Sony has officially announced that Gaikai will be the bridge to backwards compatibility for the PS4 running PS3 games, but not every game will make the jump. Gamers also find themselves reviled at the idea of premium games being laced with very blatant and apparent microtransactions, all the meanwhile many game reviewers skip over some of those features. And release dates roll out for some of TellTale's upcoming adventure titles. These stories and more in this December 7th, 2013 edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap.
Sunday
GTA 5 Studio Sued By Lindsay Lohan? Is the troubled starlet trying to pilfer some funds from the mega monolith studio, Rockstar Games?
Xbox One Wins Black Friday Sales, Beats Out PS4 and Wii U Microsoft is probably doing their diddly-do dance after winning the Black Friday console war competition.
Gas guzzlers: Extreme Pros and Cons Check out some of the good and the bad with Gamepire's combat racing title.
Killzone Shadow Fall Patch 1.05 Helps Southpaws, Trims Campaign Find out what sort of changes have arrived in the latest patch for Sony's prime-time FPS.
Just Cause 2 Full Multiplayer Mod Coming to Steam The mod is about finalized and will arrive on Steam before 2014.
Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae, EF-12 Bring Japanese Gaming To Steam Greenlight Japanese-made indie games are taking Steam Greenlight by storm.
Witcher 3 Skipping PS3, Xbox 360 CD Projekt will bypass the seventh gen consoles for cozier territory on the eighth gen consoles.
Starbound Beta Set For December 4th By the time you read this, the beta will already be available.
Monday
NBA 2K14 Reviews Completely Skip Over Microtransaction Gouging What happened? And why did reviewers not mention this?
Gran Turismo 6 Tiny Brains Hit PSN This week played host to some big games rolling out across all the PlayStation systems.
PS4 Is The Fastest Selling Console In Europe, Outsells Lifetime Wii U Sales Sony is just rolling in the positive press. All they need to do now is not screw it up. Please, Sony... in the wise words of Angry Joe: “dun eff it up!”
Battlefield 4 PC and PS4 Patches Fix One Hit Kills DICE finally rolls out a patch to fix a problem some gamers kind of liked.
PS4 More Accessible For Disabled Gamers Than PS3 This is great news for disabled gamers.
Exchanging PS4: A Follow-Up Find out what happened after Ryan got his hands on the new PS4.
Sony Desperately Trying To Keep PS4 Units In Stock The PS4 is a hot item this holiday season and Sony is having a hard time keeping it in stock.
Total War Rome 2 Caesar Gaul Expansion Announced Creative Assembly and Sega have some brand new DLC coming for Total War: Rome II.
Tuesday
Microsoft Says Xbox One Sold Out Around The World, Doesn't Provide Any Sales Numbers Well yea sure, and Unicorns use to rule the planet. It's all right there... because someone said so.
PS4 vs Xbox One: See How Resolution Affects Draw Distance, Visibility and Gameplay For the longest you've been told that resolution doesn't matter... well, now see how it does.
Xbox One Debug Mode Unlocked By Gamers; Microsoft Wanrs It Could Brick Your Console Don't access the debug mode, no matter how tempting it may seem.
Path of Exile Played by 4 Million Unbelievably so, Path of Exile has picked up more than 4 million users.
Review: Ys Memories of Celceta Is AN RPG Trium The game delivers on all fronts.
Xbox One OS Issues Get Blasted By Gamers, Eurogamer Microsoft continues to come out of the gate stumbling, tripping, falling like a drunk old man who spent the day at an Irish pub and forgot he actually had to walk back home.
Battlefield 4 China Rising DLC Launches The latest bit of DLC from DICE for Battlefield 4 has launched.
PS4 Backward Compatibility Arrives Via Gaikai In 2014 You'll be able to play some of your old PS3 games on your PS4, but it won't be with disc and downloads.
Velocity Ultra teleports Onto Steam By the time you read this you'll only be a few days out from actually owning the game.
Sony Has Sold 2.1 Million PS4 Units The number are in and Sony is proud.
