With GamesCom 2010 having come and gone, gamers are left to ponder over some of the ridiculous news that left some fanboys with scrambled brains. For instance, EA introduced a HALO trailer for the PS3 and Xbox 360 for Dead Space 2, which sent many-a-fanboy in a raged-out attitude shortly following the news that EA would be bringing Mass Effect 2 to the PlayStation 3. More good news came for the Sony camp when Sony and Insomniac games released a super-cool live-action debut trailer for the third Resistance game, and RTI and NASA grabbed up some weekend attention with the announcement of their Mindshift controller for the Xbox Kinect, PS Move and Nintendo Wii. These stories and more in this August 21st, 2010 edition of the Game Blend Weekly Recap.
Sunday
Clash of the Titans The Videogame Review. It’s about as bad as the movie adaptation…ouch.
GUNNAR Talks Nintendo 3DS, Active Shutter 3D and More. Check out how the company is already prepared for autostereoscopy.
LucasArts Talks Making Heroes And Villains in Force Unleashed 2 Starkiller goes from bad guy to semi-good guy.
STALKER 2 Coming in 2012. Oh really? Click the link for more details.
RAGE Release Date Announced. Finally, Borderlands gets a companion.
Monday
Crysis 2 Release Date Multiplayer Screenshots Revealed. Two birds with one supercharged, physics-based bullet? I think so.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Has Zombie Co-op. I mean, really, it’s just not a shooter game anymore without co-op zombie modes.
Red Faction Battlegrounds Announced. What could this be? A little something-something for both Xbox and PS3 fans.
LittleBigPlanet 2 Beta Coming Soon. And let the drool start dribbling…but not on the dang keyboard.
Nintendo Downloads: Space Trek 3D, Mahjong, Divergent Shift. A bunch of no-name titles to fill out your download queue.
Lost Planet 2 Coming to PC In October; Benchmark Preview Available. Good news for PC games, but find out if your PC is up to snuff to run the game.
Star Wars The Old Republic Dev Diary Tackles Music. Because music bridges the story to your soul…or something like that.
EA Sports MMA Light Heavyweights Announced. You already found out which heavyweights were making the cut, now it’s time to find out which lightweight fighters will cut the custard in EA’s MMA.
Front Mission 3 Getting Re-Released For PSP and PS3. Double Square Enix news, with this and the item below definitely giving fans something to talk about.
Square Enix’s Gun Loco Coming Exclusively to Xbox 360 in 2011. All right, here it is…the news that will cause all the console flamewars to spark up once more.
Tuesday
StarCraft II Name Change Service On The Way. Because that’s what fans have been asking for?
F.E.A.R. 3 Delayed. Wow, that comes close on the heels of its release.
Halo Reach Xbox 360 Slim Sounds Unveiled. Yes, this Xbox 360 has its own series of sounds, even though that in itself sounds ridiculous.
World of Warcraft Cataclysm Collector’s Edition Announced. As if you don’t already spend oogles of money on WoW, here is yet another reason to jump back in.
Halo Reach ViDoc: A Spartan Will Rise. Get a glimpse into the family of Spartans in the new ViDoc.
GamesCom 2010 Mass Effect 2 Coming To PS3. Oh, fanboys rejoice!
GamesCom 2010 Age of Empires Online And Microsoft Flight Announced. Looks like M$ is finally diving deep into the MMO arena.
GamesCom 2010: Resistance 3, Ratcher and Clank All 4 one Announced. Another big news item from this year’s GamesCom.
GamesCom 2010: Virtua Tennis 4 Announced, Supports PS Move and 3D. If you have a $3,000 HD-3DTV you can play the game in 3D, woot!
GamesCom 2010: 160 GB, 320 GB PS3 Models Announced. Pricing plans now rivaling that of Microsoft…nice.
GamesCom 2010: Crysis 2 Gets Limited Edition and Nano Edition; Xbox 360 Multiplayer Beta Coming Soon. So much news, so little time to fit it all within the headline.
GamesCom 2010: Warhammer 40K Dawn of War II Retribution Coming in 2011. Fans of the popular RTS can get in on some more of it with some additional game content.
Realtime Worlds Cuts Workforce And Nearly Bites The Dust. it’s as bad as it sounds.
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 460 AMP! Edition Beegs Up Gaming Graphics. A fancy new card with some fancy specs.
GamesCom 2010: Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Limited Edition Details and Screenshots. It’s sad EA took the series back a step, but you still might want to find out what the Limited Edition contains.
Rumor: Star Wars The Force Unleashed III Cancelled. The second game isn’t even out yet, but LucasArts is reportedly already pulling the plug.
