Weekly Recap June 15th: PS4 Is DRM Free, E3 Games Galore, Halo 5 Announced

Oh man, this is like a Weekly Recap for the ages because E3 was one for the ages. Hot freaking dang that was one rocket busting blasting week. Everything wrong that you could possibly imagine going wrong for the Xbox One went wrong (sort of) and everything that could possibly go right for Sony and the PS4 went right (mostly). All companies showed up prepared for battle and dropped some mean games on the show floor for gamers and media to oogle and fawn over...games we have showcased throughout this recap with a ton of trailers. Also, Nintendo is back in it to win it, Halo 5 was teased and there are more games coming out than this recap could possibly contain. These stories and more in this June 15th, 2013, special E3 edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap.

Sunday

Battlefield 3 Medal of Honor Battlelog Hits Android The Battlelog is now available to help keep you updated on all things Battlefield 3.

Tekken Revolution Is Free-to-Play And A PS3 Exclusive Harada and his team will unleash Tekken Revolution for the PS3 and the PS3 only.

Destiny Spirits Coming to PS4 The next game from FromSoftware will be Destiny Spirits for the PS4.

Metal Gear Rising Revengeance Heading to PC Soon Now this is great news for gamers wanting to exact some revengeance on PC.

PS4 Has 48 Announced Games With Tons of Third Party Launch Titles And they still have a lot more games to unveil at E3.

E3 2013: Square Enix Game List Confirms Next-Gen Final Fantasy Beyond Lightning Returns and A Realm Reborn, Square will be unleashing the next iteration in the long running Final Fantasy franchise.

E3 2013: Sega's Line-Up Headlined By Sonic Lost World A rather sorry looking list from Sega. That's all.

Lords of Fallen Protagonist Harkyn Revealed Expect even more info from the official E3 list.

Monday

Malicious Rebirth Finally Headed to PlayStation Vita The popular title will become available over here Stateside.

State of Decay Sales Hit 250,000 in Two Days It looks like the Xbox One really found their very own rendition of DayZ.

E3 2013: Sony Press Conference Diary So how did the Sony do? Get Ryan's rundown from his showfloor diary.

E3 2013: Kingdom Hearts 3 Announced For PS4 The third game in the popular JRPG has finally been announced.

Xbox One Pre-Orders Officially Available Right Now You can grab an XB1 for only $499.99...assuming that's not a big deal for you.

E3 2013: Mad Max Announced, Has Exclusive PS4 Content Whether it's Mad Mel or Tough Tom, we'll find out soon enough.

PS4 Costs $399, $100 Cheaper Than Xbox One Oh yeah boy...Sony knows how to rock them prices.

It's Official Again: PS4 Has No DRM Jack Tretton clears it up once and for all.

Elder Scrolls Online Coming To PS4, Xbox One The MMO based on the popular Elder Scrolls series will arrive for the upcoming next-gen consoles.

Order 1886 Steampunk RPG Is A PS4 Exclusive Build up an arsenal, equip your character and hunt werewolves...how freaking awesome is that?

E3 2013: PS4 Final Fantasy Versus XIII Renamed Final Fantasy XV Those old rumors were true, but thankfully the game is no longer vaporware.

GTA V PS3 Bundled With Custom Headset Revealed Play the game like it was meant to be played with a custom headset.

E3 2013 PlayStation 4 Embraces Movies, Music and 30 Exclusive Games It does TV and music, but it does games even more.

PS4 Console Revealed, Check Out The First Images Grab a first glimpse at the newly minted PlayStation 4 console

Walking Dead 400 Days Coming This Summer A new title in the popular adventure game series will be arriving this summer.

E3 2013: Crimson Dragon Announced For Xbox One The spiritual successor to Panzer Dragoon Orta has been announced as an Xbox One exclusive.

Star Wars Battlefront Announced By DICE Well, we all know what they'll be busy working on after Battlefield 4.

Killer Instinct Xbox One Exclusive Jago and Fulgore, along with the rest of the crew, make a return to form on the XB1.

Halo 5 Xbox One Trailer Screenshots Feature Master Chief in the Desert Master Chief channels his inner Megatron as he traverses a barren wasteland.

Xbox One Launching This November for $499.99 The pricing and the policies are complete. What say you knave, what say you?!

Tuesday

E3 2013: The Crew Brings Style Racing To XB1, PS4 Grab some friends, get a fast car and tear up the city Fast Five style with the new Ubisoft title, The Crew.

