The biggest news of the week was obviously THQ filing for bankruptcy. The company had been financially reeling all year long after a really bad investment into those Udraw devices that cost them more than $56 million in capital, setting them back far enough that they're now being eyed by Ubisoft for a potential buyout. Amidst all the negative-Nancy news for THQ, there are still some great holiday sales events going on right now and a bunch of gamers are still fighting hard to sign a petition that could possibly get FromSoftware's Dark Souls 2 onto the Wii U. These stories and more in this December 22nd, 2012 edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap.
Sunday
Total War Rome 2 Carthage Faction Confirmed With Screenshots The new faction gets outed via some new screenshots.
Canceled Star Wars Battlefront Online Concept Art Released Brand new concept art for an old canceled game. Go figure.
Super Hero Strategy Middle Manager of Justice Free on App Store Double Fine's hilarious project makes its way to Apple's iTunes store.
PlayStation Blog Wants Your Votes For Game of the Year Well, really, the only game that stood out on the PS3 this year was Journey. Hands down.
Farm Machines Championships 2013 Hits Steam Greenlight Compete with friends and family in the Farm 2013 Championships! This is what gaming is all about!
Skylanders Giants Get Festive for Christmas With Card Creator A new way to create cards and get things done.
Dark Souls 2 Wii U Petition Hits 13,000 Signatures, is it enough? Maybe or maybe not. The question is, can they convince Namco and FromSoftware to port the game over like they did with Dark Souls on PC?
Monday
Street Fighter X Mega Man Now Available For Free Capcom's community-made game becomes available for PC gamers.
Legends of Aethereus Beta Launches For Linux and Mac Non-PC gamers finally get an exclusive game worth calling their own.
NeoGeo X Gold Console Hits Online Retailers SNK's NeoGeo makes a return to form at an affordable price...finally.
American Lowriders Bounces Onto Steam Greenlight Featuring classic American-made cars and tons of customization options.
Mag II Wireless Gun Controller Now Available For PS3, PC A new motion-sensing controller is available for purchase.
Sandy Hook Shooting Inspires Online Shooter Ceasefire Gamers partake in a movement to cease fire for a short while in honor of the fallen.
Resident Evil 6 PC Release Date, System Requirements Revealed Capcom puts an official release date on the upcoming PC rendition of Resident Evil 6.
Tuesday
Steam game Guides Now Live Need help in the latest game? Check out Valve's latest addition to the Steam platform.
Dead or Alive 5 Christmas DLC Launches Dress up the pugilists in your favorite yuletide apparel.
Epic Games Launches Swag Store The new store from Epic puts swag up for the player.
Resident Evil 6 Onslaught, Predator, Survivors DLC Released for Xbox 360 Capcom's newest DLC for the Xbox 360 is exclusive to Microsoft's console.
DirectX 11 Contest For Unity 4 Has $10,000 Up For Grabs Just make something in Unity 4 using DirectX 11 and you could win $10,000.
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Image Reveals Lightning's New Look The protagonist from one of the most controversial Final Fantasy games gets a brand spanking new, sexy, non-discriminating look.
Star Wars Republic Rise of the Hutt Cartel Expansion Coming Spring BioWare and EA keeps the content rolling out for the Star Wars MMO.
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus Makes Top 5 Worst CEO List To no one's surprise the CEO of Zynga makes the list of the year's worst CEOs.
Mortal Online Lands On Steam Greenlight Star Vault takes their survival MMO to Steam's Greenlight.
Sound Shapes Decks The Halls With Free Holiday DLC New DLC invades Sound Shapes for the PS3...for free.
Monster Hunter 4 Delayed Because of Poor Resident Evil 6 Sales What a lame, lame thing to happen.
Fallen Earth Ver 2.6 Brings Farming Agriculture To The Wasteland Farming never seemed so violent...until you could farm in Fallen Earth.
THQ Finally Files For Bankruptcy, Gets New Owner We all should have seen this one coming.
Digital Storm's Console-Style PC Gets An Update Also, expect Steam's new PC-console to look something like the Bolt from Digital Storm.
Humble Indie Bundle 7 Features Binding Isaac, Dungeon Defenders Lots of digital games up for grabs in a new indie bundle from Humble Indie Bundle.
BioShock Infinite Action Figures Coming January In preparation for one of the biggest games of 2013, a new line of action figures will be releasing this January.
Thursday
TVii Comes To Wii U Nintendo brings television programming to the Wii U.
Earthbound and Mother Remakes on the way? It's a possibility. But click the link to get a rundown on why the possibility might be real.
Star Trek Video Game Release Date Set For April, Box Art Unveiled The third-person shooter from Digital Extremes gets an official release date.
Aurora World MMORPG Announced For North America A new Korean MMORPG is headed to North America.
Firefall Gets New Items To Celebrate The Holidays Red 5 unleashes some Christmas themed goodies for gamers this holiday season.
Dead or Alive 5 Plus Gets Details on Touch Fighting Find out more about the port of the console fighting game for the PSV from Team Ninja.
Steam Holiday Sale Commences With Borderlands, Hitman Discounts This is it folks, a big holiday sale on all the biggest and brightest (and not so brightest) games!
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Gates Infinity Travels To 3DS in March Next year Pokemon fans will get their hands on a sleek new Pokemon game.
Final Fantasy 4 Released For iOS One of the greatest RPGs ever made gets a release for the iOS.
Friday
God Mode Announced For Xbox Live Arcade, PSN Brand new comedic action game has been announced for the Xbox 360 and PS3.
World of Tanks Hits 45 Million Players Wargaming.net really has a major hit on their hands.
Dawn of Darkness Launches on Facebook IGG has a new game out to cater to the Facebook crowd.
Real World Racing Multiplayer Beta Starts Early 2013 A photorealistic, top-down racer is on the way in early 2013.
Absolute Force Online Starts Open Beta After promoting the game over the past two months, Net Dragon announces that the third-person shooter has become available for a wide audience.
Earth Defense Force 2017 Portable Crawls Onto Vita This January The popular B-movie monster shooting game will make its way to the PS Vita at the start of the year.
Saturday
War Z Pulled From Steam Following Consumer Complaints Oh fail for The War Z devs. This is one of the first times I've heard of a game getting ganked off the Steam store due to consumer complaints.
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex Confirmed For Europe After it was announced that Nexon would be making some GitS games it's now been confirmed that PAL gamers will get the games too.
Miner Wars 2081 Co-op Review Co-Optimus writes a detailed review rundown of the co-op for the recently released Miner Wars 2081.
Dark Souls 2 Concept Art Surfaces Grab a first-hand look at what the concept art looks like for the upcoming hack-and-slash RPG.
Capcom Windows Phone Debut The company proves they're willing to adapt and are looking to cash in on the mobile audience.
National Rifle Association Attributes Partial Blame To Video Games For Sandy Hook Oh yeah, because guns and people don't kill people...video games do!
That wraps up this edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap. You should be glad you survived another week of December for 2012 without succumbing to an apocalyptic Mayan death. You can definitely check out the latest trailer for Final Fantasy XIII: Lightning Returns below.
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