One of the old-school greats from the good old days is getting the reboot treatment, which seems to be the hip thing to do nowadays. The Xbox One has been on the receiving end of yet another policy reversal, this time for indie support. And the VZBV are setting up a date to take Valve to court, in hopes of at least getting gamers the option of resale... that could be huge if it goes through, by the way. These stories and more in this July 27th, 2013 edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap.
Sunday
Borderlands 2 Ultimate Vault Hunter Upgrade Pack 2 Digistruct Peak Announced Additional DLC is on the way for Gearbox Software's first-person shooter.
How Digital Resale Could Work For Steam A breakdown of the pros and cons of using a digital resale system for Valve's portal.
Microsoft Amending Certification Process For World of Tanks Microsoft has to work some magic to make the free-to-play multiplayer title more attuned to the closed-ecosystem of home consoles.
Five Action games Bundled And Discounted For XBLA A bundle-pack of cool action games have been discounted recently for the Xbox Live Arcade.
Wasteland 2 Launch Delayed Due To Being Over-Funded This is probably the best news to come out of any Kickstarter campaign.
Soul Calibur 2 HD Online Coming to PS3, Xbox 360 A new online fighting rendition of the classic fifth generation release of Soul Calibur 2 will be arriving on the PS3 and Xbox 360.
Monday
Assassin's Creed Brahman Graphic Novel Set In India A new graphic novel helps flesh out a new Assassin from India.
Xbox One Dev Kits Are Hard To Gain Access To, Says Compulsion Games Indie devs aren't having the easiest or best time getting their hands on the tools for the XB1.
Get Gamers Interview: Bringing Video Games To Hospitalized Kids A great article from Katy Goodman about the good video games can bring to disabled or hospitalized kids.
Cube World Epic Boss Fight Video Shows Off Massive Destruction Check out some awesome new footage of the alpha RPG, Cube World
RuneScape 3 Has Finally Launched Jagex's latest MMO has gone live.
Porting Some Unity Games To BlackBerry Can Be Done In One Day It doesn't take a long time to port games from one platform to the next, according to a BlackBerry representative.
Warframe Could be On Xbox One If Microsoft Alters Indie Policies Warframe was intended to be released on more than just the PS4 but unfortunately things didn't turn out so hot due to Microsoft's policies.
Walking Dead Game Season 2 Features Clementine. Lee is dead and gamers will have to take on the role of a new hero in the sequel.
Tuesday
Unity 4.2 Released Now Supports BlackBerry 10, Windows 8 The Unity 3D Engine is constantly expanding and continually making waves in the design and gaming platform space.
Ratchet & Clank Writer Leaves Insomniac Games Things get tense at the studio after that epic fail that was Fuse.
Saints Row 4 Enter The Dominatrix DLC Announced It was a joke during April's Fools, and then it became real DLC for Saints Row: The Third, and then it was scrapped, and then it became real DLC for Saints Row 4. Impressive.
Left 4 Dead 3 Countdown Website, Teaser Video Surface Some new items surface indicating that Left 4 Dead 3 could be on the way.
Castle of Illusion Video Goes Behind-The-Scenes A quick look at the making of one of the more anticipated retro remakes due out this year.
Monochroma Is An Industrial-Dystopian Platformer It also arrived on Kickstarter recently and needs a little help getting finished.
Go To Hell Dave Takes Adventure Gaming To A Hell Without Satan A new game from an indie studio has arrived called Go To Hell Dave.
Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2 Will Be MercurySteam's Last Game In The Series They're finished and done with this brand and they will be moving on to greener pastures.
Batman Arkham Origins Brings Back The Mad Hatter New, improved and darker than before, check out the new look for the Mad Hatter.
Yargis Looking For More Support To Add Additional Content New stretch goals have been added to the Kickstarter game, Yargis.
Star Control Reboot Announced By Stardock A classic is being reborn for today's generation of gamer.
Hooray: The Last Time We Have To Talk About Aliens: Colonial Marines No more blame gaming, no more DLC talk... this is the last update that this game will receive from Gearbox.
BeamNG Soft Body Physics Racing Game In The Works using the soft-body physics as the basis for the game, BeamNG's new racing title will be as realistic as realistic gets.
