While most other independently developed games feature a quirky art style, Defense Grid features high production values and an interesting twist on the tower defense genre. Designed by Age of Empires 2 lead designer Mark Terrano, Defense Grid is an easy-to-play tower defense game which makes use of the Gamebryo engine (used in Elder Scrolls Oblivion and Civilization IV among other titles). You team up with a sentient computer artificial intelligence in order to thwart an alien invasion. You place a variety of towers, and as needed you can upgrade them provided you have the right amount of resources. Space on the grid is limited, so it’s up to you to figure out what towers to place and how to place them. The base game has only 20 levels, but you can replay them in challenge mode. There are also map packs available for .99 each which extend the game, although it would really benefit from a level editor. On Steam, you can purchase the game and all the map packs for $15 making this a good value. Defense Grid is a fun and addictive game, and at its low price, it almost manages to give most full-priced games a run for their money.

Still having trouble maxing out your classes in War for Cybertron? Well worry no more! High Moon studios has announced that they will be kicking up the XP to multiply by a factor of 5 this weekend in multiplayer matches!

Kicking up XP this weekend in MP matches to 5x normal from 6:00pm Friday PST through Sunday. Be sure to get your transform on and level those characters up!

Capcom put together another trailer of all the “First appearances” from previous trailers, reminding us that the cast is getting huge.

And shortly after this, it got bigger, with the introduction of X-23 and Tron Bonne.

See their premeire game play videos from Capcom Unity below.

videos from Capcom Unity

It seems we have some sad news on our hands from the Allspark News Staff. After inquiring about the release of the Challenge at Cybertron set, the Hasbro PR team finally came back with a response from the Transformers product team. This set will not be coming out in the United States and that it is an Asian market exclusive.

We’ve confirmed that the item in question is exclusive to the Asia market – not the U.S. Sorry for any confusion.

This set features Universe/Classics/Generations Hot Rod, Galvatron and Cyclonus with anime inspired color schemes and was believed to be coming state-side as a Target exclusive. It seems that is debunked…for now. It is not uncommon for PR teams to flat out deny a product’s release until such a time as they are prepared to make that announcement. Universe Powerglide is the most prominent example I can think of, where we were told a Japanese store exclusive repaint would not be coming here, but eventually did over a much longer period of time.

Keiji Inafune, Capcom evangelist, announced at Tokyo Game Show 2010 that there would be new DLC for Dead Rising 2. Where the wildly popular Dead Rising 2: Case Zero provided an prologue to the story of the game, Case West will be an epilogue featuring the protagonist of both the first and second games; Chuck Greene and Frank West. Case Zero was downloaded over 500,000 times after its release setting a record for most bought DLC to date.

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This is your monthly reminder, collectors, that today is MattyCollector day. At Noon time Eastern Standard Time, MattyCollector.com will post three new items for sale. This month’s exclusives are Chief Carnivus, the MOTU Classics Club Eternia figure for September, Gygor, the MOTU Classics quarterly oversized creature, and finally the Ghostbusters figure, Egon Spengler and a big ol’ stack of books.

Pictures are after the jump.

Remember to go here when refreshing at noon so you can order all items at once and save time.

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When we took the camera to the Halo: Reach launch, we had no idea what would happen. We almost didn’t get the game! Thankfully we met some cool fans, and had a great time in line.

Don’t miss out on our Halo Reach Game Night this Saturday 9.18.10. Xbox Live Gold is free this week and we’re going to try to get as many credits as possible so we can unlock the best armor for our Noble Spartans!

Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo created a satire of classic comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. The single page strip was published in the 75th issue of Superman/Batman, but as with anything interesting, you can find it on the internet scanned for your approval.
Lex plays the enterprising and imaginative Calvin, and the Joker is the more thoughtful Hobbes, though in this strip its hard to say who is more mischievous.

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