Last year, I got to take a quick look at the in-progress alpha for an interesting little game calledKerbal Space Program. The game was centered around building a rocket ship — or, more a kind of rocket-propelled contraption — to help propel some brave Kerbal astronauts into space and orbit. It was somewhat limited at the time in that it did not have any targets for you to reach and contained only a small supply of building parts by default....

Apparently, 3.4 billion orc deaths are insufficient for the folks at Robot Entertainment, who have announced the impending sequel to their wave defense game.Orcs Must Die! 2will add new enemies and traps and features a new campaign which a second player can take the role of the new Sorceress character for some cooperative action. They’re also refining the upgrade system to reward players for replaying previously completed stages with a series of persistent trap upgrades....

Sadnessis an ironic title for Nibris’ vaporware Wii game, because its coverage thus far has been invariably humorous. Despite not having a publisher, Nintendo being unaware of its existence, and only a handful of concept art evensuggestingitmightexist one day, Nibris is still claiming that this game is getting made at some point, and has even gone so faras to statethat the game will be arriving by Autumn 2009. Our very own Nick Chester challenged Nibris toprove him wrongaboutSadnesswhen the company first confessed it was delayed until ’09....

Turning to streaming PS3, PS4 games to bring larger experiences to the portable The PlayStation Vita is awesome and it has lots of great games in the pipeline —particularly on the indie front. But it’s still selling poorly. And console-quality experiences likeKillzone: MercenaryandUncharted: Golden Abyssare few and far between. “The economics simply don’t work with the traditional process. We have to do something different to get AAA games on Vita,” Don Mesa, Sony Computer Entertainment’s product planning & platform software innovationdirector,explainedin response to a fan’s inquiry regarding the lack of big budget Vita games....

The new cinematic trailer introduces the cast After an unremarkable Nintendo Direct teaser trailer inFebruary, we’ve got a better idea of what to expect fromStar Wars: Hunters, a free-to-play third-person arena shooter coming to Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android in 2022 from Zynga. There’s a cinematic. Before you bail, it’s worth a morbidly curious glance. Set on the planet Vespaara post-Return of the Jedi, it’s the classic (monetizable) tale of hunters from different backgrounds duking it out for glory in an arena....

Seeking ?25,000 on Indiegogo Stealth games often involve watching and waiting, studying behavior patterns and moving only when the time is right.Interferencelooks to have some of that, but mixes in a unique twist: certain areas can be treated as if they were sliding block puzzles, and the player can move elements of the environment around to suit his needs. The genre hybrid itself is a lot to take in all at once....

So stealth that it never emerged from the shadows Does anyone remember Rockstar Games announcingAgent, way back in 2009? Hell, does anyone remember 2009? The video gaming world has sure picked up a pace since then. Regardless, Take-Two Interactive, publisher for many Rockstar titles, has abandoned the trademark for the unknown release. Originally expected to be some form of thrilling stealth adventure,Agentbecame nothing more than a logo, as Rockstar Games instead focused on other titles such asRed Dead Redemption, L....

Good job, Sakurai Duringtoday’s Kazuya Mishima DLC stream forSmash Ultimate, Sakurai had to sneak in DLC outfit confirmation, too. Mii Fighter costumes are back, and will include crossovers withTales of Symphonia,The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim,Devil May Cry, andShantae. In respective order, the costumes will represent Lloyd (swordfighter), the Dragonborn (swordfighter), Dante (swordfighter), and Shantae (brawler). Sakurai says they named the character Dragonborn “because it’s the English translation of Dovahkiin, which is “dragon child” in the dragon language of the original game....

Kiln in the name of The follow-up effort from theGods Will Be Watchingdeveloper, Deconstructeam, is almost ready to be unleashed upon the world. Devolver Digital revealed today thatThe Red Strings Clubis set to release on January 22. The Red Strings Clubis another narrative adventure, and I have not yet seen a combination of words that gives me even the slightest grasp as to what it’s actually about. So, I’m going to take the easy way out and copy/paste the description from the press release:...

Activision and High Moon Studios sent word this morning of a new launch date forTransformers: Fall of Cybertron: August 21, for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. They say that High Moon is so proud of their work that they can’t wait for it to get into the hands of gamers the minute it’s ready. Along with this date we have a new trailer showinng off the city-sized Transformer known as Metroplex....

The latest miserable press surrounding Ubisoft’s trashy DRM concerned news thatAnno 2070would confuse a simple hardware changewith an entirely new PC— a real problem when you can only install the game three times before it stops working. Ubisoft has responded the way it always does when its DRM comes under fire — it doesn’t care. “While it’s correct that copies of Anno include three activations and that changing hardware may trigger the need for reactivation, the vast majority of Anno customers never encounter this scenario,” said Ubisoft....

Can this game just come out already? Although the leaked footage of Ubisoft’s absurd(ly great-looking) standalone gameFar Cry 3: Blood Dragonhas been removed, it’s too late; we’ve seen everything. One has to wonder, however, where the leak originated from. It appears to be the result of a uPlay workaround which Russian hackers have used to freely download games from Ubisoft’s servers. According toGameranx, these individuals were able to trick the uPlay executable into assigning them ownership of titles they had not paid for, allowing them to directly download and play games offline....

Bumblebee, roll out! Capcom is releasing the squad shooterUmbrella Corpsnext month, which takes place within theResident Eviluniverse. There’s some cool looking things about it (a heated scythe melee weapon?) and some not cool looking things about it (read: most of it), but this new video showcases an Antarctic stage, which draws inspiration fromResident Evil: Code Veronica. I’m not sure who this game is for, but I’ll give it a shot. Hopefully it’ll be better than the abysmalOperation Raccoon City, and the multiplayer co-op looks promising....