Monthly Archives: July 2015

IDL News – Xbox Ultimate Game Sale, WWE, and Mortal Kombat X

Posted on by
Reply

Summer. What is it good for?

Super Hero Movies? Bugs? Forest Fires? Encouragement to sit inside and play games, thanks to the Xbox Ultimate Summer Sale?

batgirl-720x720Batman Arkham Knight First DLC
Warner Bros has announced that the first story driven DLC for Batman Arkham Knight will be Batgirl: A Matter of Family. Available on July 14th for season pass holders and a week later for the rest.

The DLC takes place after the events of the main game, and allows the players to play as Batgirl, in an all new location, and will include multiple missions, side quests and secrets.

Mortal Kombat X Updates
Warner Bros has revealed new details regarding Mortal Kombat and its new updates. The Predator character will be made available tomorrow as part of a DLC bundle, which also includes 3 new skins: Commando Johnny, Infrared Scorpion and Carl Weathers as Jax. Available tomorrow for those who have the season pass, or $7.99 on July 14th.

Predator will be made available on his own on July 14th for $4.99.

Warner Bros also announced the Klassic Fatality Pack. For free. Four classic fatalities from Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Sonja and Johnny Cage.

WWE_2K16_FOB_AGNOSTIC_ENG-720x1018WWE 2K16’s Cover
2K has revealed today that the cover star for this year’s WWE game, will be Stone Cold Steve Austin.

Over the weekend, 2K had some problems with their digital WWE 2K15 as it was accidentally removed from the Xbox marketplace. Normally, no real problem, besides a potential loss of sales, but the removal caused the game to fail to start for all the current digital owners of the game. Issues lasted about 4 days.

Xbox’s Ultimate Game Sale
Microsoft has lifted the lid slightly, on its upcoming Xbox Ultimate Games Sale. The sale kicks off tomorrow, July 7.

The sale will discount over 70 different titles by 40-50 percent. Plus those with Xbox Live Gold will be able to save an additional 10%.

Featured titles on the Xbox One include: Mortal Kombat X, Far Cry 4, Dragon Age: Inquisition, among others

Featured titles on the Xbox 360 include: Injustice: Gods Among Us and The Orange Box. More info will be made available tomorrow.

Some news on my front:

Extra Life 2015 campaign is going strong. To date, the charity has raised almost $500,000 which is double what was raised by this time last year. The big day is coming up in November, so I’ll have new info leading into that. The Extra Life team has joined with Ubisoft to help promote Rainbow Six Siege. Starting July 1st, 2015, anyone who donates $6 or more will receive a Guaranteed Access code to the Rainbow Six Siege Closed Beta. Beta Starts Sept 24th. I’ll be adding more info the Extra Life page as the event draws closer.

extra-life-splash

Started my playthrough of Batman Arkham Knight this weekend past, and boy, is it incredible. Very streamlined with some minor changes. But it is gorgeous to look at and play. I only noticed slight stuttering when driving the Batmobile at a few intersections, but otherwise very smooth. I’ll be leaving my thorough first impressions on Thursday.

Arkham-Knight

I’ve also been dabbling in Evolve and TitanFall again. Now that TitanFall has been added to the EA Access subscription, it’s received some new life. And I’ve completed The Crew’s campaign so I’ll be writing a review for that in the near future.

Tomorrow is new games and news, when we get to see the first batch of games in the Xbox Summer Sale.

Stay tuned.

-iRogan

IDN News – Post 100, Arkham Knight, Gamescom 2015, and Deals With Gold

Posted on by
Reply

So E3 is over, and Gamescom is now the next stop on the video game hype train. Gamescom takes place in Cologne, Germany in August 2015. I’ll be keeping my eye on the event and posting the news and conference details. I’ll add another heading by the E3 heading. Once PAX and Extra Life roll around, I might just turn that link into an Event’s drop down, to conserve space.

There hasn’t really been a ton of news, I guess because everyone has just been playing Batman Arkham Knight. My copy has arrived, so I hope to get the chance to play it, and then share my thoughts, next week.

Tomorrow is game night, so there should be some Twitch streams to checkout.

Beyond that, I’m still playing The Crew, and wrapping up BADLAND. Evolve has been a fun getaway into multiplayer mayhem, and Illestrader got himself a copy, so we’ll have some Let’s Plays of that.

Gamescom news and Gold Deals of the week conclude today, and I’ve still got some more to post over the next few days, to wrap up the week.

Microsoft Gamescom 2015
Following Microsoft’s E3 2013 press conference, they’ve announced that their upcoming Gamescom press conference in Cologne, Germany will focus on Scalebound, Quantum Break and Crackdown, with new game reveals for Xbox One and Windows 10.

Deals With Gold

Xbox One
Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare
Peggle 2
Tower of Guns
Thomas Was Alone

Xbox 360
Burnout Paradise
Crysis 2
Mirror’s Edge
Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare
Skate 3
Peggle 2
Fuse
Syndicate
MX vs ATV Alive & Reflex

Peggle 2 and Plants Vs Zombies are free for those who have EA Access. Fuse was a lot of fun as a co-op game and Syndicate was an interesting game, with unique mechanics.

-iRogan