Deep Silver and Comcept Team Up To Release Mighty No. 9 Later This Year

Written by Brandon Hofer on April 30, 2015

News: Deep Silver and Comcept are bringing Mighty No. 9 to market as a digital title as well as a physical retail release later this year.

Deep Silver has revealed that they have partnered with Comcept to release Mighty No. 9 both physically and digitally. Created by Keiji Inafune, the "father of Mega Man," Comcept and Japanese co-developer Inti Creates, Mighty No. 9 will be available on September 15, 2015 in the Americas and on September 18, 2015 worldwide. The game will be available as a digital download as well as physical retail version for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Wii U from Nintendo as well as digital only on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Linux and Mac. Portable versions for PlayStation Vita and Nintendo 3DS will be released digitally at a later date.

The partnership enables comcept to not only broaden the audience for Mighty No. 9 by bringing the game to retail, but also provides them with additional resources to add significant value for the 67,226 backers and new players alike. This includes:

’Ray’ DLC - An all-new stage including an epic battle with Beck's rival Ray that, upon completion, unlocks Ray as a playable character for the entire main game, adding unique skills and all-new gameplay mechanics. The stage will be available as additional downloadable content, adding huge replay value. This extra content will be included in all retail editions and will be provided free to all Kickstarter backers of the project, upon release of the game.

Voice-over Support - Japanese and French voice-overs have been recorded and will be added to all versions of the game alongside the already planned English VO.

Localized versions - Deep Silver will provide localized versions with subtitles in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, Polish and Brazilian Portuguese languages.

While Comcept remains the owner of the Mighty No. 9 brand, the two companies will join forces to bring the game to market. Deep Silver will spearhead sales and marketing efforts for the game.

"This is a great opportunity for Comcept: The partnership enables us to deliver Mighty No. 9 to a wider audience while adding some great extra value to the game," says Keiji Inafune, CEO, Comcept. "We are confident that the extra content will be worth the wait."

"The incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign for Mighty No. 9 through Keiji Inafune and his team has shown how huge their fan base is and how much anticipation there is for a true spiritual successor of classic side-scrolling action games. Deep Silver is proud to publish this game and help Comcept in bringing their vision to life," said Klemens Kundratitz, CEO, Deep Silver.

For those who might not be familiar with Mighty No. 9, the premise is below:

”Created by Keiji Inafune and an all-star team of veteran devs, Mighty No. 9 is a challenging side-scrolling action game that transforms the feel of 8 and 16-bit classics, as players remember them, into a fresh modern-day classic.

In the year 20XX, breakthroughs in robotic technology have ushered in a new era of peace & prosperity. Violence is confined to the Battle Coliseum, where robot combatants face off in spectacular duels. Dr. White created 9 robot siblings known as the "Mighty Numbers", who were the most popular and powerful team of robots in the Battle Coliseum and always in the top ranks. But, during one competition there was a cyber-attack, infecting them with a computer virus causing them to become crazed and rampant. You play as Beck, the 9th in a line of powerful robots, and the only one not infected by the mysterious computer virus that caused mechanized creatures the world over to go berserk.

Run, jump, blast and transform your way through 9 initial stages (plus 3 later stages) which you can tackle in any order you choose, using weapons and abilities stolen from your enemies, in order to take down your fellow Mighty Number robots and to confront the final evil that threatens the planet!”

Will you be picking up Might No. 9 when it is released later this year? Will you get the digital version or the retail version? Tell us what you think below.

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