Weekly Recap Dec 3rd: GamePro Dies, Sony's Super Smash Bros, Wii U Specs

The parent company of GamePro has finally shut the doors on the long running magazine publication and online service, citing that the economy just wasn't making the long running publication profitable anymore. New information surfaces for Sony's attempt at a Super Smash Bros type game and a Japanese developer leaks specs for the Wii U. These stories and more in this December 3rd, 2011 edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap.

Sunday

MotorStorm RC Coming To PS3, Vita You can take to the dirt with brand new RC machines in the popular franchise.

Battlefield 3 PC Gets 3D Support If you're really into high-end 3D gaming, it's now supported for Battlefield 3.

iodoom3 Source Code Project Underway Improving on an already great game engine.

Sony's Super Smash Bros. Competitor In Development? It's possible. Check out some of the evidence that surfaced.

Ubisoft Gauging Gamer Interest In Call of Juarez Sequel Even if you didn't like the latest game, Ubisoft is planning on making a better sequel.

Monday

Nolan North Doesn't Play Uncharted But His Kids Do At least he's honest.

Irish President Slams Video Games The president of Ireland is on the "hate video games bandwagon", like most other politicians.

Team Fortress 2 Honors MineCraft Designer The guy who became famous for designing a really ugly but awesome game is being honored by Valve.

Portal Bedroom Puts Your Childhood to Shame The length some people will go to in order to stand out...

Batman Arkham City Batcave DLC On The Way If you didn't think there was anything else left for the Bats to do, think again.

Fishing Resort Review: Fun that won't resurrect the Wii I guess it's good that Nintendo was already planning ahead with the Wii U.

Rainbow 6 Patriots Images and Gameplay Details Released Find out more about the conscience driven shooter.

Tuesday

Pink 3DS Bundles Coming Next Month A new Nintendo 3DS bundle is on the way.

Assassin's Creed Jesper Kyd Scoring Music To Heroes & Generals Great news for fans of Jesper Kyd.

Bang Bang Racing Announced For PSN, XBLA, PC A new racing title is on the way for multiplayer enthusiasts.

U4iA Wants To Dethrone Call of Duty, Rival League of Legends The guy who made Call of Duty famous now wants to dethrone it.

Sony Boss Says PSP Confused Gamers If you don't think so, just read the article to find out why he does.

CD Projekt Says Witcher 2 Was Pirated 4.5 Million Times How they come to that conclusion is a little crazy but quite doable.

Jagged Alliance Back In Action Releasing In February 2012 Kalypso media has finally set a release date for the new strategy game.

Bobby Kotick Says EA Won't Benefit From Star Wars: The Old Republic Of course he would say that. Why wouldn't he? He's Bobby Kotick.

Wednesday

Activision Stock Dips; Investors Worry About Lack of Innovation This comes up once again as Activision's finances are put in the hot seat.

Ultima Creator Thinks Consoles Are Doomed Jump on the doom train with Sir Richard Garriot.

Battlefield 3 Sells 8 Million Copies EA is rolling in the big dough now.

Diablo III Book of Cain Coming In December A nice little hold-me-off until the game launches.

Rumor: Ico Creator Leaves Sony Could it be? Is it true? Click the link to the get the full details.

Dragon Age Going Multiplayer? Well if Mass Effect can do it, so can Dragon Age.

Saints Row The Third Stats Are Disturbing It's a real attack of the purple dildo.

Rumor: Resident Evil 6 Set In China Good or bad move by Capcom? You be the judge.

Team Fnatic SteelSeries Mouse, Headset Revealed Check out the new peripherals thanks to the pro gaming team.

Unity Surpasses 750,000 Registered Developers Supporting the community and moving development forward at an affordable price.

Thursday

Elder Scrolls V Skyrim Creation Kit Coming January, Update Fix Patch 1.2 More updates and fixes for the game that many believe will be GOTY.

Jonah Hill, Sam Worthington Return For Modern Warfare 3 Trash Talk Trailer It's more like Jonah Hill owning up on Sam Worthington. But okay.

GamePro Magazine Website Closes Down After 22 Years Unbelievable....un-be-freaking-believable. Click the link to find out WHY it closed down, though.

Daily Wishlist Giveaway Begins On Steam Win games just by adding them to your wishlist.

Tribes Ascend Team Deathmatch Added To CBT Additional patches and fixes to the gameplay have been made as well.

South Park RPG Coming To PS3, Xbox 360

NeverDead Release Date Set For February 3rd You'll now know exactly when you can get never-dead.

UFC Xbox Live Delayed No access to UFC just yet.

Tales Runner Shutting Down In North America It just wasn't quite cutting the custard, so qPotato cut it.

Friday

Rumor: Wii U System Specs, 3ghz Quad-Core, 768mb Of RAM

Planet Xbox 360 Says Battlefield 3, Modern Warfare 3 Tie With Graphics, Sound Ahahaha...hahaha.

Zelda Skyward Sword First Week Sales Nears 200k In Japan Beating out Call of Duty in Japan...Nintendo for the win.

Master Chief, Cortana Change in Halo 4 343 is doing a little bit of overhauling to the Chief and Cortana in the latest Halo.

Tt eSports Softball Theron Gaming Mouse Announced Play hard, play like a pro, play like an Asian.

Xenoblade Chronicles Coming To North America

Aeria Games Acquires Runes of Magic in Turkey, Latin America Aeria takes advantage of a region that's booming right now.

MineCraft Gets New Lead Developer Notch is taking his expertise elsewhere. Some new blood is taking over for him.

Battlefield 3 Back To Karkand Release Dates Announced Find out how long it will take before you can get your own copy of the new DLC.

Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition Outed Warner Bros is announcing a new version of Mortal Kombat.

Saturday

Hacked Lobbies Return In Modern Warfare 3 The hackers continue to bombard Modern Warfare 3.

Rumor: EA Montreal Working On Army of Four Hey, uh, what happened to the Army of Three?

Weekend Rant: Halo Anniversary Does 343 do it like Bungie? Some of the fellas at XBLA Fans don't think so.

Metroid II Return of Samus Virtual Console Review Pocketful of Megabytes thinks Metroid II is a pocketful of metroids.

Star Wars Galaxies Last Day Detailed Find out how it's going to be in the last day of a galactic battle for supremacy.

EA Pulls Prick Move, Sets Expiration Dates For Online Passes If you thought Online Passes were bad, now you have Online Passes with expiration dates. Nice.

That wraps up this edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap. You can check out the new trailer for Syndicate below featuring many of the deadly weapons available in the game. Enjoy.

Will Usher

Staff Writer at CinemaBlend.