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Announcing: Beatdown City Survivors!
Nuchallenger dropped the latest game announcement during IGN’s Fanfest 2025 for our exciting new game, Beatdown City Survivors, an immersive sandbox bullet heaven game! With this announcement, NuChallenger has kicked off the marketing campaign for a very exciting, and truly unique game among many in the “survivors likes” genre. NuChallenger will also have the game…
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NuChallenger x Heels have Eyes III
Westside Gunn’s Fourth Rope put on the historic HEELS HAVE EYES III in Chicago on November 2nd, 2024, and as lovers of wrestling and Hip-Hop culture, we had to be there. NuChallenger was proud to be a part of a carefully curated video games sponsor table, bringing the first public showing of one of our…
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Hip-Hop Game Design: Reflecting on Corporate Vandals
In 2014, coming off of successully funding Treachery in Beatdown City on Kickstarter, I was tapped to make a game for No Quarter, a free social gallery event held (mostly) annually by the NYU Game Center. I immediately said “YES!” even though I didn’t know what to make, or even what I could make. I…
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Treachery in Beatdown City Ultra Remix OUT NOW!
The massive 2.0 update to the cult hit Treachery in Beatdown City is out now on XBOX ONE/SERIES S|X, Nintendo Switch, and Steam! Trailer song “Still Wylin’” – Vox: Mega Ran & Open Mike Eagle, Beats: 2Mello, Chiptunes: Inverse Phase. NuChallenger also released the FREE prologue to Treachery in Beatdown City, entitled U.N. Trouble, exclusively…
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New Feature in NME
Our President, Shawn Alexander Allen, was featured in NME talking about making Treachery in Beatdown City (Ultra Remix) and games culture in general.
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A Change is Gonna Come
Games are on the precipice of something huge. A recent report stated that Hollywood is losing $10 billion a year over a lack of Black representation. We’ve seen in Hollywood a number of amazing Black led shows and movies in the last decade, but in games, we’re only just starting to see an amazing group…