Learn how to play the Technician healing class in Hawken to keep your teammates in the fight.
Relive classic campaign goodness in the launch trailer for Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara.
Utilize magic to the best of your abilities in the new character vignette for Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara.
Spiders Studio and Focus Home Interactive launch a massive Mars: War Logs update, featuring a completely re-done story closer to the game's original French origin.
The E3 trailer for Ninja Theory's Fightback
Nintendo releases a new gameplay video showing Pokemon X and Y in action at E3 2013.
Polytron and Phil Fish announce the anticipated follow-up to Fez at E3 2013.
A renewed blight savages the world of Dragon Age: Inquisition, and of course Morrigan makes an appearance. What's she up to now?
Civilization V: Brave New World explores diplomacy and governmental influence in a new developer diary.
Activision and Infinity Ward present an extended gameplay trailer for Call of Duty: Ghosts at E3 2013.
Oculus Rift secures $16 million in venture capital
Oculus Rift has secured $16 million in venture capital funding, which it plans to...
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Max Payne 3 slowly dives onto Mac this week
Max Payne 3 is making a surprise appearance on OS X this week.
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Report: Frostbite 3 games to be 'optimized exclusively' for AMD cards
Starting with Battlefield 4, all games using Frostbite 3 will be "optimized...
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Candy Crush dev exploring IPO
Capitalizing on the runaway success of Candy Crush Saga, King is looking into...
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Castle of Illusion preview: more than a repaint
Hands-on impressions of Sega's new Castle of Illusion remake.
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Croteam is working on Serious Sam 4, and to build excitement for the sequel--as well as grab some needed development funds--it has partnered Humble Bundle to throw together all the games from the series into one package for purchase.
Croteam is earmarking all the funds it gets from the bundle for the new game, which will come out some time in 2014. Devolver Digital will be the publisher.
Serious Sam Double D was the titular character's first venture into 2D space and he arrived with guns blazing. Unfortunately, the accompanying Xbox Live Arcade version never saw the light of day. That's not to say developer Mommy's Best Games wasn't serious about bringing Sam Stone to XBLA. A year and a half later, Serious Sam's 2D adventure is finally set to release as Serious Sam Double D XXL. Mommy's Best Games founder Nathan Fouts explained the reasons for the delays.
If stacking guns on top of each other to create a teetering supergun sounds like your bag, but you'd also like a little company, good news! The long-overdue Xbox Live Arcade edition of Serious Sam Double D is coming on February 20, packing a shiny co-op mode and more than 30 new guns to pile up.
With holiday shopping (hopefully) under your belt and finished, you probably have five or so bucks left to splurge on yourself. You may want to consider the Indie Royale "Xmas Bundle 2.0," which packages seven games with which to distract yourself during family gatherings.
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The various Humble Bundles have gained attention for offering PC games to support charity and indie developers, but the idea is spreading. The Little Big Bunch now offers a pay-what-you-want set of five PC titles to benefit GamesAid, a UK children's charity. Distribution is being handled by GetGames.
The bundle includes DRM-free versions of Explodemon, Frozen Synapse, and Munch's Oddysee, a Steamworks version of Serious Sam Double D, and New Star Soccer 5.
This past week, the winners of Microsoft's Dream.Build.Play competition were announced, with the $40,000 grand prize going to a puzzle-platformer called Blocks That Matter by Guillaume Martin. Inspired by Tetris and Minecraft, Blocks That Matter is about a robot called Tetrobot, created by "fictional" inventors "Alexey and Markus"--get it? After the developers are kidnapped, it's up to the intrepid robot to save its masters. Navigating the game's puzzling levels requires the use of Tetrobot's special ability to absorb blocks made of different materials and use them to produce tetragrams.
In Serious Sam: Double D, from indie developer Mommy's Best Games, Sam Stone finds himself travelling throughout time to blast away at the remnants of Mental's army. Mental is busy preparing for his grand return in the upcoming Serious Sam 3: BFE, so Sam's facing off against a new antagonist this time around. General Maxilla, a zombified military general, rallies Mental's horde together, along with some new additions to Sam's rogues gallery.
Serious Sam Double D has gotten a release date, and it's probably coming sooner than you expected. Mommy's Best Games, Devolver Digital and Croteam sent out a joint press release today, announcing that the game will hit the PC next Tuesday, August 30. It will be priced at $7.99. Release plans for the previously announced Xbox 360 version weren't disclosed.
This week in indie gaming brought with it another round of insightful interviews, including chats with Nathan Fouts (Mommy's Best Games) and Alex Holowka (Infinite Ammo) about their upcoming games--Serious Sam Double D and Marian, respectively. To put it another way, fans of Explosionade and Aquaria can get an interesting peek into how the talented developers each work their magic. Interabang Entertainment rounds things out with some words about developing Super Comboman at the first Indie Open House.
Given the dearth of high-profile releases this time of year, it can be particularly challenging to find something new to tide you over until the next Deus Ex, or Madden (or whatever AAA title will next float your boat) shows up. This week, I came across a new (free) DigiPen student project called "It Belongs in an Ancient Ruin!" My review sums up how I felt about the experience, and Indiana Jones fans will find it hard not to enjoy the adventures of Pennsylvania Smith, a fedora-wearing archaeologist who steals artifacts from museums and returns them to ancient ruins. Honestly, I'm so in love with the concept that I really hope developer Back Table Productions banks it into a larger project.
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