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Slightly Mad Studios' next-gen racing game Project Cars now has the support of Bandai Namco. The publisher agreed to distribute the game globally on Xbox One, PS4, PC for Windows and SteamOS as well as Wii U. Project Cars is slated to launch in November.

The realism-fixated racing sim began as a crowdsourced World of Mass Development project in September 2011, two years after Slightly Mad Studios launched Need for Speed: Shift. It was originally planned for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 before the developer added the Wii U to its list of platforms in January 2012, then ditched Xbox 360 and PS3 in favor of their next-gen counterparts and SteamOS in November 2013. One year later, Project Cars will arrive as one of the PS4's first Morpheus games in addition to its support of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset.[Image: Bandai Namco]

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The sky is the limit for Project Awakened, but its Kickstarter campaign is still a bit too earthbound. The open-world build-your-own-hero game is at $212,000 out of its $500,000 goal, with just four days to go.

Phosphor Games, best known for iOS action-adventure Horn, has been working on the game off-and-on for years. The effort shows in the fairly polished prototype videos which pepper its Kickstarter page, but to begin full-time development the studio needs a significant cash infusion.

Whether the campaign is successful or not, we'll be interested to see what Phosphor does with the ambitious concept down the line.