Weekly Recap Jan 4th: Gamers Welcome 2014, Marvel Games Gone, Wii U Outsells Xbox One?

A snapshot of the Wii U versus Xbox One sales comparisons showed that Nintendo's little console that could is still packing a mean punch on the sales charts. Disney and Marvel get serious about publishers and distributors licensing their games and pull the plug on a whole lot of digitally distributed titles with licensed Marvel characters in them, and gamers come out of a very turbulent 2013 in order to welcome 2014 with open arms... hopefully.

We also have up some new reviews, some insightful commentary that looks forward about upcoming titles throughout the year – many of which have already gain favorable laud – and plenty of game trailers released throughout the week that you may have missed. We have all of this, tons of things in between and more in 2014's very first edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap.

Sunday

DayZ Tops Steam Charts Two Weeks In A Row Bohemia Interactive's zombie-survival game is making waves early on in its lifespan.

Mighty No. 9 Female Hero 'Call' Final Appearance Revealed After a lot of controversy we finally get to see the final design of the female hero in the upcoming Kickstarted game, Mighty No. 9.

Xbox One, PS4 Sold 1,000 Units Per Minute On Amazon During the peak buying hours the PS4 and Xbox One were selling out like hot cakes.

PS4 Units Back In Stock, Now Available For Pre-Order From Amazon Japan The beast from the east continues to dominate the pre-order charts, even for pre-orders in Japan.

Can You Use An Xbox One or PS4 With An SDTV? Short answer: no. Long answer: nope.

Gran Turismo 5, Resistance Online Multiplayer Shutting Down MAG and SOCOM are also going kaput.

GTA Online Money Exploit Fixes Incoming, Best Player Missions Announced Rockstar still has a lot of work ahead of them for GTA Online.

Monday

Best Games of 2013: Pete's A Filthy Hipster Gaming Blend's Pete Haas avoids the big AAA titles and settles for more indie fanfare.

Xbox One Controller Modded For Disabled Gamers If you have only one hand (or access to only one hand) you should check out this new controller from Ben Heck.

Gaming Column: My Family Suddenly Becomes Full-Time Gamers Ryan Winslett offers up a unique holiday experience with his family.

Halo 5 Hoax Site Preps Fake Announcement For Xbox One The site behind a bunch of fake viral scams is prepping for a fake Halo 5 announcement.

Perfect World Bringing MMORPGs to Consoles More free-to-play MMOs are set to arrive for Sony and Microsoft's newest consoles.

Halo Spartan Assault Review: Xbox One Gets A Good Halo Game It may be a top-down shooter but it's supposedly a darn good one.

War Thunder Rolls Out Phase Two Closed Tanks Beta More ground-assault goodness invades the War Thunder universe.

Wii U Gamepad Hacked To Stream PC Games This is a real fine accomplishment by hackers. Check out the full article for the rundown of what they were able to stream and play on the Wii U's Gamepad.

Tuesday

Xbox One OS Update Rumored To Bring Great Things Or will it?

Titanfall Snipers Won't Be Invincible Respawn puts some things in place to keep snipers from being all-powerful.

Nintendo eShop Offers Super Punch Out, Dr. Luigi New titles invade Nintendo's eShop.

Guacamelee Coming To PS4, Xbox One The fighter platformer will make the jump from seventh gen to eighth gen.

NBA 2K14 Always-On DRM, Microtransactions Get Blasted By Kotaku This kind of scenario deserves all the attention it needs to get and more attention than it's received.

Order of War Always-On DRM Fiasco Shows How Dangerous DRM Is Two DRM articles in a row? We're on a roll.

PS4 Outsells Xbox One UK By 166,000 Units More flamebait for the bean counters. See how your console of choice is either winning or losing, depending on your preference.

Battlefield 4 Mantle Support Delayed Due To Game Bugs, Glitches AMD's Mantle support aimed to be ushered in by the graphical beast, Battlefield 4, gets hit with a delay due to the game's many concurrent bugs.

How To Stream Media From Your PC To Your Xbox One Need help streaming movies and music from your PC to your Xbox One? This helpful guide will help you out.

