Robot Entertainment announced the second part of it's tower defence game. The game will be available through digital download on PC this summer. Here you have the press release and the announcement trailer:

ROBOT ENTERTAINMENT UNVEILS ORCS MUST DIE! 2™

The co-op sequel to last year’s critically acclaimed Orcs Must Die!™ will be playable at PAX East


PLANO, Texas – April 2, 2011 – Robot Entertainment today announced Orcs Must Die! 2, the sequel to last year’s AIAS Strategy Game of the Year. Orcs Must Die! 2 thrusts players and their friends back into battle against a terrifying mob of orcs and other monsters. With a redesigned spellbook, players will have a broader range of options to build a deadly arsenal of defenses. Investing hard-earned skulls in an enormous new upgrade system will allow players to cater to their favorite methods of burning, grinding, tossing, or dismembering orcs.

“In 2011, we implored players to kill the orcs,” said Robot Entertainment CEO Patrick Hudson. “As many as possible. Yet, only 3.4 billion orcs have been slaughtered to date. The only way we will get to a respectable orc death toll is by adding another killing machine and cooperative play. Bring a friend and destroy the orcs!”

Orcs Must Die! 2 begins days after the ending of the original game. With the rifts closed and the magical Order dead, the War Mage finds himself suddenly thrust into a new battle against the mindless orc mob. He has a powerful, if questionable, new companion in the Sorceress, an ex-War Mage responsible for the destruction of the Order.

Orcs Must Die! 2 Features:
• New Campaign – Orcs Must Die! 2 features a full campaign that you can play in single-player or with a friend in co-op. Choose to play the campaign as the War Mage, a headstrong hero who charges into danger, or play as the more nuanced Sorceress, a new hero who keeps enemies at bay with mind-control and magic.

• More Enemies – An army of vile new creatures is set to pour through the rifts, and they’ve brought all of your favorite trap-fodder from the original Orcs Must Die! along with them!

• More Defenses – Orcs Must Die! 2 has an enormous armory of new and classic defenses, including an all new assortment of magical trinkets. Use your new spellbook to buy defenses and upgrades the way you choose to, building up your arsenal based on how you play the game.

• New Upgrade System – The skull system has been completely redesigned. You will always earn skulls for replaying levels, and the skulls can be spent on multiple persistent upgrades for each of your defenses.

Players wishing to add to the current 3.4 billion dead orc count can download the original Orcs Must Die! on Steam and other PC Platforms. As a special bonus, players who own the original Orcs Must Die! on PC will unlock exclusive content in the sequel.

Orcs Must Die! 2 is an action-strategy game that challenges players and their friends to team up and defend a world constantly under siege. Orcs Must Die! 2 will be available exclusively as a digital download on personal computers this summer. Players who want to get their hands on a playable version of Orcs Must Die! 2 can visit Robot Entertainment at booth 1172 during Pax East, which runs from April 6th to 8th in Boston, Massachusetts.

I have been playing FIFA 12 and started wondering what keeps us playing video games? I mean of course there is a good gameplay and some good graphics but after a while it becomes boring and you learn every move the computer makes.

What really does a game unique is the impact it has on your mind. If it has a great story then your mind will start creating it's own version of that game's story and that's how the game will have a fabolous story but most of it is just in your mind.

Let's think about FIFA.

You start a new career. You start with a club from ground up think about getting it promoted to the first series but hey! It's just a game if somehow your saves will get deleted you will have to start everything from scratch and play the same games again. Here is where your own story gets in. You start (maybe without realising) that you want desperately to achieve the objective you have set in your mind (promoting the team) and start imagining all those in game animations like they are real.

So the graphics aren't that important in the end aren't they? Yes they can be important because like i said they can have a bigger impact on your mind and the way it will create the 'new' story for your satisfaction.

What game developers could do to make the games even more real (and have a bigger impact on player's mind) is to create more games that can be played with 3D on and Kinect. That would give you an instant access to the game's world.

What games have you played that makes you (or gives you) such a strange pleasing feeling that makes you want more?

Runic Games the developers that are working on the upcoming RPG 'Torchlight 2' revealed some new updates about the game.

They released a press release in which they present the pets or should we say more deadly creatures?

Here is what their press release:

The life of a dungeon-clearing warrior can be a lonely one. Friends in your party may not be online, or may be questing abroad. To whom can a solitary skeleton-smasher turn for morale support? Fear not! Fluffy companions await you, whose inventories are surpassed only by their loyalty. Oh, and pointy teeth. Or claws. Pets have their own inventory, can learn spells, can be transformed temporarily or permanently into other creatures by feeding them certain fish, sell your unwanted inventory in town and will return with requested items from your shopping list.

Here is a video where you can see all of the pets that will be available in Torchlight II:

There is no gamer that hasn't played an old game or at least a game that has an old story.

Many of you may remember playing games like Super Mario (this is like the default game) and other racing games/sports/fps. Starcraft I, some FIFA games, Medal of Honor and who knows what else ...

I finished Mafia II months ago and now with the news that Mafia III is in development and that it is going to be set again somewhere in the 50's maybe 60's made me think about how great (of course that it's also developers job) old times story games are. I mean Mafia II was the greatest game by this kind i've ever played. And one major factor that counts is the music. The main theme (the one that starts once you're in the main menu) still gives me goose bumps. I used to let the song play for several seconds/minutes before playing ... it gives you an addictive feeling and makes you even more determined to play the game.

The way you can explore the old  times ... seeing old cars, how people where acting in those times, what clothes they wore how different cities looked like (New York in Mafia II and Los Angeles in L.A. Noire) makes me love these kind of games. I think i always liked to know more about old times and by using games this gives you a more special feeling.

Rockstar released trailers in which they stated they have whole crews working on studying documents and maps from 1940's L.A. to make the game as realistic as possible. And they really did a great job.

Mafia III is going to be another big hit and i will play it for sure. Rockstar also stated that there is going to be a L.A. Noire 2. So more cool games by this kind to come.