Battlefront Blitz | Episode 108 | Press Play to Save

Once again, news is king as we get into the deals, come to terms with Steam’s Midweek Madness, all before getting into the Voice Actor’s strike vote, Ubisoft’s disc-ditching, and our experience playing Star Wars Battlefront on PS4 and PC! Shoot, even the RUNDOWN is full of great stuff this week. Don’t miss out!

Noteworthy Deals

XBL Games for Gold (October, 2015) (link)
- XB1: Valiant Hearts: The Great War
- XB1: The walking Dead complete first season
- 360: The Walking Dead Complete first season
- 360: Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeros
PSPlus Games for October
- Super Meat Boy, PS4, PS Vita
- Broken Age, PS4, PS Vita
- Unmechanical: Extended, PS4, PS3
- Chariot, PS3
- KickBeat, PS3, PS Vita
- Kung Fu Rabbit, PS3, PS Vita
Humble Bundle CAPCOM Bundle (Link)
BundleStars (Link)
Revisiting the Steam Midweek Madness
Steam 80% Deep Silver Weekend (link)

The News Ticker

Game voice actors vote overwhelmingly in favor of being open to strike (link)
- Asking for…
  - Royalties on games that sell over 2 million
  - Hazard pay for vocally stressful roles (screaming, etc)
  - Stunt coordinators on hand where mocap is required
Ubisoft and the ol’ Bait & Switch (leaving out the DVD for the Might & Magic Heroes VII collector’s edition) (link)
- Sold pre-orders then quietly changed the marketing info to leave out the hard copy for US customers (EU received a hard copy). Game came with all the fixin’s… except for the game.
Star Wars: Battlefront Beta is in the can (and was extended for a day, but seemingly not really)! We give our in-depth impressions!

The RUNDOWN

Microsoft won’t let Xbox ONE users have access to Cortana until 2016, that is as long as you don’t go to the settings menu, go to the top, and mash ‘A’ a bunch of times. No, seriously. (link)
‘Overwatch’ is Blizzard’s first all-new game in years, see it Thursday (link)
The Witcher 3 expansion’s physical release delayed a day before launch (link)
It will cost $110 to play all of Star Wars Battlefront (link)
Unity engine works with everything, except browsers like Chrome and Firefox which are dropping support for a required plugin (link), but Unity is currently working to keep everybody up and running.
Microsoft is about to kick off a developer recruitment tour for HoloLens, which costs 3K for a test unit. (link)
PS4 remote goes on sale sometime this month, will cost $30, communicate via Bluetooth, and hopefully will have batteries last longer than the 4 hours you get from a DualShock 4. (link)
PS4 price drop happened. Fifty bucks down – cost is now $349.99 with a game. (link)
MS’ Phil Spencer says Xbox needs to focus on regaining gamers’ trust more than on the competition (link)
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey says the Rift will cost “more than $350” (link)
Samsung GearVR is coming out in November for an easy $99, but requires a 2015 Samsung phone to work (link)
Star Citizen, provided it ever gets done, will feature such headlining actors as Gary Oldman, Mark Hamill, Mark Strong, John Rhys-Davies, Andy Serkis, Gillian Anderson, and more. (link)
A new Steam user group called Scam Report has formed to help keep gamers apprised of abandoned early access titles, abrasive developers, and games that lack the features they boast. (link)