Daily Scoop: September 30, 2015 – Here comes the hurricane

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Nicole Kline

It’s another dreary day in Philadelphia, and I hear we’ll soon have a visitor: Hurricane Joaquin! I’m really enjoying all the Joaquin Phoenix mashup images with hurricanes. Keep ’em coming, Internet!

Check out the sales this week at the Humble Store! The Silent Age is on sale for just $2.49, and you can also get Jotun for $13.49 and Nevermind for $17.99. Else Heart.Break() is on sale for $17.49, and you can grab The Escapists: The Walking Dead for $16.19, too.

At Steam, the Daily Deal is BioShock 2, which is on sale for just $9.99. You can also get the triple back, which includes this game, BioShock, and BioShock Infinite, for just $34.98.

There are some great shirts today!

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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5, Journey, Mega Man Legends, more added to PS Store

Posted on September 30, 2015 by John Scalzo

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Prepare to fly high in this week’s PlayStation Store update.

Activision has brought back Tony Hawk for the 13th time in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5. While some players would quibble with the numbering system employed by Activision, both the publisher and Tony Hawk himself have said that the new game is meant to be a throwback to the franchise’s late 90s roots.

Of course, you don’t need a skateboard to fly high… you could just be a seven-footer who has some skill with a basketball. Both 2K Games and EA Sports are back with new basketball simulations this week as NBA 2K16 (PS4, PS3) and NBA Live 16 (PS4) are now available to download. 2K16 wants to capture what it really feels like to be an NBA player with a Career Mode written and directed by Spike Lee. Meanwhile, Live 16 wants to capture what it really feels like to be an NBA player by offering an upgraded player customization engine.

Also, players will explore the highest reaches of critical acclaim with two games that have found new homes this week. Journey: Collector’s Edition brings the wordless adventure experience from thatgamecompany to the PS4 for the first time, while Mega Man Legends is a PSone Classic that’s finally available to download through the PlayStation Store. Mega Man Legends is such a “get” for the PlayStation Store that even its publisher, Capcom, thought it would never be re-released. But they appear to have settled whatever contracts needed to be settled and we can all play Mega Man’s first 3D outing once more.

Finally this week, if you own a PS Vita, I hope you feel like dancing, as Atlus has released Persona 4: Dancing All Night for Sony’s handheld. I’m also being told that the publisher expects you to boogie, so there’s that too.

More information on all of these games (and a few other new releases) is available after the break. And, as always, a complete rundown of this week’s new game add-ons and discounts can be found at the PlayStation Blog.

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Daily Scoop: September 29, 2015 – Great games, great shirts

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Nicole Kline

Sorry for missing a day yesterday, readers! We got back late from TopatoCon and I had a crash day yesterday. The weekend was wonderful! I got to meet Chris Hastings (of Dr. McNinja fame), hung out with wonderful friends, and made our first in-person sales of RESISTOR_! It was magical.

But now, it’s time to get back to real life – and deals! There’s a brand new bundle at Humble – the Humble Indie Bundle 15! Pay what you want for Sir, You Are Being Hunted, Q.U.B.E.: Director’s Cut, Goodbye Deponia, and a 66% off coupon for Planetary Annihilation: Titans at the Humble Store. Beat the average to unlock Skullgirls (with all DLC), Planetary Annihilation, and Xenonauts.

But wait, there’s more! Pay $10 or more to unlock early access to everyone’s favorite Gang Beasts. For $25 or more, you can get a DIY Gang Beasts figure! And for $75 or more, you get the DIY figure plus 7 more. This is madness!

Speaking of madness, The Midweek Madness at Steam is all about the Tomb Raider franchise. Get the collection for $15.99, which “includes the complete library of Tomb Raider titles ever released for PC, including the blockbuster reboot of 2013 and the celebrated multiplayer top-down shooter Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.” That is a buttload of Tomb Raider! The Daily Deal at Steam is The Secret World, which you can pick up for $14.99.

