GameHounds

Sometimes the sleep gods want you to go down and stay down. That's what happened this week. Edie Sellers, Holy Goalie, and Nick Dinicola get on a bit later than usual, but they bring the news and reviews, including:

- GTA V for Xbox One and Playstation 4 will have first person play;- You can get an Xbox One for $250 this holiday season;- New trailer for Fly in the House allows you to wreck a room for a good reason because flies are disGUSting;- 2K issued a special release of Halloween masks using the players' worst fails from NBA 2K15's face-scanning feature;- Playstation 4 update has a nasty bug that bricks some consoles in rest mode, so there's another update;- Manuel Noriega's lawsuit against Rockstar and Take Two fails.Enjoy.

This week's news comes hot off the presses. Nick Dinicola, Holy Goalie, and Edie Sellers bring you all the info your brain can handle. Topics include:- Reviews of Tie Fighter (GoG release), revisiting Gears of War 3 Beast Mode, Pix the Cat; - You can no longer be naked on your Twitch stream (well, you always couldn't, but Twitch is giving you fare warning to stop RIGHT NOW!);- Production of Dying Light for the XBox 360 and Playstation 3 has been shut down;- Microsoft will drop the price of the XBox One by $50 this holiday season;- Destiny's DLC is INSULTING AS HELL EFF YOU BUNGIE! TAKE YOUR HOLIDAY PUMPKIN MASKS AND SHOVE THEM! ;- Plague, Inc. has seen a surge since news of Ebola hit mainstream America;- Playstation 4 update has a bunch of cool features including Share Play, but some users are having issue with it;- GoG.com announces it will reissue 30 classic LucasArts title, with six already available;- Titanfall is on sale, as well as its season pass;- The first 360-degree film for the Occulus Rift launches on Steam;- New study finds men are from MMO, women are from RPG;- Microsoft confirms pizza-ordering app for XBox One, but it's for Domino's and only for the UK.Enjoy.

It's a big fight this week, and not only do hosts Edie Sellers, Holy Goalie, and Nick Dinicola get into the fray, the chat room also joins the riot. Topics include:- The developer of Paranautical Activity tweets a death threat gets kicked off Steam;- The investor lawsuit against EA for Battlefield 4 gets chucked;- PSN launches the Sale of the Dead;- There's no GTA V beta in the champagne room;- Corporate Lockdown, the DLC for Alien: Isolation due out next week;- Shadow of Mordor DLC pack is out today;- UK lawmakers are trying to increase the prison sentence for cyber-threats.Enjoy.

The GameHounds staff reviews this week's news and games, including Shadow of Mordor, Diablo 2, Alien: Isolation, Destiny and Pix the Cat.

 

News includes:

 

- Lindsey Lohan's suit against Take 2; 

- Anita Sarkesian cancels her university talk over school-shooting threats; 

- Drive Club's server so bad it can't launch free PS4 version;

- Destiny's loot cave is haunted;

- HBO will launch a standalone service for the cable-free;

- Little Big Planet 3 is delayed one week for Europe;

- Vine now available on Xbox One;

- Nidhogg coming (now out) for PS4 and Vita;

- Beta registrations for Fable Legends is open;

- Devolver's Shadow Warrior coming to Xbox One and PS4 this month;

- Sunset Overdrive's pre-order goodies look fun;

- Unity engine may be sold (update: it's not); 

- Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions coming to various flavors of Playstation next month.

 

Enjoy.

The big games of the year's end are starting to hit consoles, and the GameHounds staff of Nick Dinicola, Holy Goalie, and Edie Sellers bring their A-game to these A-games. 

 

Topics include:

 

Reviews of NHL 15, Madden 15, Diablo 3, Destiny, and Shadow of Mordor;

Lizard Squad attacks servers again, downing Destiny, Call of Duty: Ghosts, FIFA 15, Madden 15, and Sims 4;

Boxed versions of Minecraft for Xbox One come to shelves on November 18 for $20;

The US Justice Department arrests and charges four men for stealing $200 million in intellectual property and other data from game developers;

New unofficial website launches to track public events in Destiny in real time;

New unofficial website launches to curate Valve curators;

Study reveals that Portal 2 is better at brain training than Luminosity;

Another study reveals that homicides drop when violent-video games launch;

Assassin's Kittens Unity is as cute as you think, if not cuter;

Destiny's infamous "loot cave" is gone, but lots others remain.

The GameHounds gang returns from a week off and they hit the ground running. Topics include:- Updated review of Destiny;- Blizzard kills Titan;- Only a handful of players got through the TGS and PAX Prime demos of Bloodbourne;- Poor sports on League of Legends get further punishment;- Xbox One to get an official Comedy Central app;- Chariot (which we loved at PAX Prime) to hit PS4 next week for $14.99;- Dark Souls 2's DLC, Crown of the Ivory King, is delayed to next week;- Kickstarter updates its terms of use to make it easier to sue creators who don't deliver;- Sony hemmorages money, but it's not PS4's fault;- The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are interesting, the iWatch isn't.Enjoy.