Donate directly, or pick up the latest Humble Bundle Independent Games Festival chairman Brandon Boyer has helped make many wonderful indie games find their way into your hands. Now Brandon could use your help. He fought off cancer last year, but his health insurance company Humana denied his claims and he was left with over $100,000 in medical expenses to deal with. Brandon took tocrowd funding site GoFundMe(where you can read the full details of Humana’s blood boiling reasons for denying the claim) to raise the funds for his medical bills, and he’s pretty close to reaching his target goal....

Terrariahas come a long way since its 2011 release asbasicallyMinecraftbut 2D. But has it become modern enough to support crossplay? Can you play cross-platform? No. Well, yes, but only technically. Probably not in the way you were hoping for. I’m going to guess where this question is coming from and jump straight to that answer before I get more detailed. ForTerraria, consoles and PCs don’t intermingle. If you’re on PC, you may’t play with an Xbox Series X|S player....

‘This is the most important game we’ve worked on in over a decade’ For the first time in a long time, Team17, the developer behind the long-runningWormsfranchise, is working on a new property. The new game will be calledFlockers, and that’s all that Team17 had to say about it at this point. Speaking toDevelop, Debbie Bestwick, the studio’s managing director, revealed the news at PlayStation Open Day. She was mum on details, but commented that “this is the most important game we’ve worked on in over a decade....

Vroom vroom Michael Keaton is joining theNeed For Speedmovie. Yes, did you forget? There’s aNeed for Speedmovie happening. What’s up with all the game movie news today? The movie will also be starring Aaron Paul and Dominic Cooper, and will see Paul’s character joining a race from New York to Los Angeles to get revenge on someone that back stabbed him. Yeah! Join a race! That will show him! And as Flixist pointed out, it’s worth noting that this movie will be opening on July 03, 2025, the same day as theRoboCopreboot that’s also starring Michael Keaton....

Maybe it’s because I live in a city with a sky-high number of hippies per capita, but my default image of indie developers has always been a slackerific one. I always envision short bouts of coding casually sandwiched in-between sessions of disc-golf, eating vegan tamales, and hiking in flip-flops. Surely a life where you get to make the games you want and thumb your nose at The Man is an idyllic romp through the posies, right?...

Burn it all down, we’re done here Mortal Kombat Xhas simply gone too far this time. Look, we’ve put up with Scorpions and Reptiles for decadesbecause they aren’t actual scorpions and reptiles. They’re just bipedal dudes fixin’ to rip someone’s spine out of their mouth. That’s cool or whatever. You know what’s not cool?Actual fucking spiders. But, according to this picture from one ofMortal Kombat X‘s Achievements, there’s at least a single giant spider in the game, and that is over the line....

Even though we were properly excited for anHD update to Dreamcast classicJet Set Radio, we were a bit worried about the soundtrack, which Sega said would be difficult to keep intact for licensing reasons. Today we’ve learned that Sega has successfully cleared the rights for just about all of the soundtracks worldwide, meaning that almost all of the Japanese, European and North American soundtracks are intact. We’re only missing “Yappie Feet” and a song called “Many Styles” from the PAL version....

While Nintendo has yet to really release similar “rooms” in North America, the Japanese arm of the company may be thinking about adding even more of them to Japanese Wiis.Siliconeraunearthed 12 trademarks, which, when translated, indicate that Nintendo has “rooms” on the brain. And they’re not what you’d guess. How do these sound? “Anywhere Wii Room”; “Corporation Room”; “Travel Room”; “Gourmet Room”; “Real Estate Room”; “Fashion Room”; “Financial Credit Room”; “Movie Room”; “Enterprise Room”; “Living Room”; “Playing Room”; and “Medical Room....

This Friday,Dungeon Defenderswill be getting new DLC that contains skins inspired by the Penny Arcade strip. Included in the pack are Tycho, Annarchy, Jim Darkmagic, and Gabe’s alter-ego, the Cardboard Tube Samurai. If you’re one of the lucky folks heading to PAX East, you can stop by Reverb Publishing’s booth (808) to pick up a free code. Otherwise, they’ll be available on Steam starting April 6th. No word yet on price, though if past DLC is any indication, it should be between $1....

It’s been a weird trajectory forStarfield. It went from being the most anticipated game of this generation to boring the pants off players towinning a Steam Award(though some are curious as to how that came to be). In any case, it hasn’t quite gone away yet, and the modding community is still engaging with it. One such example comes from userKorodic, who’s attempting to put something intoStarfieldthat Bethesda never did. It’s mechs....

Baiyon announces Muse Over the weekend atJapanese independent games festival BitSummit,PixelJunk Edencomposer Baiyon announced a new project,Muse: Together is the New Alone, his directorial debut. The title, which draws inspiration from ’90s adventure games, is being co-developed by Baiyon and Pygmy Studio, the team that brought Nigoro’sLa-Mulanato PlayStation Vita. Muse’s story follows a young boy on a quest to rescue a girl from her never-ending slumber. After finding notes and paintings that belong to his unrequited love, the protagonist sets out on an adventure through watercolored, dreamlike world to awaken her....

Not at first, anyway Platinum Games hasbeen in business for nearly 10 years, and in that time the studio has changed a great deal. The development team has tripled in size since 2006, and, in more recent history, transitioned from just making original titles to a mix of new IPs and licensed products. Speaking withWeekly Famitsuin the magazine’s most recent issue, Platinum CEO Tatsuya Minami discussed the company’s philosophy behind becoming something of a hired gun....

Retailer bonus items announced Dead Space 3is almost on the horizon now, which means its time for Electronic Arts (in partnership with retailers) to try and get you to confirm your need to play with pre-order inducements. If you were to make an order forDead Space 3from the good people at your localGameStop, they will supply you with a code for a submachine gun, the EG-900. Neat, right? Amazongets a weapon called the “Enervator,” which (according to the press release), “delivers a precision blast causing instantaneous electrocution and molecular destabilization in the target....