Quick! Grab some free stuff for both Xbox 360 and Xbox One versions of Minecraft!! Mojang has released three new skin packs to celebrate its third year on Microsoft's consoles. Best of all, anyone who owns the game can get all three skins for free... for a limited time!
Another Humble Weekly Bundle has rolled onto the scene bearing gifts for indie gamers around the world. Dubbed "Surprise Attack", the pack features eight games, including three with co-op, all available for a (mostly) pay-what-you-want price.
Some new (and more importantly, free) DLC has arrived for Bloodsports.TV this week. Owners of the game should already see this new content added and for those of you waiting to pick it up, now may be a good time.
Remember Banjo-Kazooie? Of course you do. The game helped popularize the 3D platform adventure back in the golden age of the PS1 and Nintendo 64. We haven't heard much from the bear-bird combo since the last game hit back in 2008, but a group of former Rare employees wants to keep the spirit alive with a brand new "inspired by" release titled Yooka-Laylee.
Indie Gala, long dormant since it last staggered forward from the Savings Mines, has returned! This time bearing a bag teeming with Steam sales even the most self-righteous Valve employee might agree to, Indie Gala's slumming around for a bit to see who wants a cut of the deals. These games are only on Steam though, so anybody without a PC should just walk away.
Those that own the original The Binding of Isaac DLC, 'Wrath of the Lamb', can now update it with a newly added hard mode. Thank the one man on the dev team, Florian Himsl, for his hard work to increase the game's replay value even further. Also, we have some new info on The Binding of Isaac Rebirth's upcoming DLC!
Ah, the life of a farmer. Leading a simple, unadorned life. Drinking Simpler Times lager. Reading "Simple Living" magazine. Catching squirrels and training them to relax on your porch on command. Building tiny rocking chairs so that they, too, can contemplate the wonders of this physical plane while they chew on their acorns. Assuming the moniker of "xxHardWorkEasyLivingxx" on a farming message board and flaming any cityfolk that dare post in that hallowed forum. Oh, and also playing Farming Simulator 15 on consoles.
Finnish game developer Polar Bunny has a package for you. No, not the kind that creep at the park tries to give early morning joggers. This is the good kind of package. The puzzle solving video game kind of package. The studio's debut title Parcel has passed through Steam Greenlight and is ready to give us all what we came for: good, clean, package delivery fun.
Destiny's next big content patch, "House of Wolves," is launching on May 19th, a scant two weeks away, and the wizards at Bungie have been hurling out video teasers from their first class seats aboard the Hype Train. The teasers have been in large gearing up for a grand "Twitch Reveal," which is to say that the new elements of the expansion are announced on their live Twitch stream.
The transmedia SyFy original TV show / video game Defiance is gearing up for its second season, premiering on the network this June. Unfortunately, despite being a "transmedia experience," we can't command the real-world actors to do what we want in the show. Or in real life. Have you ever tried to direct a flesh and blood human being with a gamepad? It's hard.
Good news for PC Master Race and PS4 owners who live in Europe or the Middle East. If you held off on picking up Far Cry 4 figuring "surely they'll release a complete edition with the full game and all DLC at some point," you were right! For Xbox One owners, well... they still have that deal going on, so there's something!
Fable Legends, the upcoming four player co-op from Lionhead Studios, is starting to shed the layers of mystery that surrounded it when it was first announced way back in 2013. Although its release date is still nebulous (by that I mean it'll be out sometime between this very moment and the next time the Cubs win the pennant, i.e. infinity), the developers have hinted that the game will drop later this year.
