Weekly Recap March 24th: Soul Reaver Reboot, Capcom Hunts Hackers, Prey 2 Dead?
Prey 2 is on the chopping block of games that gamers will never play. Meanwhile a reboot of one of the most iconic third-person action games is underway with Soul Reaver. And after unsuccessfully recruiting gamers to rat out hackers for them, Capcom has decided that it would probably be best to find those pesky Street Fighter X Tekken hackers that exposed all the on-disc DLC themselves. These stories and more in this March 24th, 2012 edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap.
Sunday
GameSpy Development Tools Available For Unity Mobile SDK IGN and GameSpy have some new tools and documentation available for indie and AAA developers.
Battlefield 3 NES Edition Is A Shot of Nostalgia BF3 with NES sounds...go figure.
Mass Effect 3 Producer: Criticism Of Ending Is Valid The discussion continues to unravel and heat up and unfold and well...you get the picture.
Guild Wars 2 Beta Keys Being Sent Out Now Grab a key and partake in one of the most anticipated games of 2012.
Capcom Wants Your Help To Ban Street Fighter X Tekken Hackers So, dear gamers...the choice is yours...will you help Capcom or spare the hackers?
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Wing Commander Saga: Darkest Dawn Launching Next Week A new Wing Commander game? Well, sort of...click the link for the full story.
Kingdoms of Amalur MMO Coming This Year? If this is true then EA must have a crystal ball or something when gauging the success rate of a new franchise.
Street Fighter X Tekken DLC Unlock Guide For Xbox 360 Find out how to access the content already on your disc.
Monday
Bloomberg Pegs Xbox 720 For 2013 Announcement, Release Well, 2013 seems rather reasonable...isn't that what everyone was already saying before this became the norm?
XCOM Enemy Unknown To Have Mod Support For PC That's excellent news for PC gamers.
Portal 2 Tops BAFTA 2012 Winners List Lots of noteworthy games make the list. Check it out below.
Epic Mickey 2 Production Bigger Than Call of Duty, Resident Evil 6 Hundreds and hundreds of people are working on a Mickey game...never thought the day would come.
Kojima: I Will Make Games Until I Die And let them be as memorable as Metal Gear Solid good man.
Will World of Warcraft Ever Be Playable on iPhone? Click the link to find out.
Binary Domain Hitting PC in April Sega's third-person shooter will be available on PC this spring.
5.4 Million Games Created In 2011 Using Roblox, of course.
Frontier Developments Founder: Used Games Killing Core Games More misinformation spreading for the masses.
World of Warcraft Female Pandaren Model Revealed Want a glimpse at the female kung-fu Panda? well, check it out after the jump.
Dragon Age 2 Expansion Cancelled, Team Focusing On Next Game This is good news for fans awaiting the third game.
Bethesda Releases Dishonored Screenshots, Fact Sheet Grab a good look at some of the special abilities and weapons in the game.
Resident Evil Dev Clarifies DLC Comments About Street Fighter X Tekken He doesn't like his words twisted, and to be honest, no one is twisting his words.
Tuesday
EA Sports MMA Multiplayer Shutting Down Soon EA unveils a list of games that they will no longer be supporting, including their recent EA Sports MMA.
MineCraft Dev: Piracy Isn't Stopping Us Yeah, take that you pesky, no-good, scheming...oh wait, he also doesn't like DRM.
Confrontation Release Date Set For April 5th The game based on the miniatures will arrive online and in stores this April.
Soul Reaver Reboot Possibly In Development One of the most beloved, tragic action-adventure games could get the reboot treatment.
OnLive Brings L.A. Noire Touch Edition To Tablets Complete with the MotionScan, thanks to the Onlive app.
Wheels of Destruction Release Date Set for March 27th If you fancied a game like Twisted Metal but were more-so looking to pay only $9.99, then Wheels of Destruction is the right game for you.
Skyrim Patch 1.5 Released for PC, Coming To PS3, Xbox 360 Soon Check out some additional fixes that Bethesda has for their open-world medieval fantasy title.
Gears of War 3 Title Update 4 Released Check out what's available in the latest title update.
GunCraft Makes Final Push For KickStarter Goal MineCraft meets Modern Warfare in GunCraft.
Star Wars The Old Republic Update 1.2 Public Test Server Screenshots Released New info and screens for the upcoming update for Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Capcom: We Can Catch The Street Figher X Tekken Hackers Ourselves Yeah Caps, good luck with that...trolololol....
Vanguard Going Free-To-Play Knock another one off the pay-to-play shelf.
Warning: Exposure to Violent Video Games Has Been Linked To Aggressive Behavior Yeah, so video games might be getting an extra label due to two old politicians.