GamesCom 2010: Portal 2 Gets Release Date; Stephen Merchant. Get the latest details on the highly awaited game that’s also not getting gimped in its PS3 port.
Assassin’s Creed The Fall; Comic Coming In November. Additional details available on the comic that follows the league of Assassins.
Fable III Xbox 360 Controller Hits Stores October 5th. One of the ugliest controllers I’ve seen in a long time…but someone might like it.
StarCraft II Patch 1.03 Released. Find out what additional details have become available in the latest patch.
GamesCom 2010: Jagged Alliance Online Releasing in 2011. This is pretty big news for fans of the old-school strategy game.
Final Klondike Everyman Challenge Has PS3, Wii 50’ HDTV Up for Grabs. That’s certainly enough to make me check out the contest.
HALO Featured In PS3 And Xbox 360 Trailer for Dead Space 2. Yes, HALO is for the PS3…simple as that.
Thursday
Battlefield Bad Company 2 VIP Map Pack 6 Released. New maps ripe and ready for some deathmatch fragging.
Top Gun 2 Already on its way to iPhones. Paramount is releasing an HD sequel for mobile gamers.
Free-to-Play Lord of the Rings Online Gets Release Date. Find out when you can engage in some free-to-play action for Lord of the Rings Online.
Realtime Worlds Still Supporting APB Despite Financial Woes. Good news for all you people who have been laying down cash for this game.
Castlevania Lords of Shadow Release Date Announced. After witnessing the stunning new Prophecy trailer, it’s time to find out when you can actually play the game.
GamesCom 2011 Dates Announced. Maybe this time you’ll be ready to make the hop to Cologne, Germany.
Tales of Pirates Server Data Being Transferred to Tales of Pirates II Get ready for a visceral upgrade.
Castle Crashers PS3 Release Date Unveiled. What was once a popular XBLA title will now become a popular PSN title.
Call of Duty Black Ops Will Have Mod Support And Dev Consoles. Looks like Activision wants gamers to get creative with their latest military FPS.
WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2011 Release Date Is Set; New Details Revealed. More than 70 superstars and divas will be playable, along with a bunch of other nifty sports entertainment gimmicks.
Friday
GamesCom 2010: Risen II Announced. The action-RPG sequel was announced at this year’s event in Cologne, Germany. Check out some of the first details released on the game.
GamesCom 2010: Jagged Alliance 2 Reloaded Coming Next Year. One of the very best strategy games of all time is getting re-released.
Primal Wireless Headsets Now Available For PC And Xbox 360. Don’t worry about disturbing neighbors with this snazzy headset.
Star Wars Clone Wars Adventures Open Beta Begins. Get a taste of the game…for free.
GamesCom 2010: nail’d Screenshots For Xbox 360 and PS3. Beautiful new environments are on display in a new set of screens.
DJ Hero 2 Release Date Revealed. Grind some new tunes with funky beats in the upcoming sequel.
Thrustmaster Unveils 8 New Devices for Epic Mickey, TRON, Fairies And Cars. A smorgasbord of gaming accessory goodness is let loose by Thrustmaster.
Mafia II Song List Announced. And a beefy song list it is…check out some of the classics featured in the game.
GamesCom 2010 Warhammer 40k Space Marine Trailer and Screenshots. Bloody violent Space Marines let loose on galactic-Goblin despots.
Sims 3 Late Night Art Goes Twilight. Because everyone wants to get in on that gosh awful Twilight craze.
Rock Band 3 Song List Revealed. Newbies but goodies, oldies but favorites and all things in between make the cut in the extended song list for RB3.
Saturday
THQ Announces DLC for Red Faction Battlegrounds. Even though it’s not out yet, THQ has big plans for Red Faction Battlegrounds.
Mafia Free With Mafia II Pre-Order. Two for the price of one…never anything wrong with that, unless somehow Larry King had a clone and you had to get married to both of them. Yikes.
New Costumes and Music Tracks Unleashed for Shank. The fans of XBLA games take a look at the new DLC for the hard-boiled action game, Shank.
No Multiplayer for BioShock Infinite? Looks like 2K is taking a step backward with their upcoming BioShock title.
RTI and NASA to Unveil Mindshift Controller for Xbox Kinect, Wii and PS Move. How will it work and what does it do? Click the link to find out.
Respawn Entertainment’s First Game Still Undetermined. They just can’t seem to figure out what they want to make.
Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 DLC, The Sacrifice, Announced. New content is on the way for both of Valve’s uber popular FPS titles.
That wraps up this edition of Game Blend’s Weekly Recap. We have a gameplay walkthrough of the upcoming espionage, underwater shooter, Hydrophobia, below. Be sure to check it out on your way out.
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