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And it’s not hats! Hidden Path Entertainment sure does know how to make some good videogames.Defense Gridand its expansion are a blast for any tower defense fan, but they’ve also doneCounter-Strike: Global OffensiveandAge of Empires II HD. They’re certainly a talented bunch, and now they’re getting ready to completeDefense Grid 2for just about everything except the Wii U. As someone who is more or less tired of the genre, the big push for user-generated content (UGC) is what really has me interested in the sequel....

The “market” allegedly says that adventure games don’t sell anymore, that Ron Gilbert has had his day, and that Double Fine makes games nobody wants. Well, as Tim Schafer continues counting his coppers after raking in a ton of loot on Kickstarter, we have Sega blessing his studio with the means to create a brand-new Gilbert game:The Cave. It looks like a platformer, but make no mistake — this is an adventure game, and I do believe it’s going to turn a lot of heads when it’s finally ready for consumption....

They both ditched the Wii U at a moment’s notice In the past six months we’ve been seeing a lot of praise coming out of Ubisoft’s corner for the Nintendo Switch, and it’s a whole lot of déjà vu. When the Wii U launched, they pranced on stage at multiple trade shows talking about how it would be the “next big thing,” and before you know it, they wouldn’t even releaseDLCfor planned games before the well completely dried up and they left town for good....

The Regista Evolution is now live in EA FC 25, and you can upgrade a card of your choice for free. The latest evolution provides big boosts to the stats and roles of your selected card. However, the overall ratings of your card won’t improve, which makes it tricky to choose the correct card. This guide will help you make the best possible decisions in terms of the cards to use in the evolution....

Fans of Team ICO’s haunting work have been eagerly awaiting further details on the studio’s mysterious third project, and it has been hinted at before that we will see the game at TGS. Ifrumoris to be believed, the PS3 title now has a name anda teaser sitepromising its TGS reveal.The Queenis claiming to be on show at the PlayStation Lounge during next month’s event, and if this is a hoax, it’s a very elaborate one — complete with a flash image and some rather ambient music....

Servers ‘beefed up’ to cope with player demand Today sees the launch of Mediatonic’s chaoticFall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, the wacky multiplayer game that sees armies of curious characters race through a challenging obstacle course in efforts to be the last… erm… “thing” standing. Unfortunately, it seems that this wild release has proved a littletoopopular, crashing player servers within hours of launch. Speaking on Twitter,Mediatonic said that the player count had “skyrocketed” past expectations, with some 120,000 players all logging in to the PS4 edition during the game’s opening hours....

Five bucks for the best of the best It’s hard not to be cynical, especially when it was recently revealed thatFire Emblem Heroesis the most successful Nintendo mobile title by a huge margin,having made over $656 millionsince its launch back in 2017.Comments from playerson Twitter succinctly and sincerely convey the community’s chagrin over these recent paid editions. Fire Emblem Heroesis available now on iOS and Android devices. The “R0kkr Sieges” event gets underway this weekend offering Orbs and Hero Feathers as rewards for battling shadowy variants of popular warriors....

Console parity is closer than ever Free-to-play co-op shooterWarframehas been a big success on the Switch. More than one million people have downloaded the game and developers Digital Extremes and Panic Button have been makingimprovementsand updates to it since launch. Today, Switch players will get access to the biggest update yet when they download theFortuna expansion. Fortuna, a massive, frozen open-world, will introduce unique new environments, missions, and alien species to theWarframeexperience....

Don’t hog the keyboard Fans of couch co-op will be happy to hear thatGears of War 4will feature a split-screen option on PC. In an interview withPC Gamer, Mike Rayner, technical director for the Coalition, confirmed the option. “We have to deal with multiple inputs, we have to deal with focus, we have to deal with UI placement. That extra work–especially when having to also consider all the resolutions and aspect ratios a PC can have–may be why most big games nowadays don’t typically support split-screen co-op....

Coming to Oculus Touch in 2019 The shroud of mystery surroundinglast week’s Insomniac teasehas been lifted. Just now, Insomniac Games has announced a brand new game calledStormlandfor Oculus Touch. The reveal comes via this three-minute announcement trailer. It does its job in introducing us to this lush-yet-mechanical world. Robots seem to be the only inhabitants despite there being plenty of vegetation. As for style, the trailer kind of puts equal emphasis on movement and shooting sections....

I remember once a long time ago, I wrote an article that called one of gaming’s most beloved characters a bit of a jerk. I was a little surprised a few hours later to see the article on Digg with commenters threatening such classy actions as ripping off my head and sh*tting down my neck. Really, guys … over an opinion of a character that doesn’t exist in real life? Really?...

It’s a console-ation, but you’ll find little consolation Everything aboutLa-Mulanaandits sequelis cryptic. This unintuitive, tough-as-hell, completely unforgiving action adventure series is renowned for the way it terrorizes players with death after death. That cryptic nature apparently applies to announcements too. La-Mulana 2will receive an Xbox One version. This news doesn’t come from a press release, or some sort of official reveal from developer Nigoro or publishers/localizers Active Gaming Media and Playism....

Good ol’ Crapcom [Update: Capcomsays it isnow working to roll back “the security measures added to the PC version ofStreet Fighter V. After the rollback process to the PC version, all new content from the September update will still be available to players. We apologize for the inconvenience and will have an update on the time-frame for the PC rollback solution soon.”] [Credit to reader Melissa] Capcom has just rolled out anew updateforStreet Fighter Vthat introduces Urien and some other “anti-cheating” fixes....