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As discussed previously, yanked anal probing sequence causes koala to tear up.

A portion of a NWR review...

Despite the campaign not taking more than three hours to complete, along with the final stage not taking advantage of the new weapons, From Outcast to Savior is still worth it for using the new Royal Guard class in the other modes of the game. This is one DLC pack that should keep you busy all throughout the… knight.

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Maybe you're curious what's new with Diablo III's chunky new 2.0.1 patch?Read more...

The March firmware update for the Xbox One will do a lot more than improve party chat in advance of the launch of the system's big multiplayer March 11 game Titanfall. It'll also tweak a bunch of other things on the console.Read more...

We're reliving the glory days of adventure games. So far we've covered the first three King's Quest games and the first two Space Quest titles.

Creepypastas, or scary stories that circulate primarily on the internet, might frighten the heck out of us—but damn if they're not thrilling to read. It was only a matter of time before someone came along and actually made a book about them. Read more...

Where the first Transformers 4 trailer focused on the absurd, this longer clip is - relative to an expensive Michael Bay movie - more restrained.Read more...

Features/Changes

Free Fall multiplayer map is now available and added to various playlists.

Stability

Fixed an issue where the Squad Reports Screen would occasionally hang on a black screen.
Fix for a rare bots crash.
Improved operations functionality.

Additional Fixes

Fix for broken operations – playing a ranked game will restore operations
Fixed an issue where throwing a tactical grenade could cause the player to switch weapons
Fixed a Lobby Migration issue that would force the Create a Soldier screen to close
Fix to keep the Grenade Cook Timer from becoming difficult to see
Fixed an inconsistency in the presentation of profile names when switching controllers
Fixed an issue that could occur at the start of a Safeguard match where the friends list would become inaccessible
Fixed an issue where the scoreboard on the Wii U GamePad would not automatically re-open after changing Loadouts
Fix for Leaderboards no longer updating properly after a disc eject
Fixed a stuck spot that could be entered while crouching near an overturned table (Siege)
Fixed issue that would occur when having hardline as last perk with specialist.
Added no enemy callouts to incog perk description.
Fixed an issue where connecting to a Squads game could potentially see the buttons/title for an incorrect Squad mode.
Fixed incorrect indexing of perks with squads that had defined loadouts.
Fixed splitscreen UI bug where the dom capture bar would be in the way of the reticle.
Fix to validate reticle type even when switching sights.
Fix for sound issue when seeker explodes.
Fix for final escape being broken by player jumping off cliff after nuke activation.
Fix for drill disappearing when grabbing the drill after using SOFLAM.
Fixed unlimited weapon glitch in first contact.
Various additional fixes

Thanks to Autosaver and Andrefor the heads up!

Coming from Takuya Aizu, President and CEO of Inti-Creates...

“Usually, in normal development, we usually create the intro stage first and then create the last stage next, and we were taught that that’s how you make good games.

That’s how we’ve been doing it in many situations, but in current days, we’ve been in situations where we’ve been asked to submit a vertical slice. So basically, if we start creating the intro first, we’re not able to show a good vertical slice.

So, what we do is—and this is what we’re doing in this case—we pick one of the normal stages and we create it, and we create it in a way that you could play it over and over again, so people can judge what the game is going to be like. And then we move on to the intro stage, and then create the last stage.

That’s the ideal way of moving, but a lot of times, the designs for the last boss comes in later during development, so sometimes we’re not able to do the ideal case of making the last boss stage after the intro boss stage, because the designs aren’t ready.”

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The PSN update this fine Tuesday includes Awesomenauts Assemble and Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition for PS4, as well as South Park: The Stick of Truth, Master Reboot and NASCAR '14 for PS3. Vita gets Hatsune Miku Project Diva F, and PS3 owners can now enjoy dragons, prohibition-era crime and the ultimate pessimistic detective with the HBO GO app.

We learned about Awesomenauts Assemble late in January, and it includes seven new characters, a new map and "improved" controls, Ronimo Designer Fabian Akker said. It goes for $10 on PS4. For PS3, Master Reboot is a neon-covered, sci-fi horror game dealing with death and computer viruses, and it's $15. South Park is $60, and it speaks for itself.

Retro City Rampage: DX has been rated M (14+) for mature themes and violence in Australia. Will release in AU/NZ the same day as Update #1.

— Retro City Rampage (@RetroCR) March 5, 2014

No release date known for Update #1 or the Australia/NZ release of Retro City Rampage: DX. It will depend on how long certification takes.

— Retro City Rampage (@RetroCR) March 5, 2014

Next week's JP Wii U eShop - Family Tennis SP (800 Yen), TacticsOgre (SF VC, 800), Volleyball (FC, 500) and PC Bonk 2 (PC Engine, 600)

— Daan Koopman (@NintenDaan) March 5, 2014

Next week's JP 3DS eShop - Kuroko Style (600 Yen), Family Fishing 3D (500), Pokemon Link: Battle! (800), Elevator Action (FC VC, 500)

— Daan Koopman (@NintenDaan) March 5, 2014

This week's Japanese Nintendo 3DS demo is for SEGA's Hero Bank. Scheduled to come out March 20.

