Monaco: What's Yours is Mine coming to PC and Xbox 360 in April

Award-winning indie game to be finally released later this month.

Indie heist game Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine will be released for Steam and XBLA on April 24, developer Pocketwatch Games has announced.

The PC version will be sold for $14.99, and the Xbox 360 version 1200 Microsoft Points. Pre-orders from the game's official site will include a Steam key alongside a version of the original 2010 IGF-winning prototype of the game.

Monaco: What's Yours is Mine features stealth and puzzles, and requires players to work together to pull off an increasingly difficult series of heists. Levels can be completed in multiple ways depending on the classes picked.

A Mac version is also in development.

For more information on Monaco: What's Yours is Mine, check out GameSpot's previous coverage.

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Kings Quest rights go from Telltale to Activision

Activision has regained the rights to the long-dormant Kings Quest series from The Walking Dead creator Telltale Games.

Telltale announced that it had purchased the rights to Kings Quest in 2011, but now Telltale's vice president of publishing Steve Allinson confirmed the rights to the game had returned to Activision. "While we deeply love King's Quest here at Telltale," said Allinson in a statement to Digital Trends, "we can confirm that we are no longer working on the franchise."

"There was a time last year that we investigated partnering with third party developers to produce the game as a partnership but decided against outsourcing. We are not privy to what plans Activision has for the franchise, if any."

Kings Quest was a notable fantasy-themed adventure game series which ran between 1984 and 1998. The series was developed by Sierra Entertainment, with rights to the series falling to Activision when it merged with Vivendi in 2008.

Also speaking to Digital Trends, Leisure Suite Larry remake developer Replay was also planning on making a new Kings Quest game. Replay owner Dan Trowe said that Activision has its own plans for a Kings Quest game, however.

"Activision's probably not going to give us the King's Quest rights," Trowe said. "[Telltale] had it, and we were going to license it from them to make the remakes."

"Then I talked to the guys at Activision and they were like, 'No, we're pulling it because we're going to do it ourselves,'" continued Trowe, but he has no other details as to Activision's plans.

Telltale is currently working on a second season of The Walking Dead alongside an adaptation of Bill Willingham's Fables graphic novels.

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MechWarrior Online update planned for April

Developer introduces new class of mechs, community events, and interface improvements.

The official MechWarrior Online page announced that it will be launching new content and updates for the game in April.

The new content includes the addition of artillery consumables, air strike options, cockpit items, and a new line of BattleMechs called Champions. The new mechs come equipped with a permanent 5 percent experience boost and custom configurations.

Other additions in the update include improvements of team options, which allows players to join two lances with a commander each and assign lance commands using the battlegrid, and some tweaks to the user interface in-game. Players can also expect 12 versus 12 modes as well as more community events like double XP weekends.

Check out the official post for more information on the update.

The exact date of the April update is yet to be announced.

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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen - Talking Monsters & Mayhem

@idunnodude Well, if that gameplay is amazing, and therefore has a great amount of interesting and unique challenge and replayvalue(which leads to far more than 20 hours of gameplay), I rather have that, than playing another boring WoW-alike game like Skyrim(which is mostly about shallow action, fetch-questing and no challenge whatsoever) for 100 hours.

I want to play a great skill-based action-rpg, infused with  unique Capcom-Tacticalness - not another off-the-mill poodle-breeder-simulation.

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Square Enix Los Angeles hit with layoffs

Undisclosed amount of people let go from Californian studio.

Square Enix has laid off an undisclosed number of staff at its Los Angeles studio in California, the publisher has confirmed.

In a statement issued to Joystiq, a Square Enix representative said "we can confirm that Square Enix's Los Angeles office has eliminated a number of positions as part of the corporate restructuring announced last week."

"This is an unfortunate situation and we are offering assistance and severance packages to any employees affected by this, we want to thank them for their hard work and sincerely wish them well in the future."

Square Enix Los Angeles was involved with the publisher's MMO titles, such as Final Fantasy XIV and Wakfu. The studio had previously suffered another round of layoffs back in December 2012.

Former Square Enix president Yoichi Wada resigned last week after announcing an "extraordinary" loss in the publisher's first quarter financials. The loss was attributed to many of the publisher's games suffering in America and Europe, with the recent high-profile reboot of Tomb Raider failing to hit its sales target, despite selling 3.4 million copies in its opening month.

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Free SimCity DLC offers sponsored Nissan Leaf car dock

Maxis is offering sponsored DLC for SimCity, starting with a free Nissan Leaf charging station.

In game, the Nissan Leaf charging stations offers no real downsides--the building generates happiness without requiring power, water, or workers. It doesn't generate any waste. The in-game advertisement does, however, feature a prominent Nissan logo and fill your city with Nissan's electric Leaf cars.

