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Farewell, Famikamen Rider Released April 18, 2015

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Kaylyn Saucedo, better known to the Internet as Marzgurl, released a feature-length movie titled Farewell, Famikamen Rider for free on YouTube earlier this week.  The film was done in tribute to the late Justin Carmical, who called himself JewWario.  Justin created the Famikamen Rider character a few years earlier and planned to make a series with it, but he unfortunately committed suicide before finishing the project.

I was always a huge fan of Justin’s work and was very sorry to hear the news of his passing.  In light of his death, his friends and colleagues decided to make this movie. It’s heavily inspired by Justin’s love of retro gaming, import gaming and Nintendo and is a great film for not only fans of its creators, but anyone who loves Nintendo, Super Sentai or Japan.

Rest in Peace, Justin.

Halo: Spartan Strike Released on Windows 8 and iOS April 18, 2015

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Halo: Spartan Strike is a twin stick shooter which takes place during the events of Halo 2.  In it, you control a Spartan operating on a classified mission to save the planet Earth from a massive alien invasion.  The game is very similar in style and control to Halo: Spartan Assault, which was released on Windows 8 devices a few years ago, and was followed by a console release on the Xbox 360 and Xbox One a few months later.  Microsoft was planning to release Halo: Spartan Strike for the Windows 8 platform before the end of last year, but after the botched release of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, 343 Industries decided to focus on stabilizing the buggy Xbox One title before finishing Halo: Spartan Strike.  Now the game is out, and not only for Windows 8 PCs, Tablets and SmartPhones, but for iOS equipped Apple iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices.

The cool twist on this story is that Microsoft also decided to release Halo: Spartan Assault on iOS platforms, and Apple users can download it right now.  Both games can be purchased on their platform’s respective App Stores for a price of $5.99 US a piece, however, Apple is offering customers the chance to bundle a copy of Halo: Spartan Assault with their purchase of Halo: Spartan Strike for a total price of $9.99 US.

There currently seems to be a demand online for the game to be ported to Android platforms, but there has not been any official word if that is happening.  If you ask me, they really should have released this on the Xbox One.