Epic Mickey 2 Power Of Two Coming To Xbxo 360, PS3, Wii Junction Point Studios will be releasing the game on multiple platforms this time around.
Signal Studios To Announce A New Game At PAX East From the makers of Toy Soldiers comes an interesting new title with a dude in some demon armor.
Sine Mora Available Now For Xbox 360 A throwback to hardcore action titles finally makes its way to the Xbox 360.
Capcom Announces World Gone Sour Based On Popular Candy It's about as cool as Hello Kitty X Street Fighter.
Dark Souls PC Version Confirmed? It's definitely looking that way.
BioWare Boss: We're Fixing Mass Effect 3 Ending BioWare is finally caving to all the noise, but will it result in something substantial?
Blizzard: Mists of Pandaria Beta Very Close This means keep your internet peeled and your eyes fixated on said internet.
Thursday
Super Mario 3D Land Director: Sequel Would be Hard To Make
Banner Saga Announced, Gets Back To The Basics Of Gaming Having fun without multi-million dollar marketing campaigns.
Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition Confirmed For iPad, First Screenshots Arrive Who knew that one of the most beloved PC games could fit in the palm of your iPad?
Grand Theft Auto 5 Can Import Max Payne 3 Multiplayer Crews Awesome news for those who want to have some righteous gangs in GTA V.
BioWare To Investigate Mass Effect 3 Black Screen Bug It's a small case for now but BioWare will catch the bug before it grows...hopefully.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 Mass Effect 3 Armor DLC Revealed Through Screenshots Lay down some extra cash for some nifty ME3 DLC items for FFXIII-2.
Blades Of Time Coming To PC, Mac April 18th
Cubic Motion Announces High Compression Facial Tech
Nvidia Keplar GeForce GTX 680 2GB Overview, 7970 Comparison A review and comparison of the new GTX 680 2GB video card that Epic was using to power the Unreal Engine 3 real-time Samaritan demo.
MineCraft Xbox 360 Edition, Trials Evolution Launching In Spring As part of the spring party that the Xbox 360 has lined up, both Trials Evolution and MineCraft will be available during the one time of the year where everyone is hopping and bouncing because winter is over.
World of Warcraft Mists of Pandaria Beta Launches Jump into the public beta right now with Blizzard hosting the event for the upcoming expansion pack.
Max Payne 3 Multiplayer Screenshots Show Off Contest Winners Check out the official multiplayer skins of the contest winners for the Rockstar Twitter contest.
Friday
Devil May Cry Dev Defends Reboot: DMC Was A Little Stuck In Its Ways The lead designer defends their decision to make Dante look like a crack-whore.
Blizzard: Multiple World of Warcraft Expansions Coming After Mists of Pandaria Blizzard has a nice rollout planned for the World of Warcraft.
MadCatz Ships Cyborg M.M.O.7 Gaming Mouse One of the most baddest mouses ever released, ever. Check it out for yourself.
Gettysburg Armored Warfare Release Date Set For March 27th Head back to the 19th century and do fight for the Union or Confederates in some intense RTS-TPS action.
Trials Evolution Rides Into Limbo With New Screenshots
EVGA GeForce 680 GTX Now Available The "Keplar" is officially available for purchase.
GameStop Doesn't Want Your GameCube They're no longer taking GameCube games or gear. So, um, yeah you just have to toss it or keep it.
Hunger Games Girl On Fire Available on iOS For Free Eating up all this stuff about The Hunger Games? Well, check out the free app on the iOS App Store.
Saturday
Remedy: No Plans For Additional Episodes For Alan Wake: American Nightmare Well, they're moving on to bigger and better things.
Mass Effect 3 Face Import Bug Fixed Next Patch BioWare finally gets around to addressing the Face Import bug and will have it fixed up nice and neat by the next patch.
DarkSiders 2 Wii U Launch Title Has Unique Features Vigil Games has some big plans for this game's launch on the Wii U and they cover some of the neat features that will be made available for the Wii U version.
Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Operation Fortress Event Gives You Bonus XP Extra bonus weekend happening right now.
Assassin's Creed 3 Screenshots Slaughter Redcoats Connor lays down the law for the invading British soldiers in AC3.
Alan Wake 2 Might Not Be An Xbox Exclusive The team is hard at work on a next-gen game but it's planned to be a multiplatform title. Alan Wake for the PS4 and Xbox 720? It's a possibility.
That wraps up this edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap. You still itching for some more weekend gaming content? Feel free to check out the latest trailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic which covers the game's Legacy System. Enjoy.
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