Velan Studios
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An indie game studio making magic in upstate New York. The team behind #MidnightMurderClub , @knockoutcity , #RiftRally , and #MarioKartLiveHomeCircuit
Troy, NY
Joined November 2016
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You're invited to the
#MidnightMurderClub
, a dangerous and hilarious game of hide, seek, and shoot as you and try to survive against your friends in a pitch-dark mansion armed with nothing but a revolver and a flashlight. Join the club and die trying. Coming fall 2024 to PC. 🔦
The developers of Knockout City have announced Midnight Murder Club, a new six-player first-person hide-and-seek multiplayer party game where all you'll have in order to survive against other players are a flashlight, a revolver, and your wits.
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MARIO KART LIVE: HOME CIRCUIT - announcing our first game, made in partnership with Nintendo!
#MarioKart
#Nintendo
#MarioKartLive
#NintendoDirect
#NintendoSwitch
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At Velan Studios, we believe that reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy are human rights.
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Everyone here at Velan Studios is extremely excited to announce that
@EA
Partners will be publishing our first original IP for consoles, PC, and mobile! Stay tuned and follow us for more exciting info in the future. Here's the press release:
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Players like these are why we make games, and help us make our games better!
Thank you
@DaithiDeNogla
,
@bigpuffer
,
@WatchGirlsPlay
,
@Rectrixx_
, and
@KindaFunnyVids
for taking the time to Midnight Murder Club!
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We're honored that
#KnockoutCity
has been nominated for Best Multiplayer game in
#TheGameAwards
! ☄💥
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See what all the hype is about for yourself - Midnight Murder Club's doors are still open to new members!
Bring a few friends and visit Steam and click Download Demo to try it out!
#indiegame
#openbeta
#gamedev
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For more on
#MarioKartLive
and Velan Studios, check out our newly-updated website and blog!
#supermario35th
#NintendoSwitch
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“It takes an independent mindset to really push the boundaries.” Tune in to the EA Originals Spotlight tomorrow at 10am PT!
#EAPlayLive
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Chaotic pinball action flipped inside out! 🪩
Just announced at The
@UploadVR
Showcase, Bounce Arcade is VR Pinball like you've never played before. Enter the Machine on Meta Quest, coming fall 2024.
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Our next title,
#KnockoutCity
, has been announced! Check out the PC Beta this weekend, and grab your dodgeballs for its release on May 21st, 2021!
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THANK YOU to our very passionate team, with an obsessive desire to advance the possibilities of mixed reality that brought this to life! We are grateful for our incredible partnership with
@Nintendo
and, of course, all the fans! 💜💜💜
Congratulations to
#MarioKartLiveHomeCircuit
for taking the
#DICEAwards
win in "Racing Game of the Year!"
@NintendoAmerica
@velanstudios
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Take a deeper look at the approach our phenomenal team took when crafting the look and feel of Knockout City. Explore the details applied to every surface, hair and expression and see how our artists made it truly come to life.
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The day has arrived:
#MarioKartLiveHomeCircuit
is OUT. It's the culmination of three years of development here at Velan and with our friends at Nintendo, and we can't wait to see what you create.
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What a wild week! Karthik and Guha Bala shared some thoughts on the excitement of announcing both
#MidnightMurderClub
and
#BounceArcade
over the last few days, and what else is on the path ahead.
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Velan was proud to welcome Sen. Maj. Leader Chuck Schumer to help push for federal investment to ramp up game development in the Capital Region of NY. Key to this is the Game On Accelerator which seeks to create 350 jobs and create a destination for digital game entrepreneurs.
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I have an inkling that we've some extremely creative
#MarioKartLiveHomeCircuit
fans out there... like the fan who made this elaborate Splatoon-themed course! Looks like some good, clean fun (unless Blooper comes along).
スプラトゥーンのコース完成した！！
名付けて｢イカすサーキット｣🦑
#マリオカートライブホームサーキット #マリオカートライブ
#MarioKartLiveHomeCircuit
#MarioKartLive
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Our founder, Guha Bala, is talking all things Knockout City at the EA Originals Spotlight! Tune in on July 13 at 10am PT.
#EAPlayLive
Introducing Spotlight—a new
#EAPlayLive
series where celebrated studio developers talk shop & swap stories. First up is The Future of FPS on July 8th with
@Respawn
and
@EA_DICE
.
Read more:
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Creating
#MarioKartLiveHomeCircuit
required incredible discovery and collaboration both internally and with our friends at
@Nintendo
. Here's a behind-the-scenes look at some of the gameplay and technology innovations packed into the game!
