Sanctum is back, and it's ready to fight! Sanctum 2 takes a more action-oriented approach to first person tower defense gaming, allowing you and as many as three friends join forces to corral and eliminate invading alien hordes.

Ladies and gentlemen, prepare your wallets for monetary departure. Keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times and commence the downloading. Amazon is holding a "Digital Games Mayhem" sale offering deep discounts on downloadable PC games both new and old. Want that new Star Trek game after catching the movie this weekend?  It's only $25. How about Saints Row The Third with all the DLC for $12.50.

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.  Unless that rose was called Flatulent Rebellion, the new subtitle for the 4 player Hack 'n' Slash 'n' Fart game Orc Attack.  The going hasn't been easy for Orc Attack, but developers Casual Brothers are still planning to release the game on PC and other platforms.  To celebrate the new name, The Casual Brothers Grim have released a gas-centric trailer.  

When it first came out for the 3DS, Resident Evil: Revelations was a very well received game. Many Resident Evil fans saw it as a return to the roots of the series. This is due to the fact that the game features tight corridors, low lighting, tank controls, and a very creepy atmosphere. Many of us were very excited to hear Capcom was porting the game to the major consoles as well as PC. This hype is also due to the fact that Capcom has been producing excellent ports lately, particularly with their PC ports of Resident Evil 6 and Devil May Cry.

Stop me if you've heard this before: Call of Duty DLC that has been available on the Xbox 360 for a month is now available on PS3 and PC. You have to love those timed exclusives. CoD: Black Ops 2's "Uprising" map pack includes four new multiplayer maps and a new co-operative Zombie map. 

The Fuse "launch" trailer is now live. The game doesn't come out for like a week and a half so that's... weird. Why do I have the feeling there's going to be another trailer? The video offers a sliver of back story and features the prerequisite cool weapon footage and an abundance of explosions, faceless bad guys, and exploding faceless bad guys. I know, I know, it's still not Overstrike, but it looks like it has potential to be a pretty decent squad-based shooter. 

We've got another exciting giveaway today thanks to the hard working people over at ROCCAT, makers of quality PC accessories. Up for grabs today are three items - The ROCCAT Kone XTD Gaming Mouse,  The ROCCAT Isku Gaming Keyboard, and the ROCCAT Sense Series Gaming Mousepad.

Mark this date in your diary, May 28th.  It's your Nan's birthday?  Who cares, this is also the date that new DLC is coming to everyone's favorite flaky city building game SimCity.  Mayors can now design and build an amusement park in their city that will increase tourism and create jobs.

Sanctum 2 is out! The sequel to the 2011 tower defense/first person shooter hybrid has finally hit, and developer Coffee Stain Studios is celebrating with a nice little launch trailer. The video manages to capture the game's intense action quite well, showing off a lot of gameplay footage complete with guns, explosions, towers doing their shooty things, and enemies bursting into brightly colored goo. Delicious.

This generation has seen a variety of change occur on the gaming landscape with the introduction of microtransactions, the mass appeal of DLC, the rise of game prices, and the controversial "online pass system." At least one of those things are changing for the time being, with EA announcing it's no longer going to require an online pass for its games.

The post-apocalyptic, Eastern-European setting seems to have been growing in popularity these days, with Metro: Last Light releasing just earlier today. Soon, Left 4 Dead 2 players will be able to take the normally southern-based team of Survivors on a Ukrainian based campaign within a brand new indie mod.

Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine is a wickedly fun co-op game to play, but a what if it had included a multiplayer mode as well? Would it have taken away from the immersive co-op gameplay we have now? Andy Schatz recently described some reasons why Pocketwatch Games decided to stick to their co-op guns and forgo some competitive modes for Monaco.

It's been almost a year since we first got a hands-on with Signal Studios' action RPG Ascend: New Gods. After all those months and the recent opening of closed beta, the team has decided it's time for a name change. Just like Istanbul was once called Constantinople, Ascend: New Gods is now Ascend: Hand of Kul. So if you have a date to play New Gods, she'll be playing in Hand of Kul. When it's actually released, that is.

News for those of you planning your next big heist in the gaming world. Payday 2, the sequel to Payday: The Heist, will extend beyond a digital release. The team at Overkill Software will be delivering the sequel via physical disc. Right now, the game is planned to release on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. There will be a global release for Payday 2.

The first DLC expansion for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, labelled "Forbidden Worlds" is set to release on June 5. The 4X strategy game from Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment is once again pushing the boundaries of space supremacy. Additional content includes new planets, technologies, planetary bonuses and everyone's favorite OCD instigator, Steam achievements.