Weekly News!

It's Memorial Day! I have a puppy in my lap and I'm about to leave to get fabric for Anime Expo!

I wanted to cover the news for last week very quickly!

Xbox One has announced External Hard Drive Capability! If you have been grumpy about the small memory space on the Xbox One - be soothed by this news. Skype is now able to be used in tandem with playing a game. Now you can chat with your friends while you game together. BIG NEWS - the Kinect is being SOLD SEPARATELY! If you're paranoid about cameras, hate the voice control, or just don't use the Kinect enough to want to pay $100 for it, you're in luck.

PS4 is now offering beta for the PlayStation Now! This is the system Sony is going to be using so you can rent games on your console and try them out. Another big news story for Play Station is Far Cry 4 was leaked! Only plot overview was released but a lot of people are getting very excited about it.

PS Vita now has Child of Light coming on June 1st! Check this great JRPG out and take it with you!

Wii & DS no longer have wifi capability. Here is the link so you can check out the games that will be affected.

Nintendo also announced their Nintendo Figurines! Looks like they might be something along the lines of Skylanders but we probably won't know until E3 which is in two weeks!!

New Games Announced:
Batman Arkham Knight
Evolve
Minecraft (on new consoles)
The Wolf Among Us Ep. 4
Metro Redux
Arena Of Fate
Hunger
Half Life 3 (unofficial - maybe just another fake leak)
Left 4 Dead 3 (unofficial as well)
Maplestory 2
Halo 5: Guardians

Looking Forward to: 
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
The Witcher 3
Fable Legends
Last of Us Remastered
Pokemon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire

New Releases: 
Wolfenstein - The New Order
Transistor
Drakengard 3

My youtube channel will have a video up tomorrow recapping this and look out for my post this week!

Thank you!

This week: Consoling Consoles

This week I want to cover some consoles. 

Recently I have been playing my 3DS and wondering, "What is so bad about Nintendo consoles?" I only hear bad things about the WiiU. I don't own one myself so I probably am not a good source of information but from what I have played on it, it seems to me that it's a pretty cool system. Looking at games that it offers alone doesn't prove my point at all. Most of these games find cheap ways to use the control screen that seem wildly unnecessary. BUT. Look at Grand Theft Auto 5. This game is working on integrating technology that will allow the player to check things on a different device while they play. Isn't that what Nintendo is already doing? While they haven't allowed the WiiPad to live up to it's true potential Nintendo can't be mocked for something that other developers are trying to incorporate. 

Looking realistically at Nintendo though - they definitely have a monopoly on the portable systems. And I'm not talking about the 2DS (which probably stands for 2 damn stupid). BAD JOKE. But Nintendo's platforms went down after the Nintendo 64. That was a great system - but the Gamecube was .... whatever. I liked it but it wasn't the best system.

3DS is still better than the WiiU long after it's release - constantly coming up with limited edition versions that sell like crazy. I own the original Legend of Zelda 3DS and have the new Legend of Zelda 3DSXL on preorder. If could have gotten the Pikachu one when it came out I so would have. The great thing about the 3DS is that it's a good size and it has a ton of features that fixed the previous flaws. Although I do wish I could assign my own background photo. The thing that I love most about the 3DS is the major improvement on the internet connectivity. I remember being on my original DS sitting on the ground next to the computer so that I could get enough WiFi and it was very dodgy even then. Now I just have to be home and anywhere in my house I have internet.
The only thing that I wish was on the 3DS is the ability to save more than 3 networks. My home, work, and fiance's is not the only 3 places I need WiFi and it would be nice not to have to go into my settings everytime to change it.

I've owned a Playstation 2 but that's it. I only played Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts on it and I never had money to buy the PS3 and my dad bought the Xbox 360 instead so ... that is a system I have neglected. But, I have nothing against the PS3 and look forward to the new one. PS2 was my introduction to more serious games so I thank Sony for that.

Xbox 360 has been a love/hate relationship. I love Xbox because a lot of my favorite games are on it (which I realize is a lousy argument because those games are also on PS3..). I hate Xbox because it does shitty things as a company. No backwards compatability on the new system? I almost flipped my lid. But before I make this a Xbox One vs. PS4 debate I will just end it there. Xbox has been something that I've had for a very long time and that alone is the reason that I would maybe get the Xbox One. But, my wedding is coming up and Hawaii won't be free! SO. I probably won't get one of the new consoles for a while. I think in the end my fiance and I will get the PS4 just because it's overall a better system.

When the consoles first got announced I was all in for the Xbox One. Again- because I like consistency. (That's why I have 2 legend of zelda 3ds's..) My fiance insists that we get the PS4 because it really is the better choice. My argument was only that I play more video games than he does so I should pick which system we get. But after many articles and podcasts I have softened up the PS4.

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