It’s a block party up in here as the lads stack up all the news from Minecon, in addition to the Terraria 1.3 patch. Learn just how soon the industry-insiders-turned-DOTA2-afficianados are going to get REKT this year, and then buckle yours safety belt for the breakneck news rundown!
Noteworthy Sales
- July Games for Gold
- Plants vs Zombies – 360
- Gear of War 3 – 360
- Assassin’s Creed Black Flag – XB1
- So Many Me – XB1
- July Free Games for PSPlus
- Rocket League – PS4
- Styx: Master of Shadows – PS4
- Mousecraft – PS4, PS3, Vita
- Entwined – PS4, PS3, Vita
- Rain – PS3
- Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Evolved – Vita
- July 15th will be Amazon’s “Prime Day,” rife with all kinds of sales (link)
- Tower of Fortune on iOS, usually one buck, now free (link)
- PlayStation TV’s (VITA TV’s) are down to $39.99 across several outlets, including Gamestop. No controller, but works with PS3 and PS4 controllers.
The News Ticker
- Rektreational 2 (Link)
- NEWS FROM MINECON!
- New Features (link)
- Dual Wielding (torch plus sword – Aw, yissss!)
- Shields
- Enchanted Arrows
- Buff bar (positive and negative effects)
- The End island to become a full realm
- Ability to respawn the Ender Dragon
- Pocket Edition to receive more features already on other platforms
- Minecraft: Windows 10 edition ditches Java and will allow multiplayer with Pocket Edition. (link)
- Telltale making a Minecraft STORY game called Minecraft: Story Mode (link)
- Launching a site to help educators understand what they can do with the game (link)
- Terraria 1.3 Features (link)
- Better Steam Incorporation
- Manage Multiplayer through STEAM
- Steam cloud saving
- Steam achievements
- NPCs now have some semblance of AI (fight or flight, etc)
- Blood and gore filter for the kiddies
- More character appearance options
- Link items through chat
- Crafting improvements / expansions
- AUTO-STACK INTO NEARBY CHESTS! HUZZAH!
- Boss icons on mini-maps
- EXPERT MODE
- Better AI, stronger enemies, more loot, bigger punishments
- Better Steam Incorporation
The RUNDOWN
- Square Enix offers refunds for FF XIV MMO on Mac, suspends sales (poor performance and communication of system requirements cited (link)
- Mega-Man and Might Number 9 creator now launching a kickstarter to pretty much take over Mega-Man Legends, as well (Red Ash: The Incredible Legend) (link)
- Much anticipated ‘Journey’ hitting the PS4 streets on July 21st (link)
- Ocarina of Time now available on eShop for WiiU (link)
- Read fast because development of Mojang’s Scrolls is being shuttered, early access servers will run for another year. (link)
- Former Senator Leland Yee, the dude what tried to enact legislation to outlaw the sale of violent video games in California, has plead guilty to gun-running charges. (link)
- Shenmue 3 kickstarter shattered it’s goals in 9 hours and has more than doubled it since.
- Backers will have the option for a PS4 disc copy.
- Destiny may have actually had some personality at one point (link)
- David Cross, Brian Posehn wrote jokes for the Peter Dinklage-voiced Ghost, and not a single one was used.
- EA just realized that NDA’s won’t keep random gamers from leaking Star Wars: Battlefront videos online (link)
- Halo 5 Guardians will not support local split-screen of any kind.
- Everybody clamoring to get their hands on Fallout 4’s Pipboy, with phone inserts (No Fatties) (link) (link)
- PlayStation Network went down again this past Friday, then came back up (link)
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