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The series' creator wants to return to his PC roots, if fans want it too.

Last month, Titanfall developers Respawn said that, after consultation with Microsoft, some changes were going to be made to the Xbox One's controller. Now we know exactly what those changes were.Read more...

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. Game servers do not need to apply the update. The major changes include:

• Fixed an infinite healing exploit related to loadout presets
  
• Fixed a bug where Medics would be unable to deploy their ÜberCharge
  
• Fixed an exploit in Mann vs. Machine mode related to purchasing upgrades for free
  
• Fixed workshop contributors not being able to view all of their submitted items using the in-game menus
  
• Fixed Strange versions of The Southern Hospitality not tracking sentry kills
  
• Fixed The Fortified Compound not triggering the same taunts and voice lines as The Huntsman
  
• Fixed not hearing the taunt sounds for The Boston Boom-Bringer and The Infernal Orchestrina on Mann vs. Machine maps
  
• Fixed Natascha using the wrong material for the viewmodel
  
• Fixed Killstreak sheen effects for the Flying Guillotine (style), The Bat Outta Hell (style), The Unarmed Combat, The Wrap Assassin, The Chargin Targe, and The Splendid Screen
  
• Updated the equip_regions for The Sangu Sleeves, The Huntsman's Essentials, The Lucky Shot, and The Soldier's Stash
  
• Updated The Crusader's Crossbow and The Festive Crusader's Crossbow to use the same crosshair as The Huntsman
  
• Updated cp_dustbowl
  • Fixed Red team's stage 1 spawn door pushing players in the air
    
  • Fixed collision on windows, props, and rooflines
    
  • Fixed floating props
    
  • Fixed players building inside the alternate exit from the Red spawn in stage 3
• Updated cp_mountainlab
  • Fixed exploit on rafters near control point 2
• Updated ctf_2fort
  • Fixed collision on train-wheels prop outside Blu base
    
  • Fixed clipping on window ledges
    
  • Fixed collision on pipes in flag rooms
    
  • Fixed texture alignment on world map textures
    
  • Fixed clipping issue in the middle where Blu could stand in the sky
• Updated pl_goldrush
  • Added nobuild area under the train tracks to prevent teleport trap near Blu spawn in stage 1
• Community request:
  • Added convar hud_combattext_batching_window to be used with hud_combattext_batching
    • maximum delay between damage events in order to batch numbers
      
    • min 0.1, max 2.0, default 0.2

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It's inevitable that rumors of an apartment building full of monsters would eventually reach the ears of the no-good humans. Would-be heroes, bloodthirsty pirates, cunning thieves and conniving mages all have their sights on The Devil's gold! Knock on doors and call your residents to your side! They want a war? We'll give 'em a war!
Playism did release an English version of Petit Depotto's title on PC, so maybe we can expect this release at point in the west!

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Sales of the neon stealth game Monaco have hit 750,000 following its inclusion in Humble Indie Bundle 11. During the bundle bonanza, Monaco earned approximately $215,000, developer Andy Schatz writes in a rundown on his blog. "That's a nice hefty sum," he adds.

Monaco was one of the "beat the average" games, meaning customers had to pay more than roughly $4.70 to get it. The entire bundle earned $2.3 million from 494,000 units, and of those, 370,000 were "beat the average" purchases that included Monaco. Most customers chose to distribute their payment with the default settings of 65 percent to developers, 20 percent to charity and 15 to Humble, and with six developers plus three mid-week additions, Schatz walked with 8 percent of the total payments.

During the Humble sale, Schatz tracked Monaco's Steam numbers to see if sales there would drop - and they didn't. "Despite the huge number of units that we sold in the Humble Bundle, it doesn't appear that our presence in the HIB affected our day-to-day Steam revenue," he writes. "Why is this? My guess is that customers tend to be loyal to sales channels."

Schatz told Joystiq near the beginning of Humble Indie Bundle 11 that he'd never been disappointed with Monaco's sales, even though XBLA numbers fell below his expectations.

