Weekly Recap Sept 14th: Steam's Family Share Plan Steals Microsoft's Thunder, PS Vita TV Emerges

GTA V is on the verge of releasing and Take Two are taking down media assets left and right. That wasn't the only big news of the week. Valve managed to steal some thunder from Microsoft after the mini 'M' announced that they were taking the only thing people were looking forward to about the Xbox One, away. That's right, Steam now has the Family Share Plan and it's received quite a bit of praise. Sony, not to be left completely in the dust, announced that the PS Vita TV is on the way and it will make it convenient for gamers to play their Vita games on TV. These stories and more in this September 14th, 2013 edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap.

Sunday

Xbox One Caught Cheating In Twitter Poll, Gains 60% of Votes With Bots Oh boy, this is the sort of thing that ruins reputations and causes management to come out in full force.

Betrayer Adds Color Following Complaints Users complain, devs listen. The game has now been color-filtered.

DICE Could Kill Arma If They Released Battlefield Mod Tools, Says Dean Rocket Hall Too bad, because at the current rate DayZ might kill Battlefield instead.

Deep Down Is A PS4 Exclusive The game won't be coming to the Xbox One... that's for sure.

Neverending Nightmare Is A Horror Game That Channels Edward Gorey's Art This is a neat little game that brings about an interesting visual twist for the horror point-and-click genre.

GTA V Cost $265 Million to develop and market At least the marketing costs weren't separate.

Call of Duty: Ghosts Gives Snipers A Lot of Love How much love? Oh boy, a whole lot of love.

Ubisoft Says Game Development Costs Will Rise in Two Years Oh snap, that's probably the last thing most gamers wanted to read.

Monday

Disgaea D2 Brighter Darkness Release Date Is Set For October Fans of the long running series can experience the new game this fall.

Equalize Math Is Like Numerical Steroids For Your Brain A new game for iOS challenges your mathematical skills as well as your numerical number crunching on mobile devices.

The Girl and the Robot is a Charming ICO-Esque Adventure Game We don't get enough of these often enough, but I'm glad we're finally starting to see a rise in this kind of gameplay.

EA Shutting Down Battleforge So long and goodbye.

Timesplitters Rewind Interview: Everything you Need to Know About The Remake All the details on the upcoming FPS for PC and home consoles.

Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- Coming to PS3, PS4 Sadly, anyone supporting the Xbox brand won't be able to get their hands on the new fighting game being built on the Unreal Engine.

Project Phoenix Kickstarter Campaign Has Just One Day Left But they've already garnered enough money to turn this project into a legendary endeavor.

Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon Sells 1 Million, Retail Edition Possible Ubisoft confirms that the 80s throwback was a huge success and more games could be made in a similar vein.

Tuesday

Final Fantasy XIV PS4 Beta Launching In February You'll be able to get in on the MMO beta for the PS4 early next year.

Yakuza Ishin Coming to PS4 As A Launch Title The Japanese launch line-up is looking a little thicker on the PS4 than in North America.

PS Vita TV Lets You Stream Games from PS4 It's an awesome new device that competes with the OUYA.

Amnesia Machine For Pigs Review: Pure Horror Check out Pete's full-on review of one of the scariest games ever made.

GTA 5 Map Leaked Rockstar's massive map for the upcoming Grand Theft Auto V has been leaked and it fetaures 49 square miles of absolute massiveness.

Gaming Has Gone Mainstream Thanks To Mobile Gaming So says a new report from Mediabrix.

Tom Clancy Endwar Online Is Free-to-Play Strategy Game The Tom Clancy brand is still alive and well thanks to Ubisoft's incessant pickling with milking brands.

AdventurOS Turns Your Computer Files Into Dungeons An awesome new game turns all your PC files into various procedural dungeons. It's a neat design.

Battlefield 4 System Requirements Recommend Windows 8 Even though Microsoft doesn't use it, even though Sony doesn't like it, even though gamers hate it, Battlefield 4 recommends you amp it up to Windows 8 for the best possible experience with Battlefield 4.

The Bureau XCOM Declassified and Rayman Legends Score Big With Disabled Gamers A new site that ranks games based on their disability accessibility.