Learn about the development of
#MarioKart
Live: Home Circuit in this video message from developer
@velanstudios
.
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Join us for a Next Fest and Midnight Murder Club celebration! 🎉
Enter to win a Steam Deck OLED, now through November 7th!
For more details or to enter:
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Velan Studios will host our annual
#ExtraLife
stream on Saturday, November 6th, for 24 hours!
🎮 Help us raise money for our local Children's Hospital!
💜 Donate to get Holobux in
@knockoutcity
!
🎮 Unlock challenges and get entered for drawings!
Info:
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Check out the world's first
#KnockoutCity
cosplay, from our Production Coordinator Quinn!
Now that we've announced
@knockoutcity
, I can finally show you my cosplay for "Betty", which is what we call the central character in our cover art! Check out the thread for TONS of process thoughts 'n' images
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Haven't gotten your fill of
#MarioKart
Live: Home Circuit info? We've got two new posts on the Velan Studios blog! First, more on Mario Kart Live's origin story:
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Velan's proprietary game engine viper rolls back time to create an incredibly rewarding gameplay experience in Knockout City. Our lead engineer, Doug, shared some details about how it all works:
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We've been named one of
@FastCompany
's most innovative companies of 2021 for our work on
#MarioKartLiveHomeCircuit
!
#FCMostInnovative
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Now that you know about
#MarioKartLive
, here's something else to know: we're hiring. Come join the team making breakthrough, magical games at Velan!
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As our team prepares to spend time with friends and families, we extend our warmest winter greetings to you and yours! Thank you for being such a wonderful part of our community!
Happy Holidays from everyone at Velan Studios!
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And don't miss the newest
#MarioKartLiveHomeCircuit
gameplay deep dive trailer!
Race a real-life Mario Kart through your home when
#MarioKart
Live: Home Circuit arrives on 10/16! Learn more about the ways you’ll be able to bring your home courses to life and hit the tracks right away!
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Congratulations to our neighbors at Vicarious Visions on the
#THPS
release! Another quality title coming out of the NY Capital District gaming cluster.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 available now on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC!
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A week after announcing
#MidnightMurderClub
, we're recruiting for an upcoming playtest! Sign up below to be considered for a closed alpha test we'll be running later this month. Share the link with friends you'd like to play with, too!
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We're excited to talk more about Midnight Murder Club 🔦 soon, but that's not all we have up our sleeves this week. Tune into The
@UploadVR
Showcase tomorrow at 3pm ET / 12pm PT for another surprise. 👀
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We are delighted to win the 2021 Japan Game Awards' Game Designer Award! It is truly an honor to be recognized and presented this award by Mr. Sakurai. It is rare for overseas game studios to be recognized at these awards. We are truly humbled, thank you.
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The programming team has been thinking a lot lately about how we want to write code at Velan. Thoughts on our blog
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🟢 GO!
Happy Launch Day, drivers! 🎉
Hot Wheels Rift Rally is now available in stores and online when you order via .
Race your reality! 🏎️ 🏁
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Karthik and Guha sat down for *just* a moment to share their thoughts about how it feels to launch Knockout City after building this immersive dodgebrawling world for the past four years.
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Our team has made the decision to postpone the release of Hot Wheels® Rift Rally until March 31st, 2023 due to supply chain delays and to implement some final software improvements. We appreciate your understanding as we work to give Rift Rally one last tune-up!
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The Beta is only days away! Stop by our Steam page tomorrow (Tuesday) from 5pm-7pm Eastern to watch the devs play Live on stream as part of our countdown.
#indiegamedev
#midnightmurderclub
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This just in! An interview with our CEO Karthik and with some of our partners at Nintendo on how we brought
#MarioKartLiveHomeCircuit
to life.
Feature: Nintendo And Velan Studios On Bringing Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit Into The (Real) World
#Features
#Interviews
#MarioKart
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Happy New Year to all! We at Velan are wishing you a wonderful 2023 - full of fun, excitement, and new adventures!
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Honored to be recognized as Company of the Year by the
@AlbanyBizReview
! We want to thank the incredible team of individuals that made this possible through their endless curiosity and ingenuity. We truly have the best team! 👏👏👏
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We are delighted to announce that
#MarioKartLiveHomeCircuit
has been nominated for "Best Family Game" by
@thegameawards
! Fan voting is open now; check out The Game Awards website to cast your vote!
