Rockstar Games has unveiled two custom Grand Theft Auto V designs for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

To celebrate the launch of GTA V on the next-gen consoles, the studio is offering the limited-edition PS4 and Xbox One as the grand prizes in two separate giveaways.

"Both of these individually hand-fabricated consoles features an exclusive black-on-black Grand Theft Auto V design, laser etched on micro perforated metal paneling with hi-gloss deep green painted accents and a custom color-matched controller," according to Rockstar's website.

The company will also be giving away 20 runners-up Deluxe Prize packs of new GTA V gear and collectibles. The items featured in the prize will eventually be available for purchase over at the Rockstar Warehouse, but sadly, the consoles are only available through the giveaways.

Rockstar revealed a GTA V skinned PS4 in September, featuring the Rockstar and GTA V logos on a yellow, black, and white console.

Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire sales passed the 3 million

Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire sales passed the 3 million mark within just three days of going on sale, with the handheld titles still to release in Europe.

The exact number sits in the region of 3,040,000, with 1,534,593 of those coming from Japan alone according to Famitsu (via Gematsu). The rest were made up from sales in both North America and Australia, where the game launched last Friday.

Ubisoft offering Free Games Following a rocky launch for Assassin's Creed Unity

Following a rocky launch for Assassin's Creed Unity, Ubisoft Montreal CEO Yannis Mallat apologized for the issues and is offering free DLC to all owners of the game.

"I want to sincerely apologize on behalf of Ubisoft and the entire Assassin's Creed team," Mallat said. "These problems took away from your enjoyment of the game, and kept many of you from experiencing the game at its fullest potential."

He continued, "To show our appreciation for your continued support, we’re making the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Unity Dead Kings DLC free for everyone. For Season Pass holders, we will also offer the choice of one additional game from a selection of Ubisoft titles for free."

The eligible games are listed below. If you purchased Assassin's Creed Unity Gold Edition, which includes the season pass, you're entitled to a free game as well. Ubisoft is still in the process of setting up a system to process this offer, and will share an update soon.
The Crew
Far Cry 4
Watch Dogs
Assassin's Creed Black Flag
Rayman Legends
Just Dance 2015

Note: The season pass is no longer for sale.

Once the Dead Kings DLC is available, you'll be able to find it through an in-game link. No release date is announced for it yet, but Ubisoft says it's "coming soon."

Patch 3 for Assassin's Creed Unity is rolling out this week, with over 300 fixes for stability, gameplay, progression and more. Ubisoft has said that "While you might notice some improvements to framerate as a result of Patch 3, we still have a future patch planned to further address framerate concerns."

Activision is calling in its crack team of elite copyright lawyers in take-down strikes against YouTubers who reveal cheats and exploits in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

Activision is calling in its crack team of elite copyright lawyers in take-down strikes against YouTubers who reveal cheats and exploits in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

Eurogamer reports that YouTube network Machinima recently issued an email warning to its affiliates, that Activision is on the warpath. "Activision is being particularly vigilant about their Call of Duty videos lately; issuing strikes on videos showing glitches. If you post videos highlighting these glitches, your channel may be liable to receive a copyright strike so please be careful," stated the email.


Activision says that it's focused on video posts that reveal unfair advantages and tricks to multiplayer competitors. "We're excited that so many fans are having fun playing the game and posting videos of their gameplay," offered a company statement. "We love watching the videos ourselves. Occasionally, some folks post videos that promote cheating and unfair exploits. As always, we keep an eye out for these videos. Our level of video claims hasn't changed."

Copyright take-downs deprive YouTubers of advertising revenues from videos. Multiple takedowns can cause the cancellation of an account.

SOURCE
Eurogamer

Throwback Thursday W/Rick Ep.3 Flying Squirrel

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Where every Thursday I Try out a new old school Arcade Game, or this week a game from my childhood

This week I play one of My favorite games as a kid The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends on SNES

Does it hold up?! Is it still as fun as I remember it being?

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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare had the biggest launch of any entertainment in 2014?!

Activision has claimed Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare had the biggest launch of any entertainment product in 2014 in terms of revenue, coming in ahead of all other music, movies and books released year.

The achievement is backed up by information including the digital and retail sell-through for the title, compared with reported movie, music, and book gross sales, each for the first week following initial launch.

