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A portion of a Nintendo Feed interview with VooFoo Studios...

Nintendo Feed: Pure Chess has been out on on PSN for almost two years now. Are there any differences in the gameplay or features with the Wii U/3DS versions?

VooFoo Studios: Yes. We’re very happy with how the features unique to the two Nintendo consoles have worked out. On Wii U pretty much every screen configuration is catered for. My personal favorite is a two-player game using the GamePad just like a traditional board. We then use the TV to show the game being played in what we call, Beauty Cam. That’s on top of the superior on-line features and of course full support of the 3DS 3D capabilities.

It took a lot of self-control not to headline this post showcasing footage of Call of Duty: Ghost's second DLC with something like 'Playing As The Predator In Call of Duty Looks Beast,' just so you know. But it really does look awesome.Read more...

The Dark Knight apparently dons a new suit for taking on Mr. Freeze in the upcoming Batman: Arkham Origins downloadable content.

@DanLikesPizza 1001 Spikes and Grinsia are both incoming. The latter just passed lotcheck

— Tyrone Rodriguez (@tyronerodriguez) April 3, 2014

Thanks to VGAMER for the heads up!

When Lego: The Hobbit debuts in April, the game will only feature content from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Desolation of Smaug, though the third film in the Peter Jackson-directed trilogy may appear later as DLC, according to reports from the London Toy Fair.

Brick Fanatics, a UK site focusing on all things Lego, states that developer Traveler's Tales plans to launch a sizable downloadable addition for Lego: The Hobbit right around the same time that The Hobbit: There And Back Again rolls into theaters. The film is currently slated to debut on December 17, giving the developer eight months to cobble together its downloadable content.

As Brick Fanatics points out, this will be a novel situation for the developer. Traveler's Tales has released DLC for its previous Lego games, though so far it's all been minor additions like characters and new costumes. On the other hand, Traveler's Tales has a long history of working with cinematic trilogies, so it makes a certain kind of sense that the developer would want to touch on the final Hobbit film, even if its game will debut eight months prior to the movie's launch.

Lego: The Hobbit will reach the Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Vita handheld, Wii U and 3DS on April 8. [Image: WB]

Remember the rumors of Persona 4 coming to PlayStation 3? Well, those rumors were true. Here's when you can download it, and for how much.

Meet Endless Legend, an interesting middle ground between conventional fantasy 4X tactical combat and Civilization V-style world-only tactics.

Here's a close-up look at the Fire TV's optional controller, which you can buy separately from Amazon's mini-console for $40. It's a lot like an Xbox 360 controller, with some extra media buttons and a significantly worse d-pad. You pretty much need it to play all those games on the Fire TV, and it comes with 1,000 "Amazon Coins" ($10) and a free copy of the Amazon-developed Sev Zero.Read more...

Microsoft's talked about how their next-gen cloud infrastructure is going to change things for video games. Today, they finally showed what that looks like.Read more...

- Fix bug sometimes counting players as leavers if the game ended while gameserver connectivity to Steam was disrupted

- Fix bug not always marking the game as safe to leave if the leaver disconnected and abandoned quickly

The card-clearing, golf-infused game returns for a sequel, along with the mischievous gopher.

Third-person sci-fi shooter Scourge: Outbreak is now available on Steam, and is 10 percent off ($7.19) until Wednesday, April 9. Developed by Tragnarion Studios, the game first launched on Xbox Live Arcade in July 2013 after being announced in May 2012.

The squad-based shooter features eight-player competitive multiplayer modes like Team Deathmatch and Capture the Flag spread across five maps as well as a four-player cooperative campaign mode. Tragnarion Studios also launched the game's two DLC packs this week, the Blindside and Fan Packs. Both are currently 20 percent off ($1.59) until April 9. The Blindside DLC, an add-on that amounts to six versus maps, is packed in with a digital artbook and soundtrack in the Ambrosia Bundle version of the game, which is also 10 percent off this week ($8.09). [Image: Bitbox Games]

Ask yourself: "Would I be a good starship captain?" It's time to find out.Read more...

Using the same clockwork aesthetic seen in the Game of Thrones introduction, the above footage takes us on a tour of Skyrim's locations, from Solitude's craggy cliffs to Markarth's dank mines - all without killing a single beloved character. [Image: Bethesda Softworks]

One hundred games, all in a bundle you can only get on the world's most infamous piracy website.Read more...

Borderlands, Civ 4, and more may be taken offline as GameSpy's servers turn off in May.

We've gotten some very pretty images come from Rockstar's latest hit game. Some have been taken by self-appointed combat photographers and shutterbugs, who spend little eternities waiting to isolate a perfect moment? Happens all the time, right? But a French artist is doing something different in Los Santos. He takes a picture of—that's of, not in—GTA V and then rigs up a real-world shoot that makes it look like an actual person is snapping that picture. It's a bit of a head trip.Read more...

The Witch's Yarn is Now Available on Steam and is 20% off!*

Delightful reading. Comic book as theater. You are the director! A fun, new way to point and click through an illustrated story. A western styled visual novel with adventure game puzzles.

*Offer ends April 10 at 10AM Pacific Time

This week we're discussing the best games of 2014 so far, the Amazon Fire TV, and games we regret not playing.