Wednesday

GTA V Best Online Missions Include Jump Lake, Laguna Seca The custom mission creator has really brought forth a lot of much-needed creativity to flesh out the GTA V experience.

Humble Store Discounts Continue With Encore Sale Grab a few great indie titles at a discounted price right now from the Humble Store.

Fallout Removed From GOG Bethesda owns the rights, so the game is now no longer available from GOG.

Wii U Potentially Outsells Xbox One In Weekly Sales

Batman Arkham Origins Campaign DLC Set In Wayne Manor? New DLC is on the way and it could take gamers to Batman's home territory.

Xbox 360 Games With Gold In January Includes Sleeping Dogs, Guardian of Light Some high-quality titles arrive for those who are sticking with Xbox 360's Games with Gold.

League of Legends Developer: Don't Call Us Greedy The LoL developer takes offense to being called greedy.

Devil's Third Launching For Xbox 360, PS3 in 2014 Another third-party outing to help keep the seventh gen consoles alive and well throughout 2014.

PS4 and Xbox One Back In Stock At Major Retailers The two new gen consoles from Sony and Microsoft are now back in stock at local retailers.

Marvel Games Being Removed From Steam, PSN, Xbox Live Digital versions of Marvel titles are being removed from digital distribution portals.

Over The Moon Holiday DLC Released For Free The game that isn't really a game is getting some brand new DLC... for free!

Thursday

Xbox One Connectivity Issues Caused by Comcast Will Be Patched The issues just keep on popping up.

Project CARS Screenshots Video Feature High Detailed, High Speed Vehicles Project CARS continues to “wow” with some brand new screenshots and video.

Titanfall Won't Support Mods At Launch Another sad reality of the mainstream AAA market.

PlayStation 4 Game of the Year: The Waiting Game Ryan Winslett makes a case for not buying a new-gen console on day-one.

PS4 PlayStation Remix Allows New Content in PSX, PS2 and PS3 Games With the help of Gaikai, the PS4 will not only have backward compatibility but it will add new features to old games.

DayZ Standalone Sells 730,000 Copies The game closes in on the million mark and it's looking very possible.

Steam Indie Game Sales Complex Some titles get more promotion than others and sadly it has hurt some indie devs.

Bravely Default Demo Hits 3DS One of the most talked about games for Nintendo's 3DS finally has an available demo.

Warframe Rated For Xbox One Digital Extremes' third-person shooter could be inbound for Microsoft's latest console.

Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed Launches For iOS, Android Sega unravels the launch for Sonic All-Stars Racing on mobile devices.

Friday

Rockstar: GTA Online's Future Will Be Decided By Players This is either a great thing or a terrible thing. It all depends on how you view MMO-style business structures supported by the player community.

Batman Arkham Origins Campaign DLC: Mr. Freeze Takes over Wayne Manor? Find out some more details on the upcoming DLC for the game.

Most Awesome Steam Game Yet: Woodcutter Simulator 2013 Cut wood like a professional wood cutter.

Steam Ultra Early Access: The Best Way To Buy Games That Don't Exist

2014 Could Be The best Year Of Gaming Yet Ryan Winslett explains why 2014 could be the year of the gamer.

20% Of Steam Users Are Running Windows 8 Now this is startling news. Find out how the breakdown works out and who is running what on Steam.

Saturday

China's Video Game Market hits $13 Billion in 2013 With a lot of help from client-based games and online titles, no doubt.

World of Warcraft Accounts With Authenticators Compromised By Trojan After Blizzard vehemently said it wouldn't happen... it happened.

PS4 Gamers Watch More Porn Than Xbox One Gamers Well that's what the statistics are saying.

Pinball Arcade Rolls out Big Plans in 2014 More tables, more content and more fun to be had with this small, dedicated title.

Fallout 1, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics Removed From Steam But they're coming guys... Bethesda promises!

Halo Spartan Assault Co-op Review Find out how well the game works as a cooperative title on the Xbox One.

That wraps up this edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap. You can check out a rather hilarious video below of the Xbox One failing throughout 2013. Enjoy.