NOVUS// Tiny Tina DLC

If she doesn't make a 'D6/G6' joke I don't even.....

Available// Steam, XBLA, PSN // June 25 2013

Price// $9.99 // 800 msp // Free with Season Pass

Related articles// Game of the Year 2012 Borderlands 2 Review

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I may not have expected them to go there... but they are. For the good of us all. As a fan of tabletop gaming, this is the BL2 dlc I've been most excited about. I collect dice & am currently working on my Elf Ninja in Pathfinder like, right now! In an homage to the progenitor of the rpg genre, Borderlands 2's newest dlc proves that Gearbox can't pretend they don't somehow owe Dungeons & Dragons' late, great Gary Gygax. Many expect this to be the final content addition to 2012's Borderlands 2, but knowing the kind of eccentric team Gearbox is, we may yet be surprised.

Take part in an adventure narrated by Bunker Master Tiny Tina herself as she leads you through the post-apocalyptic Dark Ages of Pandora.

PLUGGED// Pixel Press

I'm not sure how many people have seen this project on Kickstarter, but I am completely on board with it. Being a Games Design student that is broke most of the time makes it hard to contribute considerably to kickstarters I think are genius, but I've decided to make rice a staple of my diet this week to help these guys out. I'm also spreading the word to you, dear nerdlings, to help out if you can!

PLAY// Fez Haiku

Haiku are simple. Fez is simple. Right? WRONG. Fez is MUCH more than pixels, chip music & platforming... it's a mind-bending, frustratingly cryptic, riddle-laden adventure into the depths of Phil Fish's psychosis. Can you deduce your experience to three lines? Do it & I'll send you stuff!

NERDPOLL// Charizard pt2

Last week I asked the viewers of the Glitch Facebook Page to BRING FORTH the most Awesome picture of Charizard, ever. 

I've decided to extend the poll entries by an extra week to include PRIZES. These will generally be reserved for Contests but since you guys sifted through the internet so diligently I've decided to give you something for your hard work! The winner will receive their choice of a Charizard plush or figure!

Like the Glitchcraft Facebook Page to participate!

Here are the results so far. YOU CAN VOTE NOW by commenting. GET YOUR FRIENDS TO VOTE TO WIN!!!

PLUGGED// Among the Sleep

Available Now in Alpha: PC/Mac/Linux

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Among the Sleep by Krillbite Studio--the first person horror adventure, in which you play as a two year old child--has reached it's Kickstarter goal today! Hurray!

NERDPOLL// Charizard

The other day I asked the viewers of the Glitch Facebook Page to BRING FORTH the most Awesome picture of Charizard, ever. Here are the amazing results! WHO IS THE WINNER?!

This week's Nerd Poll: Which 6th gen starter will you choose? Like the Glitchcraft Facebook Page to participate!

NOVUS// Pokemon X Y

Available// 3DS October 2013

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With only five more months to go, the Pokemon X Y news is ramping up. The sixth generation of hand-held Pokemon games will introduce full 3D effects, similar to the N64-to-Wii franchise of Pokemon Stadium, Colosseum, etc. I am definitely getting a 3DS for this, even though I love my pink DSi that got signed by AVGN! Here's a collection of stuff I know about PKMN X/Y, including the most recent news.

RE// FC3: Blood Dragon

Review Score //  ★★★★★

By // Olivia

System // 2013 PC/Steam/Uplay (also available on: XBLA, PSN)

A Game By // Ubisoft Montreal
Related Articles // FT// FC3 Blood Dragon

PROLOGUE

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Blood Dragon is in a very precarious place... on the one hand, it's easy to see where a game that bets everything on 80's nostalgia could go horribly wrong; on the other, it could be everything you dreamed it would be. Let me start off by saying that if you love 80's action/sci-fi movies, there's little Blood Dragon could do to screw up your enjoyment of this standalone expansion for the 2012 FPS, even if you didn't like Far Cry 3.

MACHINE DREAMS concept art

full-res image on my deviantart bit.ly/18tf3GC

Severyn Hours is a SHMUP/vertical shooter/bullet hell game by Machine Dreams. I've always wanted to be good at SHMUPs but the simple fact is that I just SUCK at them, so I decided that I would make one that I could actually play. Severyn Hours was born. The goal of the game's visual aesthetic is to give you the best possible peak into my brain. The goal of the mechanics is to make it so fun that you can't stop playing. Ever. & you will definitely own the soundtrack.

It's a story about the evolution of consciousness. With giant space lasers.

OMNIBUS// Penumbra

By // Nicole
System // Mac/Steam
A Game By // Frictional Games

Obviously, playing Frictional Games’ first series, Penumbra, is exactly what has to happen after you finish playing their hit horror game, Amnesia: the Dark Descent. So that’s exactly what did happen towards the end of this past summer. The Steam Summer Sale… The Penumbra Collectors Pack… $4.99

RE// Fable 3

This guy knows what's up.

Review Score // ★★☆ (& that's being nice)

By // Olivia

System // Xbox 360 (also available on: PC)

A Game By // Lionhead Studios

Recently one of our readers asked me what my negative reviews look like. To date, I've only written this one; it was originally published June 6 2011 on the Giantbomb forum. Fable 3 takes me to the dark place. TLDR

PROLOGUE

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If you’ve played the game, you’ll only have angry flashbacks reading my review so you probably should not… if you haven’t played it, take this as a warning. This game.. hurt my feelings. I have been emotionally abused. PREPARE FOR A THOROUGH RAGE-FEST.

Fable III; I played through it twice, & I previously played Fable II. The last game is something I remember fondly like a distant tryst with a pleasant conclusion… I wasn't expecting much to be different in the third installment, I was just expecting more; more of the things that I liked. It’s difficult to think of the things that I liked about Fable III, even though my final play-through concluded this morning.

When did I notice something was wrong… I don’t know. It was like a creeping illness, the sense of something not being quite right, followed by a few stages of denial. I better know when the bad things started to drive me insane… which was less than halfway through the game. Enough prefacing, I’ll try to go through this systematically…

FT// Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon

Available now for// XBLA, PSN, Steam
Price// $14.99
Related Articles// FC3 Blood Dragon Review

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It started out widely-believed to be an April Fool's joke. Quite possibly the coolest AFJ of all time. Where most internet AFJs are generally designed to troll a userbase, it turned out that the true downside would, in fact, be that it was truly a prank. For the glory of video games & the good of mankind, the truth was revealed that Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon was, indeed, a reality. On April 1st, with only a website & a single video, Ubisoft teased the release of DLC for their latest Far Cry - the website & video went viral in the nerdy gaming world, in which you currently find yourself.