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Put your mind at ease, Battlefield 4 players. You can make a stand, lend a hand, protect the motherland and join your fellow man IN THE NAVY in the game’s Naval Strike DLC on March 25. The DLC will feature four new maps, five weapons, two gadgets, a hovercraft vehicle,...

Valve accepted 75 more games for distribution on Steam after approval from its community on Steam Greenlight, among which is Pier Solar and the Great Architects HD, Watermelon’s remake of the Megadrive RPG. Pier Solar HD, which earned over $230,000 on Kickstarter in December 2012, is joined by a recent...

Clockwork Empires plans to launch its buy in-alpha program this spring, developer Gaslamp Games mentioned today at GDC 2014. This next game from the team behind Dungeons of Dredmor is an ambitious simulation game. Think Tropico meets Don’t Starve, but steampunk. Beyond its setting of colonists surviving in frontier lands...

Mojang, development studio behind the wildly-successful Minecraft, has continued its five-year trend of increased profitability. Mojang revenue topped $237 million in 2012, while a Wall Street Journal article reports that number to have hit $326 million for 2013, which in turn translates to almost $128 million in profit. Roughly 93...

Road Not Taken looks like it could be a mobile game. The gameplay itself takes place on a series of grids, in cold, fantastical forests, where players must combine objects to clear paths and rescue children lost in the woods. It looks as if you could tap, tap, tap a...

It’s a shame that words and phrases like “gnarly,” “radical” and “totally tubular, dude” aren’t considered common these days. If they were, I’d know exactly how to describe Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z. I’d know just how to highlight the game’s ludicrous, over-the-top tone and obscene jokes. I’d have a word...

Valve is showing off its newly redesigned Steam Controller at GDC 2014, and Joystiq just tried it out. As avid Joystiq readers are already aware, the new version of Valve’s controller ditches the central touch screen and its odd quadrangle of buttons for a more traditional setup, including four directional...

While museums and organizations lock the industry’s most important works behind glass to preserve their memory, development and publishing partners Upper One Games and E-Line Media are using video games to help preserve the legends of a people. In the upcoming “atmospheric puzzle platformer” Never Alone, players live out the...

Though Ridley Scott’s classic Alien takes place in a distant future, the film’s production values were a product of the late 1970s, with sets and props cobbled together with elements from the era. Rather than evolve the original designs-of-necessity in its upcoming and inspired Alien: Isolation into more modern props...

CCP’s virtual-reality star fighter EVE: Valkyrie is also in development for Sony’s recently announced VR headset, Project Morpheus. Though CCP and Oculus VR had announced a co-publishing agreement for the game, a spokesperson from CCP has told Polygon that the exclusive partnership only extends to the PC version of the...