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Telltale Games’ Poker Night 2 will let you play Texas Hold ‘Em and Omaha poker with Brock Samson, Claptrap, Sam and Ash Williams. Not geeky enough for you? GLaDOS is the dealer. Coming to Steam, PSN & XBLA very soon.

Supergiant Games builds on the success of Bastion with their next game, Transistor. It’s an isometric RPG/platformer that offers both real-time and turn-based battle styles, as well as the sweet art of Supergiant’s Jen Zee.

Master thief Garrett returns in the reboot of the critically acclaimed first-person sneaking series. Thief: Out of the Shadows will launch for PCs and next-generation consoles in 2014.

(NSFW: Language, Gore) The red band trailer for The Last of Us contains lots of never before seen footage, including a look at the game’s world and other characters that Joel and Ellie will meet along the way.

The MMORPG WildStar has a bright and colorful world and unique character development. Aside from choosing a race and a class, players also pick a path: do you want to be an explorer, a settler or a good old combatant?

A look at Rain, an upcoming puzzle adventure game for the PS3. The game is about a boy and a girl who are running from creatures who, like themselves, are only visible under rainfall, creating a unique gameplay dynamic.

The first gameplay trailer for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag showcases some of the activities offered by its Caribbean setting, such as underwater exploration, shark fights, and ship versus ship combat. And no whaling.

Great news for Apple gamers! Not only will 2K Games release the tactical turn-based RPG XCOM: Enemy Unknown on Macs, the full game will also be ported to the iPad and other iOS devices. Goodbye sleep.

Gamespot shows off 10 minutes of gameplay in a creepy and disgusting swamp in Metro: Last Light, filled with gradually creepier and more disgusting creatures. The game looks quite immersive, if utterly depressing.

Google Keep is a note-taking service much like the popular Evernote. Make a list, save links or images and rearrange them as you see fit. Available as an Android app as well as a web service.

Minuum is a keyboard for Android devices that compresses the traditional QWERTY layout into one row that you can drag and resize. The quality of its predictive text input will make or break this app.

A combat demo of Dead State, a turn-based RPG set in a zombie apocalypse. But instead of killing the undead, players will focus on scrounging for supplies and improving their shelter. Trailer here.

Divekick is a fighting game with only two moves: dive and kick. Characters have different dive and kick styles. Whoever gets hit first dies. Because that’s what happens when you get divekicked.

Saints Row continues on its crazy trajectory with its fourth installment. Saints Row IV sees the Saints become U.S. Presidents. Then they get abducted by aliens. Then they gain superpowers. Naturally.

If Shadowrun Returns got you excited, check out UnderRail, another Fallout descendant. The isometric turn-based RPG is set in a distant future where people have camped out in subway stations.

The opening cinematic for Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate. Hunt down gigantic creatures with your friends in Capcom’s hit action RPG, with online multiplayer on the Wii U and local co-op on the 3DS.

Do you love the Content Aware Fill tool in Photoshop? This prototype program can do that with videos. It inpaints by using pixels from certain frames to edit a moving object out of other frames.

Pay what you want for DRM-free PC, Mac, Linux and Android copies of up to six awesome indie games, including the RTS-tower defense hybrid Dungeon Defenders and the maddening Super Hexagon.

Play against hundreds of other Bombermen in this browser-based massively-multiplayer version of the classic game. It also features a variety of new power-ups. Konami should make this official.

In the latest trailer for his upcoming game, the Merc with a Mouth describes the trailer itself. He’s starting to sound like a slightly cooler albeit way more insane version of Duke Nukem.

A bonus available when you pre-order from Gamestop, you’ll be able to play GoW: Ascension’s multiplayer mode donning the armor and weapon of King Leonidas from 300. Now this is Sparta!

The official debut trailer of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. The game is about Connor’s grandfather Edward Kenway, “a brash rebel pirate assassin” plying the waters of the Caribbean in 1715.

The latest version of YouTube’s mobile app adds a “send to TV” feature which allows you to wirelessly beam and control videos from your iOS or Android devices. You can also pair with an XBox or PS3.