"Prior to HIB11, we had sold about 375,000 units across all platforms, with XBLA accounting for about 10 percent of those," he said. "Part of the strength of our PC sales have been the huge free updates (of which we have planned one final one, which will wrap up the storyline of the Gentleman and his crew). No plans at the moment for a sequel; I'm actually just beginning work on our next title." [Image: Pocketwatch Games]

Identify the Führer from his body double in "Hunt the Grey Wolf" bonus mission.

ACE Team will release a title that blends platforming, fighting and possession mechanics this summer.

Game developer Shawn Allen grew up as a biracial black kid raised by a white mom in a mostly Latin neighborhood in Manhattan. Now, as an adult, most people assume he's black, Middle Eastern or Hispanic, while others squint and ask, "Where are you from?" Diana, his wife, is Puerto Rican, and their friend, Manny, is Sicilian and chief of his Taino tribe.

Together, they're aiming to bust down the barriers to video game diversity with a retro-styled brawler, Treachery in Beatdown City. It features RPG elements and a turn-based combat system, and it features a cast of minority characters. The star of Beatdown City is Lisa, a Puerto Rican woman designed by Diana to counteract the "spicy Latina" stereotype in popular media, Allen tells me.

"Lisa was made to be a strong character first, who can also be a positive Latin woman in games," he says. "She is, if not the only, one of the few leading Puerto Rican women in games."

Beatdown City isn't an activist game - it spawns from the team's love of brawlers, and they've worked to make it different (turn-based combat will do that) while still recalling classics such as Double Dragon and Streets of Rage. But if Allen and his friends are going to make a game with human characters, they're going to be as diverse as the developers themselves, Allen says:

"When Manny and I started making the game, we wanted to make iconic, memorable characters like brawlers of old did. But we infused them with backgrounds based on our culture, the culture around us and of people that we know. The more we thought about it, the details flowed very easily."

Ah, the killstreak. A single idea that changed the face of multiplayer shooters. All these years later, has its time finally come? Is it time for the world to leave the killstreak behind?Read more...

Microsoft has announced its plans to reveal the next-generation of its PC, console, and mobile graphics API, DirectX.

Surgery means dealing with blood, guts and sharp instruments. Playing a game means dealing with bugs and wonky physics. So it shouldn't be surprising to hear that a surgery game might feature some bloody nightmare fuel whenever things go wrong.Read more...

This information comes from NintendoLife and Bear Box Media...

- Uses Construct 2 and Nintendo Web Framework
- It's a physics platformer in which you use cannons to control the character
- You must navigate from cannon to cannon, collecting some pills to help navigate the path
- There will be 50 levels
- For the best score you must use as few cannon launches as possible, while clearing the level ahead of the 'par' time
- The target price is £2.99 / $4.99
- Aiming to release in the "next couple of months"

Source: NintendoLife

What do you get when you mix the titans from Titanfall with Atari's popular retro game Asteroids? You get Titanfall's titans in Asteroids silly, what else could you possibly have expected? Respawn Entertainment recently thought it fitting to launch a small, free retro game portal dubbed "Titanfall Arcade" to promote its upcoming FPS, starting with an Asteroids clone.

The browser-based flash game plays exactly like it sounds: After dropping a titan into a flat black space setting, players point with their cursors to shoot the classic outlines of space debris, racking up a high score after firing off charged beam shots. The game makes for a fun little excursion while your boss is looking away, to be sure. The other two Titanfall Arcade games that will be available to play sometime in the near future are spoofs on Missile Command and Centipede, the former sounding all too appropriate for a mech to be involved in.

Titanfall launches next week on Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC. [Image: Respawn Entertainment]

It's always lovely when the cultural iconography of gaming fuses with other forms of art to become something new, wonderful and different. Six Pacmen is one such work of art.Read more...

How did it take humanity this long to come up with this perfect idea? Read more...

IGN editors share their horror stories of hardest game they've ever played. What's yours?

Cloud gaming pioneer OnLive may have faded from prominence, but two novel streaming initiatives may propel the company back into the spotlight.

