Developer Yacht Club Games has recently announced a release date for their Kickstarted title, Shovel Knight. 

 

 

As an important note, this release date of June 26th for Shovel Knight 1.0 is for the American region on Nintendo’s eShop for Wii U and 3DS. This includes USA, Canada, and Mexico. We’ve been working through localization and ratings specific to the European region. Hard working developers and publishers who have come before us have helped improve this process and so we have been receiving great support. We hope that we will have good news to share soon. The PC/Steam version will be an international release. 

 

For those who have pledged at least $15 towards the game, Yacht Club Games has released a digital manual.  The design of the manual is modeled from manuals of NES classics, with Super Mario Bros 3 being directly cited as inspiration.

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For those of you who bought the box-set, Yacht Club has not yet announced a specific date for arrival, only going so far as to state the box will be shipped “soon”.  We will update with a release date when it is announced.