IndieGoGo raises $829,829 holy crap TheIndieGoGo campaignforSkullgirlshas ended, raking in a staggering $829,829. What an adorable amount to raise! This sum of money allows the team at Lab Zero Games to createfive additional charactersfor the game, adding on to the original roster of eight. Squigly, Big Band, Robo-Fortune, and two mystery characters, decided by user votes, will be developed for the game, each with stories and stages included. In addition to the characters, Mane6, the developers behindMy Little Pony: Fighting is Magicwill be allowed to use the Z Engine for theirpony pummelingnext fighting game....

THQ’s Danny Bilson talked about the upcomingRed Faction: Originsmovie at an event in NYC today. The two hour movie will supposedly start filming next week and air in March on SyFy. If that doesn’t excite you, get ready for this: it will star “exciting talent”! Except apparently he didn’t mention any casting details. Let’s just hope Richard Dean Anderson will have a role in it for no apparent reason, ok?...

Supermassive Games’ horror anthology returns Supermassive Games has dropped a new trailer for the next entry in its creepy horror anthologyThe Dark Pictures. Little Hopewill launch on PS4, PC, and Xbox One on October 30, promising players a particularly creepy Halloween weekend. Following on from the haunted tale of theMan of Medan,Little Hopeis a story of witchcraft and vengeance set within an abandoned New England county. Players will guide a group of college students and their professor, stranded in the fog-stained town after a bus crash....

Jeopardygiving a fake answer: you hate to see it. Although “Orange Ricky, Hero and Smashboy” are not real blocks they will be entering theSmasharena in some form or another as spirits. According to the JapaneseSmash UltimateTwitter account, the “Tetrimino Invasion” event will run for five days starting on October 25, and will include five new spirits. I have to say Nintendo has done a decent job supportingSmash Ultimatebeyond just the big DLC character/level/music drops: a far cry from their past efforts in the same space....

It’s time to play as the Bat again. TheBatman Arkham Asylumdemois available for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It’s a big download. The Xbox LIVE version weighs in a little over one-and-a-half GBs. But don’t let the size fool you — like any good demo, thisArkham Asylumpiece is nothing more than a scrap of content, a mash of vertical slices of early conflicts in the game. I gave it a spin earlier this afternoon....

Reboot, please? HD re-release? Maybe I’ll just go watch episodes online. Was discussing (more like compulsively listing) late 80’s and early 90’s cartoons with Dtoiders in the Outer Heaven chat recently. A lot of nostalgia. RememberMummies Alive!, while I’m at it? A bit later, but what a great name!Today, Wesley Ruscher and Dale North were excited forDarksiders IIandNinja Gaiden 3in their respective previews,DarrenNakamura reviewed bothJurassic ParkandShinobi(game show time: without looking, which received a high mark and which a low mark?...

The greatZeldamusical tribute celebration continues!Yesterday, we listened to what was quite possibly the origins ofZeldafan music. From those humble beginnings, there was nowhere to go but up! We lead the night with the classic “Zelda with Lyrics” by brentalfloss. Donning some robes and becoming Old Man, he cheers on Link in his first adventure (or is it? coughtimelineconfusioncough). After the jump, we’ve got Brent’s thrilling follow-up, a Ganondorf show tune, and the best thing to ever come out of the dreadedZeldaCD-i games....

Just in case you were wondering Lest you thought the Nintendo Switch would come withsomethingpre-installed when it hit in March, think again. Whilewe’ve already heard the reasoningfor why1-2 Switchwasn’t bundled as a pack-in game, now we’ve learned, by way of Wall Street Journal’s Takashi Mochizuki, that the Switch won’t have anything loaded. That includes demos or trials — nope and nope. While this isn’t anything surprising, at the very least modern systems like the PS4 and Xbox One came with media apps or DVD/Blu-Ray functionality: two things the Switchwon’thave(which I don’t care about, but someone probably will)....

Modders: do your thing Studios and publishers would generally agree thatvideo games having their source code leakedis a pretty bad thing. But what if it’s an old game that people probably aren’t buying these days anyway? That’s the case for the originalFar Cryfrom 2004, whose source code cropped up online recently. The story emerged after Twitter user andDuke NukemmodderVinícius Medeirosposted a bunch of screenshots showing the complete code for the firstFar Crygame....

The expansion is $19.99 You remember Darth Revan? Well he’s back! In DLC form! BioWare has announced that an upcoming DLC will feature the classic Revan character fromKOTORinThe Old Republic. It’ll arrive on December 9th, priced at $19.99. The level cap will also be raised to 60, and there will be new story missions, Flashpoints, and Operations. If you pre-order before November 2nd, you’ll get an in-game statue item, one week of early access, and theRise of the Hutt CartelDLC for free....

You can create some hardcore modifications Some of the worries about the newThieftitle from Eidos Montreal come from how a studio can make a big-budget stealth game that will appeal to a mass audience. Hardcore fans of the series worry that the game will watered down butin a new community podcast, lead game designer Alexandre Breault revealed a huge amount of customization options both in the user interface and difficulty levels....

Bonkers like a FOX Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Originis still apretty insane conceptto me. Team Ninja + edgyFinal Fantasyremake kinda/sorta + hardcore action? I want to shake the hand of whoever greenlit it.While the original demohad a rough go of it thanks to a corrupted upload that prevented people from playing it for a day or so, the secondStranger of Paradisedemo is live today, and it’s bringing an additional platform along for the ride....

Can’t it just cost something soft and silky smooth? How much do you loveDark Souls? Enough to buy a deluxe strategy guide forDark Souls IIIthat costs double the price of the game itself? Because that’s what Bandai Namco and Prima Games are offering you. Now, admittedly, theDark Souls III: Estus Flask Editionstrategy guide does look really cool. In it there’s a 320-page strategy guide, a 192-page journal, a sword-shaped metal bookmark that has some lore connections, and a resin replica of the trusty Estus Flask all put together in a neat wooden-looking box....