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Backyard Battles is an indie turn-based strategy game for kids of all ages that's expected out soon for mobile and browser-based play.

Agent P Doofendash is a free-to-play endless runner available now. Get a taste of the gameplay before you take on Dr. Doofenshmirtz as Perry the Platypus and other agents from TV's Phineas and Ferb.

Sword 'N' Board is a fully funded Kickstarter puzzle RPG that's due out later this year (it even reached its first stretch goal!). Developer Robert Busey explains the origins and evolution of this charming game.

2K Drive looked like a potential hit when we saw it at PAX Prime 2013, but lacked two key elements that we thought were misses. Time seems to have borne this out: without free-to-play or controller support, it still appears to be a pass with huge potential.

We learn about Dragon Fin Soup, a rogue-like procedurally generated RPG designed with both core and busy gamers in mind, at PAX Prime 2013.

We get hands on with Contraption Maker, from the creators of the Rube Goldberg-inspired Incredible Machine series of games, at PAX Prime 2013.

Get a taste of Fantasia: Music Evolved, the Disney-themed rhythm game from Harmoniz, at PAX Prime 2013.

Hear what it sounded like inside the Infamous: Second Son demo booth at PAX Prime 2013.

Get the inside track on the free-to-play Romans From Mars endless wave shooter game for iOS, Droid, and Windows Phone.

Learn about the XCOM: Enemy Within expansion pack for XCOM: Enemy Unknown that's also available on PS3 and Xbox 360 in the XCOM: Enemy Within Commander Edition.

We check out a surprise standout from PAX Prime 2013: the PS4 launch title, Contrast.

Big Fish Games explains how their free-to-play zombie match-3 game for iPad came to be.

We talk to Evolution Controllers about their new invention, the Drone.

Borderlands 2 has new Headhunter Packs coming, starting with T. K. Baha's Bloody Harvest. We learn all about it and the Game of the Year Edition at PAX Prime 2013.

We learn how the comic series Fables became The Wolf Among Us in this interview with Telltale Games at PAX Prime 2013.

Hidden Path Entertainment's Windborne is a Minecraft-inspired sandbox game set on floating islands with rich game dynamics, a beautiful art style, and the freedom to play however you want. Learn more in this interview at PAX Prime 2013.

Xbox community manager Eric Doty showed off his side project, an interactive story called Troubadour, at PAX Prime 2013.

Matt Gilgenbach explains how his struggle with depression and OCD led to the game Neverending Nightmares, which aims to terrify by playing with your sense of vulnerability and immersion while invoking images of horror that have personally tormented him.

We interview one the creators of Chromancer, an online trading card game developed by a team of card game enthusiasts that promises deep play mechanics and digital cards that retain their collectibility.

We interview game music composer Tommy Tallarico about his music, the Video Games Live show, and the Kickstarter to release the Level 3 collection of orchestrated game scores.