Amazon Limiting Multiple Xbox One Purchases? A few incidents seem to hint at the possibility.
Wii U Is Not Dead In fact, the Little Wii U that could has become the top selling home console on the Japanese weekly sales charts.
Battlefield 4 DLC On Hold Until DICE Fixes Bugs Now this is the right way to go about things.
Starbound Beta Has Launched With An Endearing Beta Trailer
Doki-Doki Universe Coming To PlayStation In fact, it'll be arriving pretty quickly.
Microsoft Has 32 Indie Studios Self-Publishing Xbox One Titles
Final Fantasy 6 iOS Android Screenshots Look Slightly Better Than The Original Well, even if you're not into pixel counting, you can still see that Final Fantasy 6 still has some major graphics overhaul going on for mobile devices.
Gran Turismo 6 Top Car Cost Nearly $200 That part-time McDonalds pay-check will basically go toward paying for one car in Gran Turismo 6. How do you feel about that?
Broken Sword 5 Serpent Curse Launches On Steam The latest in the point-and-click adventure series has made it onto Steam.
Pokemon X & Y 2DS Bundles Announced Nintendo rolls out some additional bundles for their highly popular Pokemon games.
Thursday
Ditching Xbox for PS4? Microsoft Tries To Win Gamers Over With Free Xbox Live Well, it's better than just letting your ex walk.
Gran Turismo 6 Graphics Downgraded From Gran Turismo 5 It's not even that funny, it's blatantly obvious.
Deadly Premonition Visual Companion Receives 40 Percent Price Drop If you needed the companion app to help you out in your weirded-out adventures in Deadly Premonition, now might be a good time to pick up the app.
Top Things to Expect From DayZ Standalone Release It's not all roses and Lillie pads.
Double Dragon Trilogy Kicking It on iOS and Android The famed beat 'em up has arrived for mobile devices and smartphones.
Final Fantasy 8 Returns To PC And it comes with a brand new magic booster to boot!
Dex, EF-12, One Finger Death Punch and More All Greenlit Valve has greenlit more than 100 games in this December pass of Greenlight titles.
League of Legends Players Can't Stream Other Games During Season 4 Well that's a major bummer. Find out what else they can't do.
Friday
Wii U Sales Spike 75%; More Popular Than Xbox One and PS4, According to Rakuten The Wii U is gaining ground and blasting up in the sales charts.
Fallout 4 Won't Be Announced at the Spike VGX Well that's disappointing.
Xbox One Controller Disconnection Issues Surface There's yet another uncovered problem with the Xbox One. Microsoft just can't catch a break.
PlayStation Network Top Selling Games of November Revealed A list of the best selling games of the previous month on PSN.
Gran Turismo 6 reviews: How Did The Doritocracy Handle Microtransactions? Not too bad, actually.
Wolf Among Us Episode 2 Screenshots Features Strippers It's an adult themed-game... strippers are fair game.
APB Retribution: Like Hotline Miami for Mobile Devices A top-down shooter from Blazing Griffin offers a gritty alternate take on the APB meta-verse.
3D Sonic, Altered Beast Lead Nintendo Weekly Releases Some Sega classics round out Nintendo's eShop offerings.
Saturday
Walking Dead Season 2 Release Date Revealed TellTale finally rolls out a release for the latest episode.
Criterion Games Working on Shooter? EA definitely needs to keep the wheels turning, and this is how they do it.
Does Kinect Justify The Xbox One's $500 Price Tag? Well, does it?
Assassin's Creed Liberation HD Preview A worthy new title in the Assassin's Creed universe or just another cash-in?
Adventure Time: Explore The Dungeon Because I Don't Know Review Co-Optimus reviews the latest RPG based on the popular Cartoon Network series.
Spy on Spies In Clandestine This unique new game is centered around stealth and spying... and it's a multiplayer game.
That wraps up this edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap. You can check out a new trailer for the Amazing Spider-Man 2 below. Enjoy.
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