Pawarumi & Gunlord X, more details

While the announcement trailers yesterday were very welcome to PlayStation 4 owners they were decidedly short on details.

Gunlord X is available on PSN today. Gunlord X will also be available in Asia and Japan for both PS4 and (a first) for Nintendo Switch.

Pawarumi on the other hand comes to PSN and gets a limited (2000 copies) physical edition available as per usual from Play-Asia on December 12th.

It's a great time to be a pilot these days with so many STGs/shmups that just keep on coming!

Pawarumi coming to PlayStation4 too!

This is turning out to be a great day for PlayStation 4 shmup gamers, first Gunlord X gets announced and now the neo-aztec bullet-hell shmup Pawarumi gets announced too!

Good times!

Bullet Heaven re-reviews some more shmups on Switch

Bullet heaven has reviewed these games before but takes a second look now that the game is on Switch:

Pawarumi for Switch: review round-up

With Pawarumi now out on the Switch, what seems to be the verdict?



NintendoLife goes with 8/10.

A physical release IS coming but it's still a mystery what publisher and date. But don't let that stop you from buying it today...

Vacation update number 2

I'm two weeks into my vacation with two weeks to go. But the news keeps coming!

1. I hope you got your order in for a copy of the Vasara Collection this weekend because it sold it quickly, all platforms. There is a japanese physical release coming by the end of the year, but only for PlayStation 4.

2. Galaga is coming to Atari 2600. It's a homebrew, but still!


3. Shmups on Switch has a review up for Pawarumi.

4. M2 is working on a new game in the Aleste series, Aleste Branch.

Pawarumi coming to Switch and Xbox One

Cast back your minds... On January 30th 2018, Pawarumi was released on Steam.

Now, on July 24th, it's getting a release on Nintendo Switch with a physical release also promised but without any date set.

The homepage for Pawarumi also teases an Xbox One version...

Vacation catch-up

I'm currently on vacation and don't update as frequently. That doesn't mean the barrage of news stops though, it just means i'll swoop in once a week or so and summarize but don't be sad, it's just three more weeks. ;)

Here's the latest:
Super Destronaut DX releases on Switch today.

Gunbird 2 is back in the Nintendo eShop in EU and will re-appear on the NA store shortly.

Studio Mudprints who makes all those lovely video reviews of shmups need funding to get a complete Dreamcast shmup library so they can cover that lovely period of gaming in depth. Please help out, there's 10 days left.

Bullet hell title RXN - Raijin - for Switch had an update that adds video support, you can now record and share videos from the game.

Aksys games has announced that their shmup Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax (there's a mouthful) is coming to Switch.


Sisters Royale has been updated so you can rotate the screen left and right, making it compatible with forthcoming magic Switch accessory Flip Grip.

Namco Museum is getting a retail release on Switch, Pac-Man Champiosnhip Edition 2 Plus and Namco Museum will be released together as Namco Museum Arcade Pac and will include the original Namco Museum games you know and love from the eShop release.

SNK 40th AnniversaryCollection will be released for Switch in November in both NA (the 13th) and EU (the 16th).

Pawarumi is 53% off for a couple of more hours. A great game for a great price.

If you like your shooters to be more on the RPG side of things, Play-Asia has an exclusive 1500 copies of Blacksea Odyssey for PS4 ready for order now.

Pawarumi is releasing today !

I was a backer of the Kickstarter so here's the update:

Posted by Manufacture43 (Creator)

And we want to say thank you! To all of you. Developing Pawarumi was a long and hard journey that we probably couldn't have reached without your support. Yes, the financial aspect of Pawarumi’s Kickstarter helped us push the universe of the game further. But YOU, as a community and as individuals, helped us make a better game. Thanks to you, the gameplay became smoother, visuals became prettier and the overall game quality reached a point that truly honors all the games we are inspired from. Today we’re really proud of our game. Pawarumi truly is an unique experience, and we really hope that it will find its public.  And once again we are going to ask for your help. We need you to share the news of Pawarumi’s release as much as possible on gaming sites, facebook groups, forums and subreddits. As you probably know, getting visibility for an indie game is hard and every single share, like and upvote is going to help us a lot ! Here is the trailer for your sharing madness ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNW6uA0RO3I On another topic ! Thanks to the amazing work of Gregory Desmurs and our partner G4F the soundtrack of the game is going to be available on Youtube and Bandcamp !  We'll make an other update soon about the Xbox port status ! ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU ! Manufacture 43

Pawarumi launches January 30th

Pawarumi has been available on Steam for some time already as an early access title but is launching for real on January 30th. This is a great-looking bullet hell shooter that you should absolutely give a try.