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Coming from a 4Gamer interview with Producer Takashi Iizuka...

You can see from our design of the DLC introduction page on our official site, we decided from the beginning that we would do three pieces of DLC. We are continuing to make it free, which is a bit difficult for SEGA, since both Yoshi’s Island Zone and The Legend of Zelda Zone were both in collaboration with Nintendo, but SEGA doesn’t have any kind of tradeout from there (note: means this next DLC is not being funded by another source).

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Kadokawa Games

Gods War Frontier (filed March 28)
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Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. Strike Team Eliminating the Alien Menace (filed April 2)

Square Enix

Journey of the Cursed King (filed April 1)
Mechanical Apartheid (filed April 1)

"It was important to us that the game feels as grounded in reality as much as possible", says Dead Crusade's creative director Scott Petty, moments before a trailer shows you hacking the arms off a crowd of medieval zombies.Read more...

Filmmaker John Huffnagle has made this clip that shows what happens when you leave Mario running and leave the house. It's kinda of like Toy Story, if Woody was an even bigger jerk and just wrecked all your stuff.Read more...

Microsoft still has plans to make 360 games playable on your Xbox One.

Tonight's episode of The Simpsons—Luca$, featuring Zach Galifianakis—aired with this silly Minecraft-themed intro. It's cute, if not exactly the best thing they've ever done. At least Moe makes for a good Creeper.Read more...

Well, I mean, it is! The tiny scale, the little blinking screen (which actually goes through a boot sequence) and that popping "hello!" as it opens up, it's about as cute as Dead Space is ever going to get. Read more...

Do you have fond memories of King's Quest, Space Quest, Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken? We're reliving the glory days of adventure gaming.

These figures are called the "Dragon Sword Fighter Force", but that's just to get around the copyright police. These are Game of Thrones LEGO minifigs in everything but name, and yes, you can buy them.Read more...

If you've been wishing campfires would help give away the position of DayZ's, uh ... "spirited" brand of survivors at night, this might be your month! Developer Bohemia Interactive is planning on implementing a patch that gifts the destructive element to players, both for building campfires and igniting flammable objects. Reworked physics and player control are also planned, as is a fix to address messaging spam.

Citing strong fan feedback as an inspiration, Bohemia's patch will implement 1:1 movement between mouse controls and the head of a player's avatar. Weapons are planned to act differently, though - the more cumbersome a player's equipped bargaining tool is, the longer it will take to swing in a different direction and fire. A system will also be added to let players charge projectiles, be it an item or the arrow they're aiming from a bow.

Lastly, Bohemia hopes to fix a messaging problem where the "client and server 'spam' messages at each other, hoping that some of the messages get through." The studio believes this is the major hurdle in surpassing the 100-player limit per server. The fix is expected to appear on experimental servers sometime next week before appearing in this month's update.

No word yet on a patch to make the rest of DayZ's player base as awesome as (NSFW language) fire extinguisher guy. [Image: Bohemia Interactive]

Drexel University professor Frank Lee took over the side of the 29-story Cira Centre in Philadelphia last year to play a gigantic game of Pong , setting the Guinness World Record for the “Largest Architectural Video Game Display.” Last night he doubled the record with a massive game of Tetris. Read more...

Don't worry about the fuzzy screenshot there. It's just a still from a live Twitch stream of Titanfall on the Xbox 360 being played right now. Read more...

Last night's Saturday Night Live had a couple nods to Nintendo fans throughout the skits. You can check them out below.

The first came from a Fox and Friends spoof...



The second came from a musical number the crew did. The subject matter may offend some people, so you've been warned. If you're wondering, a line about Pokemon pops up at 1:12.


Thanks to BastianTime for the heads up!

This week's biggest release is a game we don't have a single screenshot or snippet of gameplay for. That's not something you don't see every day. I'm sure everything is fine. Read more...

It's been one week since I donned my tail and cat ears and began my journey into The Elder Scrolls Online, and I'm having a much better time on day seven than I did on day one. Read more...

