Weekly Recap Nov 10th: All Things GTA V, Linux Bans Continue, GameFly PC Rentals

Man, what a week. Technically, things were pretty crappy up until Thursday, October 8th. If you're smart you'll probably skip through the entire recap and just bask in the glory of awesome that is Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto V. I'll be honest, the rest of the stuff is kind of trashy by comparison, so yeah. Anyway, there's more about those Linux bans in Diablo III, so if you value consumer rights, you'll probably want to check that out, and Gamefly will be opening up their offerings to the PC crowd, so for the first time ever you'll be able to digitally rent games from Gamefly. That's worth something, right? These stories and more in this November 10th, 2012 edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap.

Sunday

NBA 2K13 Everywhere Detailed In New Developer Diary The mobile aspect of the game gives it more life outside of console play than ever before.

Team Meat releases Mew Genics Art The brains behind Super Meatboy let loose some new art for their upcoming game.

Abduction Brings Classic Stealth Gameplay To CryEngine 3 This has to be one of the best stealth games that won't be released on consoles. Such a shame.

Halo 5 Being Prototyped For Xbox 720 343i is getting to work early on Halo 5.

Old People Don't Hate Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Well that's a bit shocking, yeah? I guess Activision isn't as hip as they thought.

PixelJunk 1-6 Coming To PC Next Year One of the most underrated games is getting re-released next year.

GameStop Exec Steals 2 Million From Company Well, really, are any of us surprised by this? Really?

Wolfenstein Movie Still A Possibility I don't know why it should still be a possibility...that's kind of scary, actually.

Square Enix Teases Final Fantasy Agni's Philosophy For Xbox 720, PS4 Well at least we don't have to worry about what Square has planned for next-gen...now how about Final Fantasy Versus XIII, Square? Where is it, Square? When will we get some new gameplay, Square? We're waiting, Square!

Monday

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Moves 840,000 Units In September That's impressive despite facing off against Dead or Alive 6.

DUST 514 Won't Be Released This Year More polish...that's really what counts.

OUYA's OS Switched To Jelly Bean; On Schedule For December Launch This is great news for all those OUYA fanboys out there. I'm definitely excited to see how this all turns out.

Battle for Presidency Is A Mortal Kombat-Style Fighter, Joins Greenlight One of the most hilarious fighting games coming to PC and the premise is absolute gold.

Call of Duty Black Ops 2 FOV Locked At 80, No Console Commands For PC Yes, that's exactly what PC gamers have been asking for.

Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Leaked To Torrents For Xbox 360 Oh fail, Treyarch...fail Activision. Still, it's not much money lost on their $1 billion dollar baby.

Love, An Emergent Artistic Open-World Game Gets Updated An interesting game that combines a little bit of emergent gameplay with some artsy-fartsy stuff.

Zynga Shutting Down FishVille and Treasure Isle Not enough money and the company's continued decline is hurting them bad.

Unity 4.0 Public Beta Available For Download Right Now Grab Unity 4.0 and beta test the crap out of it, which includes DX11 support and tons of other high-end engine features.

Farming Simulator 2013 Outsells Medal of Honor Warfighter Who would have thunk it? Well, it happened and now that just makes it worse on Medal of Honor.

Gears of War Judgment Art Depicts Bair, Kilo Squad Check out some new art for the upcoming Gears of War.

Download Battlefield 1942 For Free EA is giving the game away for free. How nice of 'em.

Tuesday

Wii U Kiosks Popping Up At Select Retailers Nintendo begins ramping up marketing and promotion of the Wii U.

GTA 5 Pre-Order Now Available You can start placing pre-orders for the game right now, ahead of the spring, 2013 launch.

THQ Delays Company of Heroes 2, South Park, Metro Last Light Fiscal 2014 will make or break THQ at this point.

Steam Closed Beta Finally Launches For Linux Linux users can now get into the action and start using Steam.

Sui Generis Video Shows Diablo-Style Combat With Procedural Physics This is one of the most technically proficient games I've seen in a long time.

Deadpool Election Day Image Makes Birther Joke Nothing like bringing a little bit of comedy to an otherwise nerve-wrecking day.

No Time To Explain Brings Nonstop Action-Comedy To Greenlight This is easily one of the silliest games on Greenlight right now and totally deserves a few upvotes.

Assassin's Creed Anthology Includes All Games & DLC It's like a GOTY edition but without it being a GOTY edition. You get everything Assassin's Creed in one package. No more ripping off or disc-locked content.

Mass Effect 3 Omega DLC Screenshots Reveal Female Turian Character Want to see how Garrus would look as a kickbutt Turian chick? Well, click the link to get a looksy.

Wednesday

Unity Butterfly Effect Video Shows How Games Can Look Like CGI This is a really neat breakthrough that indie devs will love in Unity 4.

Dragons Vs Unicorns Coming To iOS It's almost time to take part in one of the biggest throwdowns in history.

