The final week of August has come and gone and now we're ready to deal with whatever troubles, good times, bad times and all the in-betweens that comes with the month that kills summer... I'm talking about the big sausage September. August wasn't taking a bullet to the head with ease, though, this month went out like a fighting tiger, throwing us a new portable gaming system from Nintendo called the 2DS, and spitefully spawning all sorts of internet rage (but you'll be the first in line to buy it). Microsoft rolled out news of day-one DLC for the Xbox One. A pity. And Valve celebrates the one year anniversary of Steam. Greenlight. These stories and more in this August 31st, 2013 edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap.
Sunday
Nintendo Wii U Trailer Previews Exclusive AAA titles Loads of big games are inbound for Nintendo's Wii U.
Black Desert Online Could Come To Xbox One, PS4 One of the most visually striking games could make an appearance on next-gen consoles after releasing for PC.
8-Year-Old-Boy Shoots Grandmother in the Head After Playing GTA IV The phuck-uppery of this story is beyond words.
Assault Android Cactus Brings Bullet Hell to PS4, PS Vita A new game is in the works for Sony's consoles that hearkens back to the age of arcade shoot 'em ups.
Chivalry Deadliest Warrior Combines First-Person Gore With Deadly Warriors SpikeTV's popular broadcast show will invade Torn Banner Studios' FPS.
Killzone Mercenary Online Beta Impressions And Tips Gaming Blend's Ryan Winslett offers up some tips and hints for the PS Vita's latest first-person shooter.
Ken Levine Discusses BioShock Burial At Sea The brilliant mind at 2K talks up the latest DLC for one of the best selling games of the year.
Shadow of Eternals Fails To Meet Kickstarter Goal Too much drama... just, too much drama.
Monday
GTA 5 Has Gone Gold, Rockstar Warns Gamers of Spoilers Beware of those willing to spoil the game for you.
Project Phoenix Revives Real JRPG Genre With Gaming's Legends An ambitious title is garnering a ton of support from hardcore gamers.
PS4 Faces Inventory Shortage In Europe Well, why not? It only has more than a million pre-orders.
Sleeping Dogs, Just Cause 2 Have 500,000 Active Unique Players Each Month We finally get some impressive numbers for two highly underrated open-world games that came out this generation.
Next Metro 2033 Game Will be Made More Accessible, With Broader Appeal Those investors just want to hear the dollar signs drop, that's all.
Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls Could Come To PS4, PS4, Xbox 360 Yeah, sure... why not? Blizzard only needs to milk console gamers, too.
Battlefield 4 Multiplayer Modes Include Oblieration and Defuse EA rolls out a few more details regarding the multiplayer modes for the highly anticipated first-person shooter from DICE.
Destiny Wins GamesCom 2013 Bungie's new FPS takes home the crown after the European trade-show expo blasted past previous record attendance rates.
Tuesday
EA Won't Ship A Game That's Offline That means everything and everyone will be connected. That's good, right?
Dead Island Epidemic Beta Sign-Ups Begin Get in on the new MOBA title from Deep Silver.
Payday 2 Impressions: Pros And Cons All the good and bad wrapped up in one nice little article.
GTA 5 On PS4? No So Fast, Says Rockstar After a slip-up by Sony, Rockstar has to correct them on the slip-up.
Borderlands 2 Game of the Year Edition Rumored, Level Cap Upgrade Coming Next Week Could Gearbox Software have a new GOTY Edition of Borderlands 2 in the works? Maybe so.
Divekick Review: A Narrow Miss Gaming Blend's Ryan Winslett rolls out a review of one of the most talked about fighting games in recent years.
Wii U Will Support Cross-Platform Play With iPhones And Androids.
Walking Dead Season 1 and 2 are Coming To OUYA Despite having a terrible commercial, the little Kickstarted-console that could is receiving some heavy support from TellTale.
Contraption Maker Reinvents The Incredible Machine For Steam Gamers
Dead Rising 3, Forza 5, Ryse All Getting Day-One DLC You may hate it but it makes them money, so they're bringing on more of it.
Lost Planet 3 Review Scores Are Predictable For A Predictably Forgettable Game The game scores some low-ball points for being a mediocre mish-mash of all of what's wrong with today's AAA business.
Final Fantasy XIV Doesn't Allow Let's Play Video Monetization If you were hoping to bank some coin on your exploits in Square's latest MMORPG, think again, kid.
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F Is Now Available For PS3 One of the most popular cultural phenomenons that you never heard of has arrived at retail and on the digital store for the PlayStation 3.
GTA V Features 240 Licensed Songs There are more songs present in this game than what you would get buying 10 CDs from popular artists... that's a lot of music.
Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora Lands On Steam Greenlight The name of this game is worth a peek all its own. Combining Metroidvania-style platforming with point-and-click mystery adds some huge variety to the genre.
EA's Peter Moore Clarifies Comments About Offline Modes For Games Just some backtracking... nothing to see here folks, move along.
Last of Us Interrrogation Mode Included in Patch 1.03 A new mode and a new patch, all at the cost of nothing to the players arrives for one of the best selling and best rated games of the year.
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze Gets A Release Date Along with The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds and some of Nintendo's other top-tier franchise releases scheduled to land on retail shelves this fall.
Halo 4 Game of the Year Edition Coming In October The GOTY Edition is set to arrive just before the Xbox One launches.
Super Smash Bros Headlines Upcoming Apex Tournament in 2014 A new tournament from the FGC is on the way featuring all the Super Smash Bros., titles.
Wii U Deluxe Bundle Pack Announced With Price Cut Nintendo has made a move on the console war chess board, answering the thrown gauntlet from Microsoft and Sony.
Thursday
Saints Row 4 Sells 1 Million Units, Grass Roots DLC Now Live What better way to celebrate a million sells than with premium DLC? Well, free DLC... but that's not how AAA gaming works.
Dragon Age Keep Helps PS4 and Xbox One Gamers You can play catch-up with the Dragon Age series and make choices leading up to Dragon Age Inquistion for the next-gen consoles.
Zombie Driver Smashes Ouya The system is finally getting some more support after somewhat rocky launch.
Killzone Shadow Fall Multiplayer Details Additional information and details emerge for the new first-person shooter on the PS Vita.
The Witcher 2 Cost $10.3 Million To Make While some games boast budgets surpassing $100 million, CD Projekt's The Witcher 2 was a lot cheaper than the rest.
Terraria Digs into iOS, Crosses Over with Edge of Space Two procedural side-scrollers share some content love.
Dying Light's Multiplayer Zombie Mode Isn't For Everyone You know that cut content scheme that's often talked about? Well this is one of those times where it goes all in, full swing.
Resident Evil, Rayman, GTA Hit PS Plus In September PlayStation Plus members get a ton of new games scheduled to arrive throughout September.
Gabe Newell Talks Steam Greenlight: We're Better Off With It Than Before The president of Valve talks about the community-appointed curation service for indie games and software and how they plan to make it better for everyone.
Friday
D-Link DGL-5500 Wireless Gaming Router Garners Mixed Reviews DGL-5500 doesn't fare so well in the review department with critics or gamers.
Google Play Rivals Nintendo 3DS, PS Vita In Consumer App Spending There are finally enough Android devices on the market to make up enough app sales to outdo dedicated portable devices.
Star Citizen Hangar Module Is Live and Playable The first playable version of Star Citizen is available with the Hangar module.
APB Reloaded Adds Kriss Vector, Walther 200 Sniper Rifle Reloaded Productions expands the arsenal in APB: Reloaded with some fan-favorite weapons.
Soul Calibur 2 HD Online Features Heihachi and Spawn Two classics make the cut for the online rendition for one of the most popular games during the 5th generation of gaming.
Electronic Theatre Preview: Shadow Warrior The crew at ET gets some hands on time with the new redo of the old-school FPS.
One Piece Pirate Warriors 2 Preview Some new details on the upcoming PS3 version of the popular Namco Bandai fighter.
Saturday
Dark Matter Retail Release Announced The game has successfully managed to get Kickstarted and will now appear at retail.
Sanctum 2 Coming to PlayStation Network The FPS tower defense title will be arriving on the PS3 just before summer ends.
Xbox One Release Targeted For Late November? It's obviously going to launch in time to arrive before Black Friday... right?
2DS A Portable Savant or an Ax Head? Nintendo's new portable spawns a lot of contention and discussion amongst gamers regarding the new non-3D design.
September Games for Gold Are Magic 2013 and Rainbow Six Vegas Microsoft is stepping up the free game offerings for XBL Gold members.
Unity Engine Showss off the Most Photorealistic Characters We've Ever Seen
That wraps up this edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap. You can check out a NSFW video of that Unity 3D photorealistic scanning procedure that explores various lighting and landscape conditions.
Babygirl's Director Explains Why Working With Intimacy Coordinators Is Like Working With Stuntmen
Harrison Ford Revealed The Project He's Felt The Most 'Comfortable' And 'Confident' Working On, And It Makes So Much Sense
The Story Behind Joe Pesci Accidentally Biting Macaulay Culkin While Filming Home Alone And Scaring Him
