If you thought Saint's Row The Third was over the top, think again as Saint's Row IV looks to take it even further. You, as the President of the United States, have super powers and you aren't afraid to use them. This new trailer takes a look at some of the  things you can do such as fly, levitate objects, toss vehicles around, and smash through objects.

Aliens are attacking 'Murica and it's up to you to stop them. You can see some of the few alien types in the trailer with the requisite showing of a boss alien to battle. And you're going to take them all down in style as the trailer also shows some of the custom outfits available. 

Saint's Row IV will be out August 20 for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC.
 

The cover vote for EA Sports' upcoming release of NHL 14 is down to the Round of 16.  While the voting continues on the regular  NHL.com website, fans now have an option to take it to Twitter on Thrusdays to double up the voting.  Some of the matchups include Original Six battles between Tyler Seguin of the Boston Bruins against James van Riemsdyk of the Toronto Maple Leafs.  Whoever your favorite player is, be sure to get over to NHL.com to vote and remember to hit Twitter on Thursday to support your player again! [READ MORE]

We asked for true deck building in the Magic: Duels of the Planeswalkers franchise and now it looks like we are getting it in the form of sealed play. Sealed play, along with the Slivers creature type, will make their debut when Magic 2014 launches this Summer.

Sealed play will allow players to obtain and open booster packs and build custom decks against the computer and other players. Sealed pools have 84 cards, just like the real game, and there is even a six-deck ladder where players can take on mono-colored sealed decks and a boss. As for the introduction of slivers, the game will feature the following: Sliver Construct, Predatory Sliver, Groundshaker Sliver, Megantic Sliver, Blur Sliver, Striking Sliver, Thorncaster Sliver, Battle Sliver, Sentinel Sliver, Bonescythe Sliver, as well as the Hive Stirrings card which will generate a number of Sliver tokens.

Magic 2014: Duels of the Planeswalkers will be available this Summer for PC, XBLA, PSN, iPad, and Android.

• EVE Online celebrates becoming a tweenager
• Teen Titans and Bad Girls skin packs coming to Injustice: Gods Among Us tomorrow
• The next Xbox won't force you to be online for single player games
• EA gets to make Star Wars games
• Awesomenauts are...1!
• EA and Maxis announce The Sims 4 coming 2014
• Treachery of the White Hand comes to Lord of the Rings Online
• Magrunner: Dark Pulse wears its Portal influence on its digital sleeve
• Now Loading for the week of May 6, 2013
• Here's an hour of Battlefront III

It's been about one year since Awesomenauts was launched worldwide on the PS3 and Xbox 360.  Since that day, over a dozen updates have been made that includes adding items, new characters, and a new map, along with the usual balance adjustments that come with a lot of games today.  To celebrate, Ronimo Games has released a new video that showcases the progress the game has made since it's inception back in 2010, including some footage that has never been shown before.  Ronimo Games has also released a video showing off an upcoming skin known as Leon Pirate.  Leon Pirate will be the first premium skin and will be released with updat 1.18.  The skin will also replace the audio for the character, which according to the video makes the character have a French accent...or just speak French entirely. [READ MORE]

Things are grinding to pretty much a complete halt this week after a hectic month of April. Don’t worry though, this won’t last forever and things will pick up again next week with the very promising Metro: Last Light which kicks off a string of non-stop, high profile releases over the next 2 months. Nintendo fans are about the only ones who have anything worth celebrating this week with a digital release that brings Mario and Donkey Kong together once again. Aside from that, there is just a little guy named Lobo joining the Injustice roster on both platforms.

This week’s lineup (yes, this is everything officially launching this week):

• Injustice: Gods Among Us Lobo DLC for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3
• Mario & Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move for Nintendo 3DS

There were many stories on Star Wars: Battlefront III last year. Some developers even claimed that the game was 99% done and all they had were bug fixes to do when the game was cancelled. Well, now you can actually see the game as PtoPOnline has recorded his play through with a build of the game on Twitch. 

I'm sure there will be many folks who watch this and crave for the release of the game. It's unfortunate that the game was cancelled when it was so close to being shipped and we'll probably never know why the powers that be pulled the plug on it at its current state. But, for now, enjoy what would have been.

Insomniac Games and EA announced that a demo for the upcoming cooperative shooter Fuse will be available May 7 on Xbox Live and PSN.

Players can team up with one other friend in split screen mode, or three others online, but also play alone as the four characters of Overstrike 9 squad. Each of the characters will work together in the demo to find the source of Fuse –– the alien substance that grants supernatural powers –– in an arctic weapons depot.

For an in-depth look at our cooperative session with Insomniac CEO Ted Price, head here to see Fuse in action before it releases May 28.

 

Beyond: Two Souls has a 2,000-page script but will only have 10 hours of gameplay. Activision's CEO is one of the highest-paid in America, while EA lopped off limbs left and right. But it's wasn’t all bad this week--Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon’s pulpy VHS shtick won hearts and minds, and critical darling Fez finally spun its way onto PC.

What are you playing this weekend?

