Pendulo Studios, creators of the Runaway trilogy, are branching away from the comedy genre and bringing a dark thriller to the world of adventure gaming.  While the story is compelling, it’s the art style thats really making it stand out.

According to Pendulo Studios, “Yesterday will make you travel around the world as John Yesterday, one of the three playable characters of the game, who is sent by billionaire Henry White to investigate a strange, frightening and murderous cult. This investigation will lead him to explore many places around the globe, as he helps White dismantle the dangerous cult… and, maybe, finally discover who he truly is.”

The website isn’t fully functional yet, though there’s a gallery, but click the jump for some awesome screenshots.

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Arcade game Dead Block, previously available on both the PSN and XBLA, has come to the PC. The game, from Digital Reality and developer Candygun Games, is a humorous look at a zombie outbreak set in the 1950′s, where rock n’ roll really is the Devil’s music and has turned its fans into a legion of the dead.

Mixing tactical defense with action the game lets you play as one of three characters: a boy scout, a construction worker or a meter maid, as you fight the horde of undead invading your town. The game is available for download from several distributors. Check out the video after the jump!

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If your Gold subscription is about to expire, or you like to stockpile these things, head on over to Amazon and pick up a 1-year subscription for 40% off, saving you $24.

Not as great of a deal, but still worth checking out: 1600 point cards are $1 off.

A tipster has let IGN in on news that today publisher THQ has laid off 75 people from their Agoura Hills California office. A representative from the company has confirmed that there have been terminations, but refused to comment on how many people were let go or the reasons for the lay offs.

Tim Schafer, mastermind behind such games as Psychonauts and Brutal Legend, turned 20-years-old in the games industry today.

As such, Tim has lovingly shared his rejection letters from Atari and Hewlett-Packard from back in the day, as well as showed us his correspondence with LucasFilm.

This is probably due to all the siren jokes and the horrible Kung Pow: Enter the Fist references, but sources close to the project have said that the Wii U may be getting a name change before release.

A lot of this stems from the similarity to its predecessor, the Wii, and the current confusion about the Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS that had some outlets putting stickers on the boxes to differentiate.

You may know Chris Pratt from Moneyball or Parks and Recreation, but do you know him as…a Jedi?

In this commercial for Kinect Star Wars you will. You will, indeed….

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Resistance and Resistance 2 didn’t do a whole lot to inspire the first-person shooter category on the PlayStation 3, but Resistance 3 surely caught people’s attention as a strong black woman who don’t need no man shooter on the console.

Sadly, it seems that Insomniac Games doesn’t want to do a follow-up. Instead, they will be focusing on their social gaming branch, Insomniac Click, which will attempt to bring social gaming to a more core group of players.

There’s a title update for Ubisoft‘s Rocksmith on the way soon (probably next week). Nao Higo, the producer of the game, has tweeted a few things regarding.

One tweet states that the practice modes have been improved, as well as offering precision tuning prior to songs, as well as other changes. More details will be listed on the Official Facebook Page in coming days.

Another tweet has transparently hinted at the imminent bass support.

If you are for any reason on the fence about Rocksmith, check out our review to help change your mind, and make sure to take note of the awesome DLC already available, including thrash legends Megadeth, garage duo The Black Keys, Deep Purple, Boston, Lynyrd Skynyrd and more.

Hey, kids! Gabe wants you to spend money on the go, so there’s a Steam Mobile App now available for Android and iOS devices! Download it here.

The mobile app (which is really neat, by the way) lets you see what your friends are up to and chat with them, browse the Steam store, and even shows you everything that’s on sale with games ranging from red territory (10% off) to yellow territory (50%-60% off) to green territory (75% off or more). Colors to be distinguished.

The app’s still in beta, so changes to come, but it’s looking pretty nice so far.

That typo in the title was intentional. As Dan Hsu of Bitmob cleverly pointed out, there’s a massive misspelling on Capcom‘s latest release for the Nintendo 3DS, Resident Evil Revelations.

The typo, as can be seen in the title of this posting, interchanges the “t” and the “i,” making for a really big printing screw up. Image below the cut, and someone probably doesn’t have a job anymore.

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I kind of wish I had the slightest idea what was going on in THEATRHYTHM Final Fantasy, but I’ll just keep nodding my head and going with…whatever it is they’re doing.

In a new Special Trailer for the game, you can see some of the characters that will be featured, as well as the upcoming gameplay. THEATRHYTHM Final Fantasy does not currently have a release date in North America or Europe, but is out in Japan partway through February on the Nintendo 3DS.

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Rayman Origins, the superb title from Ubisoft, is making its way to the PC platform. Without DRM. I repeat—an Ubisoft game is going to be on PC without DRM.

No official release date yet, but the excellent title saw releases on the Wii, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 late last year, and will be heading to the PlayStation Vita, Nintendo 3DS, and now PC in 2012.

If you’re not in tune with how awesome Rayman Origins is, check out our review, courtesy of Connor White.

UPDATE: Oh, looks like the official site is listing it as Spring 2012 again. Ze plot. She is thickening.

ORIGINAL: Looks like things have been flipped around a bit. On the official website, Aliens: Colonial Marines is listed with an Autumn 2012 release date, unlike the previously observed “Spring 2012.”

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Remember the Netflix/Qwikster fiasco where Netflix decided it was a good idea to have two separate services for streaming and disc rentals? Shortly after this announcement, and the subsequent backlash, Netflix decided that Qwikster was a bad idea and axed the whole thing.

At the same time they also mentioned that physical disc rentals, via Qwikster,  would be expanded into games as well. You probably don’t remember this, because I didn’t either what with all the hubbub over the changes, but Netflix didn’t forget. They’ve gone and changed their mind about that too, announcing to investors that they no longer plan to offer games for rental. Probably a good call on Netflix’s part after all the other bad decisions they’ve made lately.