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Nex Machina

A twin-stick shooter with voxel technology and arcade roots.

In Nex Machina, players navigate rooms from a top-down viewpoint, firing at enemy groups and rescuing humans, using a twin-stick control scheme.[1] The Finnish company Housemarque developed the game, with Eugene Jarvis acting as a creative consultant.[2] June 20, 2017 marked the release date, and it was the first title Housemarque published on its own.[3]

Quick Facts

Developer
Housemarque
Director
Harry Krueger
Producer
Jari Kantomaa
Programmer
Tero Tarkiainen
Artist
Mikko Sinisalo
Composer
Ari Pulkkinen
Platforms
PlayStation 4, Windows
Released
20 June 2017

Facts from the source article.

Key facts and history

Housemarque's founders met Jarvis at the 2014 D.I.C.E. Awards and asked him to collaborate on a game.[2] The design team merged ideas from Jarvis's earlier shoot 'em ups with those from Housemarque's 2013 release, Resogun.[2] A much-improved version of the voxel engine that ran Resogun is what Nex Machina employs.[4] Housemarque called the visual style "cablepunk," which they explain as a more grim version of cyberpunk.[4][5]

The game's first public showing happened at the December 2016 PlayStation Experience event.[3] A Windows version was confirmed by Housemarque in March 2017.[3] Based on Metacritic, Nex Machina earned "generally favorable" reviews.[6]

What the cited sources add

The same source notes the game is set in a future where humans are enslaved by machines and addicted to technology.[5] The Polygon article states Nex Machina plays like a blend of Resogun and Smash TV, allowing players to be more aggressive than those earlier games.[7] The Finnish Game Awards 2018 awarded Nex Machina both "Big Screen Game of the Year 2017" and "Finnish Game of the Year 2017"[8] Game Informer's 2017 Action Game of the Year Awards gave Nex Machina the "Best Indie Action Game" award.[9]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Nex Machina" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: McWhertor, "Nex Machina is an explosive spiritual successor to Smash TV and Robotron", Polygon, 7 December 2016; Matulef, "Housemarque and Eugene Jarvis reveal Nex Machina", Eurogamer, 3 December 2016; McWhertor, "Nex Machina is an explosive spiritual successor to Smash TV and Robotron", Polygon, 7 December 2016; McWhertor, "Nex Machina is an explosive spiritual successor to Smash TV and Robotron", Polygon, 7 December 2016 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Nex Machina" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Souppouris, "The follow-up to 'Resogun' is a Hail Mary for arcade shooters", Engadget, 3 December 2016; McWhertor, "Nex Machina is an explosive spiritual successor to Smash TV and Robotron", Polygon, 7 December 2016; McWhertor, "Nex Machina is an explosive spiritual successor to Smash TV and Robotron", Polygon, 7 December 2016; Souppouris, "The follow-up to 'Resogun' is a Hail Mary for arcade shooters", Engadget, 3 December 2016; Maxwell, "Voxel Perfect", Future Publishing, March 2017, p. 69–75; Souppouris, "The follow-up to 'Resogun' is a en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Nex Machina" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: McWhertor, "Nex Machina is an explosive spiritual successor to Smash TV and Robotron", Polygon, 7 December 2016; Souppouris, "The follow-up to 'Resogun' is a Hail Mary for arcade shooters", Engadget, 3 December 2016; Orry, "Housemarque's Nex Machina is also coming to PC", VideoGamer.com, 14 March 2017; Phillips, "Housemarque and Eugene Jarvis' Nex Machina has a release date", Eurogamer, 19 May 2017; Souppouris, "The follow-up to 'Resogun' is a Hail Mary for arcade shooters", Engadget, 3 December 2016; Souppouris, "The follow-up to 'Resogun' en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Nex Machina" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Maxwell, "Voxel Perfect", Future Publishing, March 2017, p. 69–75; Souppouris, "The follow-up to 'Resogun' is a Hail Mary for arcade shooters", Engadget, 3 December 2016; Maxwell, "Voxel Perfect", Future Publishing, March 2017, p. 69–75; Souppouris, "The follow-up to 'Resogun' is a Hail Mary for arcade shooters", Engadget, 3 December 2016 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Souppouris, "The follow-up to 'Resogun' is a Hail Mary for arcade shooters", Engadget, 3 December 2016. facts only, no text reused. engadget.com
  6. Wikipedia, "Nex Machina" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Nex Machina: Death Machine", www.metacritic.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. McWhertor, "Nex Machina is an explosive spiritual successor to Smash TV and Robotron", Polygon, 7 December 2016. facts only, no text reused. polygon.com
  8. "The Finnish Game Awards 2018 Winners", Neogames, 24 April 2018. facts only, no text reused. neogames.fi
  9. Wikipedia, "Nex Machina" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Gaito, "Golden Joystick Awards 2017 Nominees", Best in Slot, 13 November 2017; Carter, "Nominees for Destructoid's Best PC Game of 2017", Destructoid, 12 December 2017; "Best of 2017 Awards: Best Action Game", IGN, 20 December 2017; Miller, "2017 Action Game Of The Year Awards (Page 3)", 5 January 2018; "The Finnish Game Awards 2018 Winners", Neogames, 24 April 2018; MCV staff, "Announcing the Develop Awards 2018 nominations shortlist", 21 May 2018 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Nex Machina (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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