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The Game Awards 2014: Hang out with Joystiq for the show [Update: Show's over]

The Game Awards 2014 madness has technically already begun. You need look no further than Street Fighter V's announcement this morning, and more game announcements and premieres are expected throughout the event this evening. We already know you're going to be following along on Twitter, but why not enjoy the pleasure of Joystiq's company as well? Alexander Sliwinski (@Sliwinski), Jess Conditt (@JessConditt), Danny Cowan (@db_cowan) and others will be streaming commentary as the Game Awards roll on. Tune in right here or at Joystiq.com/Twitch to catch it all at 9PM ET/6PM PT.

Watch the show with Joystiq after the break.
[Images: The Game Awards]

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Dungeon Defenders 2 exclusive to PS4 in 2015

Dungeon Defenders 2 is coming to PlayStation 4 in 2015, developers Trendy Entertainment announced at The Game Awards tonight.

Dungeon Defenders 2 is out on Steam Early Access today.

"We still have a ton of work to do, but we're excited to finally be bringing Dungeon Defenders back to a console," Trendy writes. "We've just completed our first controller pass (it needs a bunch of work!) and are exciting to dig into some other features, like local co-op and a controller-based UI. And yes, all of those features will also be coming to the PC version!"
[Image: Trendy Entertainment]

New King's Quest coming from Activision, The Odd Gentlemen


Activision announced that it will publish a new entry in Sierra's classic King's Quest adventure game series developed by The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom creator The Odd Gentlemen, confirming previous reports.

King's Quest: Your Legacy Awaits will launch in the fall of 2015 for Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PS3, and PC platforms.

Here's a new No Man's Sky trailer



Here's a new trailer for No Man's Sky, featuring a portal mechanic. Please enjoy.

Hello Games writes on its blog, "Portal is just one story that you can find yourself writing as you play No Man's Sky. It also reveals five ways you'll travel the galaxy: walking across the surface of planets, flying in their atmosphere, jetting into space, warping between systems and finding mysterious portals, which take you ... somewhere..."

The band 65daysofstatic is composing the soundtrack for No Man's Sky. "We've been huge fans of them for the longest time, and in fact, we've forever imagined No Man's Sky against their music," Hello Games says. "To have them write music especially for No Man's Sky is just amazing."
[Image: Hello Games]

Before, the next game from Rust studio Facepunch

After there was Rust and Garry's Mod, there was Before. Before is the next game from Facepunch Studios, the outfit headed by Garry's Mod creator Garry Newman. The game is a 3D, cel-shaded journey through lands before civilization. Facepunch showed off a trailer at tonight's The Game Awards.

The development blog for Before can be found here.
[Image: Facepunch Studios]

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Code Name: STEAM hits 3DS on March 13, 2015

Nintendo revealed that its 3DS tactical strategy game Code Name: STEAM will premiere on March 13, 2015 in North America.

Boasting gameplay similar to Sega's Valkyria Chronicles, Code Name: STEAM features an alternate-history steampunk aesthetic and boasts a competitive head-to-head multiplayer mode. It also, uh, stars Abe Lincoln. Cool.

Adrift is oxygen-deprived, due out for Oculus, PS4, Xbox One

Adrift is a new space-based game from Three One Zero, and it's coming to Oculus Rift, PS4, Xbox One and Steam in summer 2015, the developer announced tonight at The Game Awards.

The first trailer for the game aired during the ceremony, showing a first-person astronaut with a strangely elongated helmet silhouette floating through a damaged space station, attempting to reach a bottle of oxygen before the astronaut's tank ran empty. It was slow and tense, and fairly beautiful.

The game's description on its site reads, "ADR1FT is an immersive First Person Experience (FPX) that tells the story of an astronaut in peril. Floating silently amongst the wreckage of a destroyed space station with no memory and a severely damaged EVA suit, the only survivor struggles to determine the cause of the catastrophic event that took the lives of everyone on board. The player fights to stay alive by exploring the wreckage for precious resources, and overcomes the challenges of an unforgiving environment to repair the damaged emergency escape vehicle and safely return home."

505 Games is publishing Adrift.

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EA publishing next project from Brothers director Josef Fares

Electronic Arts announced during tonight's Video Game Awards that it will publish the debut game from Hazelight, a newly formed studio headed by Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons director Josef Fares.

