Weekly Recap Oct 20th: Halo 4 Endings Leaked, Wii U Child Labor, IGN Auctioned Off

IGN is being auctioned off...it's news that's managed to circulate around quite quickly and now everyone is wondering what's going to happen next? The industry news doesn't stop there, though. Nintendo, one of the good guys of gaming, has come under fire for hopping into bed with Foxconn, a notorious manufacturer who has mistreating employees for some time and was recently linked to child labor charges at a plant that makes the Wii U. CD Projekt RED's Cyberpunk 2077 is the official name of their upcoming RPG based on Mike Podunk's popular series with brand new details released, and Halo 4 gets completely and entirely leaked well before its release. In fact, you can check out the Legendary ending below complete with spoilers. Microsoft and the LIVE Enforcement Team has been working hard to take down these videos but we managed to grab one for you, check it out below. These stories and more in this October 20th, 2012 edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap.

Sunday

Sleeping Dogs DLC Nightmare on North Point Announced United Front Games is working on some Halloween themed content for their popular opne-world shooter.

Metro Last Light Multiplayer Removed So Devs Can Focus On Single-Player For once devs do the right thing.

Halo 4 Legendary Ending Video Reveals Master Chief's Face Oh boy, watch out now...we got some spoilers for you here.

Of Light & Shadow Brings Interesting New Platform Gameplay To Greenlight The game has some neat intermixing of platform gameplay and light physics.

Why On-Disc DLC Is As Bad A Crime As Gamers Make It Out To Be One of the biggest issues in the gaming industry gets a bit of light shed on it.

AT&T To Star Flagging, Blocking Users Who Download Copyright Material Doesn't matter if it's illegal, legal or not. Be prepared for a firestorm of rage.

Halo 4 Officially Leaked To Torrents, Intro Cinematic Released You want to see the intro to Halo 4? Check it out after the jump.

Violent Games Makes Teens More Aggressive, Violent Says Study Well, playing too many games while you're a teen could make you more aggressive...if the games are violent.

Splinter Cell Blacklist Aims For More Realism Over Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes Comparing both games there seems to be that one that edges out the other when it comes to realism.

Monday

Guild Wars 2 Shadow of the Mad King Update Celebrates Halloween Some sexy new updates have arrived for Guild Wars 2.

Interstellar Marines and 20 Other Games Are Greenlit On Steam One of the most anticipated indie titles out there and several other projects finally get greenlit on Steam.

DudeBro II: My Sh*t Got F*cked Up So I got To Shoot/Slice You II: Straight-Up Dawg Time The accompanying video is as ridiculous as the name.

Borderlands 2 Sells 1.8 Million SKUs; Gearbox Has A Winner That means more DLC, more DLC and even MORE DLC. Yeah, we really love DLC don't we?

Riders of Rohan Charge In For Lord of the Rings Online A new expansion has been released for the MMO based on Tolkien's famous books.

Wii Price Drops To $130 Today Finally...The Big 'N' has come back to reality.

MineCraft Xbox 360 Skin Pack 3 Adds half-Life 2, Portal 2 Cast Some Valve love is thrown the way of Xbox 360 MineCraft players.

DayZ Standalone Screenshots Show Some Home Improvements First shots of the standalone give the game a nice, homey feel for when the zombie apocalypse hits.

Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Season Pass Announced, Call of Duty Elite Goes Free Well, I guess Activision milked that goat as much as they could. It's all dried up now.

Deadpool Game Will Feature Domino Some special guest stars are already lined up for the comic-book based anti-hero, action shooter.

Tuesday

Sega Teases Nostalgic Announcement What kind of game could it be? Hopefully something fun and retro.

Far Cry 3 Invading Minecraft Ubisoft is doing something special for PC gamers by including Minecraft goodies into Far Cry 3.

AT&T's Six Strikes Starts November 28th, Costs $35 To Contest Piracy Charges It looks like the RIAA and MPAA have some nice new scheme tactics to rape your wallet. Tell your leather money case to open wide.

Project Eternity Raises Nearly $4 Million On Kickstarter Way to go Obsidian, now make a great game guys!

World of Warcraft Patch 5.1 Arrives For PTR If you're in beta you can test out the new patch.

Project CARS Indy Car Screenshots Look Intense The game just keeps getting better and better.

Halo 4 More Anticipated Than Call of Duty Black Ops 2 After a new research study it appears one shooter game is more anticipated than the other. Surprised?

IGN Entertainment Being Auctioned Off After a long and hard fought battle, News Corp is calling it quits in the hardcore gaming news arena.

Offensive Combat Gets Free Halloween Update Some new costumes, weapons and clothes make the cut.