Genius GX Gaming Maurus X FPS, RTS Gaming Mouse Now Available And the best part is that it's only $49.90.
Ace Attorney 5 DLC Includes Costumes Some schmexy new costumes for the characters has gone live.
Deadly Premonition and 12 Others Succeed On Steam's Greenlight Steam Greenlight moves some notable games forward, making them eligible for Steam Store viability.
PS4 Sales Expected To Out-Pace Xbox One New survey data puts the PS4 ahead of the Xbox One for sales this upcoming holiday season.
Hotline Miami Not Coming to iOS Because The Controls Would Suck So says the developers.
Mass Effect 3 Ending DLC Was Considered To Be Paid DLC BioWare tossed around the idea that maybe people should have to pay for a better ending. Harsh.
Killzone Mercenary Hands-On With Portable Shooter Ryan Winslett gets some more hands-on time with the upcoming PS Vita title.
Sims 3 Future Expansion Includes Jetpacks, Hoverboards Race into the future with tons of new gadgets and gizmos for the Sims 3.
Thursday
SimCity Sells 2 Million Copies, EA Happy Despite Major Player Drop-Off Losing more than 72% of your player base in under two months would probably make most devs have their brain drop into their throat, but it's all smooth sailing for EA.
Nvidia's Project Logan Kepler GPU With 10x Tessellation Comes To Mobile Devices All that tessellation is enough to make the Xbox 360 and PS3 poop in their pants.
Microsoft To Allow Indies to Self-Publish on Xbox One Microsoft has confirmed that indies will be able to self-publish on their next-generation console.
Saints Row 4 Goes Gold, DLC Season Pass Includes Anal Probe Well, that's an awesome addition to the game, right?
Mel Gibson's Brother Wants To Voice Max in Upcoming Mad Max Game Can Mad Mel's brother pull it together and push it out? We'll see.
Destiny Spirits Gets Social On PS Vita Check out some new features and updates for the PS Vita title.
Rayman Legends Coming to PC Ubisoft is no longer platform phobic, which is good for PC gamers.
Orion Dino Horde Gets Free Jungle DLC The sandbox mode and bots are also planned to arrive for the game as well.
Guncraft Launches For Steam on August 9th The Battlefield meets Minecraft title will come to Steam August 9th.
FEAR Online Will be Free-to-Play And I doubt it will last long in the over-crowded F2P FPS market.
Friday
Developers And Gamers React Strongly To Xbox One Policy Reversals It's a little bit of roses with thorns... yeah.
Shadow of Eternals Returns to Kickstarter Now With 100 Percent More David Hayter Metal Gear's voice joins the Kickstarter destined to fail.
Call of Duty Ghosts Wii U Release Confirmed EA may have abandoned Nintendo but Activision hasn't.
Mortal Kombat Game On The Way For Xbox One, PS4 The producer of the web series lets gamers know that a new game is on the way.
Gamers Aren't Angry At Xbox One, They're Angry Microsoft Almost Killed Gaming The company went over and beyond to nearly ruin gaming and some gamers are still pissed.
Kid Icarus Flaps Onto Wii U The retro classic makes its debut on Nintendo's latest console.
Sony Will Have PS4 Press Conference At GamesCom 2013 Microsoft isn't the only one making waves at GamesCom.
Saturday
Alien Rage Coming To Xbox 360, PS3, PC The sci-fi shooter will arrive for the current gen consoles and PC.
Mars War Logs Lands on Xbox 360 The action-RPG is now available on Microsoft's console but it'll be another month before it arrives on the PS3.
Killzone Shadow Fall Introduces Echo and Sinclair Two more characters are introduced to the FPS.
Overgrowth Update Adds 200 Changes The game also has some brand new combat mechanics included as well.
Mercenary Kings Early Access Now Available Grab some friends and engage in some intense four-player co-op, RPG platform-shooting action.
Electronic Theatre In-Depth Review: Raven Legacy Find out if the Master Thief Chapter 1: Eye of the Spinx is worth the investment or not.
That wraps up this edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap. You can check out the latest game trailer for Gran Turismo 6 below, featuring the highly lauded GT Academy. Enjoy.
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