Weekly Recap Dec 1st: Wii Mini Launching, Bungie Details Destiny, Dirty Bomb Announced

Despite launching the Wii U during November, Nintendo has already set their sights on another way to capitalize on the casual crowd by dropping the original Wii down to $100 and selling it as a Wii Mini. Those of you who have been wondering what Bungie has been up to over the past couple of years after departing from Microsoft, you'll find that they've been working on a little something, something called Destiny and they let loose some new details on the project this week. And Splash Damage, the makers of the high-concept, poorly executed FPS game Brink, has returned to the gaming scene to announce their latest title Dirty Bomb, which is yet another free-to-play, MOFPS. These stories and more in this December 1st, 2012 edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap.

Sunday

Bioshock Infinite Will Not Have Multiplayer Ken Levine makes it known that the upcoming shooter will focus entirely on the story and single-player journey.

Peter Molyneux Doesn't Think He'll be Alive Much Longer Not much to see here folks, move it along.

Sledgehammer Hiring For Call of Duty For Xbox 360, PS3 Yet another one is in the works. No surprises here.

Bridge It, Bridge Simulator Arrives on Steam Greenlight The game lets you build your very own bridges and deconstruct, crush or blow them up as you please.

Time Polls Users To Include Angry Birds In All-Time Top 100 Video Game list Does it deserve a spot?

Wii Mini Launching On December 7th? The rumors have spurred but is it too soon?

Monday

Awesomenauts Full Digital Available For iOS, Android Get the best advice, the most awesome hints and all the info you need thanks to a new digital guide from XBLA Fans.

Air Conflicts: Pacific Carriers Launching In December A sequel to Air Conflicts: Secret War.

Dynasty Warriors 7 Empires Invades Store Shelves February Exclusive to the PS3, Dynasty Warriors 7 will launch early next year.

Syberia 3 Coming To Consoles, PC in 2015 Microids is turning the Kate Walker franchise into a trilogy.

Gearbox Explains Why Borderlands 2 Wasn't Wii U It wasn't because Gearbox thought the Wii U wears technological underpants that's two sizes too small.

MLB 13 The Show Lets Fans Choose Cover Athlete Get involved in the game with the contest to choose the cover athlete for MLB 13.

Fallout Lanius Reaches Fundraising Goal, Teaser Video Released The fan-made Fallout project hits its goal and goes into full production.

Tuesday

Ace Combat Assault Horizon Coming To Steam In 2013 One of the best arcade flight sims is heading to Steam next year.

Hitman 6 Might Not Star Agent 47 What? Is it possible? Hitman might turn into Assassin's Creed?

Ozone Rage Series Headsets Announced These things are pretty cheap to offer such high quality features.

Primordia Demo Now Available Grab the demo for free, right now, and check out one of the best retro adventure titles out there.

Labyrinth Legends Dives Deep Onto PSN December 18th A new title for PSN gamers will arrive mid-month.

PointMMO Giving Away World of Warplanes Beta Keys If you want to get in on the action you can grab one of the 5,000 keys made available to the public.

Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus Hits, Kicks and Throws On PSN In just under a week you'll be able to play the game on your PS3.

Wii Mini $100 Exclusive to Canada...For Now For only $100 it's almost too good to pass up.

Wednesday

Patent Can Make MMOs Even More Massive A new patent from the people who brought you Utherverse wants to make the 3D space that much more immersive.

Interview with composers behind Mass Effect: Paragon Lost Find out what the two composers behind the upcoming animated film think about working on the score.

Miasmata Steam Greenlight Game Now Available The two-man indie title is now available on Steam.

Hawken Uses SpeedTree Well, at least we know they didn't have to waste a lot of money on trees.

Diablo 3 Patch 1.0.6 Now Live, Patch 1.0.7 Details Coming Soon Diablo 3 now sports some new features and updates.

Bungie Says Destiny Aims To Be As Deep As Star Wars New concept art also follows with brand new details on the highly anticipated game.

Injustice, Gods Among Us Adds Deathstroke DC's fake version of Deadpool joins the cast of characters.

Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia Limited Edition Detailed Find out what you get in the limited release.

Thursday

APB Reloaded New Breed Part 3 Has Launched Nearly an entire gigabyte worth of updates becomes available for APB Reloaded.

Halo 4 Crimson Map Pack Adds Escalation Mode New modes for new maps. Fans will definitely have a reason to stay excited.

Ravaged DLC Incoming December 20th 2Dawn plans to release new DLC on a regular basis.

Sony Boasts Big PS3 Vita Numbers From Black Friday The company hit it out of the ballpark during Black Friday.

Vita Bundle Offers Free Game, One Year PlayStation Plus A subscription and a free game. Nice.

Fist of the North Star Ken's Rage 2 Hits U.S. On February 5th No need to import...Ken's Rage 2 will be available Stateside.

Dirty Bomb Announced by Enemy Territory Developer The makers of Brink bring you Dirty Bomb...let's hope it's better than Brink.

Friday

Mortal Online Now Free-to-Play Sandbox gameplay never looked so....brutally unwelcoming.

Steam Greenlight Adds 13 Games To Steam And here ladies sand gentlemen are the candidates who made the cut.

Arctic Combat Beta Codes Up For Grabs Webzen is handing out a nice cache of codes for those willing to check out the upcoming beta.

Walking Dead Survival Instinct Stars Norman Reedus, Michael Rooker The TV show's stars will be lending their likeness and voices to the upcoming game from Activision.

The Last Nintendo Power Cover Pays Tribute To First Issue It's only fitting that the the whole thing ends where it starts.

Assassin's Creed Anthology Now Available For PS3, Xbox 360 All of the games leading up to Assassin's Creed III are in one big bundle pack.

Saturday

Dead Island Riptide Screenshots Drown Palanai In Blood Brand new screenshots have emerged for the upcoming Riptide sequel to Dead Island.

Publishers and Consumers Want More of the Same, Not Innovation Stick Skills takes a look at the complicated landscape of consumerism in gaming and the way publishers are responding.

Electronic Theatre In-Depth Review: Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper Find out if Tecmo Koei's latest game is worth the plunge or if it's worth skipping altogether.

Don't Far Cry 3 For Me, Patchantina PC Patch 1.01 Fixes A Lot Some major 'ole fixes are inbound for the PC version of Far Cry 3.

In-Depth Review: Family Guy Multiverse Find out if the TV show translated well over into the world of video games.

That wraps up this edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap. What's a good way to round out the week? With a trailer of course. And what's a good trailer? How about the very stealthy trailer for Splinter Cell: Blacklist. Check it out below.

Will Usher

Staff Writer at CinemaBlend.