Key to this resurgence is OnLive's Cloudlift, a service that allows players to stream games they own to devices that wouldn't normally support them. Cloudlift currently features support for only 20 games (including Saints Row 4 and Batman: Arkham City), but OnLive's announcement states that the service will expand over time. Best of all, Cloudlift has been designed to function with existing digital distribution services, meaning that subscribers should be able to stream games purchased on Steam, Origin or any other service to any OnLive-compatible device.

Part two of OnLive's announcement details OnLive Go, an attempt at using cloud technology to reduce the hassle of getting into more "complex" games, such as those found in the massively multiplayer online genre. By streaming game content directly to players on demand, OnLive Go removes the hassle of waiting for a game to install updates or simply load a new area. As an example, the announcement mentions Second Life Go, which sees fans of the Linden Labs sandbox MMO accessing the virtual world via Android tablet.

Full details on OnLive's new services as well as information on how to subscribe can be found at the OnLive website. [Image: OnLive]

Just got some good news from Nintendo! Watch for an official announcement tomorrow! #YOO

— Natsume Inc. (@Natsume_Inc) 5 maart 2014

Source: Natsume Twitter

Uncharted PS4 writer Amy Hennig leaves Naughty Dog & Xbox One system update rolling out now. Plus, Titanfall getting season pass, mix of paid and free DLC.

It's been nearly a decade since the final Powerpuff Girls episode aired on Cartoon Network, but the trio of plucky, color-coded heroes will return in Powerpuff Girls: Defenders of Townsville.

Details are relatively scant, but developer Radian Games describes Defenders of Townsville as "a metroidvania with flying superheroes and a heavy dose of action." Bubbles, Buttercup and Blossom all feature as playable characters in the game, oiced by the actresses who lent their vocal talents to the cartoon. As you can see from the above trailer, the game features colorful, minimalist graphics designed to ape the original cartoon, but those who prefer the nostalgic joy of naked pixels will be happy to learn that the game also offers "classic-style visuals."

Powerpuff Girls: Defenders of Townsville makes its Steam debut on March 14 and will be available on Linux, Mac and PC platforms. No price point has been established for the platforming action game, but the developer claims that this information and a proper Steam page are coming soon. [Image: Radian Games]

I love having Daan wave hello to us every NintenDaan Wednesday. Such a pleasant gesture to start the round off!

Daan has the site from now until around 10 PM East Coast. I'll head back to the computer around then to pick up work once again.

Have a lovely afternoon/evening with Daan and I'll catch up with you wonderful people later!

Batman: Arkham Knight will not have multiplayer, but it does feature the return of Kevin Conroy as Bruce Wayne, and many other interesting features new to the franchise.

Mining & Tunneling Simulator is Now Available on Steam!
Blast rocks, drill tunnels and force your way through every mountain. At the beginning you have enough time and no major problems. Once the TNT charges are placed you can start the blasting to create the tunnel entrance. The excavated material will be loaded by a shovel dozer on a dump truck and transported to the storage site. As soon as the entrance is cleaned up the huge tunnel drilling machine will march up. But this monster can only start operation if it is supplied with sufficient building material. This has to be delivered by crane and train. You have to steer all vehicles like the maintenance van, crane, tunnel drilling machine or the fire brigade.

To celebrate The Stick of Truth, we present South Park's best celebrity skewerings, from deep sea-diving directors to stars trapped in closets.

An upgraded version of Drinkbox Studios' luchador action-platformer Guacamelee! is coming soon to the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and Wii U, IGN reports.

Guacamelee: Super Turbo Championship Edition collects all DLC from the game's previously released PSN and Steam editions, including a selection of add-on costumes and the "Diablo's Domain" level pack. The campaign has been reworked and extended with new areas and boss fights, and characters now boast new abilities not featured in Guacamelee's original release.

A release date has not been announced, though developer Drinkbox notes that Super Turbo Championship Edition will hit digital platforms "soon."

[Image: Drinkbox Studios / IGN]