At first glance Shelter looks kind of cuddly; you play a badger mother looking after her cubs in some pleasant looking greenery. Pid developer Might & Delight is billing its next game as anything but. As this early footage shows, you’ll have to hunt other animals for food, and avoid becoming prey yourself. That inferno at the end isn’t too cuddly either.

Shelter, announced earlier this year, is still foraging on Steam Greenlight. Might & Delight’s plans are to release it into the wilds of PC and Mac towards the end of this summer.

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After clearing its $70,000 goal more than a week in advance, the A.N.N.E. Kickstarter has concluded at $100,272. The total is enough to unlock three of ANNE‘s stretch goals, namely Mac & Linux versions, gender swap mode and achievements, and New Game+.

While stretch goals for Ouya, PSN/Vita and Wii U versions were not met, creator Moise “Mo” Breton promised in a previous update that these versions will still be made, though it will take longer.

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This week’s round of Steam weekly deals includes Sleeping Dogs for $12.50, Rochard for $2.50, Strike Suit Zero for $10, and the Unreal Deal Pack for $10. The Unreal Deal Pack includes Unreal Gold, Unreal 2: The Awakening, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor’s Choice Edition, Unreal Tournament 3 Black and Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition.

Other games on sale for up to 75 percent off this week are Jagged Alliance: Back in Action, Wasteland Angel, Lords of Football, Spectraball: Extended Edition and Steel Storm: Burning Retribution. In software (and Greenlight) titles, game design tool articy: draft SE is $67 during this week’s sale.

The weekly Steam sale ends on May 27 at 10 a.m. PT.

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“The Sims franchise is fueled by the passion and creativity of its millions of fans around the world. Their continued devotion to the franchise ignites the fire of creativity of the team at The Sims Studio, driving them to continually improve and innovate on one of the world’s most successful simulation game that has sold more than 150 million copies worldwide,” said the statement.

More information on The Sims 4 should be available very soon.

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Battle Worlds: Kronos recently concluded its Kickstarter funding round with 7,564 backers pledging $260,235. Under development by KING Art, Kronos surpassed its goal of $120,000 early on in the drive with 22 days to spare. Battle Worlds: Kronos is intended as a streamlined tactics game á la Advanced Wars.

“45 days ago we were not sure if we could collect $120,000. We’re a small studio, we hadn’t had a well-known IP and we’re German – so we got a fair amount of ‘angst,’” KING Art studio head Jan Theysen told us. “We see ourselves on the way to become a ‘Kickstarter company.’ Making games together with a community of gamers and funded by that community… what could be better?”

KING Art previously found success (mostly in Europe) with the point and click adventure game The Book of Unwritten Tales. Battle Worlds: Kronos is scheduled to enter closed beta in the third quarter for backers and go full open beta shortly after. The game is planned to launch in the fourth quarter of 2013.

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Telltale Games went all-in this week on release dates for Poker Night at the Inventory 2, showing a full house of tweets for all the announced versions. Inventory 2 twists first onto XBLM tomorrow, April 24. Steam (PC and Mac) takes its place at the table on Friday, April 26, and it’s followed by PSN on April 30 – at least in North America. A May 1 arrival for Europe’s PSN is estimated but not yet finalized.

The new roster for the card game sequel features Sam from Sam and Max, Ash Williams from Army of Darkness, and sadistic AI GLaDOS from Portal as the dealer.

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Antichamber is half off on Steam through April 18 at 4 p.m. PT, bringing the price down to a silly low of $10. Antichamber has already “absolutely, exponentially” made back its production costs for developer

In more psychological Steam news, IGF nominee Starseed Pilgrim is out now to teach you how to tend the seeds of the universe. You little gardener, you. Starseed Pilgrim is $6 for PC and Mac.

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SimCity might be best known for its massive logistical problems right now but is now going green. By visiting this Origin page and then restarting the always-online game, you’ll get access to the “Nissan Leaf Charging Station,” which lets your Sims charge little Nissan Leafs, making them and neighboring businesses happy.

The Leaf Charging Station creates no garbage or sewage, highlighting the “green” qualities of the electric car … but it somehow also doesn’t use any power. If want to take your city green, you have six months; the item won’t be available after that.

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Double Fine has offered up its first look at Broken Age, the studio’s upcoming adventure game starring a girl who is to be fed to a giant monster and a boy living on a space station, his only companion a computer.

The game was formerly known as the Double Fine Adventure.  It’s a crowdfunded point-and-click adventure game by Tim Schafer.

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown for Mac just received a release date of April 25 at PAX East.

