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IGN shows you the location of the Golden Manuals and the hidden Pair of Pants in Level 13 of The LEGO Movie Videogame, Back From Reality. For more on the Lego Movie Videogame, check out the full wiki on IGN @ http://www.ign.com/wikis/the-lego-movie

Lufrausers sales outstripped the game's budget within days, making its two-and-a-half year development cycle a swiftly profitable one for developer Vlambeer.

Let's not forget, it's been a bit of a journey for Luftrausers: The arcade shooter was yet another Vlambeer game to be opportunistically cloned before release, leading the two-man team to start live-streaming its development process in a bid to make clear they had their ideas first. Oh, and co-founder Rami Ismail even lost his backpack at last year's E3, which contained "pretty much my entire company" in his words, although he had everything he needed backed up. Still, maybe the Ridiculous Fishing studio should ironically name its next game Plain Sailing.

Luftrausers is out now on PS3, Vita, Windows PC, Mac and Linux, and we gave it a sky-high four-and-a-half stars in our review this week. In the words of Sam Prell, "even at its most infuriating, it's hard to stay mad at Luftrausers. The sense of flight and weightlessness is as intoxicating as the build-what-you-want nature of the game's war machines. And besides, dying is just an excuse to try out a new combo of parts, and I'm mighty curious to see how an armored, cannon-firing airplane with an underwater engine would handle." [Image: Vlambeer]

Indie developer Grimm Bros opted for a retro, SNES-inspired style for its debut game, Dragon Fin Soup. The developer recently achieved its $24,000 goal on Kickstarter to bring the RPG to PC, Mac, Linux, PS4, PS3 and Vita.

Sporting turn-based movement and a classic 2D top-down visual style, Dragon Fin Soup is an action RPG with roguelike qualities set in the world of Asura, which rests on the back of a giant "dragon-turtle." Players can learn more about the world through a blend of scripted events and quests as well as procedurally-generated content in the game's story mode, led by Dragon Fin Soup's first playable character, Red Robin. It also features a survival mode marked by permanent death in which players are dropped into a dangerous forest with limited supplies, fighting their way through generated dungeons that increase in difficulty.

Dragon Fin Soup still has roughly three weeks to go before its crowdfunding campaign ends, and is seeking stretch goals to fund expansions and port the game to the Sony platforms. It was among the 75 games recently approved for Steam distribution via Greenlight. Grimm Bros was founded by former Human Head COO Ash Monif and artist Randis Albion in March 2013. [Image: Grimm Bros]

Come April, PlayStation fans can enjoy the same masochistic waiting game as Steam users when preloading comes to PS4. Sony itself has yet to confirm the feature but Sucker Punch, the studio behind Infamous: Second Son, said on Twitter that it's on the way this spring.

"No preload until April," said Sucker Punch, responding to Twitter users anxious to play the new Infamous. "[And] for North America, the PS Store will update at midnight PST, so 3AM EST."

Even when pre-ordering a digital copy of PlayStation 4, PS3 or PS Vita games through PSN, users still need to wait for games to actually hit their release dates to download them. Steam and Origin PC users can often download game files ahead of release so they can play the very second a game is officially available. Unfortunately would-be PS4 superheroes will still have to wait a few minutes to scratch their Infamous itch. [Images: Sony Computer Entertainment]

Mike Bithell, creator of Thomas Was Alone, is always up for a fun chat. A lot of what we discussed while checking out his new game Volume at GDC was left on the digital cutting room floor, including a chat about his dream of doing a musical game (like, West End/Broadway), but we do touch on it briefly without breaking out into song.

We may have to go back and release the b-side version of this interview, but what we've got for now is a closer look at Volume and Bithell's vision for the streamlined stealth game, which should hopefully be available by year's end. However, Bithell is clear to emphasize, it'll be done when it's done.

Borderlands 2 on the PS Vita looks... pretty much like you'd expect. Courtesy of YouTuber AtomixVG, here's four minutes' worth of footage of the portable version of Gearbox's loot-happy shooter, straight from this year's Game Developers Conference. Vid's above, enjoy.Read more...

Road Not Taken looks like it could be a mobile game. The gameplay itself takes place on a series of grids, in cold, fantastical forests, where players must combine objects to clear paths and rescue children lost in the woods. It looks as if you could tap, tap, tap a tablet screen to move your little hooded character around the map.

But that's only the first layer of the game.

As if Sony's support of independent developers hasn't been apparent enough, the console manufacturer will make it easier for indies to bring their games to Sony's platforms. The company announced partnerships today to offer PS4 exporting tools for game development software GameMaker: Studio and MonoGame for free to licensed Sony Computer Entertainment developers.

Sony also made "fully-integrated solutions" for PS3 and Vita available for Unity users, with an early access PS4 version arriving on Unity in April. Lastly, the company opted to offer its Authoring Tools Framework as a free, open source download available on GitHub. SCE uses the framework to help craft games like The Last of Us and Beyond: Two Souls.

