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Well October is here! This year has flown by and the holiday season is knocking at the door. So many great things in the next couple of months are coming out and I will be right there giving my thoughts on the projects. In other news from me, I am getting closer and closer to actually having the time to set up a weekly stream and I am working on a few reviews. Next weekend I will be attending New York Comic Con and I will be reporting on that as well. Lots of big names there in the world of gaming and entertainment and comics (Ubisoft, Microsoft, The Walking Dead, Marvel, and DC to name just a few!). Phil is currently attending the grand finals of the League of Legends World Championship in LA and should have a full report in the next week on the event. Also, I was thinking about doing a new write up retrospective series with the first being a look back at one of my favorite 90s FPS games, Hexen: Beyond Heretic. So be on the look out for that and let me know if that is something you are interested in reading. And now lets jump into this weeks best:
Valve files trademark for Half-Life 3
It's happening! No but seriously this is really the first big step towards confirmation of the legendary title. Along with a leaked list of developers working on the project, I can see Valve using HL3 to push their new OS and Steam Machines. It makes perfect sense for Valve to do so, I mean how else will they get people on board SteamOS or Steam Machines without an exclusive title that will MAKE people want to make the transition. I know I will 100% be making the switch to SteamOS but for others it may be a tough decision to let go of what they are used to and Valve needs something this big to sell people on the idea that making the switch is a good choice. We will see what happens in the coming year but my fingers are crossed and my hopes are higher than ever that we will finally see HL3 or at least news of Source Engine 2 soon.
Terraria 2 announced
So this is what Andrew Spinks was talking about when he left Terraria to work on a bigger and better mystery project. Fans of Terraria will be pleased with the news that another game is on the way. I played a bit of Terraria and pleasantly enjoyed my time spent on it. It was a solid indie game and with the implementation of new features and possibly better gameplay, I will have to take another visit. With the latest patch (1.2) being released earlier this week, that should hold players interest for enough time for development of Terraria 2 to take place. I expect to hear a lot more about the scope of the project in the coming months.
GTA V Online launched
After the playerbase has had a couple of weeks with the story mode, GTA V launched its online mode... and as usual with online implementations, it was a complete disaster! Players had a hard time accessing the online portion and Rockstar's servers were in meltdown mode. It always seems to happen with big titles going online, it happened with a ton of heavy hitters: WoW, Star Wars Galaxies, Final Fantasy XIV, and the latest SimCity all had atrocious launch days. While it is known that launch days are always horrendous for huge titles, I feel Rockstar could have done a little bit better given the time they had in between the release of the game and online mode. I mean surely they had an at least estimated number on how many people would be jumping on the servers to prepare accordingly. Anyway, it is not all doom and gloom, Rockstar will clean it up and things will start flowing smoothly very soon and all will be forgiven. Just another title to be hit with the online launch curse and it most certainly won't be the last.
Path of Exile comes out of BETA and officially launches Oct. 23
If you LOVED Diablo II but HATED Diablo III, then Get On This Game! Path of Exile is EVERYTHING I wanted Diablo III to be. The loot and trade system is great, the hardcore mode is great, everything is great about Path of Exile. It is great news that it is finally seeing a proper release so be sure to grab this when it comes out proper. Not much else I can say except that this game is the true successor to Diablo II in my eyes.
Tom Clancy dies at age 66
It is with great sadness that the world said goodbye to one of, if not the greatest military writers of all time. Tom Clancy's books inspired a generation of great games including Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell. With Ubisoft's The Division coming soon, I hope it does Clancy's name justice as a sort of last hurrah for the acclaimed author. I remember way back in 1998 playing the first Rainbow Six game and being blown away, then later in 2001 playing through one of my favorite shooters of all time: Ghost Recon. Clancy's name has been tied to some of the most successful military franchises in the world and his legacy will live on. My condolences go out to all his friends and family, the world has lost a legend.
Those are the heavy hitters of the week. We are all still awaiting more news on the SteamOS (I believe it was promised to us soon?) and the rumor mill is churning with new information on the story DLC for Bioshock Infinite (already there was a small write up by Polygon and Kevin Levine has said that info is on the way very soon). Anyway that is all hopefully for next week. I hope to get some more content out next week as well, as I said earlier, Phil should have a write up on the LoL worlds and I am working on a retrospective of Hexen and a few other reviews (Tomb Raider, Don't Starve, and Deadlight). So with that, I will see you all soon!
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