Russell Archey | staff writer | Twitter @neoscyther
More than likely I'll be working on my next review piece, Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move. It's been awhile since I've played a Mario vs. DK game, so I'm really looking forward to spending time with this one.

Sean Cahill | staff writer | Twitter @seancahill2
I'll be sitting down for some Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen on the 360 for the latest review piece. Outside of that, after beating BioShock Infinite in the past couple of days, I'll probably return to Tomb Raider to finally beat that and, perhaps, Far Cry 3.

Sean Colleli | staff writer
It's time to hit the indie Steam backlog, probably with some They Bleed Pixels. I might also pick up DLC Quest; my girlfriend tells me it's pretty funny. Then again, I might also get Mars: War Logs, Zeno Clash II, or of course Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. Decisions, decisions.

Jeremy Duff | senior staff writer | Twitter @duff3c
This weekend I need to sink a bit of time into The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, which is shaping up to be way better than I expected. I might also have to dip my toes back into Soul Sacrifice because, well, those monsters aren't going to slay themselves.

Charles Husemann | editor-in-chief | Twitter @chusemann
This weekend will be spent working on Farm Simulator: Suburban Edition as I finally get around to cleaning up the garden areas in my backyard and start working on taming the yard. On a digital game front, I'm going to be spending time with MechWarrior Online as I continue level grinding on my next sets of mechs to elite status.  Time permitting, I'm going to try and progress a bit on BioShock Infinite and possibly even start a playthrough of Half-Life 2 as a recent HL2DM session has reignited my love of the game.

Randy Kalista | staff writer | Twitter @randykalista
My 14-day trial of EVE Online expired, so my character's early explorer/archaeology career is on ice indefinitely. They've done extensive work with the tutorials. It unlocked entire branches of gameplay too complicated to figure out on my own before. So now I need a pick-me-up. I would revisit The Walking Dead or Planescape: Torment but, ugh. Downers. Some Sacred Citadel beat 'em up action might do the trick. Jeremy and I co-op'd a bit, but it crashed as soon as we reached the first boss, some ancient, 'roided-up Treant.

Mike Mahardy | staff writer | Twitter @mmahardy
I've been getting back into nightly loot fests in Diablo III, so those will be punctuated by attempts to finally become a fighting game fan. I have a tendency to try out most new fighting games, but after trying Injustice: Gods Among Us at GDC, I think my love for the license will pull me through.

I get asked constantly by people I run into whether or not the PlayStation Plus program is worth the price of admission. I can’t recommend it enough, but perhaps a recent article I ran across will say it better than I can. Read this and tell me if $50 a year is a good deal for that amount of content.

Anyways, back to the topic at hand: Sony has revealed the free content launching on the program for the month of May. The new updates will kick off next week when the incredible Sleeping Dogs for the PlayStation 3. The full list of titles hitting this month includes:

• BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend (PS3 and Vita)
• Knytt Underground (PS3 and Vita)
• Pinball Arcade (PS3)
• Sleeping Dogs (PS3)

Oh boy... someone is going to be in trouble for this. 

A couple of weeks ago, someone on the Gamespot forums posted that they had discovered the names of the four DLC characters. Listed were Batgirl, Zod and Scorpion from Mortal Kombat. I frequent a lot of fighting game and Mortal Kombat fansites and let me tell you, the response to these characters has been pretty negative. 

To make matters worse for those hoping this list was false, it seems that someone accidentally let the cat out of the bag early on the next DLC character for Injustice today. Spotted at the Eventhub.com forums, "Batgirl" accidentally showed up on the Xbox Live marketplace today for free. Although you could download the character it you would get an error once it reached 100%. In any case, I would say that there is a good chance that Batgirl is coming to Injustice soon and that the leaked list of DLC characters is real.

Of course, I'd love to try out and see the characters in action before forming an opinion. That being said, I also find this list rather disappointing. There is such a small number of female characters in this game that I was hoping we would get more than one as DLC and something that wasn't just Batgirl. Black Canary, Power Girl, Poison Ivy and the list better choices goes on and on. Zod actually makes sense since he is the villain in Man Of Steel, which is coming out this Summer, and I would assume they would want to cross promote that.

Finally, as much as I love Mortal Kombat, I loathe the idea of Scorpion in this game. I already cleansed my mind of the atrocity that was Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe and I don't want to be reminded of that. Plus his inclusion makes no sense in terms of the storyline. How are they going to explain Scorpions inclusion in the DC Universe now?


 

A lot of Borderlands fans have been wondering what the next downloadable story content for the game would be since being teased at PAX East. Well today Borderlands 2 writer Anthony Burch tweeted the following photo in which a poster for "Tiny Tina's assault on Dragon Keep" can be seen in the background. 

The tweet was deleted shortly after but not before many people screen grabbed it and now its making its way around the net. Sure the DLC reveal could have been "accidentally" leaked but knowing the sense of humor the Borderlands dev's have when it comes to this game makes me think this was a clever way of teasing the DLC. 

No date or price yet has been released but the seasons pass for the game said that all content will be out by the end of June so I would say to expect it around that time.