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In case you missed it, our incredibly talented team of artists shared some of the concepts and designs that went into the journey of creating Knockout City
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You should only check out our Careers page if you're looking for a games industry engineering position. Or art position. Oh, or design position. Hm, production too. Or an internship? What I'm saying is, we have plenty of openings, take a look.
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Our founders Guha and Karthik made an (animated) appearance in last night's
#EAPlayLive
event to talk about what makes Velan Studios tick. Shoutout to our fellow
@EA
Originals developers,
@HazelightGames
and
@ZoinkGames
!
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The alpha will be kicking off this weekend, and we're lifting the NDA so players can talk about and share clips of their time in the mansion.
The three club members who post our favorite clips will be immortalized somewhere in Wormwood Manor!
A week after announcing
#MidnightMurderClub
, we're recruiting for an upcoming playtest! Sign up below to be considered for a closed alpha test we'll be running later this month. Share the link with friends you'd like to play with, too!
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❤️ The butterflies I feel for you aren't a bug I wanna fix ❤️
Happy Velan-tines Day!
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Congratulations to
@videodang
, a local indie studio releasing their first game today!
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We have all kinds of excitement planned for
#ExtraLife
, but perhaps the most exciting excitement is... we're playing our own game!
Join a cadre of
#MarioKartLiveHomeCircuit
devs as we race around a themed track to ring in the holidays; the fun begins 7:00pm EST on Sat. 11/07!
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The doors to the manor are once again closed. Thank you everyone who signed up for and played Midnight Murder Club this weekend during the Closed Beta!
Stay tuned for another chance to join the Club. 🕛 🗡️
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Join us for Velan’s Extra Life Stream this November!
Our 24-hour charity stream will raise money for our local Children’s Hospital at Albany Med, and we've got a stellar lineup. 🤩
Mark your calendars: the ex-stream-vaganza kicks off November 12th!
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#MarioKartLiveHomeCircuit
is on track to release in two EXTREMELY short days. Which of the Mario Bros. are you hoping to pick up?
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Don't forget: sign-ups are still open for the Midnight Murder Club closed beta!
Come join the club people are dying to get into on August 22nd!
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Huge thank you to our community for showing up for the Closed Alpha of Midnight Murder Club and shared clips! If you missed it, don’t worry - there’ll be more. Stay tuned! 😎
Wishlist on Steam for more details -
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Around here, we like to push the boundaries of what is possible.
#gamesindustry
#velanstudios
@GIBiz
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A new office means new signage! Expect more photos of our great new space Soon™
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Our new community manager Lynn introduced us to her pup Kuna, who seems to be getting in the
#KnockoutCity
spirit.
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Shapeshift into high gear!
The Chameleon can transform into 140+ Hot Wheels vehicles, each with their own unique abilities! Race to unlock your favs. 🏁
Learn more about the mixed reality world of
#RiftRally
by visiting
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It turns out that "game developers" and "board game café" are a great match... even more so when the café is right around the block! Thanks to the
@bardandbaker
for hosting a lovely Velan social.
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This Saturday, Velan devs will play games in a 24-hour charity live stream to raise money for the Albany Med. Children's Hospital.
Check out the rewards you get when you donate!
Follow us on Twitch to watch our Extra Life live stream this weekend:
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We're excited to be participating in
#SteamNextFest
2024! Check out the Midnight Murder Club demo through the event!
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WOAH!
#KnockoutCity
has been nominated for a Webby Award!
Go vote for Knockout City in the Best Social Gaming Experience category! 🗳☑️
Brawlers!! We're starstruck!
Knockout City has been nominated for a Webby, in the category of Best Social Gaming Experience 🤩 🤩 🤩
Get us to the gold with your vote! ☑️
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We're seeing SO MANY cats thanks to
#MarioKartLiveHomeCircuit
, so it's only fair that we show you more of ours. This seat-stealing angel is Chester, whose human is our graphics engineer Leander.
#PetsOfVelan
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Beautiful scene from the Summer Concert Series on the River right outside our office last night!
#enjoytroy
#TroyNY
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We are now hiring for a Marketing Coordinator! Come work with a fantastic team on Knockout City at our studio in beautiful upstate NY! If you know someone who would be a good fit, please share this job post with them!
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Let your creativity drive - and watch your living room roar to life - with
#RiftRally
!
Drift, stunt and race on a mixed reality track of your own design. 🏎️ 🏁
Pre-order and learn more by visiting .
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The fine folks at Nintendo created this amazing SNES-inspired Mario Kart course for
#MarioKartLiveHomeCircuit
. Check out the awesome multiplayer race!
