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Aaru’s Awakening is a platformer featuring hand-drawn art and fast-paced action. Use the main character’s teleportation ability to weave your way through its beautiful levels. Coming to Windows, OS X, PS3 and PS4 this summer.

Skyrim meets SimCity in Northern Shadow. Build, expand and protect your city from an overworld view. Then explore it and the world outside from a first-person perspective, while waging wars or forming alliances with other kingdoms.

Mika Mobile’s follow up to its hit iOS RPG Battleheart. The game forgoes its predecessor’s 2D graphics and party-based combat for a single character in a 3D world, with a flexible skill system and multiple dialogue options. More here.

(Gore) Battlecry is an upcoming free-to-play third person team-based multiplayer game. Set in an alternate world where gunpowder was banned after World War II, the game’s classes are armed with melee weapons, bows and gadgets.

A card-based party game that puts different twists on the name game. Each card has a noun along with its definition. Players take turns guessing each other’s card, but the rules for giving clues change each round.

A look at the new build mode in The Sims 4. It will feature a variety of intuitive and practical features such as rescalable rooms, fully furnished theme rooms and the ability to move entire buildings while still offering a lot of customization.

This 15-minute gameplay walkthrough of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel gives us an in-depth look at the game’s new weapons, environments, mechanics, enemies as well as the new skills of a couple of its playable characters.

Broody McBrooderson er- Bruce Wayne joins forces with Superman and the Justice League to fight Brainiac and the Legion of Doom in LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham. The game will feature over 150 playable characters. More here.

An immersive art installation and story in the form of an app, Circa 1948 transports you back in time to post-war Vancouver, BC and allows you to take in the history of the then developing city by eavesdropping on long lost conversations.

(Gore) Sharpshooter Karl Fairburne heads to Africa in Sniper Elite 3. The game will feature a more open world, with multiple cooperative two-player modes. The X-Ray Kill Cam returns and zooms in on mechanical objects as well.

Aside from having four Hunter classes, the 4 vs. 1 multiplayer FPS Evolve will also have multiple characters for each class. They’ll offer a different personality and approach to how their respective class is played.

You’ve seen Bruce Lee in the octagon. Now check out real world fighters Anthony Pettis and Jose Aldo square off in this sample round. They still have the dead eyes of video game characters, but otherwise it all looks good.

In-game footage of Batman in his new and ever so chunky armor, the equally combat-ready Batmobile and the games’ mysterious villain, the eponymous Arkham Knight. Why does anyone still live in Gotham?

(NSFW, Gore) The still clueless gamer Conan O’Brien gets his hands on Watch_Dogs. He proceeds to make up a Chinese proverb, pitch an idea for a FedEx commercial and discover a poetic Easter egg. Or not.

(Gore) The latest trailer for the open world survival horror game The Forest. You know the drill: stock up on supplies and fortify your base by day, and try to not to die at night. Join the Alpha on Steam Early Access on 5/22.

This promising virtual reality system can be used with HDTVs, gaming consoles, PCs and anything that has an HDMI output. It also has a clever controller that can be used as a gun, a joystick, a gamepad and a motion controller.

EA Sports reveals in-game footage of Bruce Lee in its upcoming PS4 and Xbox One UFC game. The martial arts legend will be playable in the league’s flyweight, bantamweight, featherweight and lightweight divisions.

Supergiant Games’ sci-fi action RPG looks to be just as beautiful and action-packed as its hit debut Bastion. Narrator Logan Cunningham stars as the main character’s sword, the Transistor. Out on PS4 via PSN & PC via Steam 5/20.

This hilarious mod for NBA 2K14 allows you to make gargantuan players which can get from one end of the court to the other in just a few steps. His pint-sized brother is pretty hilarious too.

Shiness is an impressive looking Japanese-style RPG by indie developer Ynnis Interactive. The game will have five playable characters and a combat system similar to 3D fighting games. For Windows and OS X, with a possible PS4 port.

The Spy puts on his best Solid Snake impression in The Mystery Zone’s sublime mashup of Team Fortress 2 and the PlayStation classic Metal Gear Solid. They even used low resolution models and graphics.

(NSFW: Language) Another entry to the now bastardized simulation genre, Baking Simulator 2014 is like Surgeon Simulator except it’s about baking. Sam Oates made it in just two days for Ludum Dare.

A mariachi band plays a medley of catchy tunes from Super Mario Bros. at a wedding. We were disappointed to find out the bride and groom weren’t dressed like Princess Peach and Mario though. (Thanks Anwar!)