Super Meat Boy 3D Announced for an Early 2026 Release

Super Meat Boy returned successful each his gory glory astatine today's Xbox Games Showcase, successful the unveiling of Super Meat Boy 3D. It's precisely what it sounds like: a 3D Super Meat Boy game, and it's coming to Xbox, PlayStation, and PC successful aboriginal 2026.

Today's trailer definite does look similar precisely what is says connected the tin: it's fast, gory gameplay done short, crisp obstacle courses afloat of machines that tin teardrop a small nutrient feline apart. Meat Boy bounces his mode done them, leaving a trailer of, uh, nutrient juice, wherever helium lands, with slidey physics down walls and choky jumping windows. But of course, it's each successful a 3D satellite alternatively of a 2D space, which volition apt dramatically alteration however the platforming works, wherever you tin go, and the sorts of challenges placed earlier you.

Meat Boy began arsenic a 2008 Flash crippled created by Edmund McMillen and Jonathan McEntee that has since grown into a sensation with the consequent merchandise of Super Meat Boy a fewer years later. Super Meat Boy is an ultra-hard platformer beloved for its tight, precise platforming and accelerated respawns connected abbreviated maps that let players to effort again and again and again with astir nary downtime. The games are notoriously gorey, fixed that the main quality is fundamentally made of nutrient and keeps slamming into nutrient grinders.

A sequel to Super Meat Boy, Super Meat Boy Forever, was released successful 2020 without the engagement of McMillen. It's unclear if McMillen is progressive successful this 3D rendition.

Weirdly, determination was a greenish Mario warp tube shown astatine the commencement of the trailer, contempt Super Meat Boy 3D not being announced for a Nintendo console astatine the moment, and this being an Xbox showcase. No mentation for that astatine the moment.

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