Daily Highlights: Monday 17th March

New Gauntlet, IGA leaves Konami, Titanfall survival tips, and Chaos Reborn.
Text: Bengt Lemne
Published 2014-03-17

Titanfall becomes 2014's biggest release in the UK so far, and Decapre was revealed as the fifth and final new character in Ultra Street Fighter IV. Nintendo revealed a couple new Mario Kart 8 tracks, and we learned Daedalic's point-and-click adventure Deponia arrives on PS3 this summer.

One of today's weirdest news pieces involved Pokémon's Pikachu being named the official mascot of the Japanese team in this summer's World Cup, and we also learned about the fate of the Warhammer 40k MMO as told by former THQ head Danny Bilson.

EA announced the first free DLC pack for Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (yay, new map and a new mode), and longtime Castlevania producer Koji Igarashi has left Konami.

In GDC related news (kicks off this week in San Francisco) Ouya comes to GDC with 12 interesting indie titles, and Warner has announced a new Gauntlet, developed by the Magicka devs Arrowhead Game Studios.

Gillen brought us a Beginner's Guide to Titanfall, and Mike took an early look at Julian Gollop's re-imagening of the original Chaos - Chaos Reborn.

Garden Warfare gets 24 upgraded abilities - including this spruced up zombie drone.

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