Luftrausers from Vlambeer is full of fiction. Its name is a made up word, and the game takes place in an alternate history, set some 10 to 15 years after World War II. The game's imagery, however, from its maniacal scientists and sharp-dressed military officers to its skull-emblazoned logo, are evocative of the very real Nazi party of the mid 1940s. This has made some players uncomfortable, which Vlambeer co-founder Rami Ismail addressed on the company's site earlier today.

Ismail noted that, while he believes that no interpretation of a game is "wrong," he and his fellow developers did not intentionally place players into the role of a Nazi pilot. Instead, Ismail said the game was inspired by the period between 1900 and 1980 where opposing governments were "capable of determining whether an opposing military force was working on secret weapons, but not quite what those weapons were."

The goal of Luftrausers, according to Ismail, was to have players take control of such a weapon. The only way for this to make narrative sense was to have players play the bad guys - someone we were spying on. "The player is part of an undefined enemy force that was not on 'our' side during the six or seven decades in which military intelligence was effectively telling us to prepare for a laser-equipped hoverboat assault," Ismail wrote.

Ismail made it clear he was explaining the game's aesthetics, but not excusing them. Ismail and studio partner Jan Willem Nijman are natives to the Netherlands, which was invaded by the Nazis in 1940. "We are extremely aware of the awful things that happened," Ismail wrote, "and we want to apologise to anybody who, through our game, is reminded of the cruelties that occurred during the war." [Image: Vlambeer]

The son of famed vampire hunter Van Helsing is gearing up to slaughter a fresh bunch of monsters in The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing 2, Nerdcore Games' second entry in a planned trilogy. Properly planning for an action RPG outing takes time though, a resource Van Helsing Jr. now has - Nerdcore has pushed Van Helsing 2's release from April to May 22 for the sake of polish, which conveniently gives our protagonist enough time for a siesta.

Once the adventure continues, players will be able to align with one of three class types; the range and melee-proficient Hunter, the magic-savvy Thaumaturge and the Arcane Mechanic, a deadly-device specialist. The ghostly sidekick Lady Katarina returns to aid players, but aspiring hunters can bring up to three living friends along in a cooperative campaign, or sling attacks in a PvP mode that supports eight competitors total. [Image: Neocore Games]

Tickets for Valve's Dota 2 International 2014 Championship have sold out. Quickly. The event's roughly 10,000 tickets sold within an hour, according to what Valve's Doug Lombardi told Rod "Slasher" Breslau. Is it safe to say this game might be just a little popular?

Those hoping to make a trip to Seattle for the competition aren't totally out of luck; general admission tickets can be found on eBay for as low as $200, though that's still twice as much as their initial, non-secondhand $99 price tag. Those looking for some price comparisons should know that floor seating tickets were originally sold for $199, while VIP tickets were priced at $499.

The Dota 2 International 2014 will take place at the Key Arena in Seattle from July 18 to July 21. This is the International's fourth year in existence, with last year's International boasting a prize pool of more than $2.8 million, the largest in eSports history. The prize pool for this year's championship has not been finalized. [Image: Valve]

A portion of a NWR review...

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga is still a fun ride through and through and I really adored my time with it. While there are some tiny annoyances, it shouldn’t deter anyone from picking the game up. The unique world and interesting characters sell the experience, making it one worth having.

Full review here

Coming from a 4Gamer interview with SEGA's Takashi Iizuka...

- dev team is interested in working on more levels that allow it to collaborate with Nintendo
- SEGA is working on a new Sonic title that will use the traditional look and mechanics of the series
- more details later in this year

- tentatively slated for release in May
- Wii U version has improved backgrounds over the iOS version
- Off-TV play
- control options that utilize d-pad and shoulder buttons
- menus can be navigated with the touch screen
- developer Dahku “would absolutely love to continue support for the Wii U eShop (and 3DS if Unity supports it in future)”
- considering other existing titles for Wii U
- also considering Wii U exclusive games
- those projects depend on the sale of Chubbins

You'll be able to grab the following G-Style 3DS eShop games for the price of $3 starting next Saturday. The sale runs until April 27th.

- Crazy Construction
- Chain Blaster
- Undead Bowling
- Jump Trials Supreme