Announced earlier this month, the Mac version is the “elite edition,” which includes the Slingshot and Elite Solidier downloadable content packs, as well as the second wave update.

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While reflective of the dominance of Windows-oriented titles in the gaming industry, the program’s inclusion of some cross-platform titles in the range shows a continued growth in the willingness of game developers to be inclusive of the Mac gaming community. More and more PC titles are coming to the Mac more quickly, such as the forthcoming release of Bioshock Infinite only a few months after its console and PC debut. More MMORPG games now include Mac players either on launch or shortly thereafter.

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BioShock Infinite is heading to Mac this summer, courtesy of Mac publisher extraordinaire Aspyr. It’s due out for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 on March 26 .

For those Mac gamers not opposed to cheesy Facebook marketing tactics, you can enter to win a free copy of Infinite here, by signing up for things you may or may not need or want.  We here at ToT will just buy the game, Thank you very much.

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After launching only this morning, the Kickstarter campaign to finance Inxile’s latest endeavor Torment: Tides of Numenera has reached its goal of $900,000. Funding will be open for potential backers until April 5, 2013.

Torment: Tides of Numenera is a sequel inspired by the classic game Planescape: Torment, a single-player RPG game set in the Numenera role-playing system created by Monte Cook. Inxile’s first Kickstarter campaign was a success, and the studio is currently working to produce a sequel to another classic IP, Wasteland 2.

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Strategy game The Banner Saga:Factions is available now on Steam for PC and Mac. The game is free and is currently a player-versus-player experience. This appears to be the first step in the full game’s release.

Created by a group of ex-Bioware employees under the banner of Stoic Studio, the game was one of the earlier Kickstarter success stories, amassing $723K!

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The launch trailer for Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien shows more of the sequel than anything we’ve seen, with tantalizing looks at all the various worlds in which you’ll be restarting, restarting, and restarting.

Runner2 will deliver a newly polygonal Commander Video to you on Wii U, PC, Mac, and Linux today, with XBLA following on Wednesday and PSN for PS3 early next month. Vita  and iOS version will come in the summer.

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Steam’s Evil/good plan to help you save cash while simultaneously putting more money into its own pockets continues this week with a lineup of deals running through March 4 at 10 a.m. PT. Games on sale this week, some up to 75 percent off, are Capsized, Krater, Gemini Wars, Section 8: Prejudice, Space Empires 5 and Stellar Impact.

Capsized and Stellar Impact are $2.50, Space Empires 5 is $3.75, Krater and Section 8: Prejudice are $5.10, and Gemini Wars is $6.80.

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Team Meat’s beardier half and Super Meat Boy creator Edmund McMillen is bringing out a retail version of his gaming anthology, The Basement Collection, which Merge Games is releasing on March 8. The retail bundle includes a copy of the excellent Indie Game: The Movie, which chronicled Team Meat’s journey to bring Super Meat Boy to XBLA.

The bundle also includes a DRM-free disc with PC, Mac, and Linux versions of The Basement Collection, a Steam code for an additional version of it, a 36-page booklet of McMillen’s ‘The Box’ art (as featured in Indie Game: The Movie), full soundtracks for each of TBC‘s games, and a sure-to-get-you-noticed sticker of Steven from Time Fcuk. As for TBC, the games in it are Aether, Time Fcuk, Spewer, Meat Boy, Grey Matter, Coil, and Triachnid.

The retail edition is priced at $19.99, although Merge Games is offering a variety of pre-order offers to knock assorted percentages off that.

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Origin has had an alpha client on Mac since back in September, and today the service officially launches. Origin features on Mac are pretty much the same as on PC – you can upload saves to the cloud, interact with friends and the community through Origin’s social feeds and even play games.

Select EA games that are compatible on both Mac and PC will also support cross-platform play – if you purchased a game on PC and it’s also compatible with Mac, you also get access to that.

EA launched its digital distribution platform Origin in the summer of 2011. During its first year, the service garnered 12 million downloads and signed 50 publishing partners. As of October 2012, Origin has accrued 30 million registered players, 4.4 million of who have paid for content.

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Spicy Horse and American McGee’s Akaneiro: Demon Hunters Kickstarter squeaked in under the wire. Closing on February 2, the drive ended at $204,680, just surpassing its goal of $200,000. In an update, McGee told supporters that backer rewards will go out as soon as possible, starting with in-game items for Akaneiro. He also stated that Spicy Horse will be looking into a possible Ouya version of the game.

The Windows, Mac and browser versions of the free-to-play action RPG are available now, with a Steam version expected later this month. Android and iOS versions are also in the works.

