Weekly Recap June 1st: Xbox One Controversy, PS4 Abandons DRM, Massive Chalice Announced

The week ends on a high note despite all the controveries surrounding Microsoft's recently announced Xbox One home entertainment device. Sony has reiterated claims they made a while back, ensuring that used games are playable on the PS4 and no DRM will be attached. This spurred a host of victory cries from within the community who rallied together to show their appreciation to Sony for retaining integrity within the gaming industry. Thank you Sony, you are all elegant peers of a noble company. And Double Fine is back at it again for their Kickstarter of Massive Chalice. These stories and more in this June 1st, 2013 edition of the Gaming Weekly Recap.

Sunday

Xbox One Always Kinect Twisted Nightmare Says Germany's Federal DPC Things just don't seem to be getting better for MS.

Awesomenauts Adding Psychic Girl Ayla A new character joins the cast with some sleek psychic powers.

Xbox One Won't Have Cloud or Digital Backwards Compatibility Well, it could be worse...right...right?!

Final Fantasy XIV Realm Reborn Release Date Set For August Square finally puts a release stamp on the redone and reborn XIV MMO.

Xbox One Region Locked No big surprise here.

DayZ Standalone Closed Alpha Underway, Pricing Details Discussed Dean “Rocket” Hall discusses the schedule for the standalone release of DayZ.

Epic Games VP Says Xbox One, PS4 Being Ahead of PC Is Bullcrap Well, of course it is.

76% of Gamers Disappointed With Xbox One, According to IGN Poll More of the same 'ole, same 'ole in the world of hatin' on the FailBox One.

Naissancee Brings Geometrical Horror to Life With Crazy New Trailer It's a real head trippy kind of game and feels like some sort of French-noir horror film designed by a certified architect.

Monday

Mega Man X Coming to Wii U This week, he arrives in all his Blue Bomber glory.

Microsoft Disables Comments on Xbox One Videos Following the harsh criticisms leveled at the company after the interviews broke, things went right downhill for Microsoft and the Xbox One media campaign.

EA Shelves Fight Night, Makes UFC Games Well, this means we won't be getting any more Fight Night games until EA has milked and milked the UFC good...real good.

Former EA CEO Says PS4, Xbox One Always-On DRM Will Not Succeed in the Long Term John Riccitiello has a few things to say about the next-gen consoles...not all good, either.

Gunpoint Brings Tactical Espionage Gameplay To Steam This was a game worth watching from way back before and it's now finally going to be made available on Steam.

Rayman Legends Coming to PS Vita Ubisoft's legendary Rayman game will arrive on Sony's portable device.

7 Days to Die Wants to Mix DayZ With Minecraft Build, craft and survive zombie hordes in 7 Days to Die.

Xbox One, PS4 Leaker Threatens To Leak Damaging Info If He's Arrested Well, he managed to get arrested but let go on bond.

Counter-Strike Global Offensive Overwatch Lets Players Enforce Rules By enforcing rules we're talking about some straight-up ban-hammer type stuff.

Review: Jacob Jones & Bigfoot Mystery Find out if the game is worth picking up for your PS Vita.

Tuesday

Xbox One Kinect Surveillance Device Says Australia's Civil Liberty Director You can't turn the darn thing off and you can't escape...it's like Hal.

Urban Assault Launches Android iOS For Free Ride through neighborhoods like GTA and shoot the living crap out of stuff.

Halo Bootcamp Confirmed By Microsoft No “inaccurate” or “incomplete” reporting this time.

Curiosity: What's Inside The Cube Actually Had Life-Changing Prize I'm not going to life, it's pretty impressive being granted the title of “king” over a god game. Well done, Molyneux, you did not disappoint.

Report: DLC Makes Just As Much Money As Used Game Sales You know how used games have been demonized by the gaming journalists? Well, it's not as bad as you think.

Chaos Online Launches As Free-to-Play MOBA The multiplayer battle arena title is now up and out for North American gamers.

Endless Space Getting Disharmony DLC This Summer Some brand new DLC for the 4X strategy title, Endless Space.

Just Cause 2 Multiplayer Beta Getting Faction Wars Game Mode Just Cause 2 turns into an open-world version of Battlefield 3.

Xbox One Kinect Can See You In The Dark, Microsoft Says Not To Worry Well, of course not. There's no reason to worry, Dave. The situation is completely under Microsoft's control.

Xbox One Pre-Orders Set Sales Record For Blockbuster In a surprising twist in news, the Xbox One sets a sales record for pre-orders at Blockbuster.

Wednesday

Real Boxing Steps Into The Ring On Vita This August One of the most revered games for mobile phones will arrive at the end of summer for the Vita.

