New Afro Samurai Game In Development For PC And Next-Gen Consoles

By Ishaan Sahdev June 25, 2014

Banner Saga publisher Versus Evil are going to be releasing an Afro Samurai game, they announced this morning. The game is being developed by Redacted Studios for PC and next-gen consoles.

Afro Samurai will be a third-person action-adventure game with an original storyline, new characters, and improved special moves and combos that “firmly [establish] the franchise as the undisputed leader in dynamic dismemberment”.

In addition to the Afro Samurai game, Versus Evil are also publishing Kyn, a Viking-inspired strategy RPG for PC, Mac and Linux.

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Ishaan Sahdev

Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as a professional manga editor. These days, his day job has nothing to do with games, but the two inform each other nonetheless.