E3 2013: The Division Brings MMO Post Apocalyptic Gameplay To XB1, PS4 Grab some more friends, deck out your straggler and survive a post-apocalyptic meltdown of society in The Division.

E3 2013: An EA Press Conference Diary Get Ryan's thoughts on how the Electronic Arts press conference rolled out.

E3 2013: An Xbox One Press Conference Diary Find out what Gaming Blend's own Ryan Winslett thought of Microsoft's rollout of information during their press conference.

E3 2013: Titanfall Announced For Xbox One With Gameplay Trailers EA's rival game to Activision's Call of Duty gets a name and Respawn Entertainment have a chance to reclaim the FPS spotlight.

E3 2013: Mirror's Edge 2 Announced With Debut Trailer Gamers have been clamoring for a sequel...the only downside is that it's EA, and we all know what's up with EA.

E3 2013: Bayonetta 2 Sports Multiplayer, Due Out 2014 The Wii U exclusive will also be a two-player game and is scheduled for release in 2014.

Dell Unleashes Three High-End Alienware Gaming Laptops If you like Dell and you like gaming on the go you can check out three of their killer new laptops for gaming.

It's Official: PS4 Is Region Free With Hulu Netflix Not Requiring PlayStation Plus You can watch TV on your TV without paying extra to stream TV on your TV. Nice!

Xbox One PS4 Hacker SuperDaE Releases 1.7TB Worth of Damaging Information Not sure how this will affect the industry, but it better not mess up any of Sony's momentum coming off of E3.

E3 2013: Hands-On With Dragon's Crown Gaming Blend's Ryan Winslett gets some hands-on time with Dragon's Crown while scouring the showfloor of E3.

E3 2013: Mario Kart 8 Announced For Wii U The eighth console rendition of Mario Kart has been announced with new tracks, new karts and new anti-grav options. Nice.

E3 2013: Team Ico's The Last Guardian Is On Hold Sadly, the game isn't coming out soon but the good part is that it isn't vaporware...yet.

E3 2013: The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker Wii U Runs At 1080p 60fps The HD rendition for the Wii U runs at 1080p and 60 frames per second...rivaling everything that gamers want from the XB1 and PS4.

Wednesday

E3 2013: Wii U Exclusive From Xenoblade Devs Features Open World Giant Mechs This is easily one of the coolest looking games coming out on any platform

PS4 Has Sony's Stock Rocketing While Xbox One Has Microsoft's Stock Plummeting E3 seems to have a much bigger impact on stock than we thought.

Last Of Us Extended Uncut Story Trailer Brings On The Gore You've never seen The Last of Us quite like this...

E3 2013 Made Me Finally Buy A 3DS After all the impressive content from Nintendo, the 3DS now looks like a blockbuster buy.

Pokemon X & Y E3 Trailer Announces Fairy Type, Release Date Revealed During Nintendo's E3 Direct, the company unveiled the latest trailers and content for the upcoming Pokemon X & Y.

E3 2013: Super Smash Bros Wii U Announecd With Mega Man The original Blue Bomber in all his pudgy glory is making a return to form in Super Smash Bros Wii U.

RIFT Now Free To Play The MMO has gone from a subscription-based model, to a free-to-play model.

Best PS4 Ads Released So Far Check out the ways Sony has been rubbing it in the face of MS these past couple of weeks.

PS4 Free-to-Play Games Won't Require PlayStation Plus If you want to play F2P games on the PS4, you won't need a PlayStation Plus account to do so.

E3 2013: Creative Director Jens Matthies Shows Off Wolfenstein: The Order Gaming Blend's E3 correspondent gets some hands-on time with the upcoming Wolfenstein title.

E3 2013 Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze Coming To Wii U Nintendo isn't completely bereft of titles. The company has a nice slate of new and recycled IP set for release this fall.

PS4 Doesn't Allow Online Passes, Even From Third-Party Publishers Why the sudden change of heart? They're going all out pro-consumer this gen and this will be epic.

EA Undecided On Pursuing Used Game Fees For Xbox One After the huge public outcry against the Xbox One's DRM policies, EA has decided to back off on pursuing any DRM-based fees for used games.

E3 2013: Yaiba Ninja Gaiden Z Has The Best Ninja Revenge Trailer You'll Ever See It's pretty spiffy, no doubt about it.

Thursday

E3 2013: Shinji Mikami Talks About Surviving The Evil Within Gaming Blend's Ryan Winslett gets some one-on-one time with one of the big upcoming next-gen titles.