Created by Yo Yo Games, GameMaker was used to create games such as Hyper Light Drifter, Risk of Rain and Nuclear Throne. Conversely, MonoGame is the backbone of games like TowerFall: Ascension, Mercenary Kings and Transistor. One GameMaker-developed game is Savant Ascent, which Yo Yo Games named as its favorite game of 2013 for the development platform. The stylistic shooter was announced for PS4 this morning following its debut on PC, Mac, iOS and Android in December. [Image: Matt Makes Games]

While this in-depth look at Kadokawa Games' upcoming roleplaying epic Natural Doctrine is entirely in Japanese, you shouldn't have much trouble following it - slaying goblins and stabbing ogres translates to any language. [Image: Kadokawa Games]

Luftrausers makes you feel like you're constantly in the danger zone.Read more...

Question: When is a plane not a plane? Answer: When it's a UFO firing a laser, or a kamikaze ballerina, or a floating brick propelled by bullets, or a nuclear-equipped mecha-dolphin, or, or, or. Shorter answer: When it's in Luftrausers, where a sense of acrobatic grace and colossal amounts of customization are king.

Luftrausers is the updated version of Vlambeer's Luftrauser, a free arcade shooter in which players fly the unfriendly skies and attempt to take out as many fighter planes and boats as they can before meeting their inevitable demise. The two games share the same control scheme - up to boost, left and right to rotate, X to fire - but beyond that, the upgrades make Luftrausers feel totally distinct.

You'll begin Luftrausers as a simple fighter plane - you have a basic machine gun, a healthy frame, and a not-too-fast, not-too-slow engine. You'll launch from the deck of a submarine and engage in dogfights to take out enemy fighter planes, jets, boats, submarines, battleships, laser-spewing ... things, and a blimp so big it fills the screen.

Rogue Legacy follows generations of obsessive adventurers as they pit themselves against the monsters that inhabit huge castles. When a hero is inevitably slain, a descendant will rise and try again. What you may not know, however, is that Rogue Legacy itself descended from a canceled game that was cheekily described as "Dark Souls 2D."

Rogue Legacy follows generations of obsessive adventurers as they pit themselves against the monsters that inhabit huge castles. When a hero is inevitably slain, a descendent will rise and try again. What you may not know, however, is that Rogue Legacy itself descended from a canceled game that was cheekily described as "Dark Souls 2D."

Sony expands its Instant Game Collection this week with Thomas Was Alone and Unit 13, which will be released as free downloads for PlayStation Plus subscribers starting tomorrow.

Mike Bithell's Thomas Was Alone, available for both the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita, takes a gang of quadrilateral shapes through a series of puzzle-platforming levels bridged by clever narration. The PlayStation Vita-exclusive Unit 13 serves up tactical third-person shooter action, debuting in 2012 as SOCOM series developer Zipper Interactive's swan song.

Both games will be released as free downloads for Plus members after the PlayStation Store updates tomorrow evening. Thomas Was Alone is a Cross-Buy release, and Plus subscribers will receive both the PS3 and Vita versions with tomorrow's update.

[Image: Mike Bithell]

Retro-styled indie horror game Home is coming to PS4 and PS Vita this year. Released in June 2012 for PC, Home has got numerous updates and lots of new content since then—all of which will be part of the game's console versions. Check out the creator's post over at the PlayStation Blog for more details.Read more...

Welcome to Spira, where dreams come alive! Literally! Also, we have killer fashion sense. Again, not being metaphorical here, our dresses give you the power to kill. Whether you're preparing for a return trip to Spira or visiting for the first time, on March 18, we welcome you. [Image: Square Enix]

The writer of A House Divided goes over the choices players made in Clem's latest adventure.

Low-altitude indie action game Race the Sun is due to hit the PlayStation console family this year, developer Flippfly announced today.

Race the Sun is a high-speed racing game in which players skim a minimalist landscape in pursuit of a sinking sun, which powers their craft with its rays. The game's landscape regenerates daily, giving players new challenges and new leaderboard rankings to climb every 24 hours. The PlayStation Network version also introduces new landscape types not found in the game's original PC release.

Race the Sun will be released as a Cross-Buy title for the PlayStation 4, PS3, and PS Vita this summer.

[Image: Flippfly]

Trippy game gets trippy, interactive trailer. Metrico—which charmed the heck out of me when I saw it at PAX Prime last year—offers a small glimpse at the gameplay and design sensibilities inside its infographic, puzzle-heavy world. There's a bit more about the upcoming Vita release at the official PlayStation blog.Read more...

It's getting so that you can't keep track of them all.Read more...

