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Ermagherd!  Fallout 4 is out!  And since we haven’t played a *ton* of it yet, there’s a TON OF NEWS to talk about, like the Steam Controller and Steam Link hitting the streets, video game movies looking to break “the curse,” and Overwatch beta streams – all before another meaty rundown!

Noteworthy Deals

  • XBL Games for Gold for November (link)
    • XB1: Pneuma: Breath of life
    • XB1: Knight squad
    • 360: Dirt 3
    • 360: Dungeon Siege 3
  • PSPlus Games for November (link)
    • Walking dead season 2 – PS4
    • Magicka 2 – PS4
    • Mass Effect 2, PS3
    • Beyond Good & Evil, PS3
    • Dragon Fin Soup, PS4, PS Vita (PS3 Cross-Buy when available)
    • Invizimals, PS Vita
  • Humble Bundle (link)
    • Build your own evolve bundle
  • BundleStars (link)
  • Steam Halloween Sale done and over, but A LOT of sales
  • With Black Friday/Christmas right around the corner, what kinds of deals are you hoping come out if any?

The News Ticker

  • Overwatch isn’t Free to Play, will feature 21 heros in all (link)
  • Fallout 4 is released today! and surpasses Skyrim for concurrent Steam users (link)
    • A lot of leaked footage, followed by a new trailer in response
    • First looks and reviews show that it’s good if you’re new to Fallout, Great if you love Fallout
    • PS4 and XB1 versions are nearly identical, PC is only slightly better (link)
  • Batman Arkham Knight for PC was pulled from sale, refunds offered, worked for months, put back on sale, is still broken, refunds being offered again (link)
  • Redaction Retraction: 100 360 Games will be Backward Compatible with Xbox One (link)
  • Can the Warcraft movie break the video game movie curse? (full trailer)
    • What about the upcoming Assassin’s Creed movie and planned Call of Duty, Skylanders, and Witcher movies?
  • Steam controller, PC streaming concept
    • Howie the console hater’s thoughts

 The RUNDOWN

  1. Amazon doing midnight deliveries of Black Ops 3 (link)
  2. Nintendo didn’t create the next Wii, Apple did (link)
  3. Gamestop black Friday deals leaked (link)
  4. Best Buy’s Black Friday Deals 500$ Xbox One and HDTV offer (link)
  5. The EULA for the Steam version of Divinity: Original Sin hid a tease for a reward for the first 100 users to actually read it and contact the studio – and they got free games! (link)
  6. King, the company behind Candy Crush Saga, was just purchased by Activision for a cool 5.9 mil. (link)
  7. Blizzard tweaking the melee combat in WoW to make it feel “more visceral” (link)
  8. Twitch has introduced two-factor authentication (link)
  9. North American team Cloud9 won grand champions of the first Heroes of the Storm World Championship at Blizzcon. (link)
  10. Touchstone pictures has secured the rights to make a movie about Gamergate based on Zoe Quinn’s upcoming memoir, “Crash Override: How to Save the Internet from Itself.” (link)

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