In a strange twist of fate, gamers vote Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim as the greatest game of the seventh generation, much to the chagrin of fans from every other popular series out there. Payday 2 turns out to be a much bigger success than anyone anticipated, making back its entire development budget before it even released, and Dead Island ends up on the experimental route as a MOBA. Amazing. These stories and more in this August 10th, 2013 edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap.
Sunday
BioShock Infinite Mac Release Date Set For August 2K has plans to bring the Mac rendition of BioShock to store shelves later this month.
DC Universe Online Sons of Trigon DLC Stars Wonder Woman After a few of the other stars got their time in the spotlight, it only makes sense that the prime amazon gets some time in the spotlight as well.
Oddworld Dev Says Nintendo Is Fantastic To Work With Well this is good news for Nintendo, as they now have a growing stable of developers under their wing.
Pat Robertson Says Video Game Murder The Same As Real Murder Oh of course it is... that virtual dude had a wife and kid to go home to and we just deprived this guy of living out his life.
Microsoft Needs Your Help To Police Trolls on Xbox Live Microsoft is going one step further than the reputation system and they are inculcating prefects to help iron out some policing with online behavior as well.
Dragon's Prophet Takes Flight September 18th The new MMO will launch for a wide audience during the middle of next month.
Rainbow Skies Gets Details, New Screenshots New information on the upcoming title for the PS3 and PS Vita has spilled.
Monday
Skyrim Fan Movie Shares A Vision A creative, fan-made vision of course.
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DayZ Standalone Could Go Public After Next Milestone Build While there are a lot of complainers, believe you me when I say that they will be at the feet of “Rocket”, worshiping him like rappers worship big butts once this thing goes public.
Reggie Fils-Aime On Being Playable in Smash Bros Wii U He says his body is ready... but is yours?
Nintendo Rewards Program Gets Four Games This August If you're part of the Nintendo rewards agenda you'll be able to get in good on four new games.
World of Warcraft Connected Realms Aim To Fix Underpopulated Realms As popular dies down and gamers drop off, Blizzard introduces a fix for the problem.
Savant: Ascent Brings Dubstep Action Platforming to Steam's Greenlight You power-up by collecting and listening to dubstep while you kick the collective butts of bad guys. Sounds awesome? It is awesome.
Skyrim Voted Best Game of the Generation Beyond GTA IV, The Last of Us and MGS IV. Do you agree?
Crypt Run Will Appear on Wii U If Kickstarter Stretch Goal Met Nintendo wants the game on Wii U... the developers want the game on Wii U, so how about you? Do you want it on the Wii U?
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Tuesday
Ace Combat Infinity Bringing Free-to-Play Flying to PlayStation 3 Fly planes. Shoot down bad guys. Shoot down players. Become famous. Sounds fun? Of course it does.
Betrayer Fights Zombeis With A Musket I'm going to start calling this the musket-zombie-killing game...yup. That suits it quite nicely.
Soul Sacrifice Offers Two Bosses, Eight Missions For Free Free DLC? Well you all better jump on this before Capcom whispers something in their ears and forces color palettes to carry $7 price tags.
Lilly Looking Through Brings Enhanting Animated Adventure To Steam Greenlight A new game that celebrates the old with the new in a very inspiring new way.
Infected Wars Coming Soon to iOS Blast down zombies with friend in this third-person shooter built on the Unreal Engine.
Left 4 Dead 3, Source 2 Appear on Changelog... GamesCom Announcement Inbound? I'm guessing the game will be unveiled at GamesCom and it would be a huge thing if it was.
War of the Vikings Rages War in Early 2014 Paradox Interactive and Fatshark are preparing for a new kind of war game come 2014.
Payday 2 Release Date Confirmed Overkill confirms release for next week.
Saints Row 4 Character Creation Now Available Much like Saints Row: The Third, Volition released the Inauguration Station early so gamers can create their hero before Saints Row IV actually releases.
