A bunch of new media assets and reveals come out of Capcom's annual Captivate event this year, including a brand new Lost Planet 3. Capcom battles heavily against the Better Business Bureau and the Better Business Bureau seems to be winning. And a bunch of conflicting release dates surface for Rockstar's highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto 5. These stories and more in this April 14th, 2012 edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap.
Sunday
Obsidian: KickStarter Isn't What The Industry Needs, It's What Players Need Chris Avellone explains a lot about KickStarter and Wasteland 2.
Ravaged Weapons And Vehicle Screenshots Released Check out a few of the new weapons and vehicles in the upcoming deathmatch FPS, Ravaged.
Capcom Tells BBB Pair-Play For Xbox 360 Was Never Advertised The evidence is there but Capcom looks to deny it.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 Assassin's Creed Costume Revealed Through Screenshots Check out how the Assassins look in Square-Enix's latest JRPG.
Diablo 3 Launch Site Now Live With Exclusive Content Check out some of the new details for Diablo 3 right now.
Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition Isn't Just A Pretty Face There's more than just a graphical update coming in this game. Check out the list of new features arriving in Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition.
Joe Danger Coming To iOS, Android The game continues to make its rounds on various platforms and devices.
Monday
Halo Modders Form Xitol Softworks, Working On Zone: The Battleground. Guys who used to mod Halo titles for fun are now working on a game of their own.
Ravaged Joins KickStarter To Finalize Development They need just a bit of a extra push to hit that finish line and they're already half-way there as of the writing of this entry.
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition Arriving For PC This August It's going to get ugly in here...for PC gamers...with the stench of death.
First Concept Art Released For Borderlands 2 Mechromancer Check out the first look at the fifth class for Borderlands 2.
Tamer Saga Alpha Testing Gets Underway The new game from PopPace begins alpha testing.
Torchlight 2 Might Launch Right After Diablo 3 This is good news for anyone looking for an extra action-RPG to play that doesn't include always-on DRM.
Gears of War Designer Says On-Disc DLC Is An Ugly Truth Finally, a big-name comes clean about the issue.
Joel McHale And Nintendo Team Up For 3DS Viral Video Check out the new video right here.
No Max Payne 3 Demo Planned Rockstar forfeits any plans to release a Max Payne 3 demo. Either rent it, buy it or go bust.
Capcom Removing On-Disc DLC From PC Version of Street Fighter X Tekken They won't add pair-play but they will be removing certain features.
Shadowrun Returns Adds Mac Version, Riggers As the team racks up more money they'll continue to implement additional features. Seems pretty cool. Check out a look at the behind-the-scenes after the jump.
Wii U Rumored To Launch At $300 It's not too bad a price but still seems a little high if it really is weaker than the Xbox 360 and PS3.
Tuesday
Pachter Calls Gamers Whiny, Says EA Treated Gamers With Respect Pachter has some unkind words for the gaming community at large.
Sony Might Cut, 10,000 Jobs Find out why and from which sectors.
Street Fighter X Tekken Features Pay-2-Win Gems The latest update coming in May will features pay-to-win Gems, yippee.
Mass Effect 3 Patch 1.02 Resurgence DLC Released BioWare released the latest patch for one of the most talked about games this year.
Unity Now Servicing More Than One Million Registered Developers One of the most celebrated game engines this gen makes a major milestone.
Warhammer 40K Dark Millennium MMO Subscription Model Scared Investors One of the reasons the game is no longer an MMO is because investors didn't feel like it would survive as a subscription-based game.
Warhammer Online Wrath of Heroes Open Beta Begins Now The newest Warhammer MMO is currently live and accepting beta registrants.
Dragon's Dogma Screenshots Battle Zombies In A Cave And then they set the zombies on fire and fight a big hairy boss.
GamaSutra Believes There's Hope For THQ Staying Alive Even though the rest of the interwebs doubts them.
Guild Wars 2 Pre-Purchase Now Available Offers Beta Access For Headstart You can pre-purchase now to start playing before anyone else gets to play the game.
Resident Evil 6 Release Date Changes With New Trailer Capcom sets up a new release for the upcoming horror-survival game.
Lost Planet 3 Announced With New Trailer, Screenshots One of the most awesome games this gen gets a sequel, that's right Lost Planet 3 incoming in 2013.
Bulletstorm 2 On Hold Mainly due to piracy and other issues. Check out Epic's full explanation after the jump.
Demon's Souls Going Offline In May Atlus is officially shutting the servers down for the original hard-as-nails RPG that created a phenomenon.
Halo 4 Music Composed By Massive Attack Producer The guy who helped Massive Attack and Portishead get recognized and on the map is now helping compose the music to Halo 4. Yikes.
