{"rewrite":{"id":"r_c4f4b04f8f53482c93fa6211","clusterId":"c_836622051a1142afb6c2a60e","slug":"hooded-horse-to-publish-spaceship-arpg-c-beams","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","headline":"Hooded Horse to Publish Spaceship ARPG C-Beams","summary":"Publisher Hooded Horse announced it will publish C-Beams, a single-player spaceship action RPG from Distant Light Games. The game features Newtonian physics, top-down 3D combat, and exploration in a black hole star system. It is developed by a studio co-founded by YouTuber Charlie Goldberg (LevelCapGaming, nearly 2 million subscribers). A trailer was released. C-Beams will launch in early access on Steam and Epic Games Store with Japanese support; no release date was given.","whyItMatters":"Hooded Horse, known for strategy and simulation titles, is adding a physics-driven spaceship ARPG to its catalog, developed by a studio with a large YouTube audience behind it.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eHooded Horse, the publisher behind strategy titles like Against the Storm and Manor Lords, has picked up C-Beams, a single-player spaceship action RPG from Distant Light Games. The game puts players in a top-down 3D map with ship movement governed by Newtonian physics, requiring players to account for inertia during combat and navigation. The setting is a black hole star system in turmoil after a gold rush, where the player starts as a rookie pilot and grows through exploration, trading, mining, and combat. Weapons range from short-range gatling turrets to guided missiles and the namesake C-Beam laser. The studio was co-founded by Charlie Goldberg, who runs the YouTube channel LevelCapGaming with nearly 2 million subscribers. C-Beams will release in early access on Steam and the Epic Games Store with Japanese support; a release date has not been announced.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Hooded Horse's track record with genre hybrids gives C-Beams a distribution advantage most indie ARPGs lack. The YouTuber co-founder brings a built-in audience the publisher's usual strategy doesn't rely on.","twitterPost":"Hooded Horse publishes C-Beams, a Newtonian-physics spaceship ARPG. The co-founder's 2M-subscriber YouTube channel is a distribution asset the publisher rarely leverages.","threadsPost":"Hooded Horse is publishing C-Beams, a single-player spaceship ARPG with Newtonian physics and a top-down view. The developer was co-founded by Charlie Goldberg of LevelCapGaming, who brings nearly 2 million subscribers. Hooded Horse typically publishes strategy titles, not action RPGs, so this is a genre expansion for the publisher as much as a debut for the studio.","newsletterBlurb":"Hooded Horse announced it will publish C-Beams, a single-player spaceship action RPG from Distant Light Games. The game features Newtonian physics, top-down combat, and exploration in a black hole star system. It is developed by a studio co-founded by YouTuber Charlie Goldberg (LevelCapGaming). C-Beams will launch in early access on Steam and Epic Games Store with Japanese support.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Game Spark\",\"url\":\"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/05/27/166957.html\",\"title\":\"Top-down spaceship ARPG 'C-Beams' to be published by Hooded Horse - Japanese support included, developed by studio co-founded by YouTuber with 2 million subscribers\"}]","lintFlagsJson":"[]","lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":3830,"outputTokens":679,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1779826482,"createdAt":"2026-05-26T18:01:10.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-05-26T18:15:08.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-26T18:15:08.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_836622051a1142afb6c2a60e","canonicalTitle":"見下ろし視点の宇宙船ARPG『C-Beams』Hooded Horseのパブリッシング決定―日本語対応あり、登録者200万YouTuberが共同設立のスタジオ開発","representativeArticleId":"a_8cea06f549045d1360cb4c8f","sourceCount":2,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":false,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"announcement\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-05-26T16:00:04.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-05-27T06:08:01.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-27T06:15:42.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Automaton","url":"https://automaton-media.com/articles/newsjp/20260527-445416/","title":"「リアル挙動」宇宙冒険ARPG『C-Beams』正式発表。“ニュートン力学”に則った物理挙動、各種スラスターで船を操る宇宙探検生活"},{"source":"Game Spark","url":"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/05/27/166957.html","title":"見下ろし視点の宇宙船ARPG『C-Beams』Hooded Horseのパブリッシング決定―日本語対応あり、登録者200万YouTuberが共同設立のスタジオ開発"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"announcement","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":["Publisher Hooded Horse will publish C-Beams, a single-player spaceship action RPG from Distant Light Games.","The game uses Newtonian physics for ship movement in top-down 3D combat and exploration.","The setting is a black hole star system in turmoil after a gold rush.","Distant Light Games was co-founded by YouTuber Charlie Goldberg (LevelCapGaming, nearly 2 million subscribers).","C-Beams will launch in early access on Steam and the Epic Games Store with Japanese support; no release date was given."]}