Weekly Recap Sept 29th: NBA Live 13 Canceled, Borderlands 3, Slender: The Arrival Coming

If you thought EA was on the fast-track to recovery, think again. Just like a drunk in a liquor store, EA is like a thief in a bank when it comes to screwing over gamers and their latest antic involves canceling NBA Live 13 while also doing some nefarious things with the FIFA franchise. Gearbox Software is apparently already sinking their hooks into Borderlands 3 as the writer of the series talks about a few ideas he'd love to toss into the game. And if horror games make you piss your pants easy then you'll love the news about a sequel to Slender: The Eight Pages called Slender: The Arrival. These stories and more in this September 29th, 2012 edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap.

Sunday

Dusty Revenge Is A Shank-Style Action Game That Invades Steam Greenlight An action packed side-scroller kicks it up a notch on Steam Greenlight.

PS3 Price Drops Not Coming; Sony Supporting PS3 Up To 2015 Sony confirms support for the console for another few years but at the same time they say they won't be dropping the price of the console. Wii U is looking like a much better choice by the day, eh?

StarCraft 2 Multiplayer Could Go Free-To-Play Blizzard considers the option for their premier RTS.

Slender Sequel Arrival Announced A sequel to one of the most popular underground games gets announced. It'll be interesting to see how the sequel does as a real game.

Diablo 3 Patch 1.0.5 Now on PTR With Monster Power, Infernal Machine Blizzard is doing a lot to win gamers back over with patch 1.0.5.

The Light, Unity 3D Adventure Game Looks For Votes On Greenlight The game takes a different approach to environmental interactivity, aiming for atmosphere over style.

Monday

Bayonetta 2 Wouldn't Exist Without Nintendo, Says Platinum So, just pretend the game was never even announced and you're all good to go.

Wii U Wait List Launched By GameStop They're all sold out, but as soon as they get more in, they'll give you a call.

Resident Evil 6 Review Calls it Unforgettable, Goofy Amidst the praise lies some telling negativity, but it gets a thumbs up in the end.

Mortal Online, One of the Worst MMOs ever, offers up free game time. With the advent popularity of DayZ, open-world survival is now the “in” thing, in gaming.

Platinum Games Wants To Make Games On Steam And Do A Kickstarter Because pubs don't care much about making games on the PC, Platinum considers doing a Kickstarter.

September 25th PlayStation Plus Update: Free Starhawk Single-Player, Hell Yeah, Tokyo Jungle Discounts It's a good time to be a PS Plus member.

Walking Dead Game Season One Arriving In December The complete first season will be available starting this December.

Gamer Sets Borderlands 2 Level-Cap Record In 43 Hours, Doesn't Die This is really good news for Matt Siegfried because he was able to play for nearly two days straight without dying. That's a real feat.

Stan Lee Invades The Amazing Spider-Man DLC The famous comic book icon joins the cast of playable characters in Activision and Beenox' recent The Amazing Spider-Man.

Valve Given More Time To Address Steam's EULA, Consumer Protection Aims To Resolve The Matter In Court

Tuesday

Wii U Region Locked, Imports Will Require A Mod-Ciip If you thought mod chips were so last century, think again. Nintendo is making them popular again.

Call of Duty Black Ops 2 on PS3 has a Texture Install Option To ease up on the wear and tear on the Blu-ray, gamers can choose to install the HD textures onto the console.

GamersFirst Works Hard To Fighter For Gamers, Revamps Customer Support It's important to treat your customers right and G1 really wants to do just that.

Uncharted 3 Is The most Disappointing Game This Gen, Says Cliffy B Out of all those crappy games, Cliffy calls out Uncharted 3 as the most disappointing game this gen. Really?

McPixel First Greenlight Game Voted To Become Available On Steam The crude adventure title is the first user-voted game to become available on Steam's store.

Blizzard Wishes They Would Have Handled Diablo 3's Launch Better Oh like, by not having always-on DRM as a standard feature? Yeah, I'm sure that could have helped.

Zynga Exec Says They're The Steam of Social Gaming Try not to let your sides split from laughter guys.

Nintendo Producers Working With Platinum Games On Bayonetta 2 Nintendo wants to maintain their seal of quality so they're going back into the trenches to ensure that the game turns out as good as possible and hopefully put to rest of some of the Wii U haters.

Wednesday

Asylum Supernatural Horror Game Joins Steam GreenlightA new first-person horror game appears on Steam's Greenlight.

Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix Is Japanese Only, Sorry Rest of the World Square loves playing favorites, maybe because they are Japanese.

Joe Danger: The Movie Speeds Onto PS3 With Additional Content The PS3 version of the once-exclusive Xbox Live Arcade title will receive some extra content.

Giana Sisters Launches For PC This October, Arrives For PS3, Xbox 360 In 2013 The cool new side-scroller gets funded by Kickstarter and manages to make a multi-platform release. That's some good stuff.