Bliss Lands On Steam Greenlight Features Happy and Depressing Gameplay It's another neat game on Steam.

Mass Effect 3 Omega Screenshots Feature Aria Fem Turian Equality...BioWare's number one goal.

Best Buy Black Friday Gaming Deals Include Assassin's Creed 3, Borderlands 2 Oh nice, two of the biggest games this fall will be getting discounts for Black Friday.

Sir, You Are Being Hunted Reaches Kickstarter Goal One of the many new indie, emergent titles gets successfully Kickstarted.

PlayStation Official Magazine Shutting Down Future Publishing closes the doors on the Official PlayStation Magazine...are more to follow? Hopefully not.

Thursday

GTA V Screenshots Showcase Weapons, Fighter Jets, Rappelling This is one of the coolest set of screenshots ever and they don't even reveal the best parts about the game!

World of Warcraft Support Hurricane Sandy Relief With Cinder Kitten Adoption Drive Blizzard isn't always evil, only when Linux users are involved.

Focus Group Testers Hated Female Lead In Uncharted: Golden Abyss Easy solution: Female Rambo.

Dead Space 3 Screenshots Reveal Grisly Deaths, Wooden Soldiers EA and Visceral Games unleash a smattering of new screenshots for the upcoming third-person action-horror game.

Anarchy Reigns Day-One Edition Includes Bayonetta, Bonus Game Modes If you buy the game from retail, you'll get some neat bonus items.

GTA V Character Customization, Mini-Games Detailed Rockstar has gone over and beyond for this game, unleashing all sorts of new information for the biggest game of 2013.

GTA V Character Stories, Personalities Detailed The three main characters in GTA V are detailed and their stories revealed.

GTA V Bigger Than GTA IV, Red Dead Redemption & GTA: San Andreas Combined Rockstar dropped a massive bomb, exclaiming that GTA V will be bigger than all their previous games combined.

Lots of Linux Users Perma-Banned In Diablo 3...Again You shouldn't really expect anything else from Blizzard at this point...regarding Linux users, of course.

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale Reveals Final Boss In Opening Cinematic The dreaded Polygon Man...yeah, only die-hard fans will remember this guy. Check it out.

The Sims 3 70s, 80s & 90s Stuff Expansion Pack Announced This isn't quite as cash-grabby as other expansion packs, check out the trailer after the jump.

GTA 5 Has Three Playable Characters, Will Be Rockstar's Biggest Game Yet This is, by far, one of the coolest and biggest and most ambitious things Rockstar has ever undertaken.

Friday

Walmart Black Friday Discounts $89 Wii $10, Batman Arkham City Wow, a Wii for under $100? You can't get a better deal than that.

Call of Duty Black ops 2 Supports YouTube, Streaming From Consoles Well, Activision is using some of that money to pump it back into CoD and some of its “revolutionary” features I see.

Eurogamer Amends Policies, No Longer Attending VIP Review Parties In a bid to win back the masses and set a standard in actually providing accurate coverage of games, Eurogamer is enforcing some new policies.

Aliens Vs Predator from 1999 Remade In CryEngine 3 One of the very best FPS classics from a bygone era makes a re-appearance in Crytek's latest engine.

GTA V: 5 Reasons To Be Excited Check out a list of reasons why Grand Theft Auto 5 is a game worth picking up next year!

Sonic Games Set For Release In 2013, Possibly For Next-Gen Consoles? Sega confirms that some new games are in the works and primed for release in 2013.

Activision Blizzard Getting Sued Over Diablo 3's Authenticator Requirement Someone finally had the balls to take Activision Blizzard to the court room dance...thank you.

Microsoft Patent Aims To Watch Consumers, Prevent Copyright Infringement More corporate BS...hopefully this thing doesn't get put into effect, though.

Angry Birds Space Launches For Windows Phone 8 If you have the latest Windows Phone and you want to experience one of the top played mobile games ever, it's now available.

Halo 4 Spartan Ops Episode 2 Trailer Reveals November 12th Release Date Microsoft already has new content planned for the FPS even though just released this week.

Saturday

Skyfall DLC for 007 Legends Arrives This Week Coinciding with the launch of the movie, Activision launches the new DLC for the recent FPS.

Pid Review XBLA Fans gives their two cents on the new co-op platformer, Pid.

Play Halo 4 To Get Free Microsoft Points The more you play the more points you get, it's totally worth it!

Adorables Exclusive To Windows 8 Phone A new mobile game for Microsoft's phone.

One Million Riders Have Played Trials Evolution Redlynx has managed some big numbers for their indie racer.

Darksiders, From Imitation To Homage Check out Stick Skills' editorial on how the game evolved from mimicking close relatives to coming into its own.

Borderlands 2 Mac Release Coming This Month Mac users will be able to hop into Pandora soon enough.

That wraps up this edition of the Gaming Blend. You can check out the new trailer for Hitman: Absolution below, which introduces gamers to the ultimate assassin.