The publisher has also announced the Call of Duty franchise as a whole has now generated over $10 billion in sales revenue since its launch in 2003. 

We will update You when Activision releases the full numbers 

Curve Studios today announced White Space

Curve Studios today announced White Space, a procedurally-generated spaceship shooter in the early stages of development.

Players will take control of a bounty hunter whose mission is to fly around the universe and land on planets to complete missions, Curve says in a development diary.

“The goal really is to take out your target as a bounty hunter,” says design director Jonathan Biddle. “You enter a system and there are a number of planets there. You go to the bounty hunter headquarters in each system and you’ll be hunting down missions.”

The indie studio who developed and ported the recently released Stealth Inc. 2 and The Swapper for Wii U, respectively, began development on White Space roughly 18 months ago. It is not known which platforms the game will be released on.

No release date has been given.

Good News Playstation Minecraft players

4JStudios is working to bring the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim-themed Minecraft DLC pack to PlayStation consoles, Mojang has confirmed. "Coming Soon'ish"

The Skyrim Mash-Up pack was released for Minecraft's Xbox 360 edition last year and offered players textures, character skins, music, a redesigned UI, and a chance to explore locations from Bethesda's RPG in Mojang's indie blockbuster.

Telltale Games has finally released some info about the Upcoming Game of Thrones series..

Telltale Games has finally opened the book on its highly-anticipated new Game of Thrones series and has revealed information on the house upon which the story is based, locations we'll be visiting, and has confirmed a host of platforms (including PS4 and Xbox One). The news comes via the Telltale Games blog.

Telltale’s Game of Thrones will focus on House Forrester, a noble house from the Wolfswood in the north of Westeros. Bannermen to House Glover and loyal to the Starks, the Forresters have not appeared in HBO’s TV series to date but are canon within George R. R. Martin’s novels, appearing in the book ‘A Dance with Dragons’.

Telltale’s series will focus on House Forrester’s quest to stave off doom amidst to tumult of The War of the Five Kings. Their house motto, Iron From Ice, is also the name of the premiere episode.

The Forrester stronghold, Ironrath, is strategically located on the edge of the largest ironwood forest in Westeros. As such House Forrester controls the majority of the valuable ironwood forests in the Wolfswood, which has earned them the ire of their rivals, House Whitehill.

Ironrath will be joined by more familiar locations, such as King’s Landing and The Wall, as some of the places Telltale’s Game of Thrones will take us.

The events in the game series start towards the end of season three of the TV show and conclude just before the beginning of season five. The game will unfold from multiple points of view, like the TV series, with five different playable characters (either direct family members, or a person in service to House Forrester). Telltale explains these characters will be scattered across Westeros and Essos and that the actions of one character can ripple out and impact the rest of House Forrester.

Telltale promises additional details are coming, although stopped short of confirming a release date (the premiere “will be arriving for download soon”). Telltale’s Game of Thrones will be available on PC/Mac, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and iOS, with additional platforms to be announced.

Telltale released the first official image hinting at the look of the game yesterday following a series of three cryptic teasers that began in late August.

Avalanche Studios Just announced it's new game...

Just Cause 3!

The third game in Avalanche Studios' open-world action series, is coming to PC, PS4, and Xbox One next year.

Game Informer revealed the game as part of its December cover story, which places the game in the Mediterranean. It will feature "vastly improved parachute and grapple mechanics," as well as the same strong focus on crazy physics and mayhem.

GamerGate?! Episode 29 Is live now

GamerGate?! Episode 29

Throwback Thursday's with Rick Ep.1

So I know Kids these days like to do ‪#‎TbT‬... Heck, I've even been caught up in it.. So I decided to start Throwback Thursday's with Rick, Where I play some good old fashion Retro/Arcade games!
So Welcome to the First ThrowBack Thursday! ‪#‎TbTArcade‬
This week I try out 4 Game's some Work some don't Some make me go WHY?!?!?!

Where every Thursday I Try out a new and old school Arcade Games.

Have Game request?! Let me know in the commutes

PS4 Share Play Blocked for Advanced Warfare?!

The PlayStation 4 edition of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare blocks Share Play functionality, GameSpot can confirm.

Internal tests at GameSpot show that Activision has marked all gameplay footage as censored, which does not affect the owner's console, but ensures that gameplay cannot be streamed to another user.

