This week was all about the financial scoreboard for Sony and the fate of the Xbox brand at Microsoft. We found out that the PlayStation 4 did well enough to stave off the chapter 11 in the book of Sony's legacy, and that the newly appointed CEO for Microsoft isn't dead-set on killing the Xbox brand the way a certain Stephen Elop had planned.
Sega also announced a new Sonic Boom for the Nintendo 3DS and the Wii U, and Titanfall continues to make headlines as Microsoft prepares two patches in February and March for the Xbox One, even though the game is being delayed for the Xbox 360. These stories and more in this February 8th, 2014 edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap.
Sunday
Titanfall Pre-Order Bonuses Don't Include DLC Beta Keys Sorry, no betas for you!
Kinect Sports Rivals Could Be Fun, If Kinect Actually Worked Well here's a bit of problem with motion controls.
EverQuest Next Landmark Alpha Begins The NDA has been lifted... the NDA has been lifted!
Battlefield 4 Mantle Benchmarks Show 19% Performance Increase Pretty significant stuff for both low-end and high-end machines.
Elder Scrolls Online Imperial Edition Unboxing Trailer Shows Off Exclusive Extras Check out what you'll get in the special boxed edition of the upcoming MMO from Bethesda.
Diablo 3 Players Have Designed Legendary Sword Check it out for yourself to see if it's worth the time of investment.
Xbox One Finally One-Ups PS4... Finally It only took a year, but Microsoft did it... woot, woot!
Monday
Battlefield 4 Player Appreciation Month Begins DICE wants to appreciate players for putting up with all the bugs, and glitches and network drops.
Far Cry 3 Mod, Z-Day Isn't Another DayZ Imitator if you were hoping for a WarZ repeat, sadly you'll have to look elsewhere.
PlayStation Now Beta Games Include Killzone 3, Shadow of the Colossus Classics make the debut for the PS Now beta.
$399 Xbox One Isn't Coming, Says Microsoft Executive Not right now, anyway.
PS4 Does Media Entertainment Better Than Xbox One, Says Digital Foundry
Monster Hunter Frontier G Coming To America There's also a version in the works for the PS Vita, which is great news for Monster Hunter fans.
Metal Slug 3 Available On Steam Only for pre-order for right now, but it's well worth the price of admission.
WWE 2K15 Announced 2K Games also confirmed that NBA 2K15 is also on the way... in case anyone was getting worried after the super-successful NBA 2K14.
PS4 Update 1.6 Adds Wireless Headset Support A gold headset was also announced, for those of you who wanted an accessory to match your golden toilet.
Tomb Raider Definitive Edition First Week Sales Favor PS4
Tuesday
Murdered: Soul Suspect Coming to Xbox One, PS4 The interesting new game from Airtight is arriving for the new-gen consoles.
Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 2 Teased By Telltale The upcoming episode in the second season gets a bit of loving from Telltale.
Titanfall Beta Everything We Know So Far New details on everything we know so far about the upcoming Titanfall beta.
Starbound Dev Is Publishing Stardew Valley, Other Indie Games Chucklefish is taking their success to the next level.
Thief Has Gone Gold Eidos also dropped a new trailer for the game spotlighting the various way to go about being a thief.
Metal Gear Solid 5 Ground Zeroes Is Only 2 Hours Long Oh yeah, let's hope this isn't a cheap cash-grab by Kojima, eh?
Titanfall PC vs Xbox One Graphics Comparison Shows Fog Masking, Lower Resolution Well, this is for everyone who says “resolution doesn't matter”.
To The Death Gameplay Impressions Sol Divide Meets Chakan The Forever Man The Kickstarted game makes a good first impression with its prototype gameplay demo.
Phil Spencer Says Microsoft's CEO Supports The Xbox One This is really, really good news for the Xbox brand... we hope.
Microsoft names new CEO: Satya Nadella Bill Gates also becomes the Qui Gon of Microsoft, resolving himself to a mentorship role at the company.
Nether Adds Motorcycles, Crafting, Creature Mode All of this arrives in the latest update.
10 Reasons Mario Kart 64 Is Still Loved By Everyone Well, everyone but a few black-hearted individuals whose names will remain unnamed.
Borderlands 2 Sir Hammerlock Versus The Son of Crawmerax Is The Last DLC This is good news for anyone who finally wants to get the full thing with ALL the DLC in a complete package.
Drakengard 3 Swoops Down On May 20th Additional details on the Collector's Edition have also been detailed.
Wolf Among Us Episode 2 Review: I Miss Lee and Clementine How well does the Wolf Among Us hold up in Episode 2? Well, Gaming Blend's Pete Haas rolls out some thoughts on the game.
Order 1886 Is 1080p, 30fps on PS4 It doesn't quite hit the Holy Grail of 1080p at 60fps.
Thursday
Hatsune Miku Project Diva F Keeps The Beat Alive in The US The vocaloid diva makes her debut this year for the PS Vita.
Xbox One System Updates Prepare For Titanfall Microsoft will also add Keyboard support. You just have to wait until February 11th.
Sonic Boom Announced For Wii U And it's a game that could be hitting the 1080p standard.
World of Warcraft Adds 200,000 Subscribers Thought it was dying? Well, not quite.
Child of Light Release Date Set Ubisoft puts the release date in place for one of the more highly anticipated games due out this spring.
PlayStation Now Is A Joke, Says Analyst
PS4 Helps Push Profits For Sony... No They're Not Going Bankrupt Much to the disappointment of Xbox fanboys.
Bravely Default Leads Charge For Nintendo Releases One of the biggest games set for release on the Nintendo 3DS is finally arriving this week.
Flappy Bird Review: I want To Hate You, But I Can't Check out Pete Haas' impressions of this popular little gem that has been making the rounds in the mobile app sphere.
Friday
Guild Wars 2 Expansion Heads to the Edge of Mists A new expansion for Guild Wars 2 Still playing NCSoft's highly popular MMO? Well, you're in for a treat with a brand new expansion for the game.
Killer Instinct Studio Double Helix Purchased By Amazon So what's the details and conditions? You'll have to click the link to find out what the new rules are for the team who brought you one of the few noteworthy games on the Xbox One.
InFamous Second Son Pre-Order Comes With Condoms Because that's just how new-school gamers roll.
Heva Clonia Online Episode 2 Cash Shop Giveaway Free cash shop goodies available for... free!!!
Lightning Returns 5 Reasons Gamers Are Apprehensive Not everyone is as excited for the game as Square might be hoping.
Rust Patch Removes Zombies Adds Locked Backpacks Now the only thing you'll need to worry about is naked, psycho bandits... and naked, psycho bandits aren't anywhere near as bad as zombies.
Valve Wins Against VZBV No pre-owned game sales or resale options for Steam users.
Saturday
Elder Scrolls Online Beta Live Again Don't share any gameplay videos, though. The NDA is still in full effect.
Last of Us Sweeps DICE Awards With 10 Wins Truly GOTY... except, it lost to GTA V.
Alien Isolation Screenshots Leak Motion Tracker Check out the first images of how the motion tracker works in the game.
Titanfall Xbox 360 Release Date Delayed Well, this pushes the game further into the arms of Xbox One owners... maybe.
This Week in Co-op: A Tale of Two Wizards Co-Optimus gets some co-op time in on Magicka. Find out how well it works.
Gone Home Sales Break 250,000 A quarter of a million for Gone Home, proving you don't have to be a shooter game to sell big.
That wraps up this edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap. You'll probably want to check out the trailer for Velocity X2 below. Enjoy.
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