A list of non-functioning (for now) links point towards the kind of rental options users can expect from the PlayStation Now streaming service. MP1st and PSNStores spotted links for 1-day, 7-day, and 30-day rentals of Atlus' romantic puzzler Catherine, and when PSNStores tried to purchase one of the rentals, it found "Catherine PS Now" in its transaction history.

The links follows the clues laid out on a PS Now concept image published by Gaikai (via VG247) earlier in the week. Certain tiles displayed low prices for PS3 games - Uncharted 3 at $5, Far Cry 3 at $6 - perhaps an indication of the service's base prices for rentals.

PlayStation Now is expected to see a full rollout sometime this summer, letting users rent games individually or pay for a subscription to the service. Developed by Gaikai, who Sony acquired for $380 million two years ago, PS Now lets users stream PS1, PS2, and PS3 games on PS4, PS3, Vita, Bravia TV, and other unannounced devices. [Image: PSNStores]

For those that missed Class of Heroes 2 last year -- which is understandable, since it was a PSP game released in 2013 -- it was a particularly thorny dungeon crawler in the Etrian Odyssey mold made by Acquire. Class of Heroes 2G is a PlayStation 3 remake of that game, adding new art, dungeons, and characters on top of the original weird story of demons and adventurers attending a magic school.

2G was originally released in Japan back in 2010 so it's strange enough that GaijinWorks is bringing it to the US now, and stranger still that it comes with brand new features. This trailer demonstrates how players can use their PSP or PS Vita as a second screen for character maintenance and dungeon maps via he portables' Remote Play feature. For an exploration-centric RPG, better access to maps is always welcome.

GaijinWorks and publisher MonkeyPaw will release Class of Heroes 2G will be available on PSN "soon." It also may get an extremely limited print run depending on the results of an upcoming poll on GaijinWorks' website. [Images: GaijinWorks]

Hohokum is coming for the PS4, PS3 and Vita. It's a beautiful game, one I've been hanging out for since last year, but I'm now even more excited after hearing about the soundtrack.Read more...

IGN guides you through 100% completion of the opening of The Lego Movie Videogame, The Prophecy.

Deception has always appealed to a specific audience with a very specific sense of humor. Deception IV: Blood Ties' pre-order bonuses handily encapsulate that spirit. They are a heady blend of the macabre, the discomfitingly sadistic, and the deeply goofy.

Players in Deception devote their time to laying out elaborate traps for would-be heroes trying to invade their castle. Think of its as an elaborate game of Mouse Trap, but replace the primary colored doodads with tools right out of a dungeon, in both medieval and dominatrix varieties. European fans that pick up Tecmo-Koei's sequel will have access to four unique traps.

The first of comes from GAME, and it's a good old-fashioned guillotine. The second, from a variety of mom and pop game shops, is the "Golden Horse" pommel, which is sillier and pretty base. (As Tecmo says, it's intended to strike "right at your poor's rival's nether parts.") Then things start getting ultra weird with the PlayStation Store exclusive "Queen's Heel," an enormous stiletto that falls from the ceiling. Finally, Amazon shoppers get a UFO. Because of course the cherry on every psycho-sexual comedy sundae is a giant UFO that shoots wary knights into space.

Deception IV: Blood Ties, exclusive to PlayStation 3 and PS Vita, is perhaps one of 2014's most unlikely games, coming nine years after the last entry, Trapt for PlayStation 2. [Images: Tecmo-Koei]

Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut is this week's free game for PlayStation Plus members. It's the gift of intense survival-horror and psychological thriller madness that keeps on giving, mostly when you're lying alone in bed, in the dark, and you spy one shadow just a tad darker than all of the others.

Lone Survivor has players attempt to escape a city overrun with a terrible disease, and they must make choices that shape the game - play it without resorting to violence or shoot everything you see, take drugs or stay sober, travel alone or collect potential allies along the way, watch your sanity or go mad.

Did that shadow just move?

The Spring Fever sale is still on, and Plus members get extra discounts. Towerfall: Ascension and Vessel launch with sales tomorrow, $12 and $8, respectively. Segments of the Call of Duty franchise are also on sale this week, along with Ethan: Meteor Hunter. [Image: Jasper Byrne]

IGN's guide to getting 100% of the collectibles in level 04 of The Lego Movie Videogame, Flatbush Rooftops. For more guides, tips, and tricks, check out the full wiki on IGN @ http://www.ign.com/wikis/the-lego-movie-video-game

IGN's guide to getting 100% of the collectibles in level 01 of The Lego Movie Videogame, Bricksburg Construction. For more guides, tips, and tricks, check out the full wiki on IGN @ http://www.ign.com/wikis/the-lego-movie-video-game

IGN's guide to getting 100% of the collectibles in level 03 of The Lego Movie Videogame, Flatbush Gulch. For more guides, tips, and tricks, check out the full wiki on IGN @ http://www.ign.com/wikis/the-lego-movie-video-game

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