Or Kickstart Caffeine with some money Space station horror gameCaffeineis nowup on Kickstarter. It’s asking for about $65,000 USD so it can go into full time development for an early 2015 release. you may also download a demo from the Kickstarter page, or just enjoy the moody and pensive trailers. There’s a scary noise at the end of the one above. Caffeineplaces you alone on a caffeine mining space station and features puzzles along with the still mysterious horror elements....

Ever since Mojang Studios unleashed a teaser ofa mysterious item, the community theorized that another tool would be joining the ranks. And now, the lingering question has been answered with the reveal of the newMinecraftweapon, Mace. The Mace, also regarded as “a hammer,” excels in falling attacks, where players must test their luck on elevated terrain. All you have to do is jump off a hill or cliff and then land a strike on a mob while falling for extra damage....

People love first-party games! According to Nintendo, September’s release ofSuper Mario Makerboosted sales of the Wii U by over 110 percent as compared to August. Of course, the secretive nature of game sales means we don’t know exactly how well the console did. Nintendo also claimsSuper Mario Makersold “more than 500,000 combined units” over the past month, including both digital and physical sales. There’s some other sales information in the press release (the 3DS sold 25 percent better in the January-September period than it did during the same period last year;Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designersold almost 115,000 copies during launch week), so it looks like Nintendo’s in a solid place right now....

‘The journey will begin anew’ On the rare occasion I use my Xbox 360, I’m amazed the thing still works. It’s laughably slow to boot up, full of games as it is, and having gone through several broken systems last generation, there’s a lingering fear that this could be it: the last time I see the dashboard pop up. I hope that day never arrives, if for no other reason than my stupidly big Xbox Live Arcade library....

Plants vs. Zombieson PC is a thing of beauty, as is the lovely iPhone port of the lawn defense game. Either people already knew to expect good things from the adaptation having played the original, a ton of iPhone owners dig PopCap, orPvZwas a word-of-mouth success. The more I think about it, the more I’m sure it’s all three. PopCap is reporting 300,000 units sold in the game’s first nine days and upwards of $1 million in sales to date....

Reggie will be watching How long has it been since the last time we’ve been able to control inch-high spacefarer Captain Olimar and his army of sentient plants? Almost ten years? It’s almost surreal that the third game in thePikminseries is finally almost upon us. If you simply cannot wait any iota of time longer than necessary, you may want to get to a GameStop (or EB Games in Canada) on July 20th or 21st, where demos forPikmin 3will be made available to the public....

I can now die happy Can you believe we’re coming up on the 20th anniversary of the North American launch ofPokémon Snap? Time flies when you spend two decades begging for a sequel to the greatest video game of all time. Luckily, Sundae Month does what Nintendon’t. The Vermont-based developer recently announcedPupperazzi, a zany photography simulator where you snap pictures of cute puppers around a bustling city. My life is now complete....

Announced at PSX As a “one more thing” before he left the stage at PSX just moments ago, Sony boss Shuhei Yoshida confirmed that Raven will be playable inGravity Rush 2with her own little side story. Previously she was confirmed as an AI-controlled entity, but Yoshida noted that because of fan demand, she will be playable. It’s out in January 2017 so we’ll find out soon enough for ourselves just how deep that rabbit hole goes!...

You can stand under my um-ber-rell-a During yesterday’sHouse of Indies broadcast, Nintendo announced that Hopoo Games’Risk of Rain Returnswill be coming to the Switch platform in 2023, alongside itspreviously announced PC release. Published by Gearbox,Risk of Rain Returnsis a remastered and enhanced edition of thesmash hit 2013 platformer, initially devised by two Washington University students using Gamemaker development software. Players take part in a challenging race against time, as stranded space explorers who must quickly and efficiently mount a defense against enormous waves of aliens and monsters....

Bimmy and Jimmy Abouta month ago, Arc System Works and Tommo Japan announced that they were teaming up to make replica carts ofReturn of Double Dragonfor the SNES. Now, the game is going to get a digital re-release on PS4 later in the year. Since the reproduction cart is coming to the US, it seems likely this digital version will also make it West. As for the game, itself, I don’t really know what to say....

Perpetual maker of doomed games Tim Schafer has confessed that, no matter how many times he’s tried to pitch a sequel to the critically acclaimedPsychonauts, he has never found anybody willing to make it. However, he’s still more than keen to get something done, and so isanotherdeveloper. “I mean I get a lot of, on Twitter or whatever, daily questions aboutPsychonauts 2,” he toldDigital Spyin an interview. “And I would love to doPsychonauts 2, I’ve actually pitched that to publishers several times and no-one has taken the bait so far....

Here’s a quick recap I’ve been playing most of the major MOBAs since launch, and one of my favorite things about them is seeing how they grow over time. Although people like to dump on the genre wholesale, part of what I love about the genre is that they persist throughout the ages. While [hot game x] is all the rage for a short while, people quickly move on to the next big thing....

In better news: Flying Battery Zone! Previously set for a spring 2017 release, throwback platformerSonic Maniais now targeting a summer launch on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, Sega has confirmed. Along with the disappointing but ultimately understandable schedule-slip news, the company dropped off a trailer with a look atSonic Mania‘s take on Flying Battery Zone fromSonic & Knuckles. The music cuts off just as it’s heating up....