Activision's block on Share Play functionality comes little more than a week after Sony claimed the feature would work on all games. It marks the latest setback for Sony, following weeks of major network and update problems.

Share Play allows two PS4 owners to play the same single copy of a game over the Internet. The owner is designated as the host, and can stream gameplay footage to a guest console. The host can relinquish control of the game to the guest too, effectively giving another user the chance to play without paying.

While Share Play is limited to sixty minutes per session, users can return to the mode immediately after the time ends. There is no cap on Share Play sessions either, meaning that a game can effectively be shared indefinitely.


When the concept was presented during a media briefing in late October, Sony was questioned by GameSpot about whether all third-party publishers were on board with the system.

At the time, Sony representatives told GameSpot that Share Play works across all PS4 games. When asked whether publishers could opt-out, the representatives suggested that there was no existing option to do this.

When asked to clarify on the matter further, the representatives offered an unequivocal indication that Share Play will work on all released PS4 games, providing they do not need an additional peripheral.

However, built into the system is a "censor" option for publishers, which was intended to circumvent spoilers being revealed to a guest console. Though it was thought this censor would be limited to certain scenes only, Activision appears to have extended it across an entire game.

Representatives for Sony and Activision were unable to comment at the time of going to press.

Update: Sony has issued GameSpot with statement clarifying that not all games will work with Share Play.

A representative for the company said: "Share Play is a system level feature enabled by System Software Update 2.0 making it available for all PS4 titles, however the option is available to developers to disable the feature according to what they feel will best benefit the consumer experience." Update ends.

Thanks To GameSpot for the Update!!

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be receiving sixteen! DLC packages

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be receiving sixteen! DLC packages, free of charge across all platforms.

Marcin Iwiński, CEO of Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt RED, has penned a rallying, pro-consumer statement around the announcement.

"As gamers, we nowadays have to hold on tight to our wallets, as surprisingly right after release, lots of tiny pieces of tempting content materialize with a steep price tag attached," said Iwiński. "Haven’t we just paid a lot of cash for a brand new game?

"As CD PROJEKT RED, we strongly believe this is not the way it should work and, with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, we have decided to do it differently. Cutting to the chase, everyone who buys Wild Hunt will receive 16 specially prepared DLCs absolutely for free, regardless of platform. You don’t have to pre-order, you don’t have to buy any special edition to get them -- if you own a copy of Wild Hunt, they’re yours. This is our way of saying thank you for buying our game."

Retro Game of the Week

Digging deep into your childhood it's Retro Game of the Week! This week it is The Adventures of Batman and Robin for the SNES! This game, based of the amazing cartoon series Batman: The Animated Series, placed you in the boots of the caped crusader and his young ward as they battle their way through Gotham.

Some people are getting banned from Smash Bros. for 136 years...

If you do something against the rules in Super Smash Bros. for 3DS, you could get banned … for more than a century.

Players are reporting bans in excess of 71.5 million minutes in the latest four-player fighting game from Nintendo. This is likely a bug that is inflating legitimate bans. You can get locked out of online multiplayer if you target one player over everyone else or if you quit early. I've personally had one instance where the game banned me for 2 minutes for accidentally quitting a match early. But I've never seen anything like this:

Nintendo's president hints at an end to region-locking

Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS are the last of the current platforms to be region-locked, causing plenty of frustration for Western fans of titles that haven't or won't see release in their markets. In a Q&A with investors, according to a translation, company president Satoru Iwata indicated a willingness to rethinking the policy.

To be sure, according to the translation (via Zelda Informer), Iwata lays some of the decision to region-lock at the feet of publishers. He noted that "region-locking has existed due to circumstances on the sellers' side rather than for the sake of the customers." This is because of issues of licensing, localization and marketing, all of which involve money.

"As for what should be done going forward, if unlocked for the benefit of the customers, there may also be a benefit for us. Conversely, unlocking would require various problems to be solved, so while I can't say today whether or not we intend to unlock, we realize that it is one thing that we must consider looking to the future."

Of course, region-locking also meant that Western customers couldn't import Super Smash Bros. on 3DS and play it before their localized release three weeks later. In any event, any action on region locking is probably a long ways off, and would at least require some new hardware release. The New Nintendo 3DS just launched in Japan and should arrive in North America and Europe in 2015.