The Independent Games Festival announced the nominees for the awards they hand out to the best of the best annually, from the indie game offerings of 2013 yesterday. In the running are various stand-out titles such as Papers Please, Don’t Starve and DEVICE 6, as well as other titles that haven’t had such a wide audience.

The awards include categories such as Excellence in Visual Art, Narrative and the Seumas McNally Grand Prize all which list 6 nominees and a handful of honourable mentions in each category, with finalists having the opportunity offered to them of a distribution deal with Steam for their game (if they don’t have one already). The awards themselves will be taking place on the evening of March 19th at the San Francisco Moscone Convention Centre, preceding the Game Developers Choice Awards which recognise excellence across all gaming development.

We’re in the midst of CES 2014’s gadget and computer hardware information avalanche and it’s starting to get a little difficult to separate the exciting announcements from the announcements we’ll forget about before the show’s over. For example, how do you feel about Razer’s announcement of Project Christine, a modular gaming PC? I mean, look at it. That doesn’t look like any PC I’ve ever seen. Where’s the dust-clogged exhaust fans, the fire-hazardous tangle of cables, and the unsightly, space-inefficient case?

Apparently, Razer has been working on this for two years. The idea is to eliminate one of the most prohibitive aspects of PC gaming—installing new components. Okay, we agree that plugging in a new graphics card or more RAM is not that difficult, but the sight of an exposed motherboard does fill some with debilitating fear. It’s why a lot of people buy consoles. They are simple, plug and play consumer devices that just work. Mostly.

Project Christine will allow you to plug in any optical drive, extra storage, GPU, or CPU, each of which is encased in a proprietary, water-cooled module. All parts will plug into the PCI-express, SLI enabled “backbone.” Need a better graphics card? simply buy a new module and exchange or add it to your existing one. That does sound convenient, and ideally it’s a foolproof system which makes upgrades quick and easy.

The machine is supposedly very quiet, without cables, and its touch LCD screen displays control and maintenance information. Razer didn’t say how much more expensive these modules are when compared with their regular counterparts, or if it will allow other manufactures to sell them.

Actually, it seems as if Razer is still undecided about a lot of the details here. As CEO Min-Liang Tan told The Verge, the goal of the announcement was to “throw it out to gamers and see if people like it.”

So, do you like it?

Evolve is a new co-op shooter from Turtle Rock Studios, the same people that brought you the post-apocalyptic hit Left 4 Dead. The February issue of Game Informer will feature a 12-page spread on the upcoming title that is described as a…

…sci-fi multiplayer-focused shooter pits a four-player crew of alien hunters against a separate player-controlled monster that grows larger and more powerful over the course of matches. Each hunter features its own unique items and abilities, and while the monster may be outnumbered, its size and an assortment of devastating attacks make it a more than formidable foe.
-Game Informer

Evolve is slated to release on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 this fall.

The The Lego Movie has revealed a new TV spot online which showcases the colourful and vibrant LEGO-made world, and like our little yellow friends we have only one word for it. ‘Awesome!’

While little about the plot is revealed, watching the promo video is an absolute ton of fun, as during the 30-second clip you’ll get glimpses at The LEGO Movie’s famous guest stars including Batman and Superman… move over Zack Synder!

With beautiful visuals, catchy songs and robot dancers, if this short promotional spot doesn’t make you want to drag your old LEGO out of your parents’ loft and relive your childhood for a few hours, we doubt much else will.

Check out the new TV spot for The LEGO Movie below:

The film – with a star-studded cast including the voices of Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Ferrell, Jonah Hill, Morgan Freeman and a host of other famous names – is set to hit the big screen in the UK in both 3D and 2D just in time for Valentines day on 14 February 2014.

After all, what could be more romantic than LEGO?

Are you looking forward to The LEGO Movie? Tell us below!

Well here’s some big news on one of the year’s most anticipated games. Titanfall only supports a maximum of 6 vs 6 players during online play.

Answering a fan query on Twitter, Respawn Entertainment’s Vince Zampella confirmed the news, saying that this, “turned out to be the best balance with AI for us.”

So how do you fill a map that only has twelve players in it? With AI soldiers. Zampella didn’t confirm exactly how many AI soldiers would be included, but did say it’d be “enough to make it fun,” before adding that it’s the players who are “the real threat”.

Zampella also added that every player can have a Titan with them, which he says will make firefights feel busy

“It is incredibly fun, we did a lot if testing. It is all about what we found most fun,” Zampella concluded.

Titanfall is an online only game and will therefore not include a campaign.

The game is due for release in March on PC, Xbox 360 and Xbox One