Target platforms were not named, and a release date is not yet known.

The Banner Saga 2 exists

The Banner Saga developer Stoic Studio is developing The Banner Saga 2, the studio announced during tonight's The Game Awards in Las Vegas. No other details were announced, but this is indeed a welcome surprise – in our review of The Banner Saga, we said, "The Banner Saga is a human story told with inhuman flair, and that somehow makes it all the more relatable. [...] I'm a warrior now, and a leader, and I feel empowered."
[Image: Stoic Studio]

Tacoma, the next game from Gone Home developers


The next game from Gone Home developer Fullbright is called Tacoma, and it's a decidedly sci-fi, Rapture-esque journey due out in 2016. Fullbright debuted the game and fresh teaser trailer at The Game Awards tonight.

The game has a site and a Twitter account. The YouTube description reads, "What mysteries await you, 200,000 miles from Earth?"

Barely Related: Suicide Squad cast, Reynolds is Deadpool

This week, enjoy the good things, if you can.

Welcome to Barely Related, a conversational Friday column that presents the non-gaming news stories that we, the Joystiq staff, have been talking about over the past week. And no, we're not stopping our focus on industry and gaming news. Think of this as your casual weekly recap of interesting (and mostly geeky) news, presented just in time to fill your brain with things to discuss at all of those weekend shindigs.

Grab a fresh drink, lean back in your armchair, and get ready to talk nerdy with us.

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WRUP: And the nominees are...

The Game Awards are in an hour... here are the nominees. We'll be streaming right here. Join us!

What's everyone playing this weekend?

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Nordic acquires adventure games from Awesomenauts publisher

Nordic Games continued its spending spree today, picking up a few properties from Awesomenauts publisher DTP Entertainment. Nordic purchased three intellectual properties from the German publisher: The Moment of Silence (seen above), The Mystery of the Druids and Curse of the Ghost Ship. DTP also agreed to hand over commercial use of Overclocked and 15 Days to Nordic Games.

Each of the five properties listed in the purchase agreement were developed by House of Tales, a Bremen, Germany-based PC adventure game developer. Nordic said its adventure games division, The Adventure Company, "gets a considerable increase" thanks to the IP acquisition, adding that it "will make good use of these new opportunities." The publisher completed its purchase of the de Blob series from THQ last month, over a year and a half after the Austrian company bought dozens of other THQ properties such as Darksiders, Red Faction and MX vs. ATV for $4.9 million.
[Image: DTP Entertainment, err, Nordic Games]

Deus Ex Universe lights up with next-gen 'Dawn' engine

Deus Ex Universe is not an MMO, despite the suspiciously grand name, Eidos Montreal says in a blog post. The studio announced Deus Ex Universe last year and some fans equated "Universe" with a potential MMO – but in reality, Deus Ex's Universe is more spiritual than mechanical.

"Some of you have had concerns that 'Universe' meant 'MMO.' Rest assured, it does not," Eidos Montreal says. "Deus Ex Universe is the name we are giving to the fictional world and the rich lore we are creating for it, which will of course include core games, as well as any other projects that will help bring the world of Deus Ex to life. We won't go into too much detail for now, but what we envision is for our projects to have meaningful ties to one another, in order for them to strengthen and deepen your experience within this Universe."

Eidos Montreal also outlines its new PC and next-gen console engine, the Dawn Engine. The Dawn Engine is based on a "heavily modified version" of IO Interactive's Glacier 2 engine, and Eidos is showcasing it with the in-engine screenshot above.

"In the past, we've relied on existing engines for our games," Eidos Montreal writes. "But in the end, we found that our creative vision was somehow limited. So we decided it was time for us to invest in creating an engine tailored for our needs."

Resogun Defenders brings two new modes to PS4 next year

While Resogun is firing up its engines to launch on PS3 and Vita later this month, a new expansion for the game is in the works: Resogun Defenders. Priced at $5, the final add-on for the game introduces two new modes: Protector and Commando. It also features new ships and planets for players to "save the last humans" on (we're pretty sure they mean it this time).

Resogun Defenders will launch early next year, and will be part of the game's $8 season pass. The season pass includes the "Heroes" DLC, which hit digital shelves in June. Housemarque will also issue a free content update alongside Defenders codenamed "Challengers," which offers new challenges for players across Resogun's existing modes.
[Image: SCEE]

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