After years of waiting, gamers can finally partake in the recently launched Star Wars: The Old Republic now that EA and BioWare have officially released the game. GSC Game World finally comments on the status of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 and Microsoft says that after 2012 they won't be doing anymore keynote speeches or holding any booths at the Consumer Electronics Show. These stories and more in this December 24th, 2011 edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap.
Sunday
Gran Turismo 5 Car Pack 2 Coming December 20th Free bonus pack and additional cars are on the way.
Enhanced Skyrim UI Mod Available For Keyboard and Mouse Users Play the game the way it was meant to be played on PC.
Shoot Yourself In Max Payne 3 Get your face in Max Payne by following these very simple steps...
Flying The F-35 In Back To Karkand A few lessons in flying the F-35 so you don't do a noob-fail once you hop into the cockpit.
Team Ninja Talk Female Fighters In Dead or Alive 5 It's all about the high kicks, you know? You can't be a good fighter without those high kicks. Mhmm.
Monday
BioWare Addresses Star Wars Republic Queues Well you're waiting to experience greatness, so wait with patience my friend, wait with patience.
Alan Wake American Nightmare Plot Details and Fight Till Dawn Mode Revealed New information and details on the upcoming Alan Wake sequel.
Quantum Conundrum Screenshots have Deadly Lasers, Flying Boxes Portal creator is working on some interesting new things in their upcoming Quantum Conundrum.
Jetpack Joyride Free For A Limited Time This game was so epic back when it was part of the shareware program. Find out how to play it for free after the jump.
SteelWare Online Robot Mech MMO Coming In January An SLG MMO is on the way for browser-based gamers.
GTA III 10 Year Anniversary Edition Review: Give Me Back My Controller Gaming Blend's Pete Haas explains the pros and cons of GTA III on an iPhone.
CES 2012: Nyko Unveiling PS Vita Accessories Soon New accessories are on the way for Nyko's handheld department.
Black Prophecy Rise of the Boid Expansion Released The gorgeous space sim gets a brand new expansion with a ton of new content.
Iron Front Liberation 1944 Vehicles and Soldier Screenshots Best move over Battlefield, a new large-scale warfare game is on the way.
Tuesday
Batman Arkham City Receives Batcave Map, Batman Inc Skin A new map has arrived as well as a really kickbutt new skin.
Touch My Katamari Screenshots, Trailer Released A new trailer and series of screenshots for the upcoming PSV misc-puzzler.
Captain Morgane And The Golden Turtle Arriving February 2012 A new point-and-click adventure title is on the way.
Twisted Metal, Patapon, Hot Shots For PSP Dual Packs Incoming Some famous fan-favorites from Sony are on the way for the PSP.
Humble Indie Bundle 4 Adds Five More Games After generating millions in just a few short days, the Humble Indie Bundle 4 gives you even more bang for your buck.
Devil May Cry HD Collection Official Release Date Announced
Star Wars Republic Launches; Mini-Documentary Released That's it, it's all done...you can play the game right now.
BioWare Considered Game Of Thrones, Lord of the Rings MMO Now I'd buy either of those for a dollar.
Sony Sells 321,000 PS Vitas In Just Two Days All the doomsday talk about the Vita seems to be quelled by the first week sales.
Dragon Age 3 Inspired By Skyrim? It's a possibility and hopefully the right one.
Afterfall Insanity Now Available OnLive You don't need a console or PC to play the new horror-survival title.
Jagged Alliance Back In Action Making Use of Steamworks
DailyMotion App Now Available On Xbox Live Use Kinect to browse through the millions of videos currently available on DailyMotion.
Limbo Arrives On Mac App Store Play the oddly exciting new game on your Mac, right now.
Dead Island Ships Three Million Copies Techland hit a massive milestone with the success of Dead of Island and they're riding through to the Holidays.
Gears of War 3 Fenix Rising Map Pack Introduces Experience System Extra content and experience for those of you who like leveling while blasting stuff in the face.
SSX Delayed By A Few Weeks It's just a minor something, something. But if you want the technical details you'll have to click the link.
Thursday
Kingdoms Amalur Reckoning Developer Diary Previews Combat One of the real highlights of Amalur is the combat system and you can get to see even more of it in the new dev doc.
BioShock Creator: 2011 Year Is A Year To Be Proud Of Because of Skyrim? Partly yeah, but there was more to it than that.
Mac BioShock 2 Surfacing In January Mac is getting a big boost in gaming with the second BioShock game in just a few weeks.
PlayStation Vita Launch Lineup Announced Get a full look at the upcoming games for Sony's new portable.
CES 2012 Is Microsoft's Last Keynote Speech MS is hanging up the boxing gloves for the keynote speeches at the annual CES events.
Unity 3.5 Goes Open Beta, Adds 3D Flash Support Indie devs get even more bang for their buck with the latest Unity release.
PlanetSide 2 Now Accepting Beta Applications Check out SOE's latest new MMO with the upcoming beta. A real open-world MMOFPS....count me in.
Young Gamers Don't Like Spending Money On Cash Shop Items That's what the market research data is saying.
Friday
Korean Games Expected To Exceed $3 Billion USD In Export Sales The South Korean gaming market is exploding like crazy. Watch out EA and Activision.
Activision Accuses EA Of Goading Call of Duty Heads Into Insubordination And they're suing to go along with that accusation.
Blackwell Free-to-Play Horror Survival Game Comes To Unity A different kind of horror-survival game surfaces for PC gamers.
Rift Developer Hacked Some important info may have been compromised.
Madden NFL Taps MLB: The Show Lead Designer As New Creative Director Looks like EA is stealing top talent to make the annual football series slightly better.
Star Wars The Old Republic Getting Flashpoint, Expanded Operation This January Just a few short weeks away and new content is already being planned for the recently released MMO,
Unit 13 Gameplay and Co-op Details Unveiled Find out what the new co-op modes are like and how the game will play.
Saturday
STALKER 2 Still In Development; GSC Working To Get The Game Released Good news for S.T.A.L.K.E.R fans.
XBLA Fans Game of the Year Awards Check out the top picks of the year from the niche XBLA website that covers all things Live Arcade.
Saints Row The Third Receives Warrior DLC Play as a medieval knight in the latest Saints Row DLC.
All Zombies Must Die Release Dates Announced Find out when the game becomes available to a wide audience.
Star Wars The Old Republic Racks Up One Million Players EA has already hit the milestone they needed to recoup some of those development costs.
Club Nintendo Gets A Makeover And a well-welcomed makeover it is. Click the link to get a good look at the new Club Nintendo.
That wraps up week's edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap. We round out the week with a new Age of Wulin Qinggong air-combat trailer, which you can check out below. Enjoy.
