Cyber Shadow - CYBER ZEED IS BACK?

The first video game I ever bought with my own money was The Cyber Shinobi on the Master System, a turgid, arthritic sequel to (the excellent) Shinobi that completely failed to deliver on the promise of exciting Mushashi movement and occult spells in a soulless, post-apocalyptic future. It's taken 30 odd years but Aarne Hunziker is here to right that particular wrong with Cyber Shadow, an 8-bit throwback that looks exactly like the game I imagined staring down at the boxart image of a golden ninja surrounded by flames.

E3 2013: Shovel Knight

Yacht Club Games Kickstarted title Shovel Knight put in an appearance during the Nintendo Direct stream, looking very much like a dark age recalibration of 8-bit Mega Man games. Instead of a blue Astro Boy knock-off, players take control of a grumpy little knight as he bashes everybody around the head with his garden tools.