I hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving and managed to do their Black Friday shopping. If you didn’t do your video game shopping and were looking for something then we have plenty of sales for you with some one day sales. We also have lot of news from the gaming industry as well as news from SIP.
Enjoy.
Pokenut let us know today that Major Nelson posted the games that will be free in December 2013 as part of Microsoft’s Games with Gold promotion. From December 1-15, Gears of War will be available free of charge from the Xbox Live Marketplace, and Shoot Many Robots will be free from December 16-31.
As we reported earlier this month, the next game available for free as part of Microsoft’s Games with Gold promotion is Iron Brigade, a hybrid tower defense and third-person shooter developed by Double Fine Productions.
This week, we have some big news. With today’s release of the second next-gen console, the PlayStation 4, and the Xbox One following next week, the next-generation in gaming will finally completely kick in.
The current-gen is far from dying out and will still be pretty active for news.
Here at SIP, we have plans for competitive dominance starting up with our clan in Ghosts and we are going to take on the World of Skyrim, one block at a time.
The start of video game launch season is now underway. We have some new, popular game releases this week that I know many off you have been waiting for. We also have some announcements about a certain mobile game coming to your Xbox that some of you may enjoy reading about.
Victors have arisen amongst the mangled bodies of Spartans, Steve’s, and creepers with two contest winners this week from weekly contests that have come to a conclusion. We also have some get-togethers in the near-future for everybody to get together.
Enjoy the update.
R MK XXV let us know today that Major Nelson revealed the games to become free in November as part of Microsoft’s Games with Gold promotion. A World of Keflings will be free in the first half of November, while Iron Brigade will be free in the second half.
Bravo returned with this week’s Halo Bulletin, where he recaps Monday’s Community Playdate in the Oddball playlist, previews the Community Forge Ricochet playlist (which is scheduled to go live in 10 days’ time), drops some Halo-themed pumpkin stencils for Halloween, mentions the Games with Gold promotion going on this half of October, and features screenshots of armor abilities at work. You might recognize the author of at least one of these screenshots…
R MK XXV let us know (in addition to Major Nelson and Bravo in last week’s Halo Bulletin) that Halo 3 will be available free of charge for XBL Gold members beginning today until the end of the month (October 31).
Developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios, Halo 3 completes the original trilogy featuring humanity’s fight with the Covenant and Flood through the eyes of Master Chief.
Bravo is in with this week’s Halo Bulletin, which mainly focuses on next week’s matchmaking update. He also talks with GH057ayame (community playlist designer at 343) about the updates to the Team Throwdown playlist, mentions the Games with Gold promotion happening in the latter half of October, and features a few screenshots of Forge art in Halo 4.
We have a lot of news this week evenly spread out between Gaming News and domestic news here on the site.
Some things to note are that we have a lot of sales taking place this week. We also have plenty of activities to take part in this weekend in several different games.
Enjoy the reading, watching, and potential savings.
