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We speak to one of the creators of The Magic Circle about how former-AAA developers sustain a meta-joke into a first-person indie puzzler game where you have to finish making the game yourself.

At PAX 15, we learn what's new and exciting about Rock Band 4, how the DLC carry-over from last gen will work, and what's holding up Xbox One digital preorders.

I Love Bees was one of the best stories never told in a videogame. Learn about how a viral marketing campaign for Halo 2 spawned a remarkable tale about Spartans and glassed planets and some crazy kids in a futuristic America who do something remarkable.

The Order: 1886 was one of the biggest ticket items in the Sony booth. We talked about some of the design decisions that make this a compelling shooter for fans of history and freaky cool weapons alike.

Boo Bunny Plague is one of the strangest games we've seen, and it's available now on Steam for just a couple bucks. Give this a listen to get a taste for the game's bizarre musical humor, and why it's rooted in '80s pop culture.

Learn about one of the most family friendly zombie games we've ever seen! Hear our 12-year-old fan of the series ask about strategy in Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville.

Find out what's so hot about Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell, the Saints Row IV: Re-elected set for next gen, and especially the new weapons and references to past games in the series.

Hear the very personal story that drove the creation of That Dragon, Cancer, and find out why you might just need its experiential spaces in your life.

We spoke to Deep Silver about their two new Dead Island games, the cartoonish mystery Escape Dead Island and the full-on sequel with an optional co-op focus, Dead Island 2.

Never Alone is a visually stunning platformer that reflects the art styles and stories of an Alaska Native tribe known as the Inupiaq. Find out how this unique title came to be.

Pig Eat Ball is a party game for PC that could use your help on Steam Greenlight. Find out why it might just deserve your vote. And the odd hardware device you could perhaps build, if you're so inclined, to make it even more fun.

Find out what Borderlands: The Pre-sequel is all about. We interview the studio head of 2K Australia, which helped bring this in-between title to life - and finally with playable Claptrap!

Evolve is more than meets the eye. The game lets you play as a monster or one of four of its hunters in an epic battle with your choice of AI or human companions. Specialization creates surprisingly deep gameplay that engaged us in different ways. Learn how it came to be.

We speak to publisher Midnight City at PAX Prime 2014 about their console release of Slender: The Arrival, and the two bonus levels included in the game and added to the PC release.

Developer Frima thinks they have the perfect couch co-op platformer, the slightly macabre and delightfully engaging Chariot.

This panel discussion about videogame music with Martin O'Donnell, Jesper Kyd, Darren Korb, Boris Salchow, Sascha Dikiciyan, Oleksa Lozowchuk, and hosted by Emily Reese will only be in our podcast feed for a limited time.

We get a look at Costume Quest 2 at PAX Prime 2014, and it looks good. Learn about the changes from the charming original including why it's fun to play as a Candy Corn.

Project Spark is out now and free to play. Download community games or make your own, including a choose-your-own-adventure game-making mode that anyone can enjpy. Or build a deeper game by hand.

Zhurosoft makes free-to-play games for iOS including Kingdoms of Zenia, Monster Kingdom, and the forthcoming Monster Kingdom 2.

Dying Light is the latest zombie game from the makers of Dead Island. Hear how it's different and what to expect when it launches in 2015.