Becalmed at sea for over a decade, this piratical hack-and-slash game is releasing later this year

Who among us hasn't heard the tale of Captain Blood, the seafaring scoundrel who—according to the press release I'm looking at—was "the most manly pirate captain ever to drink grog while romancing maidens across the Spanish main?" Well, presumably most of us, because the last time anyone saw his game was in 2010 before it disappeared and went into indefinite development hiatus.

But fear not, buccaneers and privateers: Standing proudly alongside Skull & Bones as the heralds of a growing...