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Coming This September, Has Working Pair-Play Namco is planning on offering fans as much content as they possibly can without disc-locked content.
Dragon Ball Z Kinect Announced Fight, punch, kick and fireball your way through a brand new, exclusive Xbox 360 Dragon Ball Z game for Kinect.
Dark Souls PC Release Date Trailer Revealed Check out the first gameplay footage of Dark Souls for PC as well as a legit release date.
Bethesda Trademarks Fus Ro Dah From Skyrim Could they be using in some other media property?
THQ: We Can't Afford To Ship South Park RPG Until It's Perfect This is good news for anyone hoping that the product is a grade-A venture and not a rush job.
Quake 4 Being Re-Released For Xbox 360, PC One of the missed gems from earlier this gen is getting a re-release on the same consoles it was originally released on.
Hitman Absolution Professional Edition Revealed Those willing to pour a little extra money into the product will receive a slightly more professional edition of the game.
Capcom Better Business Bureau Rating Drops Due To DLC Fiasco It's finally happened...Capcom is finally feeling the heat from raging gamers.
Thursday
How To Catch A Predator PS3 Edition Goes Viral The name of the guy who catches the predator is laugh-worthy alone.
User Provides Fix For Mass Effect 3 Black Screen Bug Find out how to fix your Mass Effect 3 bug thanks to a user fix.
Capcom X Sega X Namco Project X Zone Details Revealed A super Japanese publisher crossing game with some new details surfacing.
Borderlands 2 Character Customization Features A Bazillion Skins Lots and lots and lots of customization options are present in Borderlands 2.
Molyneux Says Microsoft Had Him In A Creative Cell The creator of Fable finally feels freed from the creative jail-cell known as Microsoft Game Studios.
Star Wars Republic Patch 1.2 Now Live, Explosive Conflict Trailer Released Check out the latest details of the newest patch.
Victory Age of Racing Patch Includes Dashboard, Netcode and Controls Following on BioWare's patch for Star Wars: The Old Republic Vae Victis releases a patch for their free-to-play racing title.
Skyrim Kinect Support Coming To Xbox 360, DLC Announcement Soon Bethesda finally gets around to adding DLC to Skyrim and people will love them for it.
Mega Man X Live-Action Video Shows Off The Power of Capcom Fans Check out a fight between X and Proto-Man in the fan-made video trailer.
March NPD Software Sales Are Down, But Is It Really Schocking? There are only a few good games in March and they happen to get hampered by bad press.
World of Warcraft Mists of Pandaria Beta Expands Again Blizzard invites more gamers to partake in the new expansion for WoW.
Friday
Gamers Rage Over Resident Evil 6 Day-One DLC Pre-Order Bonuses Is the rage justified?
Top Things That Didn't Make it Into Assassin's Creed 3 You might be surprised at what did and did not make the cut.
Journey OST Climbs iTunes' Top 10 Charts Around The World The game's amazing soundtrack just keeps on making waves.
PlanetSide 2 Could Come To Xbox 360, PS3 It's a possibility but given Microsoft's aversion to all things "free" don't be surprised if it never shows up.
Resident Evil 6 Pre-Order Comes With Mercenaries Modes, Maps Retailer exclusive maps help flesh out the pre-order bonuses for Capcom's upcoming horror-shooter.
StarBreeze Says AAA Games Are Too Similar They want to head back to more creative ventures with smaller titles.
CryEngine 3.4 SDK Now Available For Free Build brand new games with the latest in high-end video game development software tools.
Grand Theft Auto 5 Release Date Set For March 9th? Rockstar might be releasing the game early next year...or mid next year or later this year. Oh well, at least GTA V is coming at some point.
Blizzard Sends Out 275,000 Diablo 3 Beta Invites Want to try out Diablo 3 before anyone else? Be sure to grab a beta key.
EA Caught Plagiarizing Warhammer 40K C&C Tiberium Alliances? Maybe or maybe not, you'll just have to look it over and judge for yourself.
Saturday
Is Valve Working on Their Own Next Generation Gaming Tech? Lots of new information points to the answer of 'YES!'
Epic Games China Unleashing Mercenary Ops That mystery game from Epic Games China that's not really Epic Games reveals Mercenary Ops.
Official Achievements For Dragon's Dogma Released Check out the official achievements list for the upcoming RPG.
PAX East: Curb Stomping Punks In Charlie Murder A brutal new beat-e'm-up is on the way for the Xbox Live Arcade.
That wraps up this edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap you can check out the official launch trailer for The Witcher 2: Enhanced Eidtion below. Enjoy.
