BOOM! Deals! News! Releases! The Rundown! We talk about Minecraft: Education Edition, plus fan-made rebuilds of classic games. Plus, ESPN has launched an eSports branch, which is just bound to confuse basement dwellers everywhere!
NOTEWORTHY DEALS
- XBL Games for Gold for January (link)
- XB1: Killer Instinct Season 1 Ultra edition
- XB1: Zheros
- 360: Dirt Showdown
- 360: Deus Ex: Human Revolution
- PSPlus Games for January (link)
- Dragon Age: Origins , PS3
- Grim Fandango Remastered , PS4, PS Vita
- Hardware: Rivals , PS4
- Legends of War Patton , PS Vita
- Medal of Honor Warfighter , PS3
- Nihilumbra, PS Vita
- Humble Bundle (link)
- BundleStars (link)
- http://www.cheapshark.com – an aggregate for PC digital game discounts across various sites
NEWS TICKER
- MS/Mojang have announced Minecraft: Education Edition, launching this summer (link) (video)
- Based on MinecraftEdu mod, which MS has acquired.
- Will be $5 per user for Libraries, Schools, etc
- Boosted 40 person multiplayer
- RETRO ROUND-UP
- Releases
- Out This Week (video)
- A Boy and His Blob — PS4, Xbox One Digital, PC
- Baseball Riot— PS4, Vita Digital (Cross Buy)
- Dark Cloud 2 — PS2 Classic for PS4
- Resident Evil 0 — PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One Digital, PC
- Resident Evil Origins Collections — PS4
- Tachyon Project— PS4 Digital
- Life Is Strange — PS4, Xbox One Retail
- Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — PC
- Out Next Week (video – the witness)
- LEGO Marvel’s Avengers — PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, 3DS, Wii U, Vita
- Nitroplus Blasterz Heroines Infinite Duel — PS4
- Saturday Morning RPG — PS4, Vita Digital (Cross Buy)
- The Witness — PS4 Digital, PC
- Rise of the Tomb Raider — PC
THE RUNDOWN
- Youtuber Cosmic Contrarian melted faces with a 20,000 troop war in Fallout 4. Things get nuts. (link)
- Former U.S. Marine and game developer Amir Hekmati has been released from an Iranian prison after FOUR YEARS of captivity for accusations of propaganda while working on a language retention program indirectly for the U.S. DoD. (link)
- More TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan screens leak from the Australian ratings submission because, well, everything leaks from their Australian ratings submissions. (link) (image)
- ARK: Survival Evolved on Xbox One getting a hundred more servers to handle the crippling load. (link) (video)
- SHOCKING: Mario Maker stages are being removed by Nintendo, and Nintendo isn’t bothering to tell anyone why. (link) (video)
- DOOM co-creator John Romero just released a DOOM level – 21 years later. (link) (video)
- Raspberry Pi Zero allows users with access to a 3d printer stuff a Nintendo emulator into a NES controller (link) (image)
- CS: GO pro team Titan has “capsized” after member was banned for cheating. (link) (image)
- ESPN has launched ESPN Esports. All that is nerd is now bro. (link)
- All these years laters, SPOTUS will hear Microsoft’s appeal over the 360 eating discs like an optical media Cookie Monster (link)
- Xbox One users will get background music… eventually… but like, not before summer (link)
- Amazon Prime now offering 20% off new games for members! (link)
- DICE Awards nominations are out with Rise of the Tomb Raider and The Witcher 3 leading with eight nominations each. (link) (image)
- Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies, lead designer on the GTA series from GTA3 on, took a year long sabbatical and then just decided not to come back. (link)
- Psychonauts still just won’t die, and is coming to PS4 this spring (link) (image)
- Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw has said sayonara to Valve after 18 years (link)
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