Nightcap at The Gamer's Lounge - March 12, 2015

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Written By Jeremy Fisher

Welcome back to The Nightcap at the Gamer’s Lounge!  As always, sit back, relax and enjoy!

 

Releases This Week

 

Next Week’s Releases

  • Awakened Fate Ultimatum (PS3) - March 17

  • Battlefield Hardline (Xbox One, 360, PS4, PS3, PC) - March 17

  • Bladestorm: Nightmare (Xbox One, PS4, PS3) - March 17

  • Final Fantasy Type-0 (Xbox One, PS4) - March 17

  • Jamestown+ (PS4) - March 17

  • Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas (PC) - March 17

  • Resident Evil Revelations 2 - Episode 4 (Xbox One, 360, PS4, PS3, PC) - March 17 (PSN) and 18 (XBL, PC)

  • Tales from the Borderlands: Episode 2 - Atlus Mugged (Xbox One, 360, PS4, PS3, iOS, Android) - Week of March 17

  • Woolfe - The Red Hood Diaries (PC) - March 17

  • Worlds of Magic (PC) - March 19

  • Mario Party 10 (Wii U) - March 20

 

News of the Week

  • New DLC for Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, the Claptastic Voyage and Ultimate Vault Hunter Upgrade Pack 2, are both arriving later this month.  Claptastic Voyage is a campaign add-on and Ultimate Vault Hunter Upgrade Pack 2 raises the level cap to 70.

 

 

  • Microsoft has announced the Halo: The Master Chief Collection Xbox One Bundle, which comes with the 500GB Xbox One, a wireless controller, headset and Halo: MCC.  The bundle will cost $349 and should be on shelves this month.

 

  • XMPT Games’s has announced that their arena combat game DiscStorm is coming to Vita, PC, Mac, and Linux this summer.

 

  • Grand Theft Auto V's online heists are finally available on all available platforms, and the feature is part of the game's title update 1.21, which also contains other bug fixes, improvements, and features.

 

  • Sony Japan has announced an official release date of March 20 for the launch of the PlayStation 4 and Vita in China.

 

  • A new Hard Mode difficulty is available for Dying Light, and goodies like new costumes, weapons, vehicles, and more are on the way.

 

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  • Sony has announced that Uncharted 4: A Thief's End won’t be coming this year.  It is now slated for release in Spring 2016.

 

 

  • PlayStation Mobile will be ending this summer according to a note in the PlayStation forums.  Content distribution will be stopped as of July 15, 2015. After September 10, you will not be able to re-download purchased content either.

 

  • Titanfall season pass and DLC are currently free in celebration of the game's one-year anniversary.

 

  • Slightly Mad Studios has announced yet another delay for Project Cars, which has been pushed back to sometime in May.

 

  • Update version 2.50 for the PlayStation 4 adds the ability to quickly boot up your game, Facebook integration, the ability to upgrade Sub-accounts to Master accounts, Remote Play & Share Play at 60 fps, expanded accessibility options, and the ability to upload video to Dailymotion.

 

  • Two new free maps, Broken Hill Mine and Broken Hill Foundry, are heading to Evolve soon.  Both maps will be free and will be available first on Xbox One on March 31.  PC and PlayStation 4 versions will be available on April 30.

 

  • Driveclub’s March 1.12 update includes the replay feature (single events and tours), a new driver level 50 award (Ferrari 599XX Evoluzione), support for Twitch and Ustream in multiplayer, as well as refinements to drift mode scoring, bug fixing, etc.

 

  • Microsoft has announced that Xbox Live Gold members will get an advanced screening of Dead Rising: Watchtower. All you’ll need in order to watch is the Crackle app on Xbox One or Xbox 360.

That is your Nightcap at The Gamer's Lounge for this week.  See you next week!

 

Jeremy Fisher
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