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The road to hell is paved with beautiful 2D sprites.

As someone who cut his teeth on Super Mario Bros., Mega Man, and Sonic the Hedgehog, I have a fondness for the 8- and 16-bit sprite art classic style, but I also want to see games that evolve the 2D platformer and bring it into the 21^st century. I often ask myself how things would be if the games industry never moved on to polygons but instead kept refining their sprites for 25 years. What would that game look like? Thanks to Arkedo and their new game Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit I have my answer, and that answer would be “pretty damn sweet.”

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A gory and violent platformer is coming this year.

Arkedo Studio, the developer behind Big Bang Mini and the Arkedo series, is developing a new game with Sega as publisher. Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit is a new platformer with a gory style and a lewd story. Expect the title to come out sometime this year for the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade and PC.

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