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Gaming is complex, so catch up each week with the short and dirty in Reboot: This Week In Games.
Oh no! Ubisoft delayed Watch Dogs this week. It has been pushed back deep into 2014 with only a month to go until its original release date. We'll all have to wait a while longer to start hacking Chicago.
Pokemon X & Y shipped with a game-breaking bug that you should know about, don't get stuck losing your most evolved dino-feathered-fairy whatever to this nasty save bug.
Turns out we're still playing a lot of Borderlands 2 these days, so much so that 2K games is slated a new round of short and sweet downloadable content. Starting off with a Halloween theme romp through a murderous pumpkin patch to be released just before the day of the dead.
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Augmented reality and corporate hyperbole
CastAR is a new project from two former Valve employees that’s using mini-projectors and eye tracking software to project 3D images in front the viewer than can be manipulated. In combination with the use of a Radio-frequency identification (RFID) mat, physical objects can be used to manipulate digital ones. We realize that this version of CastAR is only a prototype but it looks exactly like what we imagine virtual reality looked like in the 1980s.
Last month Valve released details about its new living room friendly Steam Machines; the strangest part of the announcment was the controller. The Steam Controller looks much like an Xbox 360 controller except is has no thumbsticks. Instead the controller features two super-sensitive touch pads that can be mapped however players want. Check out this first look at the controller in action.
Do you like watching feel-good corporate propaganda? We do too! For all the problems and complaints that will inevitably surface with the launching of a next generation of consoles its nice to take a look through the sunshine and lollipops veil of corporate press relations. Take a look at how Microsoft has built the Xbox One not for now...but for the future!
In other next-gen news, it must suck to live in Brazil. After having to wade through hot-body beaches and half-naked street parties to your local electronics retailer only to discover that a PlayStation 4 is selling for 3,999 Brazilian Real or about $1850 US Dollars, ouch.
In comparison Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox One will cost merely $2,200 Brazilian Real or $1,016 USD.
Stabbings and Loot
Naughty Dog is finally dropping the first piece of downloadable content (DLC) for its fantastic hit The Last of Ustomorrow. The multiplayer map pack, Abandoned Territories will include four levels from areas in The Last of Us' single-player game.
As a thanks to all the loyal fans of Borderlands 2 2K and Gearbox Software have released this 80s wonderful compilation video of the last year of downloadable content mayhem in Pandora.
This past weekend Borderlands 2 kicked off the $100,000 Loot Hunt which players have the chance to win real-world cash. This week it's giving out $5,000 in cash and a number of PlayStation Vitas that will come with Borderlands 2 Vita once they drop.
Borderlands 2's is also dropping brand new DLC installments dubbed the Headhunter series that will begin with a trip to a hollow-out the Pumpkin Kingpin's head. Dropping just in time for Halloween, Headhunter 1: TK Baha's Bloody Harvest will be available on Steam for PC and Mac, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on October 22.
Previously, on GTA V...
Got some free time in Grand Theft Auto Online? Can you take precious time away from killing and robbing sprees to put together something epic? YouTube User Kyoto-Moto did, putting together this crazy demolition derby on the top of Los Santos' highest building.
Check out this GTA fan film put together by GrizzlyReboots turning into an even more uber-violent experience. We all know how these fan-films can sometimes turn out, and it's surprising that the team at GrizzlyReboots pulled this off as well they did.
Even if you're the most cautious Grand Theft Auto V player, there's no denying that racking up wanted level stars can be fun, especially between missions. Twitch user EddieRuckus streamed an awesome video himself getting Trevor into trouble by blowing up random cars. When the cops come, things get even more interesting.
Lastly during a panel at New York Comic-Con last week the fourth wall crumbled when voice-actor Steven Ogg, the voice of Trevor from Grand Theft Auto V, brought the crazed character to life at a fans request, kindly advising him to "Go F**K Yourself!"
The dog is delayed but the bird is go!
Watch Dogs, Ubisoft's open world vigilante title, will not be launching this November as originally planned.
Communications manager Gary Steinman writes on the Watch Dogs blog, "As we got closer to release, as all the pieces of the puzzle were falling into place in our last push before completion, it became clear to us that we needed to take the extra time to polish and fine tune each detail so we can deliver a truly memorable and exceptional experience."
We may not be able to play the game for awhile but it's not going to stop us from digging the cool near-future tech. Ubisoft's next major title Watch Dogs, allows players to hack into the city of Chicago's security cameras and infrastructure and use them as weapons.
If all this very-serious gaming has you a little stressed then check out the new Angry Birds title. Rovio, the makers of the hugely popular Angry Birds series, revealed that its next game Angry Birds Go! would drop on December 11. Harkening back to the days of a flooded Mario Kart clone market.
Also on the lighter side, check out this new sneak peek gameplay trailer for Kingdom Hearts III showing off new abilities and attacks as well as an epic-looking boss encounter. Granted there is not a lot here but the important thing is that it's new! Kingdom Hearts III while being a long way from release is still in development for all your key-wielding fans out there.
"I enjoy downloading game-breaking patches"
Hey remember that "Sh-t White Girls Say" meme that then deteriorated into every noun available? Well it's back! But this time it's factual and hilarious. Bill Scurry and Kevin Maher enlisted the help of New York Comic-Con attendees to deliver lines you would never expect to hear at any Comic-Con.
Vice, always in search of the underbelly of history, was inspired by the pirate shenanigans of Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag to go down to the Caribbean and blow some stuff up, swim with sharks and get drunk on some crazy-strong illegal rum. Check out the the full 3-part Vice series of getting drunk and shooting guns.
Speaking of things that freak out nerds, and everyone else, are game-ending bugs. It turns out people have been reporting a massive bug found in their copies of Pokémon X and Y.
The glitch is apparently rather serious and some players have reported their games being completely unplayable after the bug takes effect. When a player loads a file saved in Lumiose City the game freezes and becomes unsalvageable.
