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And off there goes BIKE RIDER DX2: GALAXY to Nintendo of America for checking. Only a little more time, guys!

— チャリ走公式 (@CharisoDX) April 4, 2014

@NintendoTweet Check is done in both America and Japan, and if there's no problems, 3 to 4 weeks, so we're up for an early May release atm.

— チャリ走公式 (@CharisoDX) April 4, 2014

Haggling/Story-Unlocking Games
1st game: $2.00
2nd game: $1.90
3rd game: $1.80
4th game: $1.70
5th game: $1.60
6th game: $1.00

Discount Coupon Games
All four games: $1.50

The green light has finally been given to dig up millions of unsold copies of Atari's E.T., in a former landfill site in New Mexico.

I've always preferred the PAL/Japanese Super Nintendo to the American one. Not just for its more elegant design, but for its timeless colour palette. This custom console takes that theme and goes all Final Fantasy with it, and I love it.Read more...

The developer of Spaceteam is creating a funding club, of sorts, for fans sucked in by the game's exuberant blend of starship management and verbal gibberish. The iOS and Android hit hinges on loud cooperation, with players getting just a section of the ship's control panel on their screens and bellowing orders that would barely make sense on Star Trek. That bold spirit of cooperation is being sought for the "Spaceteam Admiral's Club," a Kickstarter that seeks to ensure a year's worth of free games.

Dubbed an "experiment" by Spaceteam designer Henry Smith, the Admiral's Club is asking for $80,000 CAD to create several free games - for everyone, not just backers. "I want to continue making interesting, accessible games but I don't want to charge money for them," Smith says. "I want them to be free, for everyone. By joining the club, you're making it possible for me to keep working on free games for a whole year."

Smith proposes two games to start with: a locally cooperative treasure-hunting game called Blabyrinth, and another spaceship game, Shipshape, in which players pilot ships crafted from modular components. Those will take up the first year, alongside a few upgrades to Spaceteam, like additional languages and adjustable difficulty.

There are several Kickstarter reward tiers, as usual, but these are strongly focused around Spaceteam merchandise, like embroidered patches, and customizations of the game itself. Smith is offering not only custom commands ("Incentivize core competency!"), but a fully personalized, private Spaceteam made from the graphics, words and sounds you send over. After you send $5,000 CAD over, that is. [Image: Sleeping Beast Games]

Maybe learning to survive a hostile alien world wouldn't be so bad...well, not if it was this pretty.Read more...

So last year we got a look at a game called Enemy Starfighter. By combining the space action of Lucasarts' classic X-Wing series with both the visual style and strategy of Homeworld, it looked too good to be true. Read more...

The sim based on the popular JRPG series is coming early summer.

BioWare's feverishly anticipated role-playing game is looking better all the time.

You know what they say...more money more problems. Or, more accurately, the more money you have, the more likely you are to think about how you earned it, how you should use it, and how it changes your relationships.Read more...

Atlus has confirmed that Persona 4 is coming to the PS3. It'll be a digital download of the PS2 version, and will cost $10 when it's out on April 8.Read more...

- Rusty Slugger is a washed up baseball star
- he now runs a shop called Rusty Slugger's Sports Shack
- he has been heavily investing into a baseball gaming software
- every piece of software focuses on a single element of baseball
- game starts off with a free trial version for Bat & Switch
- most of the games have 50 small challenges, which are presented in rows of five
- each row tackles a certain element
- you have to complete these rows in order
- you are free to choose the row that you want to start with
- most games start off with a small tutorial
- complete levels to earn stamps
- these unlock more elements in the game
- earn coupons and items as well
- use these to haggle down prices of other games, as well as furthering the story
- you can only use three items at one time
- score golden medals on the endless modes or by clearing certain objectives
- this will get you new costumes for your Mii
- StreetePass is used to exchange scores in the endless games and compare your progress
- Bat & Switch is all about hitting the balls that are thrown at you with a bat
- The Aim Game involves both hitting and throwing abilities
- when pitching, aim up and down by using the gyroscope
- challenges include hitting round panels to score a certain amount of points
- you'll also be hitting panels to reveal a picture
- you'll also need to hit the ball with precise timing
- this aspect also has panels, as well as a very small amount of space to hit the ball
- Gear Games uses the gyroscope and touchscreen
- you must balance a ball on a baseball bat
- at times, you are asked to hit it by thrusting your 3DS up while twisting and turning until a certain goal is reached
- use the touch screen to clean baseball gloves as fast as you can
- Volley Bats places a Mii at each side of the playing field
- one side is controlled by pressing a direction on the D-Pad and the other by using the A-button
- this mode involves juggling balloons and prepping a star for a journey into the galaxy
- Cage Match has you going up against a pitching machine to hit the ball in certain directions
- Drop & Pop makes you hit a row of blocks with certain colors and a corresponding face button
- Bat Master lets you make you very own bat which you can use during gameplay
- Quick Catch has you steering a glove around with the Circle Pad
- you will be catching the balls as they are tossed at you
- the closer they are to your glove when you catch, the more points you get
- Feel the Glove has you aim with the gyroscope and walk around with the Circle Pad
- try to keep following the ball in a first person perspective and catch it to the best of your abilities
- second game is third person and you have more control over your Mii
- there are low and high balls tossed out at a rapid pace
- Make the Call has you calling strike, foul and other calls while on the field