Wednesday

Rayman Fiesta Runs and Leaps Onto Mobile Fall A new Rayman game is scheduled to arrive on mobile devices this fall.

Child Of Light Brings Storybook Role Playing To PS4, Xbox One Ubisoft has a brand new IP on the horizon that looks absolutely amazing.

Assassin's Creed Liberation HD Coming to Xbox 360, PS3, PC After making her run on portable devices, the heroine from AC: Liberation is coming to home consoles.

Infinity Blade 3 Launching Next Week

Total War Rome 2 Controversy Spotlights Poor Integrity In Game Reviews More controversy over the Total War: Rome II release. Brace yourselves.

Consumer Advocates Crack Down on Video Game Microtransactions It's about time someone came down on these guys and put them in their place.

Xbox One Thrustmaster TX Costs $399.99 And the best part about it is that it may or may not come with pedals and a gearshift. Great, eh?

Steam Family Sharing Beta Launches Next Week Valve is expanding Steam to heights unforeseen. This is huge news right here folks.

Thursday

GTA 5 Petition Asks Rockstar Not to Make PC Version Well this is an unfortunate turn of events... for fanboys!

DuckTales Remastered Bounces To The Top of PSN Charts August was a good month for the indies and remakes on PSN.

Microsoft Commits Xbox One To Tokyo Game Show, Has 8 Games to Showcase Microsoft isn't completely abandoning the Asian territories.

Xbox One Ad Reminds Everyone That Microsoft Did A Bunch of 180s It's acknowledging all their former mistakes and moving forward from them... hopefully.

Payday 2 Sells $1.58 Million, 80% Sales Were Digital Overkill Software hit a homerun with Payday 2.

Eden Star Is An Unreal Engine Sci-Fi Survival Game Breaking down the walls and pushing boundaries beyond their normal limits is an understatement for this game.

Dishonored Game of the Year Edition Includes All DLC All the DLC from the game is now contained in a simple and convenient package.

Diablo 3 Demo Hits Xbox 360, PS3 The demo is here and you can test out the game for yourself to see if it fits your needs as a dynamic ARPG.

Friday

Report Ties Real Life Mass Killings With Video Game Violence You can always count on Fox News to bring out the best in gamers.

Peter Molyneux's Godus Arrives on Steam Early Access After a turbulent but successful Kickstarter, Peter Molyneux's Godus has finally arrived on Steam.

Rockstar Bans GTA 5 Streams, Videos, Pictures, User Accounts All your media content are belong to Rockstar. They have spoken and you must listen.

Saints Row 4 Getting GATV, Western Themed DLC The very week of GTA V's release. Now that's pushing your luck.

Tecmo Bowl, Wonderful 101 Arrive on Nintendo Consoles Some of the big releases of the season for Nintendo have launched this week, including the Wonderful 101 and Zelda II.

Superhot Is The First FPS Where Nothing Moves Unless The Player Moves This is some emergent gameplay right here. Taking the concept of time, space and movement and dousing it in all sorts of style.

Humble Retro Shooter Bundle Includes System Shock 2, Duke Nukem 3D Classic games that helped shape the 16-bit genre are now included in the latest Humble Bundle.

Saturday

Wii U Finally Breaks Onto NPD's Top 10 August Chart After lots of fighting, lots of struggling and plenty of blood, sweat and tears, a Wii U exclusive has made it onto the charts. Fanboys rejoice!

Grand Theft Auto Online Makes Larceny Co-op Well why shouldn't it be if you can do grand theft on co-op?

Terraria Android Version Released The latest version of Terraria has landed on Android devices.

River City Ransom Underground Now On Kickstarter One of the most beloved games from the yesteryears gets its sequel lifted on Kickstarter.

GTA V For Xbox 360 Has Been Leaked to Torrents And now it's all out there for the world to steal – I mean, see.

Assault Android Cactus Bring Chaos To Twin Stick Shooters Find out if the game is worth the investment for co-op, though.

GameStick Micro Console Finally Launches On October 29th A solid release date for the USB micro console has been solidified.

That wraps up this edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap. You can check out some brand new footage of Driveclub for the PS4 below.

Will Usher

Staff Writer at CinemaBlend.