Orcs Must Die - new trailer, new ways to kill!

Orcs Must Die - the novel twist to the now familiar tower defense genre - has released a new trailer. And the best part? It's interactive!

Through YouTube's normally annoying annotations system, you can choose the combination of traps, archers or just plain old fighting that you like, and see how they'll all tie together in the final game.

I must say, this was another game that I was initially very dismissive of, but slowly grew on me the more I knew of it. Perhaps I'm more willing to spend money after having gained a job. Perhaps I'm more susceptible now, having stopped drinking regularly. Perhaps I'm slowly losing IQ points through repeated beatsing at medieval re-enactment. Whatever the case, I'm really looking forward to this, and will probably bye it on launch. Like so many other good looking games this year.

God damn.

Credit: PCGamer and The Escapist.

Hilarious farts confirmed! New Street Fighter x Tekken footage gives a lot of information.

Despite sounding like a slash fanfic mash-up, Street Fighter x Tekken is looking better and better each day. Capcom's newest video details the storyline, characters, game modes... pretty much most of the game in fact. Why don't they throw in a few cheat codes whilst they're at it?

The trailer gives an overview of the storyline; super-duper thing box falls to Earth and researchers who know their narrative duty nickname it 'Pandora'. Because that can't go wrong. They find out that the box resonates with energy when it detects nearby conflict - how they figured that out I'm not sure; researchers don't tend to be the fighting type - and that obviously leads them to bring the cast of two fighting games together for a big punch-up. Yay for fighting game storylines! They think they're people.

The gameplay upshot of this is 'Pandora mode', both, an evil purple mode for your character (everything purple is evil, right?) and a new gameplay mode. In order to activate your Pandora mode, it seems you have to sacrifice a tag-team partner, something that leads to a massive boost in power. Dragon Ball Z connotations aside, this looks to be something fun and something that should cause many friendships to be broken and controllers-related injuries should soar. Pandora mode is... erm, I think it's the gameplay mode where that happens. So sue me.

The aforementioned tagging system should be interesting, as the new 'Scramble Mode' puts all four players on the screen at once. It's this I'm really excited for, to be honest. I don't even own a console that can play this, but I'm seriously thinking of buying it for a friend's console. It looks that damn fun. Not since Mashed has four-player looked so intriguing.

Oh, and a bunch of characters have been confirmed. According to this trailer, the newly characters are: Rolento, an army-type with a stick; Ibuki, a stereotypically cute female ninja; Heihachi, shame on you if you don't know this guy; Kuma, a bear. Heihachi's pet bear, to be exact; Zangief, the Russian wrestler and staple of the SF series; and Lili, a petite and spoilt American blonde who can inexpicably kick ass.

Damn, I haven't been this excited for a fighting game in... ever!

Credit: The Sixth Axis.

More Street Fighter X Tekken details released.

And in video form too! My favourite kind of release.

Even if this game isn't likely to have a PC port (an earlier report of a PC version was put dowbn to a 'typographical error'), I'm still enjoying watching the trailers and anticipating it anyway. Hell, there are a few Xbox 360s in my house next year. Maybe... just maybe...

Anyway, my two favourite fighting franchises, together at last! I've been waiting for this for years, and now it's finally happening. This trailer is hopefully the first of many - those shitty 'reveal' ones don't count for squat. More please!

Credit: Destructoid.