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The World’s Last Hope? A Software Engineer With a Demon Arm

That’s the ridiculously awesome premise of Tom vs The Armies of Hell, described as a “humorous indie action/adventure game” with gameplay inspired by Bastion and Ratchet & Clank. There’s an in-engine trailer above, a cinematic trailer below, and a nifty Kickstarter page over here. I’d say they’re worth a look.

Dragon’s Crown wasn’t always a PS3/Vita game. Back in the olden days, it was slated to become a Dreamcast title—sadly, the project was shelved for a long time. This piece of concept art from the game’s official artbook shows what the characters could have looked like in the Dreamcast version. [via Siliconera]

Stealth Is Hardly The Only Way To Succeed in Splinter Cell: Blacklist

Will you be a stealthy ghost? Maybe a silent, but deadly panther? Or is mowing your enemies down with a machine gun more up your alley? This new trailer, released by Ubisoft for the newest Splinter Cell, shows that there is merit to each approach. Blacklist hits Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U and PC on…

Ever Wanted To Make A Show Like Power Rangers? This Game Will Let You

Indie group Behold Studios, who previously brought us the addictive RPG simulator Knights of the Pen and Paper, are now making a management game. It involves owning a sentai TV studio. Its Kickstarter page describes Chroma Squad with a few keywords: “sentai heroes, manager, tactical turn-based, meta-game, pixel art fun.” The game puts you in…

Pokémon Developer’s New Game Crosses Horse Racing and… Solitaire

Here’s Game Freak’s newest game, which involves a “collaboration” the developer started referencing last week with a mysterious message on its site. It’s called Soritiba, and the collaboration in this case is between two genres: solitaire and horse racing. Huh. According to 4Gamer, gameplay in Soritiba (“Soriti” is a shortening of “solitaire”, while “ba” or…

Here’s IGN taking a look at how the Ouya’s games are doing sales-wise. Matt Thorson’s TowerFall, for example, the Ouya’s current best-selling app and a game which we rather liked when it was shown at E3 last month, made a modest $21,000 since its June 25th release.

In This Delightful-Looking Game, You’re a Shiny Metal Sphere

This is InFlux, a puzzle game with elements of platforming and exploration, where you step into the role of an alien sphere of some sort which crash-landed on a desert island. It’s also a rather good-looking game, as evidenced by the above trailer. Impromptu Games, the Australian group responsible, is currently hard at work fixing…

Recently, the rights to several classic game franchises, including Master of Orion, Total Annihilation, and Star Control, were auctioned off following Atari’s filing for bankruptcy earlier this year. You can see a list of the franchises involved, and whom they ended up with, below. Total Annihilation franchise bought by Wargaming [PC Gamer] Top image courtesy…

On July 29, the Australian Classification Board willsit down to have another look at and possibly re-classify Saints Row IV, for which they refused classification last month—a decision which effectively banned the game in Australia. This follows the recent appearance of a low-violence version of the game on Steam.

In a Kickstarter update, American McGee announced that famed Hong Kong writer/director Tsui Hark is now part of his Alice: Otherlands animated film project. “I’d join the team to make this project a wonderful success,” said Hark, whom McGee called “one of the masters of kick-ass.”

These Fans Want to See The Latest 3DS Digimon Game Localized

It seems the people want a new Digimon. On Change.org, an Italian fan of the monster-collecting-and-fighting game series started a petition, asking Namco-Bandai to localize the latest entry, Digimon World Re:Digitize Decode, overseas. Calling itself Operation Decode, the petition has already amassed almost 4,500 signatures at the time of writing. There’s a Facebook page, and…

Incredibly pretty and probably just as fun, Starbound is shaping up to be one hell of a game, if the daily progress screenshots are anything to go by. Now, if only we’d get an exact release date… Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and…

The New Shadowrun Is Just Around the Corner. So Here’s A Trailer!

Time for one last glance at Shadowrun Returns before its long-awaited release next week. On July 25, Jordan Weisman’s $1.8 million cyberpunk RPG will finally hit the shelves, ready to immerse us in the grim universe of Shadowrun once again. I’m thinking a mage for my first playthrough. What about you? Countdown to the Return!…

There’s A New Ace Combat, And It’s Coming to the PS3

The trailer up top was released by Namco Bandai to announce the newest title in the Ace Combat series of flight-action games, called Infinity It looks like the game will be centered around a global apocalypse of some sort, brought on by an asteroid. A chronometer also appears briefly, flashing from 1869 to 2019, perhaps…

Pokémon developer Game Freak is teasing something. On their official website, there’s a glowing silhouette surrounded by Japanese text: “That popular game that is played around the world, will be reborn in a surprising collaboration!” This collaboration is, apparently, coming “soon.” [via Siliconera]

This Game’s About Blowing Up Your Friends—Accidentally or Otherwise

Arrowhead Game Studios’ 2010 action-adventure Magicka was memorable not only for its unique spellcasting system, but also for the hilarious accidental deaths caused by said spellcasting system. Now that Magicka: Wizard Wars exists, there should be a lot more of that coming. Wizard Wars will be a PvP-only game, meaning that the focus this time…

A Skyrim Spell For Detecting Virgins

As one redditor found, in Skyrim, there’s a spell for everything—if you’re willing to branch out into mods. Here, the mod in question is Jake Washenfelder’s The Dark Brotherhood Resurrection 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…

After A Long Break, A Classic Shooter Returns To iOS

Now here’s a blast from the past. Courtesy of DotEmu, purveyor of updated re-releases of classic games, Irem’s 1987 side-scrolling arcade shooter R-Type is ready to be experienced all over again. There’s a bit of a story involved: an earlier version of the R-Type port actually showed up on the app store back in 2010,…

Deadly Premonition on Steam Could Happen, With A Little Help

Rising Star Games, publisher of quirky open-world horror game Deadly Premonition, wants to make the Director’s Cut version of their game available on PC. Specifically, on Steam. That means Greenlight Rising Star promises to deliver the same content to PC as they did with their Director’s Cut version, which they released for the PS3 back…

Sir, You Will Be Hunted on The 19th of August

In a new gameplay video, Jim Rossignol, one of the developers behind tweedpunk (no, we won’t stop using that word) robot-survival simulator Sir, You Are Being Hunted, revealed the date we would all be able to start sightseeing on the game’s procedurally generated, dreary, scary, pretty version of the British Isles. “We’re gonna make [a…