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The latest SimCity trailer is intended to entice mayors to purchase the “Digital Deluxe” edition, which features three distinctive tile sets as a bonus, along with some well-known landmarks.

The Digital Deluxe version includes the Paris City Set with Eiffel Tower, German City Set with Brandenburg Gate and British City Set with Big Ben. The packs also include French police cars, German trains and British buses.

Developer Maxis also updated SimCity’s release date on Mac with a “Spring 2013″ window. The game is scheduled for March 8 on PC. The company notes that Mac and PC players will be able to play together on the same maps.

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Deponia as Steam’s Daily Deal. This offer is only available for 24 hours, starting January 23rd, 2013 10am PST.
Within this time frame the game is available for the low price of $6.79.

This offer is a great chance to get caught up on all the action in the unique and comedic world of Deponia.

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Derrick the Deathfin, last year’s best game about a papercraft shark taking revenge against an oil company by destroying all its offshore facilities, is leaving its native PlayStation 3 waters and taking a swim in the PC and Mac ecosystem. The PC/Mac release of Different Tuna’s side-scrolling action game comes as something of a surprise, available for $7.99 direct from the developer’s website.

The PSN version is also on sale this week. When PSN returns, you can buy it at 25% off.

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What to do, after you open the the gift under the tree and cup of of Holiday cheer?  If you’re like over 400,000 other people, you buy whatever version of Minecraft is handy.

Across all available platforms, Minecraft sold 453,000 copies on December 25, according to the block maestro himself, Markus “Notch” Persson.

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Steam’s Holiday Sale has hiot day four, kicking off with a bundle of Portal and Portal 2 for 75 percent off, or just $6.25. Also on sale is Anno 2070 ($20), Chivalry: Medieval Warfare ($12.50), Saints Row: The Third – The Full Package ($7.50), Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition Complete Pack ($13.50) and Carrier Command: Gaea Mission ($25).

These games are on sale for two days only!. The publisher and indie packs are still good for the grabbing, as are the quick-time flash sales.

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Steam Greenlight is poised to announce the next round of games to make the community-chosen cut on January 15.

So far Greenlight, which allows players to vote for games they think are worthy of being on Steam, has accepted 32 games and launched 12 of those, including Primordia, Postal 2 Complete, Waking Mars, AirBuccaneers and McPixel. Greenlight also has an arm for non-game software, which has Greenlit one batch of six programs, with one release.

Get out and vote.

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Angry Birds Star Wars is on Facebook, bringing everyone one step closer to the dark side. The Facebook version allows players to compare scores and compete against their friends, and will have five new levels each week to keep the flinging fresh.

Angry Birds Star Wars has three power-ups just for the Facebook version, the Blaster Droid, Saber Sling and Thermal Detonator. It also includes the Clone Bird ability, which duplicates a bird of the player’s choice.

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Players can collect these musical creatures as they explore the 3D environment, interacting with them to change their individual sounds (by making them angry, etc.) or rearranging them to make new compositions.

Players will be able to meet online and jam together in 16-player groups, as well.

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That means the released game will be a “Directors Cut” with additional material. It also means Pier Solar HD will be released on Android, Ouya, and Wii U. Everyone who backed the project will get a digital copy of “One Year at WaterMelon,” a video documentary about the development of Pier Solar HD and two other SNES and Genesis projects.

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Launching worldwide on November 8, Angry Birds Star Wars combines all the fun of the classic Angry Birds and Angry Birds Space with the characters, stories and settings of the epic space fantasy, Star Wars.

From the deserts of Tatooine to the depths of the Death Star – the game and merchandise will feature the Angry Birds characters starring as the iconic heroes of the beloved Saga.

The game will be available on iOS, Android, Amazon Kindle Fire, Mac, PC, Windows Phone and Windows 8.

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Shaker, the “Old-School RPG” Kickstarter project from game industry veterans Brenda Brathwaite and Tom Hall, has been canceled. Started on October 3, the project raised over $247,000 of its $1 million goal with 13 days to go. An update on the Kickstarter page reads, “In the industry, games are pitched every day,” adding that “some make it to the next stage, but many don’t.”

“Ultimately, our pitch just wasn’t strong enough to get the traction we felt it needed to thrive.” It seems developer Loot Drop was leery of the project actually reaching its goal. The studio considered pushing forward, but after examining feedback and discussing the matter, “we decided that it made more sense to kill it and come back with something stronger.”

Loot Drop is apparently going back to the drawing board, and tells fans to “expect something more soon.”

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