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A Taste Of What Could’ve Been Had Nintendo Bought Star Wars

Hint: it would have been insane and filled with nostalgia. Okay, let’s be honest. Something like a full-length Star Wars-Nintendo mash-up movie could never, ever, ever have actually happened—which should certainly make us appreciate James Farr’s latest eight-minute masterpiece that much more, in which Link Skywalker faces Ganon-Darth and the evil Empire in a quest…

Meet The Charming Lovechild of Ocarina of Time And Ico

Although you might not want to. It stars a girl and the robot protecting her. That setup tends to lend itself pretty well to tear-jerking twists. If that’s not an issue, The Girl and the Robot might just be the adventure game you’re looking for. The description on its recently opened Kickstarter page explains the…

Starbound is nearing its Beta release. The side-scrolling Terraria-like RPG which I just can’t seem to shut up about just got an official blog post outlining its three-stage Open Beta program, which, according to lead developer Tiy, is “really not very far off now.”

130+ Games In Two Weeks? Time to Slow Down, Steam

The Steam community is certainly a productive bunch. In total, thelast two weeks gave us one-hundred and thirty seven new Greenlight titles to look forward to. That’s… rather impressive. Of course, this means there’s a whole bunch of platformers, horror games, and RPGs for us to check out, so let’s get started! Note: Being Greenlit…

Smacking Monsters With A Shovel Is Best Done In 8-Bit

Back when we last looked at it, Shovel Knight was still in its infancy—a wee Kickstarter project looking to gain some traction. Well, that was several months and $311,502 ago. As you can see in the above, recently released trailer, the 8-bit platformer is looking (and sounding) as good as ever. I especially love the…

A Veteran Game Designer And His Old-School First-Person RPG

Guido Henkel has been in the gaming industry for over thirty years, where he worked on classic titles such as Planescape Torment and Fallout 2. Now, he wants to make a comeback with a new old-school RPG, titled Deathfire: Ruins of Nevermore Deathfire promises to be a turn- and party-based fantasy first-person RPG that takes…

Classic Call of Duty Makes Quite An Emotional Fan Film

If you need some gloom to start (or end) your day, look no further. Director Jared Pelletier returns with Call of Duty: Finest Hour, a fan short which takes place during World War II and gives us a taste of the drama that might have went on on a battlefield. Not child-screaming-obscenities-at-you-over-VoIP drama, mind you,…

Does Saints Row IV Work As A First-Person Shooter? Hell Yes.

They did a first-person mod for GTA IV, so it was bound to happen for Saints Row IV, too. And thank goodness it did. The mod is being developed by a group of modders led by ImmortalSin, who hails from the Saints Row Mods forum. It is currently in alpha—a fact that’s readily apparent in…

Let This BioShock Infinite DLC Trailer Convince You Rapture Is Real

In Bioshock, we’ve always been directly in the center, there to witness the world-changing events transpiring in both Rapture and Columbia. But what about the outside world? This short live-action teaser, shot in the style of an old-school documentary series, shows a civilian investigation into the legend of Rapture—the underwater city where Burial At Sea,…

Pokémon, Sonic, And Mega Man, All Made Out Of… Meat?

Ground meat ain’t just for hamburgers, you know. It’s also for art. Over at Tumblr, a blog called Epic Grinds serves as the purveyor of artistic objects created out of ground meat. The owner’s skill doesn’t stop at meatifying game characters, mind you—there’s a great variety of objects from anime, live-action series, and real life…

Free-to-Play Or Not, The New Ace Combat Looks Pretty Great

Let’s forget about microtransactions for a second and concentrate on what makes Ace Combat great: the gameplay and the atmosphere. These two gameplay videos have plenty of both. The vids were taken from the second and fourth story missions, respectively, of the air combat game’s international version (meaning they’re in English). It may be a…

Legendary Arcade Shooter Ikaruga Is Getting A PC Version

After the vertical shoot-em-up’s arcade debut in 2001, it was ported over to several home consoles: the GameCube, the Dreamcast, and even the Xbox 360 via the Live Arcade. Heck, there was even an Android port released this January. Now, it’s the PC’s turn. Over at Steam’s Greenlight, an entry popped up overnight for Ikaruga—specifically,…

A Town-Building Game Where You’re A Shoemaker. Who Fights Monsters.

We all know the story. Boy wants to be a knight. Boy grows up. The king’s army arrives, looking for soldiers… but what if our boy, now a man, isn’t chosen? What if he’s left behind, forced to make ends meet as a shoemaker? And what if his village is attacked while the army is…

For goodness’ sake, have some manners. They might be robots, but they still have feelings—as evidenced by this screenshot of a rather awkward situation in Starbound Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can find. Send us suggestions if you’ve got…

Oh Look, It’s Raining Steam Games Again

It’s been a productive three weeks for Steam’s Greenlight—not as preposterously productive as last time, but still, quite productive. This time, we have 57 freshly community-approved titles to examine, which should all hopefully arrive on Steam sometimes in the near future. Let’s dig in, shall we? Here’s the freshest batch of approved titles, revealed yesterday.…

Space Engineers Makes Crashing Spaceships Into Things Look Crazy Fun

Because clearly, the best thing to do with a freshly-built spacecraft is to crash it into an asteroid. From the makers of Miner Wars 2081 comes Space Engineers, a heavily physics-based multiplayer sandbox game about mining asteroids and engineering, building and maintaining space stations and spaceships. It is, per the developer’s words, inspired by “reality…

Here’s How You Turn A Friend Into a Tecmo Bowl Fan… In Song

Tecmo’s football game is a true classic, but it can be difficult to get someone else to play it, especially if they’re not sports game fans. Brentalfloss is one such person—at least in his newest themes-with-lyrics video. Tecmo Bowl WITH LYRICS feat. Niko Tsakalakos! [brentalfloss@YouTube, thanks Brent!]

They’re Making A New City of Heroes. Kind Of.

As you may have heard, City of Heroes, one of the oldest superhero MMORPGs, is no more. But its spirit lives on, apparently. In a Kickstarter campaign. The campaign is for a game called City of Titans—a superhero MMORPG, much like its spiritual predecessor, City of Heroes. It will be a buy-to-play game, supported with…

Audiosurf Is Back, And It Looks Better Than Ever

The sequel to the game that brought you hundreds of “Through The Fire And Flames” playthrough videos is here—and it’s coming to Steam. In fact, it’s coming sooner than you’d think. Back in 2008, Dylan Fitterer released Audiosurf, a game where you race through block-filled levels generated from your own music library. Since then, there…

A Darkly Whimsical Trailer For A Dark, Not Really Whimsical RPG

Watching this new trailer for Our Darker Purpose is giving me a serious Nightmare Before Christmas vibe. Must be the music. And the colors. A bit misleading, really, considering the game’s more Binding of Isaac than Tim Burton. The latest trailer for the recently Kickstarted roguelike action-RPG was put up on Steam Greenlight to showcase…