Weekly Recap Jan 19th: Arma 2 Tops The Charts, Next-Gen Console Prices, Pokemon X And Y

Bohemia Interactive managed to make it back into the top news of most circuits during this week on two separate occasions, including the two developers captured by Greek authorities who were finally released this week. In addition to this, Arma II has been topping the charts once more, making it first on Steam's top 10. An analyst has also chimed in on the next-gen debate and what the pricing might be like, putting them somewhere within the $400 range. And have you been curious why Pokemon games – specifically the newest titles – aren't on or coming to the Wii U? Well, the developers give a little insight to that. These stories and more in this January 19th, 2013 edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap.

Sunday

Xsyon Prelude Brings Open World Emergent, MMO Gaming To Greenlight An open-world, world-building MMO joins Steam's Greenlight.

Pokemon X And Y And Why They're Not Coming To Wii U An explanation by the developers on why Pokemon X And Y and how they're not showing up for Nintendo's latest console.

DayZ Standalone Delay Boosts Arma 2 Sales? It's possible, but not certified.

God of War Ascension Beta Rewards Announced Sony lays out some of the rewards for participating in the God of War: Ascension beta.

Fire Emblem Awakening Gets 3DS Bundle Nintendo plans to really clean up on the popularity of the military strategy series.

Zenonia 5 Wheel of Destiny Now Offering Adventures On The iOS A new JRPG-style game arrives for Apple's handsets.

Gearbox Almost Made Call of Duty Could you imagine what the Borderlands developers could have done with the Call of Duty license? Not much, I imagine.

Monday

Batman Arkham 3 Possible Titles Revealed A few names for the possible threequel in Rocksteady's highly lauded GOTY-winning franchise.

MLB 13 Show Cover Athlete Andrew McCutchen Sony's MLB gets its cover athlete in Andrew McCutchen.

Luna Shattered Hearts Brings RPG Platforming To Kickstarter A neat little RPG platformer is looking for some funding on Kickstarter.

Special Forces Team X Release Date Announced The third-person shooter lands on Xbox 360 and Steam next month.

DmC Devil May Cry Easter Egg Has Dante Making Fun of Dante It's something you'll have to watch to understand.

Dragon Sword Brings Absolutely Stunning Next-Gen Combat To MMOs A muscular-reaction system, physics-based impacts and more than 1,000 hit points makes the combat in Dragon Sword a stunning display of amazing technical proportions.

Analyst Says PS4, Xbox 720 Could Cost $400 Fair? Low? High? Let's just hope that the hardware specs aren't gimped.

Diablo 3 Dueling Takes Place In Act I, No Perma Death Good thing for HC players who are afraid to even step outside of the safe zone lest they lose their high level character to lag.

Tuesday

Dust 514 Prepping For January Open Beta Launch CCP's economy-based FPS hybrid that ties into EVE will launch this month.

Aliens Colonial Marines System Requirements: You Need Steam And I don't nary a nag was heard.

DmC: Devil may Cry Review: Hits The S Rank With Pride After all the naysaying, all the disparaging complaints about Dante, the game manages to the mark with a lot of positivity.

Omerta City Of Gangsters 15% Off Pre-Orders Available On Steam The gangster-style turn-based simulator is currently discounted on Steam leading up to release.

MapleStory gets Luminous As Playable Character Nexon keeps the updates rolling out for their top tier F2P title.

BioShock Infinite System Requirements Detailed For PC Version, Includes Benchmark Tool Nearly 30GB of HD space required proves 2K is going all out with this one.

Microsoft Play Lets You Play Xbox Games on Windows 8 But it's not the sort of XBL games you might be expecting.

Borderlands 2 Sir Hammerlock DLC releases Worldwide Gearbox's latest DLC for Borderlands 2 launches.

DmC: Devil May Cry Now Available Ninja Theory's reboot of the popular hack and slash launches for Sony and Microsoft's consoles.

Akaneiro, MaK, Leisure Suit Larry Get Greenlit for Steam Approved and ready for release, as soon as they're ready.

Dead Island Riptide Zombie Bait Edition Includes Bloody Statue This is bound to cause some controversy but it's definitely worth taking a look at...I dare you.

Wednesday

Fallout TV Show In The Works? Well, lets look at the facts and see what we come up with.

Hakuoki Warriors Way of Shinsengumi Release Date Announced Based on the popular visual novel of the same name, the game's official release date has been set.

Renaissance Heroes Open Beta Date Set ChangYou Station has unveiled the official launch date for the upcoming MOFPS title.

Deadpool Screenshots Eat Pizza, Slice Up Thugs With violence comes some form of hilarity, as is always the case with Deadpool.

Splinter Cell Blacklist Release Date Revealed By Inauguration Trailer Ubisoft drops a new trailer for Splinter Cell: Blacklist.

Injustice Gods Among Us Release Date Confirmed The fighting game that puts all of DC's legends up against each other has a set release date.

Thursday

Diablo 3 Director Jay Wilson Steps Down After seven years the man in charge of Diablo III gives it up.

Star Wars 1313 Release Date Rumor False Oh fail, it looks like it's back to the drawing board.

Topia Online Brings 2D Open World Gameplay To Greenlight A really cool concept for open-world emergent gameplay joins Steam's Greenlight.

Kat, Emmet Join PlayStation All-Stars Roster In February Two heroes from Sony's latest exclusives make the cut in PSABR.

Red Johnson Now Cracking Cases on PC The mature adventure game makes its debut on PC.

Steam Guides End Your Alt-Tabbing Ways Yeah, I used to do this a lot, and now you don't have to.

Friday

Offensive Combat Racks Up 1 Million Registered Players Maybe overthrowing Call of Duty won't be that far fetched after all.

Dean Hall Was Angered About WarZ Damaging DayZ's Reputation The truth about the foils of Hammerpoint comes back to bite them as Dean “Rocket” Hall lays into the travesty that was The War Z.

Win Assassin's Creed 3 And Free Season Pass With Uplay Load the app and earn a chance to win the game for free.

StarCraft 2 Mod Warcraft: A New Dawn Is An Unofficial Warcraft 3 Sequel Now let's start counting down the days until the cease and desist emerges.

Vendetta Online Kickstarter Aims To Bring MMOs to iPad A new sci-fi shooter hopes to kindle the MMO crowd via Apple's mobile devices.

Bohemia Interactive Devs Released From Greek Prison, Still Face Trial While they may not be in jail anymore, the two developers still have to deal with an impending trial over in Greece.

Gun Commando Shooting Up PlayStation Mobile This Month The game will bring some fast-paced action to mobile devices via Sony's mobile line.

Saturday

Bohemia To Receive Funding To Expand Military Training Simulation Following accusations of espionage, the company will continue to expand military training simulators thanks to some extra funding.

Sacred Citadel Brings Hack 'n Slash Action To PSN The new ARPG will arrive for the PlayStation 3 in addition to launching for PC.

Skyrim DLC Coming To PS3 in February, PC Dragonborn Release Date Announced Even though the DLC will be arriving a few months too late for some gamers, at least they're arriving.

Tomb Raider Won't Have A Demo or Online Pass This is some good news and helps alleviate some of the negative foreshadowing looming over the impending launch of Tomb Raider.

SimCity Beta Launches Soon You'll finally be able to get an idea of whether or not the game is worth giving up your ownership rights for.

Indie Aana Co-op: The Dead Pixels Postmortem Interview Get some insight into the co-op design process that went into the side-scrolling, zombie RPG, Dead Pixels.

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