— Daan Koopman (@NintenDaan) March 5, 2014

It's not often the head of one of the most powerful gaming companies in the world pops over to Reddit to speak with the masses, so today was a bit of a treat. If you weren't following the AMA featuring Valve boss Gabe Newell (and some other Valve guys like Erik Wolpaw and Greg Coomer), then, here's all the good stuff you missed.Read more...

Coffee Stain Studios, the indie developers behind bizarre Joystiq fixation Goat Simulator, have revealed a release date for the odd little game: April 1 - appropriately, April Fool's Day.

Alongside the release date, the developers have also revealed a bit of additional information on Goat Simulator. Thanks to the game's website we now know that Goat Simulator will only appear on PC, and that it will not feature any multiplayer functionality. While Coffee Stain Studios plans to keep the core gameplay in Goat Simulator "small and silly," the developer is working on adding Steam Workshop support so that players can create new levels for their four-legged avatars to ruin in a flurry of barnyard hijinks.

Goat Simulator has yet to appear on Steam, but Coffee Stain Studios is still allowing prospective virtual goats to pre-order the game via its website. The asking price is $10, but includes access to a beta test for those who can't wait to live out their inexplicable dreams of being antisocial livestock. [Image: Coffee Stain Studios]

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? She's currently lurking at The Strong museum in Rochester, New York. Broderbund Software founder Doug Carlston has donated company records, design documents and games for permanent archival at the The Strong's International Center for the History of Electronic Games (ICHEG).

The Strong's Broderbund Software Collection includes material documenting the creation of Lode Runner, Prince of Persia, Myst, SimCity, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, and other landmark PC releases. The collection spans Broderbund's founding in 1979 up until 1997, when the developer was acquired by The Learning Company.

The new collection supplements a previous donation of archival materials from SimCity creator Will Wright. Featured material is available for research purposes on request.

[Image: ICHEG]

One of the very first games I ever made a video for at Kotaku, One Finger Death Punch is a really simple, fun game that plays similar to a rhythm game, but replaces musical notes with deadly ninjas. It just got greenlit and it's on sale for 20% off!Read more...

Of all the various and surprising things we've seen turn up recently running on Oculus VR, this one might be the one I'd be most likely to play: Metroid Prime, done up in virtual reality.Read more...

Nintendo producer describes why bringing its classic platformers to smartphones wouldn’t work.

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There's something to be said about making an honest game, and Tower of Guns is the definition of that: Honest. It's a game that makes no bones about what it is, and doesn't get mired down trying to be anything it is not.Read more...

You thought Ubisoft was done with their pets titles? You can think again, as Ubisoft just grabbed new trademarks for Catz and Dogz as of Feb. 2014. No idea where the games will end up, but I bet we'll have some of that action coming our way.

A portion of a GameSpot interview with Nintendo's Kensuke Tanabe...

"With games like Mario and Donkey Kong, the control input is such an important part of that; I think if you're trying to replicate that feeling of control that you have traditional to those games, translating those to a smart device, that's a just a really, really difficult task. Of course I'm not ignoring the fact that the marketplace is flooded with these devices and that there are a lot of games created specifically for them. Personally, as I mentioned earlier, I don't have a curiosity of or feeling of needing to create or wanting to create games for those devices. I want Nintendo games to be played on Nintendo hardware."

The following comes from Retro's Michael Kelbaugh...

"We make games, and more importantly, we make Nintendo games. That's where our emphasis is and that's what we want to do. Hardware to us is kind of secondary. We put everything we have into making great games and we'll make those on whatever hardware Nintendo supports. What we're focused on is just making a great game. Wherever it ends up, that's not our decision, so I think we need to concentrate on making great content and let Nintendo decide what box they want to put it in, how they want to package it. Watching this whole debate going on right now...I don't give it a whole lot of thought just because I'm concentrating on making a fun, great game and hardware's always kind of a revolving target I guess."

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Today, Warner Bros. announced a new Batman game, called Arkham Knight . It's got some exciting features: An open-world Gotham City! A drivable Batmobile! And equally exciting, it's only coming out on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.Read more...

The Titanfall launch trailer shows us new guns, maps, and armless Titans!?

Crush cops and your rivals in the Koenigsegg One:1, which boasts a ratio of one horsepower per kilogram.

Remember the Superman game on the Atari 2600? That slightly obtuse piece of superhero wish fulfillment is part of a chain of careers and events that resulted in the formation of the ESRB. What does the big, red S have to do with the folks who put the letters E, T and M on video game boxes? Watch and see.Read more...