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#MarioKartLiveHomeCircuit
launches TOMORROW, and the reviews are flying in!
@FastCompany
says:
"Whereas most mixed-reality experiences feel like technical demos, Mario Kart Live is an incredibly entertaining mix of what’s happening on the screen and on the floor."
I spent a weekend playing ‘Mario Kart Live.’ Here’s why you should, too
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Hm, there is an *awful* lot of space in the office with so many people working from home. The possibilities!
Course layout possibilities are up to you in
#MarioKart
Live: Home Circuit! What sorts of courses will you make when it launches on 10/16?
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Are you interested in being a part of what's next for Velan Studios? We're looking for an experienced Art Director to join our team! Check out our Workable for more info!
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Here are some shots of the Bala brothers (and their well-deserved awards!) from the
@AlbanyBizReview
40 Under 40 luncheon.
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Josie, our VFX artist, had some spare time over lunch. We don't mean that hyperbolically, this didn't exist before lunch and did exist afterwards. Great work Josie!
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The crew over at
@KindaFunnyVids
are going to be checking out Midnight Murder Club in celebration of the launch of our Closed Beta! The stream will be starting at 5pm Eastern/2pm Pacific!
(Check out our Steam Page to sign up for the Beta!)
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What an impressive build! Good thing all those laps will give you time to appreciate the craftsmanship :)
Hey
@velanstudios
@NintendoAmerica
@Nintendo
check out what I did with your game Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit. I made Baby Park with a lot of animated props and working rides.
#mariokart
#MarioKartLive
#nintendoswitch
#retrogaming
#nostalgia
#nintendo
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It's the last day of the PC Closed Beta, and anyone can join; bring a friend! Maybe two?
Rise and shine brawlers! After a rockin' Day 1, the Knockout City Beta is coming atcha for Day 2, and we're opening up Steam to anyone who wants to play. Come help us *really* put those servers through their paces!
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“ARG” = not just the exclamation of pirates! ☠️ In this blog post, programmer Carlo del Mundo gives insight into ARGs (Alternate Reality Games), including the one we hid inside Knockout City’s Season 3. Great read for those curious about game development!
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There's all kinds of discourse about the pros and cons of working from home. But I think we can all agree on one thing:
More pet photos are good.
Here's Samson, new kitten of our engineer/IT person Tim.
#PetsOfVelan
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Velan is up-and-running in full work-from-home mode. It'll be an adjustment for almost everyone, but we're going to keep doing what we do best: making awesome games.
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Let's hear it for our founders, Guha and Karthik!
Congrats to the Balas for being inducted into the
@AlbanyBizReview
40Under40 HOF. The video game cluster has over 420 individual game developers & 21 video game companies in the region. “It’s amazing to be in downtown Troy. I knew this was the place we wanted to be.”
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From
@slashgear
:
"The value of this game is not just in how entertaining and fun it is for the user. The connection Nintendo’s made with this experience is a door to a future in which virtual reality and actual reality can meet on common ground."
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Our team is hosting a live Q&A session soon, be sure to stop by!
Live Q&A with CEO Karthik Bala and President Guha Bala of
@velanstudios
today on ! Join us at 11am PT / 2pm ET
@Xbox
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Excitement awaits at every (in)tern: we've got job postings for Design, Art, and Programming Interns for winter or summer (and all of our internships are paid!)
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Sometimes the devs just want to dunk on each other - and that's okay in our book!
#midnightmurderclub
#velanstudios
#indiedeveloper
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I think Halloween being on Saturday officially makes today "Office Halloween". Our production coordinator Spider-Man was busily spinning webs, by which I mean building roadmaps. (His secret identity is "Kyle", don't tell anyone!)
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Brennan (environment artist and
@ChamplainEdu
grad) and Ben snagged a quick selfie before departing campus.
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There are some sharp-eyed folks at Tom's Hardware; I'm categorizing this one as a "visual teardown" of our kart prototype.
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We're in the business of building games, and of building communities around those games. We're hiring a Community Manager to help us out!
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If
#MarioKart
Live: Home Circuit wasn't official enough before, it is now: it's got a Wikipedia page!
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I can't believe you would tarnish this good cat's reputation! This is clearly a majestic, wholesome creature baffled by a technological invader.
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Check out a great game from our local friends,
@videodang
! Happy launch day, folks!
it's out. i hope you enjoyed the pre-Boomerang X era, because it's over forever. grab it now on Steam or Switch:
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