The Humble Weekly Sale offers Little Inferno, Super Hexagon and Natural Selection 2 for any price you want, and Critter Crunch, PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate and Hotline Miami for $6 or more. It's the Hot, Darwinian, Geometrical, Vermin-Ridden Creature Feature in Florida. Pay more than $1 and grab the games on Steam, too.

In this Humble Weekly Sale, customers can throw their money to the developers, Humble itself and two charities, Watsi and Child's Play Charity.

A portion of a Dtoid review...

Even if you only buy one game you should be able to get a few hours worth of enjoyment here, and more than a few chuckles. Nintendo really took a chance with something as screwball as Rusty, and it ended up being one of the most innovative takes on the free-to-play model in some time.

Full review here

Charlie Bigg-Wither, from Canberra, Australia, owns a lot of LEGO. So much so that when people go to his house and say, boy, you have a ton of LEGO, he can say, yes, yes I do. For real. Read more...

Microsoft to gift time to users that experienced problems during last month's "core service" issues.

While you'll have to wait a bit for the official debut of Zen Studios' pinball table based on Star Wars: Episode 4 - A New Hope, the developer offers the above primer demonstrating just how faithfully it has captured the beloved film in its trademark world of bumpers, lights and rolling metal balls. [Image: Zen Studios]

Want some tips for FTL? The terrific starship sim arrived today on the iPad in fine form , but the game isn't all that easy for newcomers. Internet all-star Darius Kazemi shared a solid list of all-purpose tips for the original PC game that new players would do well to read. Read more...

Intake, the drug-induced shooter from Auditorium studio Cipher Prime, is on its way to iPad this month. Intake hit Steam for PC and Mac in November, after debuting in the Cipher Prime Humble Weekly Sale.

Intake has players click a series of pills as they tumble from the top of the screen, toggling the mouse between colors to hit the matching pills. It's rapid-fire arcade shooting with club beats in the background. Intake on iOS will have Game Center achievements and leaderboards. There's no word on exactly how the touchscreen controls will work.

"We've revamped Intake's color-switching pill-popping gameplay for a multitouch platform, and the game will have all the core features and content of the desktop version and updates," Cipher Prime says. [Image: Cipher Prime]

On April Fool's day, NPR had an extremely simple joke that turned out to be an incredibly effective demonstration of how much commenters on Facebook actually read of the articles they comment on.Read more...

Every day, in addition to The Daily Fix, we list off the day's biggest stories in this simple and easy to read format.

Uncharted Director joins EA and Nintendo's President in trouble. Plus, Blade Runner Director Ridley Scott is working on the new Halo Series and Microsoft Studios suffer layoffs.

Call of Duty fans can square off against movie star and noted extraterrestrial hunter the Predator in the new "Devastation" DLC pack released today for the Xbox One and Xbox 360 versions of Call of Duty: Ghosts.

The Devastation pack adds the new Ruins, Collision, Behemoth, and Unearthed maps to Ghosts' multiplayer component, along with the second chapter in the game's ongoing Extinction storyline. Players who complete the Ruins map's Field Order will earn the ability to become the Predator in combat, gaining access to the alien's dual wrist blades, shoulder-mounted plasma cannon, and infrared target-seeking capabilities.

The Devastation DLC pack is priced at $14.99, and is included as part of Call of Duty: Ghosts' Season Pass.

[Image: Activision]

Here's 10 minutes of Child of Light on PS4. Sony's PlayStation Access sits down with creative director Patrick Plourde to talk about Ubisoft's upcoming JRPG-influenced role-playing game. It's looking very pretty, as usual.Read more...