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A Game Where You Build Vehicles To Fight Sea Monsters (And Each Other)

Its name is From The Depths, and it calls itself the “first physics-driven multiplayer warfare game where you design and build your own vehicles block by block.” Also, it has giant sea monsters. Still under development and expected to arrive on PC next year, From The Depths boasts the ability to design, build, equip and…

Here’s A Sneak Peek at Cliff Bleszinski’s New Project

On his official Twitter, legendary game designer Cliff Bleszinski shared a cropped screenshot of “something [he’s] working on.” So mysterious. Any thoughts?

Interceptor Entertainment’s HD re-imagining of the classic 1994 shooter Rise of the Triad is now available on GOG. The Steam version, which supports Steam Workshop for its user-made levels and mods, should follow later today.

Reportedly, Nintendo is implementing a new system which would let players manage their Nintendo Network accounts via smartphones and PCs, allowing them to, for example, buy downloadable games remotely. Apparently it’s expected by the end of the year. [NicoNico, via Siliconera]

2010’s Castlevania: Lords of Shadow hits PC on August 27. If you’re impatient, or you just want to see how the game runs on your system, there’s a demo you can try out over at Steam. And if you missed it, you can also have a look at the trailer for the game’s PC version…

IGN reports that the lovely, meme-tastic PSN action-platformer Guacamelee! is coming to PC on August 8. For $15, you get the base game, two pieces of DLC, and, should you buy Guac during its first week on Steam, a copy of the developers’ earlier game, Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack

“If [Sakurai] wants, my body is ready.” That’s Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime, answering a fan question a month ago about whether he’d be in the next Smash Bros. game. Now, there’s a petition asking creator Masahiro Sakurai to actually add Fils-Aime as a playable character—and it’s got almost 7000 signatures. [via CVG]

Upcoming Saint Seiya Fighting Game Gets A Shiny But Confusing Trailer

This here is Saint Seiya Brave Soldiers. The game will cover three story arcs from Masami Kurumada’s original Saint Seiya manga while also featuring over fifty playable characters. Bonus points if you can actually tell what’s going on in that trailer (I couldn’t). Brave Soldiers is coming to the PS3 in November.

American McGee’s Five-Year-Old Grimm Series Seeks New Life On Steam

Back in the summer of 2008, a game called American McGee’s Grimm debuted on GameTap—an episodic action-adventure written by R. J. Berg, who also worked on American McGee’s Alice. In the following one and a half year period, Grimm received 22 additional episodes. And now, it’s on Steam Greenlight. In Grimm, your task is to…

And Now, Here’s Gintama’s Sakata Gintoki Beating The Crap Out Of Goku

Also featuring: many other popular anime and manga characters beating the crap out of each other, courtesy of J-Stars Victory VS, the upcoming PS3/Vita crossover fighting game that’s just received a nice gameplay trailer. Sadly, there’s no word on a Western release.

“The truth is we were doing prototype tests of Pikmin for the DS and 3DS, but it turned into unit management with only the touch pen, and no matter what it just didn’t seem like Pikmin.” Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto to 4Gamer, on their early plans to develop Pikmin 3 for handhelds instead of the Wii…

Our Australian comrades report that after being re-submitted for classification, Saints Row IV has again been refused classification by the Australian Review Board. No decision has been made about the game’s “safe” low-violence version yet.

Amazingly, A One-Man Studio Is Responsible For This Beautiful RTS

Slated to arrive next year, Elder Games’ Meridian: New World is already looking great. Especially for a one-man game. Meridian is described as a single-player Sci-Fi RTS with a focus on storytelling and careful strategizing. Your in-game avatar, Commander Daniel Hanson, leads the very first expedition to the alien planet of Meridian, to explore the…

Cyberpunk RPG-brawler thingamajig Mars: War Logs is now out on Xbox 360 via the Live Arcade. Its PS3 version is expected to arrive on August 7 in Europe, and later that month in the US.

Old-School Charm and A Deep Crafting System Meet In This Fantasy CRPG

This is Balrum. It’s a top-down RPG, and it looks absolutely phenomenal. Sadly, it still needs to be funded The developers of Balrum, who call themselves Balcony Team, are promising a veritable bevy of features; a world filled with living NPCs, turn-based combat with over a hundred different spells and abilities, survival gameplay elements such…

After 200 Alpha Builds, Overgrowth is Still All About Rabbit Violence

That’s gorgeously animated rabbit violence, mind you. Indie PC beat-em-up Overgrowth sure is coming along nicely, having just received a video for its two hundredth alpha build, detailing the latest developments in lagomorph brawling and swordfighting. As usual, pre-order customers are free to give the build a try.

Dead Rising 3 Will Be Gritty, But Not Too Gritty

Capcom’s newest zombie-slaying sandbox for the Xbox One may not be a laugh riot, but that doesn’t mean all the silliness is gone. As evidence, I submit these screenshots, released by developer Capcom Vancouver after their initial showing at Comic-Con Dead Rising 3 is expected to hit this November as a launch title for the…

Unfortunately, the Kickstarter for MotorGun, a vehicular combat game by the creators of Twisted Metal and Interstate ’76, has been cancelled. “Lots of projects are pitched to the community and sometimes they resonate and sometimes they don’t. In this case, what we were pitching wasn’t exactly what you guys wanted.”

The Original Sequel to Prince of Persia Returns After A 20-Year Break

We heard a few months back that the 1993 platformer Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame, sequel to the very first PoP game from ’89, would get a mobile remake. That remake is out now. Apart from getting a massive visual upgrade (graphics technology-wise, at least), the now fully-3D Shadow and the…

Yep, Deadly Premonition Is Coming to Steam. Along With 13 Other Games

Rather impressively, it only took six days for the community to put Deadly Premonition on Steam. That’s pretty quick. Of course, SWERY’s quirky horror game isn’t the only title we’ll get to play on Steam thanks to Greenlight. There’s 13 more games (and two software titles) to look at, so let’s dive right in! A…