*California* Guns

We’re racing to get on the Fallout 4 DLC train before the price hike (which happens in t-minus already), plus talkin’ game awards, PLUS gushing over classic gaming on a new Coleco console. You like games? DO YOU LIKE THEM?! Then strap on your ear-bags!

NOTEWORTHY DEALS

XBL Games for Gold for February (link)
- XB1: Hand of Fate
- XB1: Styx
- 360: Sacred Citadel
- 360: Gears of War 2
PSPlus Games for February (link)
- Grid Autosport, PS3
- Helldivers: Democracy Strikes Back , PS4, PS3, PS Vita
- Lemmings Touch, PS Vita
- Nom Nom Galaxy, PS4
- Nova-111, PS Vita
- Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, PS3
Humble Bundle (link)
BundleStars (link)
Cheapshark (link)

NEWS TICKER

Bundle Stars “win steam wallet $$$” by playing games from bundles
Fallout 4 DLC is coming this spring, and the price of a Season Pass is going up by 20 bucks on March 1st (link)
- Automatron, Wasteland Workshop and Far Harbor.
The 19th Annual DICE awards gave top prize to none other than Fallout 4 (link and full list of awards)
- in addition to best RPG and game direction
- Fallout Shelter won best mobile game
- Rocket League took home best Sports Game and outstanding achievement in online play awards, in addition to the DICE Sprite Award (for success and exposure despite having disproportionate resources)

RETRO ROUNDUP

RETRO ROUNDUP – Coleco Chameleon is a new retro console coming to Kickstarter very soon (link) (video)
- If you pledge $135, it’ll land you a console
- Recently added rights to the Atari 2600 catalogue
- Can also play ColecoVision, Intellivision, and SNES games. Is promising unreleased Genesis games, as well.
- Comes with controller, but uses USB so players can use virtually any controller they want
- Uses a chip that can emulate hardware configurations of the classic consoles for more accurate emulation of the games

THE RUNDOWN

OpenGL’s replacement is here at last (better late than never). It’s called Vulkan, and it’s supposed to clear away a lot of the muck in regarding to GPU and CPU overhead (link)
Elite Dangerous: Arena cuts out all the muckity mucking and lets you get straight to the dogfighting – for only $7.50 on Steam (link)
Xbox Live, doing its best PS Network impression, went down across 360 and XB1 yesterday for more than 12 hours, and various services such a purchases and content usage were still limited as of this morning – apparently the network slowly died over several days (link) (status page)
Dragon Quest Builders mixes Minecraft and RPG strategy-sim (link)
TF2 is getting competitive matchmaking as Valve preps for eSports (link)
Carmageddon is returning with releases on PS4 and XB1 this year (link)
Smite, a free 3rd Person Action MOBA is heading to PS4 (link)
Rumor: the BioShock series may be getting a remaster for modern consoles (link)