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Nintendo will serve Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash into stores on November 20

Posted on September 29, 2015 by John Scalzo

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Serving up a release date for one of their last Fall 2015 games without one, Nintendo has announced that Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash will be released for the Wii U on November 20:

We haven’t heard much about Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash since its E3 2015 announcement, but Nintendo loves releasing games in the last two weeks of November. And after Star Fox Zero vacated its November 20 spot on the calendar, the publisher needed a new game to fill out the pre-Thanksgiving period. This E3 Trailer will have to do for now.

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Xbox One Holiday Bundle will (technically) include 36 free games

Posted on September 29, 2015 by John Scalzo

xboxone-logoGamers who receive an Xbox One 1TB Holiday Bundle under the tree this Christmas will also receive a gargantuan gaggle of free games from Microsoft.

Available beginning in October for $399, the Holiday Bundle will also include physical copies of Gears of War: Ultimate Edition and Rare Replay, as well as a download code for Ori and the Blind Forest. A three-game bundle is already a pretty great deal, but it gets even better when you realize that Rare Replay is a collection of 30 of Rare’s most popular titles. Battletoads, Perfect Dark, Killer Instinct Gold… they’re all here (a complete list of Rare Replay’s contents can be found right here). And if we keep counting, we can add four more Gears of War games as the Ultimate Edition includes a download code for the Xbox 360 editions of Gears of War, Gears of War 2, Gears of War 3, and Gears of War: Judgment.

And when you add it all together you get 36 games in a single bundle. That’s actually pretty impressive. More details about the bundle can be found at Xbox.com.

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Harmonix adds two U2 songs to Rock Band 4 with more coming as DLC

Posted on September 29, 2015 by John Scalzo

Even though Harmonix recently revealed the final update to Rock Band 4‘s tracklist, it looks like they’re stepping back onto the stage for one last encore.

Yesterday, the developer confirmed that two songs from U2 will also be included on the game disc. The world’s biggest rock band, which has never been featured in a rhythm game before, will bring “I Will Follow” (from Boy) and “Cedarwood Road” (from Songs of Innocence) to Rock Band 4. Harmonix also announced that additional tracks from U2 will be available to download through the Rock Band Music Store after the game’s launch.

Rock Band 4 will be released for the PS4 and Xbox One on October 6.

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Ubisoft has unveiled the full tracklist from Just Dance 2016

Posted on September 28, 2015 by John Scalzo

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With Just Dance 2016‘s launch date rapidly approaching, Ubisoft has unveiled the game’s complete tracklist. The soundtrack to this year’s game will include 42 soungs and you’ll have plenty to dance about if you’re a fan of Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, and many others.

“Each year we strive to provide our fans and their families with a better tracklist and interactive game features than the year before, and Just Dance 2016 is a true testament to that,” said Geoffroy Sardin, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Ubisoft EMEA. “Now that next-gen players can use their smartphones to play the game with the Just Dance Controller App, more people than ever before can dance to songs from the artists they know and love.”

Just Dance 2016’s complete tracklist can be found after the break. And don’t forget, the game will be released for the PS4, Wii U, Xbox One, PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360 on October 20.

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WB Games plans to release expansion sets for Lego Dimensions until “at least” 2018

Posted on September 27, 2015 by John Scalzo

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Lego Dimensions is available on store shelves today, but WB Games has huge plans to keep the game fresh over the next few years. In fact, a developer at TT Games recently told Eurogamer that the publisher is working on an expansion schedule that will stretch out to 2018… at least:

“We have a three year plan at the moment and we’ve got no intention of stopping there,” associate producer Mark Warburton told Eurogamer during an interview conducted at EGX.

“We’ve created the technology to the degree that we’re happy it meets our needs for the future. We’ve created the toy pad so that it shouldn’t need to be updated. And we can just create new level and character packs to keep expanding that.”

In the more immediate term, WB Games will release dozens of Lego Dimensions expansion packs during the remainder of this year and into 2016. A number of them, collectively known as Wave 1, are available on store shelves right now. Wave 2 will be out in December, with the third, fourth, and fifth Waves following in, respectively, January, March, and May of 2016. That is a lot of Legos.

Great Scott! Heavy! Zoinks! Timey-Wimey! D’oh! Spared No Expense! And Such…

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