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Here’s a closer look at the Shadowrun RPG’s upcoming expansion, Dragonfall, courtesy of a new trailer. The Kickstarter update also mentions two other things: first, the expansion’s release date has been pushed back to February 27, and second, the much-anticipated Quicksave patch is already live for the original game.

Video Asks: What Makes Star Fox So Brilliant?

It’s all about adventure—specifically, about a game’s ability to put players in an adventure, making them feel like they’re influencing a whole fictional world with their actions. Which is something that wasn’t particularly common in shoot-em-ups from the early nineties In his newest video, Really Freakin’ Clever argues that Star Fox for the SNES achieves…

Sony’s profits are expected to improve with the launch of the PS4, but not to the extent seen in 2010, according to Moody’s, who recently downgraded the company’s credit rating due to debt and “weak and volatile” profitability.

Square Enix officially confirmed that the PS4 version of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn lands in April—on April 14, specifically. They also released details concerning the limited collectors’ edition (see the pic above), and opened up pre-orders for both editions

Four Awesomely Hilarious People Play Starbound

Starbound is actually barely discussed in this one. Not that it matters. It’s utterly brilliant either way. Note: Don’t look at this at work. It’ll make you chuckle loudly. Also, it’s moderately NSFW It’s a longer vid at fifteen minutes, but I’d recommend hanging around at least until they start talking about superheroes. That’s the…

Well, that didn’t take long. Kingdom Come: Deliverance, the historical sandbox RPG, reached its funding goal in 36 hours. That’s half a million dollars over a one-and-a-half day period. Damn

Petition: “We Want More Sega Games (Like Bayonetta) on PC”

Bayonetta. Virtua Fighter 5. Vanquish. These are all Sega games that must receive PC ports, according to a petition born out of a Twitter campaign from last December. But why those three games, specifically? As the creator of the petition explains, they’ve been chosen because they fulfill three criteria: 1. Do we feel the PC…

Paradox Development Studios, known for their grand strategy games on PC, is trying their hand at an RPG. A Norse mythology-themed fantasy RPG, specifically, titled Runemaster. There’s a short teaser for you above. At the same time, Paradox also announced the fourth entry in their Hearts of Iron strategy game series.

I’d Have Expected More Glamour from a $5,000 NES Cartridge [UPDATE]

But nope! For that kind of luxury, you need to pay at least three to five times as much As spotted by Wired, over at eBay, one gamer is apparently saying goodbye to his collection of NES carts, which includes this original, “Super Rare” Nintendo World Championships cartridge. Since its condition is, as the eBay…

You Can Upgrade the Un-Upgradable Steam Machine. But it’s Not Easy.

Alienware, purveyor of pre-built PCs of all shapes and sizes, has recently revealed their plan to introduceyearly upgrades to their model of Valve’s PC-slash-console-hybrid Steam Machine, justifying the decision by saying that their machines will not be upgradable. Turns out, that’s not quite the case. “We’ve purposefully designed the Alienware Steam Machine to be smaller…

Shovel Knight hits PC, Wii U, and 3DS on March 31, which should be good news if you’ve been itching for some high quality retro-platformin’ action. Also, there’s a lovely new trailer for you to watch above. Enjoy!

“There is a lot of power in [Xbox One and PS4], and I don’t want to say we’re using them to their capacity, but we’re fairly close to doing so. On [Xbox 360 and PS3] we probably would have had to sacrifice nearly half of our vision.” CD Projekt RED founder Marcin Iwiński, in an…

“Virtual reality really is going to take over the world… it was better than real life—people will get lost in this and not want to leave.” Indie developer Lee Vermeulen, in a blog post about his experience with Valve’s Virtual Reality tech at Steam Dev Days.

Next-Gen Historical RPG Gets “Surprise” Kickstarter Campaign

For the past week or so, Warhorse Studios has been teasing some new information about their upcominghistorically-inclined RPG, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, on their website. There was a big countdown clock and everything. And now, the cat’s out of the bag: Kingdom Come will be crowdfunded! Surprise! Now, from our standpoint, there are advantages to this,…

Taking a break: Daniel Benmergui, the developer behind Storyteller, the story-building puzzle game for PC and iOS, is putting his game on hold to work on another project of his, titled Ernesto – A Quick RPG. He expects to go back to working on Storyteller in “less than three months.”

When a PC Game From 2001 Masquerades as a Next-Gen Game

The creator of the ENB series of mods, which serve as foundation for some of those quite impressive graphical enhancements for GTA IV and Skyrim, among other games, is now going after a not-too-well-known hack and slash game from 2001. The results… well, you should probably take a look. The game, Blade of Darkness, is…

Modder Makes Minecraft Level, Puts it in Super Mario 64 DS

There’s not much to do inside the level, mind you, but it’s an interesting proof of concept for sure. Of course, you can’t just grab a world from Minecraft and put it in a DS game willy-nilly. The level itself had to be modeled from scratch, then imported using specialized modding tools developed especially for…

Steam’s collection of classic Hitman games is now complete with the recent addition of Hitman: Contracts to the site’s library. Previously unavailable due to copyright issues, the third game in the series can now once again be bought and, presumably, played. At some point. Maybe.

Blindingly Hard Cult Classic Platformer La-Mulana is Getting a Sequel

Only problem is, they (as in Japanese indie developer Nigoro) don’t have the money for it. Not all of it. Not yet. You can already guess where this is going. Like its predecessor, La-Mulana 2 is going to be an archeology-themed free-roaming metroidvania platformer kind of business. Story-wise, it’s five years in the future compared…

This is the debut trailer for Etherium, an upcoming real-time strategy game for PC. It comes from the developer behind Stellar Impact, and puts you in control of one of three factions, which you lead on a conquest for control of the seven planets’ etherium reserves—this game’s analogue for Dune’s spice. Looks fun!