Orcs Must Die! Multiplayer confirmed for newly-revealed sequel

Robot Entertainment, publisher of last year's tower-defense genre-bender Orcs Must Die!, has just announced it's preparing the game's sequel for release later this year. Orcs Must Die! 2 will bump up the offensive and defensive items available to players, overhaul the game's upgrade system, and add a second playable character, the Sorceress, for co-op runs through the sequel's new campaign mode.

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The original Orcs Must Die! made our list of the best downloadable games of 2011, and the sequel looks to contain plenty of potential improvements on its predecessor. The game's so far only been confirmed for PC (Robot says the game's console port didn't kill enough orcs to justify a sequel), and while it's not due for release until this Summer, it'll be playable at this weekend's PAX East in Boston. To make sure you have orcs to kill between now and the sequel's release, Robot Entertainment promises the second game will contain exclusive unlocks for owners of both titles.

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Leisure Suit Larry HD remake takes to Kickstarter

Last year we heard Austin's Replay Games was preparing Leisure Suit Larry to recieve the HD treatment. But when you've been a fortysomething sad-sack for some 25 years, things don't just spring right back into action without a little time and coaxing, you know. So now Replay's jumping on the Kickstarter bandwagon (the studio's words, not ours) and offering you – yes, you, sitting right there with the spare $5,000 cluttering up your living room – the chance to appear in-game in exchange for funding.

Pledge rewards for contributing to Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards: Reloaded range from $15, which gets you a download link when the game's finished, all the way up to absurd $50,000 rewards involving Las Vegas weekends and your name as an Easter egg where Sierra founder Ken Williams' would once have gone. You can even offer $5000 for the honor of appearing in-game and railing against the ills of contraception! We'd like to see your cute crowd-funded indie adventure do that. (Don't actually do that: have fun but stay safe, no glove no love, mmkay, etc).

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