King of Fighters 13 Steam Edition Launching Soon While it hasn't even been officially announced, it has arrived on Steam's database.
PS Vita 3DS Both Offer System Firmware Updates This is great news for gamers looking to get even more out of their portable handheld systems.
BioShock Infinite DLC: Playing Elizabeth Very Different No more guns for Lizzy... she's got to get creative in the newest DLC.
Dead Island Epidemic Is Free-to-Play MOBA The attempt to cash-in on MOBAs has become astounding... and thus, this particular cash-grab deserves to a spot in this week's recap headline. Congrats on being that much of a cash grab Dead Island Epidemic.
League of Legends Tops List of Most Played Game In July, State of Decay Bows Out Despite its popularity, State of Decay just can't stay in the top 20.
Injustice Gods Among Us Introducing Zatanna new DLC for the game heralds the inclusion of Zatanna, the backwards speaking magician superhero.
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Sneaks Onto XBLA Not promoted a lot, but Brothers has been receiving a ton of promotion these days.
Thursday
EverQuest Next Ditches The Holy Trinity No more tanks, healers and DPS. I say good riddance and thank goodness.
PS4 Streaming Is Free, Xbox One Streaming Requires Xbox Live Gold One is free and one is not... it's about as simple as that.
Payday 2 Offers Free Beta Access To Payday Owners Do you own the first game? Cool, you're already keyed in to the beta of the sequel.
Below Developer Defends Xbox One, Microsoft The developer for the upcoming XB1 exclusive defends their parent company like a dog taking up for its master.
Arma 3 Release Date Confirmed Bohemia Interactive and 505 Games have outlined an official release date for the next-generation military simulator.
Able HD Portable Monitor Successfully Kickstarted This is a cheap, inexpensive way to get a monitor up and working for your gaming or movie-watching needs.
Hearthstone Heroes Beta Is Weeks Away The beta for this MOBA is approaching fast.
Payday 2 Makes Back Entire Development Budget On Pre-Orders A huge success and the game isn't even out yet. This is great news for Overkill Software and 505 Games.
Createrria Lets You Create Games Easily On Mobile Devices A game creation toolkit without any requirements to know how to script, code or develop on a UI.
Friday
Xbox One Will Not Have 12GB RAM, Microsoft Confirms 8GB No RAM upgrades for Microsoft's next-gen console.
iPi Soft Adds Multi-Person Motino Capture Support, Additional PS Eye Features A nice little upgrade for iPi Soft for those working with motion-capture software.
Runbot iOS Combines Tron, Dubstep and Mirror's Edge Well here's something you don't see often.
Attack on Titan Nintendo 3DS Teaser Site Goes Live The popular anime is finally getting a game... for the Nintendo 3DS.
Guncraft and Papers, Please Has Officially Launched on Steam Two very interesting indie games have launched on Steam.
Final Fantasy XI Celebrates 11 Years With Free Abyssea Content If you've been a life-long member of the game, Square is rewarding you for your loyalty.
BreakQuest Extra Evolution Arrives for PSN as Freemium Game A new freemium title for PSN arrives to shake things up a bit.
Saturday
Electronic Theatre Preview of Payday 2 A new hands-on preview of Payday 2 courtesy of our good buddies at Electronic Theatre.
Narco Terror Co-op Review Co-optimus reviews the latest cooperative game currently on Steam where you shoot any and everything in sight.
Editor's Letter: VG 24/7s Official Policy of Bad Journalism A cold hard look at the policies of VG 24/7, courtesy of PlayStation Lifestyle.
Microsoft Points Will Expire in 2015 Those MSP? Better use 'em all up before 2015.
Microsoft On How To Build Tomorrows Blockbusters Across Mobile Devices This is it folks, you heard from Microsoft on how to knock out those blockbuster titles.
That wraps up this edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap. You can check out a brand new video for GTA IV featuring the dubstep gun.
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