Borderlands 2 Tiny Tina DLC Gameplay Video Released It's a nice play on the Dungeons & Dragons setup made to take full advantage of all those sweet, sweet guns.

Penny Arcade Defends Xbox One Used Game Fees This is probably one of the sadder times of video game media being...well...vidya gaem jurnol1sts.

TotalBiscuit Supports Xbox One Used Game Fee The total halibut goes devil's advocate in this piece.

Uncharted Waters Online Sets Sail For Korea Morning Update Check out the newly implemented Korean peninsula in UWO.

Company of Heroes 2 Interview: Cris Velasco Talks Sega, THQ, Soundtrack Release The man behind Company of Heroes 2's music talks openly about design.

Sony President Responds To PS4 Twitter Movement; NeoGaf Ramps Up Remonstration They're doing it, they're getting there and Kaz is listening!

Shadow Warrior Classic Free On Steam The original game that made Lo Wang famous is now available for free on Steam.

Microsoft Giving Away 250 Tickets To Xbox One E3 Conference They want to make it up to you guys...they really do. Here's some free swag...now hand over all your rights as a consumer!

E3 2013 Majesco Unveils Their Game Line-Up Casual games galore fill out Majesco's line-up. Not to worry, maybe they'll have something for core gamers, too.

Thursday

Poor People Need Games, Too, Says Francis The Nerd On Xbox One Fees Well why can't poor people play? They're humans, too...well, more or less.

PS4 Was Designed For Gamers First, Says Sony President Thank goodness Kaz has not only a handsome but smart head on his shoulders. Good going, good guy Kaz.

Infinite Crisis Joins MLG Family, Showing Off Goods At E3 The MOBA title will be finding itself as part of the eSports competitive rink.

Used Games Aren't The Problem, Poor Decision-Making Is, Says Michael Pachter Can't argue with the man here.

EA Removes Online Pass Requirements For Older PS3, Xbox 360 Games Every once in a while, Satan's cup of water spills for the guests of hell.

Ace Attorney Phoenix Wright Trilogy HD Hits iPhone, iPad The popular mystery game from Capcom finally arrives on mobile phones and tablets.

E3 2013: Tecmo Koei Unveils Their Game Line-Up Rehash, sequel, rehash...sound about right?

Friday

Take Two CEO On Xbox One Used game Fees: We Should Get Paid, Too That was part of the plan...or at least we hope?

PS4 DRM Movement Gets Support From More Than 170 Websites A nice little boost for the NeoGafers throwing down and kicking butt to help save the gaming industry!

Double Fine Announces Massive Chalice Their second game to head to Kickstarter following their upcoming adventure point-and-click title.

74.83% Of Gamers Prefer PS4 To Xbox One In IGN Pre-E3 Poll The gamers have spoken and in an overwhelming landslide, many gamers prefer the PlayStation 4 over the Xbox One.

The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing Gets Free DLC New instance zones to run around in and it's all available for free.

It's Official: The PS4 Will Not Feature Used Game DRM Like Xbox One Sony

Hardware Shipbreakers Brings Next-Gen Planetary Scavenging to PC A cool new RTS where you scavenge planets and fight off intruders.

My Ex-Boyfriend The Space Tyrant Brings Gay Adventure To Steam's Greenlight Gay adventures in space...for Steam. Yeah, they went there, so what?

Walking Dead, Sam & Max Headline Humble Telltale Bundle Some of the best of TellTale's work gets promoted with some sleek sales for their games.

BroForce Brings Together 1980s Action Heroes In Co-op Shooter All your favorites, from Arnold to Stallone and everyone else in between. Man, he also needs to add Michael Dudikoff and Don “The Dragon” Wilson to the mix.

Saturday

Skyrim Legendary Edition Guide Is 1,100 Pages Long The Bible of Skyrim is now available...Fus Ro Dah, mofos, Fus Ro Dah.

Last of Us' Ashley Johnson Talks About Playing Ellie One of the stars behind the upcoming game talks about her experience as the character.

Forbes' Erik Kain Supports The Deth of Used Game Sales TotalBiscuit is one persuasive fellow.

Poor People Need Games Too, Says Francis The Nerd On Xbox One Fees Cutting out poor people certainly doesn't help grow the industry.

PS4 Was Designed For Gamers First, Says Sony's President They want people 0

The Only TVs For Xbox One At E3 Will Be Used To Show Games Well this is great news, great news indeed. No more talk about watching TV on your TV because the Xbox One lets you watch TV on your TV.

That wraps up this edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap. You can check out the new trailer for Monster Hunter 4 below. Enjoy!

Will Usher

Staff Writer at CinemaBlend.