Geoff Keighley Hammers Nintendo's President On Lack Of Wii U Games See the Dorito Pope in action like never before, breaking down the walls and laying it on thick to Reggie Fils-Aime.

Xbox One Launch Countries Don't Include Japan And Poland for that matter.

Giant Bomb Gives You Behind The Scenes Look At E3 Press Conferences It's a chaotic and hectic affair but obviously worth it for the people who attend live.

Xbox One Won't Be Available in Poland; Witcher 3 Devs Say It's A Sad Situation You make the game for the console, but it won't be available in your home territory. Yikes.

The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II Announced For PC Neocore already has a sequel in the works so soon after the release of the first game.

Nintendo Says Used Games Aren't A Problem If you Make Great Games You know what? I agree.

E3 2013: Hands-On With Saints Row 4 Check out Ryan's hands-on time with Saints Row 4.

94% Of Gamers Favor PS4 Over Xbox One, According To Amazon Poll It's still an early poll folks, and it could rapidly change over the course of the week.

E3 2013: Xbox One Reps Dive Into The Console's Potential Despite all the negative anti-consumer policies, the Microsoft representatives talk up the console's potential.

Friday

Leviathan Warships Gets Free Jazzy Boatman Commentary Update Paradox Interactive has listened to fans and offered up a free patch to dock in some commentary from everyone's favorite sexy-voiced Jazzy Boatman.

Planetary Annihilation Early Access Now Available Pay a hefty fee to play-test the game help find bugs? Uhh, no thanks...I'll wait for the cheap version.

Cliffy B Supports Xbox One Killing Used Games, Rentals And Lending Why? Because $$$.

Rainbow 6 Patriots Now A Next-Gen Game Ubisoft did right moving this from the PS3 and Xbox 360 toward the Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

EA Says They Did Not Lobby Microsoft To Make Xbox One Anti-Consumer “aggressively lobby” is the phrase I think Peter Moore used.

U.S. Service Members Won't Buy An Xbox One At Launch, Here's Why The United States Army won't be supporting the Xbox One...click the link to find out why.

PS4 Games At E3 Ran on PS4 Dev Hardware, Not High-End PCs Oh Microsoft, we aren't even trying anymore...we're just...not...even...trying.

The Crappy Side Of E3 For Video Game Journalists Exposed Sometimes cavity searches and airport terminal waiting rooms can be a nightmare.

E3 2013: Behind Closed Doors With Call of Duty: Ghosts Gaming Blend's Ryan Winslett busts through the doors of Activision and demands some hands-on time with one of the biggest Fido games of the fall.

Saturday

E3 2013: Eyes-On With Destiny Gameplay Demo Winslett goes eyes-on with Destiny since he didn't have the righteous grooviness to get actual hands-on time with the game. We have got to get him some groovy hands next time he goes to E3.

E3 2013: Mad Max Isn't Based On The Films, Sports Customizable Vehicles A cool trademarked car, some brutal melee combat and some rocking desert landscapes to scavenge. Sounds badarse right? Well, it is.

Doritos and Mountain Dew Giving Away Thousands of Xbox One Consoles The Dorito Pope has blessed this post.

Injustice Gods Among Us Adding General Zod Soon NetherRealm still has plans to flesh out the character roster with some brand new content.

Xbox One Games At E3 Were Running On Windows 7 With Nvidia GTX Cards And here is the thing that just made Don Mattrick, Steve Ballmer, Phil Spencer and Phil Harrison turn yellow and spend the rest of their weekend depressed and sad instead of enjoying their golf game in the Bahamas. Sorry to ruin your weekend golf game, fellas...wait, no I'm not. Ahahahaha...trolololol...hahahaha.

Minecraft Xbox One Transfer Saves From Xbox 360? It's a question that's still up in the air.

World of Warcraft Blossoming With Ancient Pet Sale Blizzard has decided the plebs are afforded a discount...so, you can grab a pet without selling one of your lesser-liked kids...you can save the latter proposition for a big Steam sale.

Witcher 3 Screenshots Explore the Open World It's not the most effective way to round out the week but it's cool nonetheless. Besides, CD Projekt RED needs your support right now because they won't be able to play this game on the Xbox One back in their home country.

That wraps up this edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap. What week, eh? It was more explosive than a fat guy in a gas station rest room with an open propane tank after he ate chipotle filled burritos. Anyway, enjoy one of the glorious trailers from the PC Master Race dominated E3 below.