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A new Heavy Gear game is coming, but Heavy Gear Assault will only appear at the mercy of the wallet-wielding crowd. The Unreal Engine powered game is asking for $800,000, and is looking pretty stompy. However, this proposition does not include a campaign, but instead is a multiplayer combat game: “Compete in tournaments and organized matches for fame and fortune. Spectate and sponsor other players. Vote on performances. Put bounties on poor sports and pay their enemies to take them out.” The final thing will be free to play, and backing now buys in-game items and other additional awards both virtual and physical. Videos below, including a destructible environment demo that reminds me of the Red Faction demos of old. (more…)

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Improves system stability and compatibility with certain software. Nintendo has launched Wii U system system update 3.0.1E.Click here to read the full articleRelated StoriesNarco Terror announced for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360Battlefield 4 'big news' teased ahead of next-gen Xbox eventBatman: Arkham Origins Blackgate - Vita and 3DS versions developed in parallelVideos: Resident Evil Revelations HD launch trailer, opening mission and moreCall of Juarez Gunslinger launch trailer and opening mission

Man, it appears we're in for one boring gaming summer. Apart from The Last of Us, which is PS3-only, there's really not a lot on the horizon to get us through the approaching trimester of laziness and sweat.

Unity CEO David Helgason today revealed that the basic mobile licenses for the Unity game engine are now free, allowing developers to build games in Unity for no charge. ... More...

Case in point: a four-minute (!) launch trailer, consisting of Mr. Greaves shooting people in the face with a wide variety of weapons. While Techland's latest entry into the Call of Juarez brand of shooters is looking better by the minute, I can't help but be wary after The Cartel. We'll see. Call of Juarez: Gunslinger is hitting PS3, Xbox 360 and PC tomorrow. Let's hope it's as fun as it looks. Questions? Comments? Contact the author of this post at andras-AT-kotaku-DOT-com.

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Unity Technologies, the company behind the popular Unity game development engine, today announced that it has made its basic mobile tools completely free to independent developers. ...

Judging by a new video and preview, EA's new MOBA Dawngate is trying to do at least a couple of things differently.Dawngate is typically MOBA at first glance, with lanes and heroes and a cartoon style you've seen a handful of times before.But within the familiar are interesting new touches such as regenerating towers called Bindings, which offer a battered team a way back in to a battle. There's resource gathering, too, in the shape of Spirit Wells. These create additional workers over time that gradually increase the amount of nearby resources (one kind) you harvest, but these workers can be killed by the other team and the Spirit Well can change team-hands.Read more…

Last week, EA shocked no one by announcing a fantasy-themed MOBA of its very own. RPS went street level to witness the complete lack of riots, and everything went pretty much exactly as expected. Jim Smitherford of Some Random San Francisco Apartment was incredulous. “Wait,” he said, brow furrowed as though on the verge of collapse. “They haven’t done that already? Huh. Also, how did you get inside my home?” Kelly Someoneson of Someplaceburg shared a similar sentiment. “Oh,” she replied when we gave her the news. “Well, good luck to them, I guess.” Then we tapped one last man on the shoulder and asked for his input. “Really? So they’re finally doing that, huh. Well I’ll be,” he exclaimed. It was EA COO Peter Moore. [Obviously, the above events are highly fictionalized. The following Dawngate video footage and details, however, are most certainly not.] (more…)