

Rescale

Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that helps engineers and scientists build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations with high performance computing (HPC) in the cloud. Rescale’s mission is to provide highly powerful simulation platforms that empower the world’s engineers, scientists, developers, and CIO and IT professionals to design innovative products, develop robust applications, and transform IT into unified, agile environments.

Current customers include: Trek Bicycle, Pinnacle Engines, Boom, MIT, Siemens, and Manor Racing.

Seebo

Seebo develops process-based industrial artificial intelligence, with solutions to predict and prevent disruptions in manufacturing due to process disturbances. Seebo Industrial IoT Platform combines visual, code-free tools for process and data modeling, automated root cause analysis, predictive analytics, and digital twin visualization. These tools enable tailored solutions for clients’ specific needs and easily adaptable solutions after deployment. Seebo was named a Gartner Cool Vendor for IoT in 2017.

Current customers include: Allnex, Hovis, Super Bock, and Nestle.

Syntiant

Syntiant is a new breed of semiconductor company. By combining the best of deep learning and semiconductor design, Syntiant fundamentally advances machine learning capacities in edge devices.

Waterline Data

Waterline Data’s AI Driven Data Catalog solution, combined with the power of Microsoft Azure, helps customer discover, organize, and surface trusted information to Business users for self-service analytics; compliance teams to ensure data is identified and secured; and IT teams so they can rationalize and migrate data.

Current customers include: GSK, Nordea Bank, and CreditSafe.

Devolver Digital has spilt the beans on a new co-op focused game headed to Nintendo Switch. The title in question is Heave Ho, and it looks like things are about to get pretty crazy.

The game is a physics-based local multiplayer adventure where players must cross an impossibly wide ravine. Using your own two hands, and then the outstretched grip of your friends, you’ll be swinging each other all over the place, hoping to effortlessly soar across each level to victory. If the trailer’s anything to go by, though, we imagine there will be multiple deaths involved, too.

You can customise your character with all manner of stylish accessories, presumably to give you a better chance of remembering who’s who and therefore making it slightly more likely that you won’t fall to your doom. We have some screenshots for you below.

If you like the look of this, you’ll be happy to know that it supports anywhere from 1-4 players and is expected to arrive “this summer”. If you happen to be travelling to PAX East this weekend, you can check it out first-hand at booth #18096.

What do you think? A fun little adventure to play through with your friends? Share your thoughts with us below.

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Hyper Light Drifter is receiving its own TV show led by developer Alx Preston and producer Adi Shankar, who is best known for creating the Netflix adaptations of Castlevania and upcoming Devil May Cry.

This is another example of video games being adapted for television, but it will be interesting to see how the two creatives will interpret a game with no dialogue for a new, non-interactive medium.

Preston confirmed to Polygon that he and Shankar are actively in development on the animated series based on Hyper Light Drifter, developed by his indie studio Heart Machine back in 2016 for consoles (and arriving to Switch in 2018).

“The difference between a series and a game is vast in a lot of ways,” Preson tells Polygon.

“Hyper Light as a game was pretty atmospheric and kind of overbearing at times. For a series, the question is: how do you sustain and keep your attention on a non-interactive run? Does it get really, really dark and serious? Does it have some levity?”

Preston added that he and Shankar are “leaning a lot more towards something that’s representative of the game on the style side,” but that the visuals will most likely lean towards a Japanese animation style as opposed to a literal interpretation of the game’s pixel designs.

It’s March in the gaming industry and that means we have come to another Game Developer’s Conference (GDC). We have already kicked off the week with the 2nd annual Gaming & Disability Community Reception! Hosted in partnership with Games Accessibility Conference, a one day series of talks on accessible game design from the IGDA Gaming Accessibility Special Interest Group, the crowd was bigger than ever with over 250 attendees and the conversations about how to bring gaming to more players through inclusive design were inspiring.

Held this year at the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco, an innovative art and technology experience for children ages 2-12 and their families, is located just steps away from the Moscone Convention Center and GDC 2019. A few of the guests and topics that were shared at this year’s event were “Making Forza More Accessible” from Turn 10 Design Director Jon Knowles, “More Inclusive Communication With PlayFab Party” from PlayFab Program Manager Chris Palmer, and “The Xbox Adaptive Controller Story – GAconf Edition” from Microsoft Devices Inclusive Lead Bryce Johnson.

One of the missions of IGDA is to raise awareness that disability is a mismatch between a person and their environment, resulting in barriers performing day-to-day tasks, including gaming. Accessibility is a means to avoiding those unnecessary barriers, that often means to reinforce how information is communicated, and offering players some flexibility, both of which often translate into a better experience for all players.

Understanding and implementation of these principles has been growing at an exponential rate, with every year seeing many more developers making their first forays into the field and may more consolidating and building upon past experiences — this has made GDC 2019 a perfect opportunity to take stock and exchange experiences and expertise.

At Xbox, we believe that when everybody plays, we all win and we were proud to continue this new tradition of bringing together the community of people who work to make that a reality for players everywhere, and we look forward to the next time we’re able to share ideas to make gaming a better place for everyone.