That’s an extra $10 million in four months Last time we checked,Star Citizenhadraised $30 million in crowdfunding; just under four months later we’ve got word that Chris Robert’s ambitious space sim has now broken the $40 million mark. In a blog post, Roberts revealed that an extra 10,000 new citizens have signed up for the game but it’s unclear if all of them are actually putting money into the project. Still, it’s an impressive number and it’s fascinating to see the support for the game carry on and on into 2014....

It’s humorous to see these newly announced pre-order incentives forSteel Battalion: Heavy Armor. So far, everything Capcom has shown points toward a ratherbleak-looking gamefilled with death and destruction. You know what it could use? Brightly colored vertical tanks that justpop. Not that the same criticism can’t be said of many other games as well, but it seems particularly worth commenting about here given the tone ofHeavy Armor. Three retailers —Amazon,Best Buy, andGameStop— each have their own set of armor....

‘Fractured Space’ is also what I call my brain The makers ofStrike Suit Zeroare increasing the scale of their space battles with a new game,Fractured Space, which features 5 vs 5 matches between massive ships. “Above all else we want to transmit a sense of scale to the player – the feeling of participating in a massive space battle inside their own titanic capital ship, blasting apart enemy ships and working together with other players to achieve a common objective....

You need to have a hero at level 20 A few days back Blizzard was teasing anall new modeforHearthstone, and now they have revealed their plans just before E3. It’s called “Tavern Brawl,” and it’s another versus mode with a twist. Basically, every week features new rulesets, which could include a preset deck, or specific guidelines. You won’t even be able to play this mode unless you have a level 20 hero, but it does support friend and solo play....

Ubisoft cracks down Ubisoft’spast attemptsto get tough on cheaters inThe Divisionhave apparently not gone far enough to dissuade cheating. The company is adopting thesame policythatRainbow Six: Siegejust enacted: cheaters can now be banned on the first offense. “Following this campaign of suspensions and bans, it also became clear that while huge progress has been made in terms of cheat detection, our 14 days suspension on first offense policy has not been dissuasive enough,”The Division‘sofficial blogwrites....

And it’s all for charity We’ve seenMario Makerbring out the insidiousin people. Plenty of folks are creating levels that are downright devilish. However, few of them have grabbed the spotlight quite like what’s happening between two well-known video game journalists. Giant Bomb’s Dan Ryckert and Kotaku’s (and Giant Bomb alumnus) Patrick Klepek are embroiled in aMario Makerwar. Ryckert has spent the past few weeks making “nightmarish levels of pain and suffering....

Yes, always continue The millions of different cases out there in the wild for iPhones were definitely integral in my decision to make that pricey purchase after my Android phone bit the dust, and every time I see new phone cases I covet I feel like I did the right thing. That, and the silicone Game Boy cases I buy off eBay for $2 apiece in every cover of the rainbow....

Boldly naming planets that no man has named before! No Man’s Skyis a game that I hold in high regard now lately for a lot of reasons. However, back when I originally reviewed the game for a channel me and my friends started I absolutely tore into it for all the numerous and very obvious issues. A little over a year later, though, I’d revisitNo Man’s Skyin my veryfirst videofor Destructoid and I had a far, far better experience with it....

25th Anniversary light-up Mega Man The$100 Mega Man statuethat was unveiled during PAX East will no longer take pre-orders after 4/26/13, so if you want it,you better get it now. For those of you who haven’t been following it, the 10 inch statue is a limited edition 25th Anniversary item, with USB powered LED lights and a chrome/metal finish. Originally the deadline was April 21st, but due to fan demand Capcom has extended it....

We have two brand new games seizing the top two slots of the UK chart this week, and whileHalo 3: ODST‘s top position is not shocking in the least, you may very well be surprised to learn thatProfessor Layton and Pandora’s Boxis standing proud at number two! The popular DS puzzle series has been enjoying some simmering success in the UK, with the original game hovering at the lower end of the chart for quite some time....

A breakdown of who’s working on what Yesterday’s discovery ofValve’s trademark ofHalf-Life 3in Europe didn’t do much for me. This latest story, however, is an entirely different matter. The company’s JIRA database for project management was publicly accessible for long enough that people could notice. And notice they did —the database has groupsforHalf-Life 3,Left 4 Dead 3, and Source 2, to name a few. ForHalf-Life 3, it appears as if development is ramping up....

I’m a NES fanatic, but I have to admit to never even having seen a picture of one of these things before. Currently listed oneBayfor the highly affordable price of $1,050, these carts were used by game stores to test their NES systems and were never sold to the public, so your guess is as good as mine as to how the seller got his or her hands on this thing....

While some fans were excited bytoday’s announcement ofWarhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3officially entering development, others feel like it may be a bit too soon due to the lack of content thatSpace Marine 2has received since its launch 6 months ago. A post over on the/r/gaming subredditdiscussing theSpace Marine 3development announcement seems pretty split, with some fans just happy to get moreSpace Marinegoodness while others aren’t impressed. “Hope it has more content than 2,”states user Possible-Emu-2913, which to be fair is a perfectly reasonable request....