We took some time off, so guess what we did? WE PLAYED HELLA GAMES, and we are ripe to talk about it, plus pick up on some hot news we didn't scratch on last week.  You're gonna wanna get on board as we talk Star Wars Battlefront, Madden, Ducktales, and all kinds of games you usually don't hear us talk about - even played with some poor man's VR!

On the Gaming Docket

* Howie - Rocket League, Star Wars Battlefront, Lego Dimensions, Tetris, Madden 2016, Snoopy Adventures, Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes, Color

* Chris - Fallout 4, Rocket League, Stronghold Crusader 2, Dungeon Defenders II, Cards+Castles

* Corey - Ducktales: Remastered, Contra: Remastered, Minecraft PE, Pac-Man CEDX, and the Google Cardboard

 News/Deals

* Nintendo 2DS, refurbed directly from Nintendo $60 bucks on eBay

* Top 10 Games Estimated by Sales on Steam were ( link )

* GTA V

* Fallout 4

* ARK: Survival Evolved

* Rocket Leagueo

* H1Z1

* Cities Skylines

* Besiege

* The Witcher 3

* Dying Light

* Life is Strange

* Activision purchased Major League Gaming, and they may be looking to start

their own TV Channel. ( link )

* Assassin’s Creed taking 2016 off for some MUCH… NEEDED… R&D, erp, R&R

( link )

* GAMING ALL IN ONES EVERYWHEREZ0RZ!?! ( Origin PC ) ( Lenovo )

THE RUNDOWN

* Oculus giving FREE headsets to those who pledged at least $275 to get

the first Dev Kit lo these years ago. ( link )

* Lenovo realizes there’s money in PC gaming and ups the ante on a wider

offering of gamecentric hardware ( link )

* A Boy and His Blob, or at least the remake from 2009, is coming to Xbox

One, PC, and PS4 on 1/19, according to Kotaku’s Patrick Klepek

* PC fans of Skyrim’s Macho Man mod will be happy to know you can now

turn Deathclaws into the MACHO Claws in Fallout 4 ( link )

* Playstation Network went down… again… for most of a day… and Sony

doesn’t care to say why. ( link )

* Man speedruns Fallout 3 in less time than it would take me to run from

one end of the map to the other without stopping ( link )

* Hackers get Linux running on a PS4, potentially paving the way for

QUOTE homebrew ENDQUOTE ( link )

* Dude gets Windows 95 running on a 3DS, like, FINALLY! ( link )

* PS4 sold 5.7 million units through the holidays, currently sitting at 35.9

mill, and PS Plus subscribers jumped 60% in the last year (