Our centennial presentation! We’re joined by some familiar voices as we cover the results of The International, the scare-rousing personality of one particular pokénerd, the dark side of the PS4, and China continually sticking it to the rest of the world in lovable, under-performing electronic knockoffs. All this before we get to the Rundown! Plus, we’re video-streaming now!
Noteworthy Deals
- XBL Games for Gold (August, 2015)
- XB1: Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (all month long)
- XB1: How to Survive: Storm Warning Edition (second half)
- 360: Metro 2033 (first half)
- 360: Metro: Last Light (second half)
- PSPlus Games for August
- PS4: Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
- PS4: LIMBO
- PS4, PS3, VITA: Soundshapes
- PS4, PS3, VITA: Stealth, Inc. 2: A Game of Clones
- PS3: God of War: Ascension
- PS3, VITA: CastleStorm
The News Ticker
- NA Gaming ain’t no joke no more – Evil Geniuses win The International (6.5 mil) for USA! USA! (link)
- UFC star Ronda Rousey did a Reddit AMA and guess what – she’s a HUGE POKEMON NERD. (link)
- What other celebs play video games we may or may not know about?
- Star Wars PS4, Vader Style – Nov 17, one with Disney Infinity, one with Battlefront (link)
- Too poor for an XBONE or PS4, but too not-dumb for an OUYA? – Introducing OUYE (link)
- Gamers enjoying Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire have another legendary coming their way. Shiny Mega Rayquaza is being distributed by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company until September 14, 2015.
The RUNDOWN
- Quantum Break – a weird mixture of live action and time-manipulating gameplay… or something (link)
- Destiny Ditching the Dinklage (link)
- Mojang’s next game is “Cobalt,” a 2D platformer (link)
- Sonic Dreams is a little collection of games that allegorizes Sonic’s fall from grace (link)
- League of Legends has its first pro female gamer in Maria Creveling or “Remelia” (Team: Renegades) (link)
- ESL (Electronic Sports League) is now banning the same banned substances as the Olympics… (link)
- PlayStation Plus subscribers can now VOTE for their free PS4 games (link)
- Big Fallout Shelter on iOS update hits with Android version, adds Deathclaws, Mole Rats, and Mr. Handy
- Android users, plug in and close apps before playing Fallout Shelter or face a possible save-destroying bug! (link)
- Nintendo finally updates Splatoon to add much needed squad features (link)
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