"Plopping down the Nissan LEAF® Charging Station will add happiness to nearby buildings," says Maxis. "Adding the Charging Station will not take power, water or workers away from your city. Zoom in to the streets of cities and players will start seeing a percentage of their Sims from all wealth classes driving the electric vehicles. The Charging Station produces no garbage or sewage as well making it pollution free."

Any SimCity player interested in the Nissan Leaf charging station can download it for free from Origin or the in-game store. The content will be available for the next six months.

For more information on SimCity, check out GameSpot's previous coverage.

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Amiga and CD32 video game music compilation out worldwide this May

Collection by Netherlands record label 010101 Music to feature composers like Chris Huelsbeck, Tim Wright and David Whittaker.

Netherlands record label 010101 Music announced that it will be releasing a video game music collection featuring tunes from Amiga and CD 32 titles.

The 19-track album is called Paula Agnus Denise and will consist of remastered tracks and remixed versions of music from titles like Alien Breed, Turrican 3, and Shadow of the Beast 2. The composers who will be involved in the project include Chris Huelsbeck, Tim Wright, Allister Brimble, David Whittaker and Barry Leitch.

The album will be out worldwide on May 6 in CD and digital download form via Amazon MP3 and iTunes. The full track listing is just below.

"Hired Guns Medley" (Synchaoz Remake) -Synchaoz
"Shadow of the Beast 3 Game Over (Urban Slide Mix)" - CoLD SToRAGE
"Turrican 3 Main Theme" - Chris Huelsbeck
"Shadow of the Beast 2 Title Theme (Oxygene Moon Mix)" - CoLD SToRAGE
"Narcissus (Cannon Fodder Lost in Service Synchaoz Remix)" - Synchaoz
"Alien Breed" - Allister Brimble
"Apidya Techno Party (Rapture Trance Mix)" - Fabian Del Priore
"Battle Squadron Intro" - Ron Klaren
"Pinball Dreams Title (Digital World 2011 Mix)" - Char7ie
"Clockwiser Title" - Ramon Braumuller
"Agony Title (Acoustic Jam)" - Danja & Martine
"Battle Squadron Game Over" - Ron Klaren
"Shadow of the Beast Title (daXX Orchestra Remix)" - daXX
"Megablast (Xenon 2 Mix)" - Bomb the Bass
"Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 Theme (daXX Remix) - daXX
"Turrican 2 Main Title" - Tomi Jylhä-Ollila
"Project-X" - Allister Brimble
"Brutal Deluxe (Speedball 2 Theme Remake)" - The Zero One
"Apidya Theme" - Chris Huelsbeck

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Injustice: Gods Among Us free demo hits April 4

April 1, 2013 10:32PM PDT

Warner Bros. confirms free demo of NetherRealm's DC fighter for Xbox 360 and PS3 starting April 4; Black Adam confirmed as in-game character.

Warner Bros. has confirmed a free demo for the upcoming NetherRealm DC fighter, Injustice: Gods Among Us.

The demo--to be released on the Xbox 360 and PS3--will feature Batman, Wonder Woman and Lex Luthor in the Gotham City arena.

The demo will be available from April 4 on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace.

The publisher also announced Black Adam will feature as an in-game character when Injustice: Gods Among Us is released in North America on April 16. The game will launch on the Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii U.

For more on Injustice: Gods Among Us, check out GameSpot's previous coverage.

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Laura Parker is the Associate Editor of GameSpot Australia. She loves adventure games, sparkly stuff, Trivial Pursuit, cake, Master Chief, earthworms, and rhetorical questions. She once stole a sandwich from Peter Molyneux.

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Torchlight II releases mod tools and Steam Workshop support

Runic Games' RPG can now be flooded with all sorts of modifications.

RPG Torchlight II has been updated with the inclusion of GUTS, developer Runic Games' custom editor for the game, and full integration with the Steam Workshop.

Interested modders can now create and distribute custom Torchlight II maps, quests, skills, and items. A mod manager is included, which gives players the ability to automatically obtain and subscribe to collections of mods.

When playing modded games, players can set the loading order of mods, view the mod history, and be told the potential impact of disabling any modifications before doing so.

Runic Games has put together a Wiki with tutorials and documentation for using the Torchlight II editor.

GameSpot awarded Torchlight II an 8.5 when it released in September 2012.

For more information on Torchlight II, check out GameSpot's previous coverage.

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Free of Charge - Warframe

The game is fun, but needs more variety and some progression. Earning credits is a chore, I'm building my first warframe after 30+ hours of gameplay. Still some bugs in beta.

The guys in video are not entirely correct, all items can be farmed in game, with the exception of pure cosmetic stuff like colours. Helmet blueprint drop (rarely) from alert missions, and weapons can be either bought directly or as a blue print. But creds is the real bottleneck in the game, but then can't really blame the guys for trying to earn a living for their hard work.

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