Wii U Launch Day Features 23 Games One of the largest launches ever for a home console and it will come jam packed with 23 games.

EA Looms Legal Threats Over Ex-Employees To Keep Them In Check Standard NDA stuff to make sure their “secrets” aren't spilled.

Oculus Rift 3D Headset Dev Kit Pre-Orders Now Available If you're a developer now is the perfect time to grab a copy of the dev kit.

Interview: Jesper Kyd Talks Hitman, Darksiders 2, Assassin's Creed Find out what drives the passion behind one of gaming's most influential composers.

Assassin's Creed Ezio's Trilogy Coming Exclusively To PS3 Ubisoft is re-releasing all three games featuring Ezio for the PS3.

Injustice Gods Among Us Collector's Edition Has Bonus DLC, Batman-Wonder Woman Statue if you're willing to shell out extra for the game, you'll receive extra.

Mass Effect Trilogy Pack Brings Mass Effect 1 To PS3 Finally, PS3 gamers will be able to experience the grand adventure of the very first Mass Effect.

Assassin's Creed 3 System Requirements Supported Video Cards Announced Find out if AC3 will be able to run on your setup by checking out the list of supported cards below.

Thursday

Need for Speed Most Wanted To Get Special DX11 Treatment For PC This is good news for PC gamers who may have felt rather shafted lately.

Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord Announced Talesworld announces the newest game in the highly popular Mount & Blade series.

Borderlands 3 Already A Priority At Gearbox They've just shipped Borderlands 2 but Borderlands 3 is already in the pipeline.

Sony President Says They Won't Be Releasing Consoles Every Few Years They're changing up the formula to suit a new business landscape, but how well will that work with gaming culture?

NBA Live 13 Rides The Bench Indefinitely The popular annual series gets a kick to the shin by EA and is now officially canceled.

DayZ To Launch Before 2012 Is Out, Aims To Be Very Cheap One of the most anticipated games coming out this year is DayZ...or at least, Dean “Rocket” Hall hopes to get the game out before this year ends.

Bungie Saw Halo Wars As Whoring Out The Halo Name Well, fans dug it but if they thought Halo Wars was whoring, I can't wait to read what they think about the new trilogy in the works.

UFO Online Stress Test Includes Alienware Gaming Gear Prizes You get to play games and win things. Does it really get any better than that?

$12,000 Worth of Diablo 3 Copies Have Been Stolen Too bad the always-on DRM will keep all those poor Ethiopian kids from playing their newly, black-marketed-bought D3 copies.

Derrick The Deathfin Chomps Down On PSN Starting October 9th A papercraft indie game hits PSN on October 9th. Don't be late to the party.

Friday

Blizzard's Titan MMO Team Has Over 100 People It's not nearly as mammoth as the 600 person team for Resident Evil 6 but it's still a lot of people working on the new MMO.

Rainbow Moon Questing To PS Vita In 2013 Sony may be having trouble establishing third party support for the PSV but there are games coming to the portable quite frequently.

Zone of the Enders HD Collection Gets Limited Edition Only a select few will be able to get their hands on the limited edition of Z.O.E. HD's limited edition.

Analyst Says Mists of Pandaria Retail Sales Disappointing Not counting digital sales, the retail outing for the game didn't quite fare as well.

Raidcall Hits 10 Million Users, Offers Free Voice Chat, Social Features It's a free alternative to stuff like Vent and Teamspeak.

Valve Not Selling The Company To Nexon, NCSoft or Apple It's all been one big misunderstanding.

Hitman Absolution Won't Feature Music From Jesper Kyd So we get Bateson back but we lose Kyd...nice IO...real nice.

Saturday

State of Decay Is A Sandbox Full of Zombies Shrouded In Mystery XBLA Fans gives a rundown of Microsoft's DayZ clone in their preview of the game.

Microsoft to Offer Marketplace Discounts Based On Gamerscore You play games a lot? Well, son, you're in for some nice digs thanks to MS because your l33t skills will determine what kind of discounts you'll receive.

Dishonored Goes Gold, Free Copy Up For Grabs Now this is a strange twist of fate, Bethesda is giving away a free copy of the game as it goes gold. Very nice.

Castle Crashers Steam Giveaway If you like co-op games you'll love Castle Crashers and if you haven't already purchased the game on Xbox Live you can win a free copy courtesy of Co-Optimus.

Darkness Developer Announces Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons How far off do you think it'll be from other titles under their umbrella? Well, we won't know until we learn more.

Rumor: Borderlands 2 DLC Codenamed Torgue and Contains Ten Hours of Gameplay If this is true then this is pretty freaking awesome.

That wraps up this edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap. You can check out the launch trailer for the new game, Anna below. It's one of those super creepy, horror-thrillers. Enjoy.