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Facepunch Studios is going back to the drawing board for their survival game/naked-man-with-a-rock simulator, Rust. The game is being rebuilt and tweaked with new code in an effort to make the game not only different from its current incarnation, but more efficient. “There’s a lot of systems that are integral...

We’ve got another game to be added to the rapidly-expanding genre of animal simulator games: Catlateral Damage, which started as a game jam project and charmed its way into our hearts back at the beginning of the year with a limited demo build, has met its $40,000 Kickstarter goal. The...

Thanks to Valve’s crowdfunding initiatives, the Dota 2 world championship, otherwise known as The International, now has a prize pool totaling more than $10 million. Which is like … *counts out fingers* … a lot. It’s enough to eclipse last year’s $2.9 million prize pool several times over, and the...

Pier Solar HD developer WaterMelon Co. is releasing its touched-up Mega Drive and Sega Genesis RPG on more than 10 platforms, and understandably, they’ve hit a bit of a snare this week in the certification process: While the build that WaterMelon submitted to Valve was cleared for release on Steam,...

You don’t have to be the “World’s Greatest Detective” to follow this trail: Amazon Germany has posted a listing for Batman: Arkham Origins “Complete Edition,” a package which will supposedly combine Arkham Origins and all of its DLC into one box. The move, if accurate, isn’t exactly unexpected; both Arkham...

UK development studio Rebellion claims that a batch of Steam keys for em>Sniper Elite 3 has been stolen, and access to the game from accounts which purchased the ill-gotten goods has been revoked. “One of our PC retail distributors informed us that some of their allotted Steam keys were stolen,”...

Octodad is swapping his formal suit pants for Shorts – a round of free DLC that brings new levels of weird scenarios for everyone’s favorite cephalopod to explore. “Octodad Shorts” include the following, humorously bullet-pointed content, as outlined by developer Young Horses: Over 40 new objectives! Over 20 breakable plates!...

The Banner Saga publisher Versus Evil revealed that it is publishing a follow-up to Namco Bandai’s 2007 PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 action game Afro Samurai for next-gen consoles and PC platforms. Afro Samurai‘s sequel is developed by Redacted Studios, a developer founded by former Namco Bandai senior producer David...

Dead Island: Epidemic is a twisted take on the MOBA genre, allowing players to use WASD and a clicky trigger finger to move and shoot. As the narrator puts it: “Unlike other titles in the genre, you’ll have direct control over your character – no last-hitting, click-to-move nonsense here.”

Slaying creatures of Nordic myth is great fun in English – our four of five stars review states as much – but for those who don’t habla ingles, developer Stoic Studio has localized The Banner Saga for a handful of new languages. You’ve probably already guessed that Spanish is among...