In what must be the most shocking news of this generation of gaming, the PlayStation 3 contracted a brief case of “Red Rings Fever”, a disease that started with the Xbox 360 that makes a console unusable for most of its functionality. However, it actually turned out to be a late Y2K bug in the case of the PS3. After setting the game world on fire with the heart-stopping turn of events, everything was eventually worked out and the fever passed on. The PS3 wasn't the only headliner this week, as there was an announcement of SOCOM 4 as well as a surprise unveiling of the brand new Lara Croft game and a Portal sequel. These stories and more in this March 6th edition of the Blend Games Weekly Recap.
Sunday
Final Fantasy XI Abyssea Expansions Announced. New experiences await for FFXI players…assuming they can be pried away from World of Warcraft.
Deus Ex 3 Platforms Confirmed. Is your favorite platform on the list? Click the link to find out.
Creating A Real Life Heavy Rain. What happens when people try to recreate the game? Find out over at Electronic Theatre.
Sony Says Error 8001050F Will Be Fixed This Morning. Um, but it wasn’t. Read the full story to find out what really happened.
Monday
Tropico 3 Absolute Power Expansion Pack Announced. Head over heels for dictating power and control in Tropico 3? Well, a new expansion is on the way to further one’s reign of despotic behavior.
Mega Man 10 Arrives on the Wii. Capcom has finally released it and gamers can now stop arguing over whether Mega Man X is actually Mega Man 10.
Sherlock Holmes and The Myster of Osbourne House Coming To Nintendo DS. FHI is giving DS owners a chance to walk in the shoes of a master sleuth.
GTA IV Now Available On Games For Windows Live. Broken or not, the game is now available via Games on Demand for Windows Live.
Combat Arms Allows For Rare Item Purchases Without Real Cash. New items and new supplies but without the hassle of paying real cash for it.
Jonathan Blow’s The Witness Concept Art Released. Brand new art of the upcoming game.
God of War III Multiplayer Never Considered. Because one god of war is enough.
Aliens Vs Predator Patched. All those annoying bugs just got crushed.
Tuesday
PS3 Error 8001050F Fixed. After all the hoopla over the PS3 catching the Red Rings fever, it’s all done and over with…and fixed.
Portal 2 Clues In Portal Update. Is it possible that Portal 2 is still alive?
Modern Warfare 2 Studio Heads Fired. In the same article, Activision is devoting an entire business subsidiary to Call of Duty.
Splinter Cell Conviction Xbox 360 Bundle Announced. What’s in the bundle? Certainly not collectible mousepads of Michael Ironside’s face.
Sony Purchases Media Molecule. After doing such an amazing job on LittleBigPlanet, Sony has officially taken them under their wing.
Xbox 360 Still Most Used Console For Online Gaming. Two other consoles tied. Can you guess which two they are?
Black Shot MMOFPS Closed Beta Starting Soon. Just another military shooter, bound to be popular among the Counter-Strike crowd.
Castlevania Lords of Shadow New Screenshots For Xbox 360/PS3. After E3 we didn’t hear much about this game but now it’s resurfacing with some new media assets.
Command And Conquer 4 Bonus Mission Detailed. Not only detailed but accompanied with a brand new trailer of the bonus mission, too.
Blackligh Tango Down Announced With New Screenshots And Trailer. This is one of the coolest sub-platform games ever made. Click the link to check it out.
Sledgehammer Games Making Call of Duty For 2011; Activision Confirms Infinity Ward Firings. New company for a new direction of the popular franchise.
Dragon Quest IX Sentinels of the Starry Skies Confirmed For Summer Release. It’s all detailed in the news post, courtesy of Electronic Theatre.
Challenging Conventions 9: Heavy Rain Fails to Understand what Interactive Drama Means. How badly does it fail? Find out over at The Game Reviews.
Blizzard Making Multiple Diablo Games. This has to be a surprise for many gamers, especially when Blizzard shows so much favoritism toward World of Warcraft.
Aion Patch 1.9 Features Revealed. brand new content is on the way in the upcoming 1.9 patch.
Boom Blox Team Laid Off By EA. And the unemployment hammer continues to drop.
