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Teslagrad is a puzzle platformer with action elements, where magnetism and other electromagnetic powers are the key to go throughout the game, and thereby discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower. Gain new habilities to explore a non-linear world with more than 100 beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe. You play as a young boy who suddenly finds himself embroiled in a long-forgotten conspiracy, involving the despotic king who has ruled the nation with an iron fist for several years. Jump into an outstanding adventure told through voiceless storytelling, writing your own part. Armed with ancient Teslamancer technology and your own ingenuity and creativity, your path lies through the decrepit Tesla Tower and beyond.

Lee Weeks talks to us about returning to writing after 13 years, in new anthology series DAREDEVIL: DARK NIGHTS.

Remedy introduced its next game, Quantum Break, at yesterday's Xbox One presentation. That might have put you in the mood to catch up on some of the developer's back-catalog, and thanks to the Humble Bundle, you can do it on the cheap. The latest bundle includes the Alan Wake Collector's Edition and American Nightmare together, each with soundtracks, for a name-your-own price.The bundle also promises bonuses like exclusive videos, comics, behind-the-scenes materials, and screenplays. As usual, you can split your price between the developer, the Child's Play and Electronic Frontier Foundation charities, and the Humble tip. Remedy creative director Sam Lake produced a little video about the history of Alan Wake, the studio's new game, and his hopes for more games in the Alan Wake series.

Microsoft isn't prepared to share how used games on Xbox One will be handled - which had adverse effects on retailer GameStop's stock price yesterday - but the company is definitely going to be in the market. "We understand the secondary market is incredibly important today in the current generation. It will be incredibly important in the next generation," Phil Spencer, Microsoft Corporate VP of Microsoft Studios, said in an interview with us. "I love the fact that my identity, my saves and my content can go with me to any console I move to. The ability to have me and my content save in the cloud who I am, and I can move around, that obviously requires some capability to know what content you own, associated with you and how you move." He also danced around the always-online issue, something that already caused one public firing at Microsoft. "We also understand that sometime people's internet goes down and I shouldn't stop watching a movie or stop playing a single-player game when that happens. We'll support a tolerance where we can," he noted, but we were seeking specifics on how long the console could be offline. "You asked about the boundaries, how long will that work? I'll just tell you we don't know yet. We'll tell you when we have the answer and we can tell everybody. But we understand that secondary market is important to the ecosystem, no doubt." Asked about the game trading that Microsoft previously mentioned, Spencer said, "Yeah, these are some of the specifics... honestly, I'm not really dodging, I just don't want to tell you something we haven't fully baked yet. "We basically set this reveal up so we could show the hardware, announce the name, talk about worldwide launch this year, show EA and Activision on our stage during our announce - which I think was a pretty compelling point to have both - with their biggest franchises in FIFA and Call of Duty," he concluded the topic. "Then we're gonna use E3 to game, game, game."Xbox One will definitely be in used games market, details still blurry originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 22 May 2013 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments

A boxed retail collection of PlayStation Network titles will hit store shelves on June 25, bringing four games and a $40 price tag with it. Best of PlayStation Network Vol. 1, the first in a series of "Best of" releases according to the announcement, includes When Vikings Attack, Sound Shapes, Tokyo Jungle and Fat Princess. No word on when Vol. 2 will follow or what games will be included with it, but for the time being this seems like a pretty legit way to save "nearly $15." Folks interested in internetless PlayStation Networking might also want to check out Journey's Collector's Edition, which is also a collection of acclaimed PSN games on physical caveman media for cavemen.Best of PlayStation Network Vol. 1 coming to retail next month originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 22 May 2013 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments

Owners of the original Kinect on Xbox 360 had the ability to unplug the device, but that won't be the case with the ever-vigilant and always-listening Xbox One version, Corporate VP of Microsoft Studios Phil Spencer told Joystiq. "Kinect has to be connected to Xbox One," Spencer said. "That, from a creator standpoint, I love, because I like to have a common platform that I can target." Spencer did take the opportunity to note that just because Kinect is always connected now, it doesn't mean Xbox One games are going to integrate physical activity at every opportunity. "What I'm seeing in the creation process is more subtle uses of Kinect. I think when Kinect first came out on 360 everybody felt if you weren't doing jumping jacks in the middle of the room it wasn't a Kinect game," he said, going on to describe various everyday uses, such as watching television, for the product. If you have concerns about Microsoft installing an always-on microphone and camera in your living room, better invest in a veil for the camera and some way of muffling Kinect's "ears." Owners of the next-gen console will need to accept Kinect is watching thee and there's little privacy.Xbox One requires Kinect connection originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 22 May 2013 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments

Thanks to the Xbox One unveiling yesterday, the Xbox Live Marketplace update was delayed by a day, but it's finally here and you can check out all the new games, DLC, and sales that are now available after the break.

Want to further support the programmers and artists who managed to make the dandy Metro: The Last Light from the frigid cold of a tiny unheated Ukranian office? Here's your chance.

Platform: iOS — Logistics is a physics puzzle game from Robb Akerson. Using only the most basic features from building games such as The Incredible Machine, it's your job to move objects around the screen, one piece of candy or one block of ice at a time. It takes a bit of fiddling to make sure everything is in the right place, but Logistics is built with casual players in mind, providing a good logical challenge but never making you feel frustrated. Tagged as: free, game, ios, ipad, iphone, mobile, physics, puzzle, rakerson, rating-g, tablet

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