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Ryse: Son of Rome introduces five new maps, two gladiator character skins, one new mode of play and with the Mars' Chosen Pack. It's $8.99, or free for those who bought the game's season pass for DLC.

Sick of cusswords? There's a movie-themed wordpack for The Typing of the Dead: Overkill in time for the Oscars. You can frantically pound out "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" to blow back the zombie horde. It's $2.99, available now on Steam. Read more

The Order: 1886 brings you a good two and a-half minutes of gameplay in this trailer Sony released today. It lingers on the firepower (and quick timer events) available in the alternate-history landscape. Is it just me, or does that stuff look like it would be monstrously heavy with Victorian-era metallurgy?

"We have acted in good faith and are working towards a resolution," says the CEO and game director of Interceptor Entertainment, which was due to publish a Duke Nukem game by 3D Realms before Gearbox Software filed a lawsuit Friday. "We are not all out of gum." Read more

No samurai in the next Assassin's Creed. Jade Raymond, producer at Ubisoft Montréal says so in this profile by Adweek, though the game will be set in "her favorite historical era." A feudal Japan setting for Assassin's Creed has long been a request of fans, even referred to in ACIV's meta-game. Read more

Be kind, rewind: The woman who was looking at jail time—a month behind bars—for failing to return an overdue movie rental has seen charges against her dropped. Good thing, too; the law she broke, like VHS, disappeared years ago. Read more

Kiefer Sutherland told IGN he's going to appear in the next Mortal Kombat game, fresh off his work for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. His work for Mortal Kombat is already complete, he says. Read more