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It feels like the floodgates have opened for name-your-price game bundles. Leave it to the Humble Bundle folks, however, to put together one hell of a deal. There’s no question in my mind that the fourthHumble Indie Bundleis the best one conceived yet. Paying below the minimum grants access to a stellar line-up of titles:Super Meat Boy,Shank,Jamestown,Bit.Trip Runner, andNightSky HD. Chipping in more than the average contribution addsCave Story+andGratuitous Space Battles....

Play two ships with one controller Treasure didn’t need much time to get the shoot ’em up classicIkarugagreenlit on Steam, and now it’s officially making its way to the platform on February 18th. 360 controllers are supported out of the gate, as is the ability to rotate the screen horizontally or vertically. The “Double Play” mode is perhaps the most intriguing addition, which allows one player to use one controller to pilot two ships....

Escape From New York director John Carpenter (Ghosts of Mars;Gorgon, the Space Monster) recently talked toHollywood Reporterabout his successful plagiarism suit against French director Luc Besson (Léon: The Professional) whose recent filmLockoutrips off Carpenter’s classicEscape From New York. “Look, CanalPlus is the company that, with me, ownsEscape From New York. They came to me and said, ‘Luc Besson ripped you off onLockout.’ OrLockdown, whatever the hell that was. And they sent me the movie, and yes, he did....

Bleep. Bloorp. KILL. Terminator: Genisysopened this past weekend to a tepid box office reception and groaning reviews. But did anyone really expect anything else?Terminator 3andSalvationmore than burned up the credit earned by the original (truly excellent) films. Paramount’s nervous marketing team already pushed the big twist of the movie in the public’s face with its clumsy, unsubtle hands, scuttling any chance of surprise or novelty the film might have had. All that’s left is to watch an aging former-Governor sleepwalk through his catch phrases and wonder why Khaleesi isn’t being more discerning with the roles she picks....

Save the Netherworld from darkness! Mamorukun Curseis coming to PlayStation Network next month, UFO Interactive has announced. The G.Rev-developer shoot-’em-up is set to arrive on July 16 for $19.99. The shooter includes three original gameplay modes, online leaderboards, and seven unique playable characters. An additional two gameplay modes and alternate constumes are also included in the package, both of which originally released as downloadable content in the Japanese version.

Heading for Tony Stark levels of wealth? Free-to-play mobile card gameMarvel Snaphas already gotten off to a smashing start, having raked in a staggering $2 million USD in revenue since its launch just one week ago. Available on PC and mobile platforms, the card combat title has already been downloaded by some 5.3 million players. Marvel Snapis a strategic card battler that focuses on the heroes and villains of the legendary comic-book universe....

Better with Kinect? What happens when you’re without it? Remember when the Wii U announced its unique GamePad? We spent some time worrying about whether or not Nintendo was going tosell the gamepad separatelyand, if not, what we would do if ours broke? Well, we have at least a couple more months of a similar situation with the Xbox One. As you may know, theXbox One requires a Kinectto function. That’s all well and good (except for people who really dislike the Kinect, anyway), but what happens when the Harlem Globetrotters come to visit and, while showing my fashion model husband a trick, they spook the dog sending it careening into the entertainment center and the Kinect tumbling to the ground?...

Get it? Section 8 is dropping? Oh, never mind… Sony is currently offering a 15 monthPlayStation Plussubscription for the price of 12. But that’s an investment for the forward-thinking man. What have they done for us lately? Well, that13 for ’13 salewas pretty neat. Oh, and there’s a wholenew assortment of offeringsset to land on the premium service this week. Everyone likes free stuff, soNinja Gaiden Sigma Plusis the obvious standout, but also I’m quite fond ofSection 8: Prejudice....

Dozens will rejoice Nintendo did frustrating Nintendo Things last month when itdelisted the Wii U version ofPikmin 3alongside the announcement of the newPikmin 3 Deluxefor Switch. That’s just kind of how Nintendo rolls, though. The same thing happened withDonkey Kong Country: Tropical Freezewhen it was due to get a Switch re-release. Now, because there are no rules and nothing makes sense,Pikmin 3is back on the Wii U eShop. It’s one of the $20 Nintendo Selects just like it was before....

Nintendo Direct live roundtable reactions! Welcome back! It’s time for a new episode of the Spot Dodge Podcast exclusively on Destructoid.Topics:Tonight we’ll be discussing and reacting to everything we saw in the Nintendo Direct from earlier today!Metroid Prime Remastered, newTears of the Kingdomfootage. So much to talk about! Our lovely cast from around the web:Brett Medlock(me) and Mary Stowe from Destructoid, John Friscia from The Escapist, Greg Bargas from PC Invasion, and Brett Larsen, our extra special guest....

Limited to South Korea and Brazil to start Back when I regularly playedPokémon Go, I wished there was a way to suggest new PokéStops. Most of us did. Soon, Niantic will begin testing exactly such a feature (albeit in select regions). Pokémon Goplayers in South Korea and Brazil will be able to nominate PokéStops with photographs and descriptions, which will then be “reviewed by experienced users in the Ingress Operation Portal Recon (OPR) project....

Brothers in Arms Pocketwatch Games have announced that a new update, set live today, will allow multi-platform crossplay for the fuzzy revolutionaries of tactical strategy titleTooth and Tail. The indie release,which launched in the Fall of 2017, sees a remorseless civil war break out between a community of countryside critters. Playing like a high-speed, scaled-down version of RTS games such asStarCraftandCommand and Conquer, players guide their platoon of blanket-bombing owls, grenade-tossing warthogs and drunken squirrels to victory in a ugly rebellion against the bourgeoisie....

Expect a ‘departure’ set within the Outlast universe Where shouldOutlastgo from here? The run-like-hell-and-hide horror series has become a relatively known entity at this point, with more than 15 million sales to date.Outlast 2felt like the next logical step as a bigger-budget follow-up, but should Red Barrels stay on that trajectory? Last year, the studiosaid it would probably makeanOutlast 3“at some point.” But before that day comes, it’s working on “a distinct experience set in theOutlastuniverse,” one that “won’t be a sequel toOutlastorOutlast 2....