Boom! Gaming news totally in my face! We hit the deals like they’ve been sassin’. Then, it’s off to the races with who won the 2nd Annual Rektreational (guess – JUST GUESS!). Also, Steam briefly ran out of steam, Fallout 4 was pretty much done before we knew it, and Microsoft continues to (re)evolve while Nintendo eke’s out a profit. And don’t even get me STARTED on the biggie-sized Rundown this week!
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
- Humble Bundle: Bandia Namco Bundle (link)
The News Ticker
- Rektreational 2 – PIT LORD META TWO TIME GRAND CHAMPIONS (Link) Also, buy the shirt.
- The International (Valve’s DOTA2 Tournament) has started! $18 million prize pool
- Steam got hax0red. (link)
- Hackers got in using password recovery and circumventing the required security code
- Mostly prominent community members and CS:GO Twitch-casters affected
- Has been patched
- Fallout 4 was almost done before it was ever revealed (link)
- XBOX ONE to start streaming PC games… eventually (link)
- Does this signal an even stronger paradigm shift for MS?
- Why in the hell can’t the 360?
- Nintendo profitable again, if only just (link)
- Attributed to stronger games lineup and Amiibos
The RUNDOWN
- Dave & Buster’s announces a timed exclusive of a new 8-foot-long Angry Birds arcade cabinet to eat tokens and poop tickets (link)
- The first two games announced for Nintendo’s upcoming console, codenamed NX, are Dragon Quest X and Dragon Quest XI. (link)
- Capcom halted and postponed the Street Fighter V beta because it was straight-up broken when initially launched (link)
- Gamer-pandering worked for Wreck-It Ralph, but not for Pixels and critics slam-pan the film, especially Sandler (link)
- New DOOM game picks up the pace, brings back health packs while locking players to two-guns loadout (link)
- Drake ain’t havin’ none of Meek Mill’s sh*t, drops a beat called Cha-Cha, sampling Star Road theme from Super Mario World (link)
- Razer purchased Ouya, promising integration with their own Android device, including Ouya controller support and purchase transfers (link)
- Nintendo murdering it’s TVii service on August 11, users no longer able to search listings across multiple streaming services at once. (link)
- Pro Euro League of Legends team Fnatic sets record with first undefeated 18-0 season (link)
- Fallout Shelter coming to Android on August 13th (link)
- Say ‘No’ to Drugs – eSports begins anti-doping campaign (link)
- China lifting the ban on console sales and manufacture, this time for rilzy rillz (link)
- Ain’t gonna be no mo’ Fallout 4 Pip-Boy editions because reasons (link)
- Microsoft’s Gamescom Press Conference was Today (all games announced will ship on Win10 AND Xbox ONE
- Quantum Break trailer (plus live action show tie-in) shown
- Crackdown 3 boasting multiplayer with 100% destructible environments (processed in “the cloud”)
- Multiplayer begins Summer 2016
- Lots of games featuring god-damn dinosaurs
- Scalebound (with 4-player coop)
- Still god-damn claiming that their damn console will become a full-fledged, subscription-free DVR
- And stream to Windows 10
- New chatpad… no one cares.
- Games with Gold games will be backward compatible via Xbox ONE
- Killer Instinct III, Worms W.M.D, Cities Skylines, Train Simulator, Sheltered, Ark: Survival Evolved, Rivals of Ether, Starbound, We Happy Few, Cobalt (2D sidescroller), Rampant Consumerism, Dark Souls 3, Homefront Revolution (with coop), FIFA, Halo 5 Guardians (no split-screen), Just Cause 3, Forza 6 (3D puddles!), Rise of the Tomb Raider, Halo Wars 2
- Halo World Championship this winter with 1 million prize pool
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