Win A Year Of Free Mo-Cap Support With iPi Soft's Monthly Contest Film something using iPi's middleware and you could win free motion capture software support for an entire year.

Wednesday

Flightless, Co-op Platforming Game With No Jumping Heads to Greenlight It's one of the most innovative platforming games coming to Steam.

Steam Adds Concept, Software Category To Greenlight You can now pitch concepts free of charge on Greenlight.

Wii U Production Linked To Child Labor Scandal Well now, who would have thought that Nintendo would have been caught in this cookie jar?

IGN Goes Bust, Here Are Five Alternative Gaming News Websites Just as big but not as bad.

Assassin's Creed 3 Proved Challenging Effort To Fit On Xbox 360, PS3 Why? Dated tech, that's why.

SMITE Adds Freya Queen of the Valkyries Yet another character joins the impressive cast of characters to SMITE.

Project Gorgon Kickstarter Is Like A Mini-Elder Scrolls MMO Go anywhere and do anything just like Elder Scrolls with a hint of theme parkism like Everquest and Asheron's Call.

Scribblenauts Unlimited Wii U Gets Some Mario, Zelda Content Nintendo and Warner Bros are collaborating to bring a whole plethora of cool Nintendo themed items to life in one of the most innovative games this generation.

Diablo 3 Patch 1.0.5 Now Live

EA Says Frostbite 2 Is Best FPS Engine Better than Source? Really? I think modders would like to have a word with you EA.

Thursday

Three Dead Zed Puts Players In Control Of Zombies Because we've been wasting way too much time killing them when we should be spending equal amounts of time playing as them.

Firefall Content Being Unveiled By Nathan Fillion, Felicia Day, And More Top geek culture celebs will be unveiling new content for Firefall.

Timber and Stone Kickstarter Mixes Virtual Villagers With Dwarf Fortress A Minecraftian-style RTS is looking for a little extra help on Kickstarter.

Cyberpunk 2077 Is The Name Of CD Projekt's Next RPG We knew they were making a cyber-punk RPG but now the game gets an official name.

Witcher 2 Mac Launch Celebrated With Discounts 3D Projeckt RED was on an announcement spree today, announcing that in addition to the game launching for Mac there are deep discounts available for the PC version of the game as well.

Nintendo Investigating Wii U Child Labor Incident At Foxconn Big news for the Big 'N'. You can read more about the events that unfolded and how Nintendo is investigating the child labor incident at Foxconn.

85% of Social Gamers Quit The First Day Startling (or not so startling) facts about the social scene for casual games. Is this really the future?

How To Suck Less Counter Strike Global Offensive A few tips on not sucking at one of the biggest new FPS launches in recent history. Hope the guide helps.

BioShock Infinite Collector Editions Detailed After a long hiatus, 2K is now back on the rails to promoting one of the biggest games launching next year.

Friday

Publisher Admits On-Disc DLC Makes It Cheaper, Easier To Deliver Content It really has nothing to do with being done on time.

Mak, 3D World Creation Game Heads To Kickstarter Use physics-based design mechanics to build all sorts of crazy cool stuff.

Hardcore Twitch Gamers Will Appreciate Wii U, Says EA If you're into the Call of Dutys and Halos, EA thinks you might like what the Wii U has to offer.

Anarchy Reigns Delivers U.S. Beatdown on January 8th Sega has set the release date. The question is, will you show up for the anarchy?

Quest for Glory Creators Head To Kickstarter, Hero-U: Rogue of Redemption More old-school gaming goodness makes a return on Kickstarter.

Absolute Force Online Announced The game could be like APB meets Battlefield, but it's a little tough to tell based on the cinematic trailer.

007 Legends Gets Skyfall DLC During Movie's Opening Night You get the DLC in time with the movie. Nice.

Saturday

Gangnam Style Just Dance 4 DLC Is Coming It's an extra to the highly popular rhythm dance game.

Super Time Force Preview: Hail to the Dino Chief This is one of the most ridiculously cool games ever, and the preview is definitely worth checking out.0

New Xbox Dashboard Update Removes Support For Facebook, Twitter Well that's just another reason why it's easy to not like the new Xbox Live.

I Shot A Unicorn In Charlie Murder Just To Hear Her Die Well, This is a game that might take you by surprise.

Farming Simulator 2013 Trailer Revealed One of the most badass video game simulators ever gets a new trailer.

Humas Must Answer preview A new overview of the upcoming bullet-hell game.

Co-op International: River City Ransom One of the greatest co-op games ever made gets put under the spotlight by the good folks over at Co-Optimus.

That wraps up this edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap. Below you'll find the official David Fincher directed launch trailer for Halo 4. Enjoy.

Will Usher

Staff Writer at CinemaBlend.