Those of you in search of legendary loot will have to continue waiting patiently. ThoughTorchlight IIwas promised as coming out by the end of this year, Runic Gameshas confirmedthis is no longer the case. Company co-founder Travis Baldree says that “getting a game of this scope up to the quality and polish level we want to achieve is going to take a little longer; especially since we want to run a small beta before release to ensure that our launch is smooth....

‘Multi-game showcase’ to kick off fall season Publisher Ubisoft, conspicuous by its absence during this summer’s live stream series, has announced that it will be holding its next premier “Ubisoft Forward” live stream this September, where it will offer news, updates, and reveals pertaining to the company’s current and forthcoming releases. “On September 10 at 12:00 PT / 21:00 CEST, Ubisoft Forward returns in full force, ready to reveal updates and news on multiple games and projects from Ubisoft teams around the world,”wrote the publisher on its website....

VERSUS! It’s been awhile since we’ve heard about Nintendo’s efforts toport the arcade iterationsof its classics to the Switch, but we seem to be getting a second entry before the end of the year. Heading to the Japanese eShop on December 22,Vs. Super Mario Bros.will join the Switch line-up of games that make you wish Virtual Console was ready. I’ve actually seen a cabinet in person before. One of the McDonald’s a few towns over had one in the late ’90s and I couldn’t keep myself away....

25 percent increase over 2013 At a press conference held right before theWargaming.net League Grand Finalsin Warsaw, Poland this past weekend, CEO Victor Kisyli pledged an investment of $10 million toward eSports in 2014. Wargaming eSports Director Mohamed Fadl said that they saw some 30,000 players play in tournaments when they started in 2012. That grew to about 40,000 teams made up of 7 or more players fighting for top honors in 2013, bringing the player number up to about 200,000....

Our review next week I always enjoy Conan O’Brien’s Clueless Gamer segments. He’s stuck with them for roughly three years now, and never claims to be a fan of gaming in general — but he still looks like he has fun doing it. This time he takes onThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and the segment is mostly set during the first hour of the game in the White Orchard zone, but he also visits a later area, Skellige....

Ship off starboard, captain. She’s flying the pride! If you’ve ever wanted to build your own battleship and then kickflip with it, now’s a good time. TMA Games’Waves of Steelis fully assembled and has left early access on Steam. Forget everything you think you know aboutnaval warfare. There are some bad guys out on the seas, and it’s your job to exterminate them.Waves of Steelhas you customize your ideal flagship, then sends you out to rain destruction down on anyone unfortunate enough to be in the water....

ArcaneSeason 2 is full of surprises, but few are as wholesome as the introduction of Isha. This scrappy orphan becomes the ray of sunlight Jinx desperately needs in her dark, turbulent life. Unfortunately, happiness has never been something Jinx could hold on to for very long. The third and final episode ofArcaneSeason 2, Act II, “The Message Hidden Within the Pattern,” turns a reunion Jinx and Vi have spent the entire act fighting for into a bloodbath....

In speaking with BeefJack, developer thechineseroom has shared new details and screenshots from the spiritual successor to its first-person adventure titleDear Esther. Conceptually, creative director Dan Pinchbeck feels thatEverybody’s Gone to the Rapture“is this almost ’60s-’70s Brit science fiction — this John Wyndham, John Christopher kind of thing — of how the end of the world would be responded to in a rural English location.” The game is set in an open world centered around six separate characters in which you only get to play for an hour at a time....

He’s coming to the Steam Early Access game today Shovel Knight’s surprise appearance inRoad Rashspiritual successorRoad Redemptionseems like the result of the developers meeting over drinks, someone throwing out a wild idea, and no one being sober enough to interject. Then again, this is the studio responsible forbutt mode.

Wow, too many god damn people work for this site You guys might not know this, but some of us here at Destructoid are big fans of videogames. For a change of pace, we’d like to share that interest with you all and fill you in on some of the games we’re playing right now. I mean, not right now, right now. More like this last week. It’s the 4th of July right now....

I hear it’s quite challenging I thought thislooked familiar!Inkis a world-coloring platformer with aSuper Meat Boyvibe going for it. You hop off walls, avoid spikes and other patience-testing obstacles, and flesh out the world with colorful goo. The game first released on Steam, but it’s getting a round of console ports next month. Inkis coming to PlayStation 4 on September 19, then Xbox One on September 22. It’ll go for $10, but Xbox One pre-orders come at a 25 percent discount....

I get by with a little help from my pigs Depending on how far you are intoBloodborne, you’ve probably come to realize that this late-game area, accessible using the “Mergo’s Loft: Middle” warp from the Hunter’s Dream, is one of the best spots to quickly earn Blood Echoes (and also some Blood Vials while you’re at it). Those pigs, man. Horrifying as they look and sound, they pay the bills around here....

We’ve reached out to IGN for comment [Update:IGN has parted ways with editor Filip Miucin after its investigation into the review. In a statement givenon Twitter, IGN states, “we have determined that there were substantial similarities between a review posted weeks earlier and our review that could not be justified.” They then go on to explain how similar word choices can sometimes come up in describing game mechanics, but that Miucin’s work “stepped over the line....