Guardians of the Galaxy content is coming to Xbox LIVE, Minecraft, Marvel Heroes, and other games, Marvel revealed today during a Comic-Con panel.

Here’s the full list of where you can expect to see characters from Marvel’s next big summer movie:

• Minecraft: The Xbox One and Xbox 360 editions of Minecraft will get a Guardians of the Galaxy Skin Pack featuring characters from the movie as well as other characters from the Marvel universe.
• Marvel Heroes 2015: Guardians of the Galaxy characters Star-Lord, Drax, Gamora, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot will join Marvel’s Diablo-like action RPG for the PC.
• Xbox LIVE Avatars: Xbox One and Xbox 360 players will be able to customize their Xbox LIVE Avatars with Guardians of the Galaxy costumes.
• Marvel Pinball: A new table inspired by the movie will showcase the individual powers of each member of Guardians of the Galaxy team, as well as battles against the movie’s villains.
• Marvel: War of Heroes: The mobile game’s special September raid boss event will allow players to use Guardians of the Galaxy characters.
• Marvel: Avengers Alliance: Facebook game Marvel: Avenger’s Alliance’s next Spec Op mission will feature a new story by writer Alex Irvine that focuses on Guardians of the Galaxy heroes and villains.
• Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes: As Disney Interactive previously announced, the “toys-to-life” franchise is getting a Guardians of the Galaxy playset that includes new playable characters.

Disney also recently revealed a Disney Infinity PlayStation exclusive collector's edition bundle, which will include the Marvel Super Heroes Starter Pack, all Avengers figures, and the Frost Beast Collector's Edition display.

Disney said that all the content listed above will roll out over the next few weeks. Guardian’s of the Galaxy opens in theaters August 1.

Independent developer Motiga's recently announced free-to-play PC game Gigantic may be reminiscent of a MOBA game, but the studio has described it as otherwise. To gain a better insight into how this new IP differentiates itself from MOBAs, we spoke to James Phinney, vice president of product development at Motiga. Prior to working on Gigantic, Phinney was the lead designer on Guild Wars and StarCraft.

What genre does Gigantic fit into?

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How will enemy balance be tweaked for the full game?

This is an immediate concern upon reaching some of the higher levels. The strongest enemies in the beta take clip after clip to take down. From what we played, the stronger the enemies get, the more they act as bullet sponges, soaking up sometimes hundreds of shots before they succumb.

The most obvious example of this occurs during the Devil's Lair Strike Mission, which is recommendced for Guardians level 6 or higher. You begin by fighting through rooms full of enemies, some of which have ranks well above the beta's level 8 cap. You then come across a wide field with a Devil Walker spider tank in it. Of course, there are weaker enemies, but the tank is the main focus. It wields a rocket launcher and what appears to be a rail gun to devastating effect. Expectedly, it's well-armored. But perhaps too much so.

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Sony will talk about how to best use “next-gen” game engines with its PlayStation 4 virtual reality device Project Morpheus at GDC Europe, the event’s organizers have confirmed.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s Research and Development Senior Engineer Patrick Conner and Immersive Technology Group Technical Director Ian Bickerstaff will discuss the topic in a Programming Track session titled “Virtual Reality and Getting the best from Your Next-Gen Engine.”

“Creating a game engine requires knowledge of the hardware and software of your target system,” reads the session’s description. “Nowhere is this more important than with Virtual Reality where a consistent high frame rate and low-latency are essential to the experience.” The presentation will introduce techniques to deliver a high quality virtual reality experience with a focus on Sony’s Project Morpheus. The session will presumably give attendees an understanding of Project Morpheus’ features and technical considerations on how to develop games for it.

Project Morpheus was announced at GDC 2014. Sony has ruled out a 2014 launch for the headset, and has promised that it won't sell for $1000.

Several backers of a Kickstarter project called Confederate Express are trying to get their pledges refunded after the game’s developer was accused of squatting an Airbnb condominium in Palm Springs, California.

Airbnb is a website where people search for or offer a temporary place to stay for a price.

According to KESQ.com, several neighbors identified the squatter as Maksym Pashanin, who’s living and developing Confederate Express with his brother Denys under the company name Kilobite.

Confederate Express was pitched as a PC strategy-oriented tactical RPG. It was succesfully funded on November 20, 2013, surpassing it’s goal of $10,000 with nearly $40,000 from 2,386 backers. Since then, Pashanin produced only a tech demo for the game. In a July 16 update to backers, Pashanin revealed that Kilobite has been working on a “sister project,” a brawler with RPG elements called Knuckle Club, and that due to “recent restructuring of Kilobite,” development of Confederate Express was postponed.

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