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Blizzard announced Nova Covert Ops for StarCraft 2. It comes just ahead of the launch of Legacy of the Void, the campaign expansion for Blizzard’s highly popular RTS title. The expansion will total nine brand new missions broken down into three separate mission packs that will contain three missions each. Gameranx did a write-up on the news based on an interview that GameSpot conducted with senior designer Kristopher Howl, who explained that Nova Covert Ops was for the gamers who silently crav...

Cave Interactive put together an HD re-release of their bullet-hell shoot ’em up for Steam, which originally graced arcades but then eventually ended up on the Xbox 360. The game is now available on PC via Steam for $19.99. Mushihimesama may be a mouthful to say but gamers seem to find that it’s a worthwhile tribute to an arcade sub-genre that hasn’t received a lot of love in recent years. The game features a princess riding a bug, fighting other bogs across five different, massive stages....

What happened? Reading the responses from Slightly Mad Studios about the Wii U version of is frustrating, maddening and comes across with an air of aloofness the likes of which we would expect from an AAA publisher. [Update: The quote actually came from an authorized Project CARS fan page, not the official page.  Some individuals close to the project have stated that Slightly Mad Studios have still not made an official statement on the matter. The original individual who did make the statement(...

With the release coming right around the corner – on September 26th to be more exact – it only makes sense to give a bit of information-loving to the upcoming hack-and-slash, multiplayer, -themed adventure action title from Nintendo, Tecmo Koei, Omega Force and Team Ninja. is a set in a somewhat canonical universe of , but with more of a re-imagining of events rather than portraying itself as a straight-through sequel to any of the previously released games. The story follows the sorceress ...

One of the biggest video game eSports tournaments to happen on an annual basis is the fighting game community’s Evo Championship Series. This tournament is like the Holy Grail for professional fighting game enthusiasts and it just received one of the biggest endorsements from an unlikely company: Nintendo. Nintendo Enthusiast is reporting that the Big ‘N’ dropped their guard and apparently decided to join in on the eSports fun for this year’s championship series. This follows on a very s...

Fans of both Pokemon and Pokken Tournament will be treated to a new character and boss fight. The powerful Mewtwo received a new look and name, which comes in the form of Dark Mewtwo. It looks  as hard as you’d expect it to be. Mewtwo was perhaps one of the most recognizable Pokemon from the original series, and maybe to this day. And though the baby version of Mewtwo didn’t make it into the latest tournament style fighting game Pokken Tournament, Dark Mewtwo found its place in the game...

The popular Kickstarter darling from Keiji Inafune and the Comcept USA team is getting its very own animated television series. That’s right, the will become a serialized animated series in 2016. In addition to that, the game will also head into Steam’s Early Access sometime before 2015. So first up, Nintendo Everything notes that the news about the animated series came hot and heavy during the 2014 Anime Expo, where it was revealed that Digital Frontier, a renown studio behind other notabl...

New video footage of Bayonetta showcases just how slick the game runs on Nintendo’s Wii U. The poor little ‘ole Wii U. That’s how we used to think of it before this year’s E3. “Someone ought to just take it out behind the digital shed and use the Doom guy’s shotgun on it.” was the common sentiment portrayed about the system. But then Nintendo went and unzipped their pants, put their cheeks in the spread-wide position and then took a royal dump on all the naysayers at this year’s...

Wow. That’s the best way to sum up the new game from Lince Works. It’s a ninja-stealth game that promises the return of a long lost genre that has been replaced with Ubisoft’s Assassins. The name of the game? . Siliconera picked up the story as the Kickstarter trailer has been making the rounds. The game is designed on Unity’s 3D game engine and focuses on utilizing shadows and light as a core mechanic of gameplay. Players will be able to teleport between the darkened shadows in the envi...

Mixed review scores always make it tough to determine where the game stands in the grand scheme of of its quality and worth. In the case of EKO Software’s How To Survive 2, which is being published by 505 Games, it’s a game being praised for its new upgrades and features over the original game, but many users also felt the game’s buggy state detracts from the experience. How To Survive 2 allows players to customize their own character and survive in a zombie-infested wasteland. Players wil...