Six Days In Fallujah Complete. After Konami dropped it from their publishing slate the game was completely up in the air. But now it seems to be back on track.
Altis Gates Open Beta Indefinitely Delayed For Huge Improvements. What those improvements are has not been revealed, but they have to be big if the open beta is getting delayed.
Team Fortress 2 Engineer’s Repair Node Detailed. Game breaking or made to balance the gameplay? You’ll have to keep reading to find out.
Halo Reach Multiplayer Beta Features…Jetpacks? Yeah…jetpacks.
R.U.S.E. Open Beta Begins March 9th, Release Date Also Announced. Find out if there’s any trickery involved with the release date.
Natural Selection 2 Coming To Steam And Looks Like id’s Rage. An indie game that looks like a triple-A shooter? Well, I’m definitely interested.
Thursday
Prison Break The Conspiracy Location Screenshots. Prison cells, prison walls and courtyards…that’s what most of the locations are composed of.
WWE Brawl Revealed. THQ has another game up their sleeve and it’s not Smackdown vs Raw.
Red Dead Redemption And Mafia II Delayed. Well, that’s completely unsurprising.
Stone Creek Entertainment Wants To Cash In On Games For Women And Teen Girls. Well, there’s enough of them out there so it only makes sense to have more games for non-male gamers…right?
Lara Croft And The Guardian of Light Announced. Yet another new Lara Croft game…and I suppose the only highlight is what new boob physics they have in store for loud-mouthed 12 year-old gamers, eh?
Sims 3 Ambitions Expansion Pack Announced Screenshots Released. Even more Sims goodness for fans of the series.
Activision Sued By Fired Infinity Ward Heads. Justified or no? No doubt Modern Warfare was the best in the series.
First Crysis 2 Screenshots Released. You would have to be fool to expect anything less than epicness from the very first shot of one of the most highly anticipated graphical masterpieces in this generation of gaming.
Platinum Life Web Edition Goes Live. All those hip-hop wannabe gamers out there can finally live the dream.
Vanquish Coming To PS3 And Xbox 360 In Winter.
SOCOM 4 Announced For PS3; First Screenshots Released. Get a glimpse at the next generation of Navy SEAL combat.
Friday
Erebus Travia Reborn Classes Revealed. Four classes and just over eight sub-classes have been unveiled.
Dead to Rights Mo-Cap Session Included Real Blood And Sweat. And a few cracked ribs.
Portal 2 Announced For 2010 Holiday Season. If you’re done conquering Portal for the umpteenth time, prepare yourself for the highly anticipated sequel.
QuakeCon 2010 Location Dates Announced. Will you be attending? Be sure to click the link to scavenge up the details.
Remembering The Most Under-Appreciated PS2 Games. A list of games courtesy of Techland.
Iron Man 2 Game Will Feature Samuel L. Jackson And Don Cheadle. Sorry, no R.D.J in this game. Maybe next time.
Battle Punks 3D Fighting Game Arrives On Facebook. Imagine Little Fighters in 3D and for Facebook.
Portal 2 Is PC And Xbox 360 Release. Valve trumps PS3 owners out of the Portal sequel.
CryEngine 2 MMO Project E:st Unveiled; Coming To North America. An Asian-themed, fantasy MMORPG is on the way and it’s nothing like GameHi’s Project E.
Saturday
Alpha Protocol Toys And Tools Of The Trade Trailer. Obsidian talks about gadgets, gizmos and dispatching bad guys with spy toys and tools.
Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II Update Announced; New Game Mode, Units And Maps. Lots of new content included in the new update.
Rumor Killers: New Zelda This Year, Epic Games at E3; NeoGeo Games For PSN. All those rumors that need confirming or killing courtesy of The Game Reviews.
EA Online Server Outages Reported. After canceling support for so many other games, could it be electronic karma coming back to bite EA on the butt?
Demos With Expiration Dates. Sony wants to limit how much time you put in with the demos.
That wraps up this edition of the Weekly Recap here at Blend Games. You can check out the awesome new cinematic piece below of Metroid other M for the Wii. It doesn’t show a whole lot but it’s just enough to whet the appetite of gamers.
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