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PSN Goes “Old-school” with Retro Sale for PAX

To celebrate PAX Prime the PS Store is offering a Retro Sale on almost 90 titles. PS Plus members get an addition discount. These titles range from Child of Light ($6.00 or $4.50 for PS Plus) to Aqua Kitty-Milk Mine Defender DX ($4.50 or $3.60 for PS Plus) and everything in-between. Most of these titles dont actually appear to be what most would call “retro” but hey a sale is a sale right? Sale ends Monday August 31st at 9:00am PDT. For a full list of the games check out the store or see the Playstation Blog Let us know in the comments below what games you are planning to buy during this sale.

Xur Gives Guardians a Sneak Peek at TTK Exotics on Instagram

Apparently Xur has taken over Bungie’s Instagram account – @destinythegame – today. He has been sharing sneak peeks of upcoming Exotics from The Taken King. “I have information, but I do not know yet if you are the one it is meant for… Titans: fly like the shadows with the Empyrean Bellicose. Aiming your weapons while in the air will hold you in place for a short time. Orbs collected when your Super is full will recharge your melee ability.” -Xûr, Agent of the Nine “You must adapt to persist, Guardian.The Chaperone Exotic shotgun fires a single slug shot and grants an Agility boost when equipped. Your precision kills will grant a brief increase to Handling, Range, Rate of Fire, and Stability.” – Xûr, Agent of the Nine “Warlocks: reshape the world and turn iron to gold with the Alchemist’s Raiment. Collecting Primary Ammo will give you a chance to gain glimmer. Orbs collected when your Super is full recharge your grenades and melee.”                                         – Xûr, Agent of the Nine “An end will come, Guardian. Bring it about sooner with Telesto, a vestige of the Queen’s Harbringers. This Fusion Rifle will attach projectiles to your foes and detonate with a delayed Void blast. Multikills with this weapon will drop Orbs for your allies.”                                        – Xûr, Agent of the Nine “Hunters: these Sealed Ahamkara Grasps are filled with Nightmare Fuel. They will provide you with an additional melee charge and your melee damage will have a chance to reload your Primary Weapon.” – Xûr, Agent of the Nine “I cannot endure this place any longer… Before I depart, a final offer for you. Sleeper Simulant: a Fusion Rifle equipped in your Heavy Weapon slot. This weapon’s laser tears through enemies and ricochets on hard surfaces.” – Xûr, Agent of the Nine   It sounds like that is all we are getting from Xur at this time but it never hurts to keep your eyes pealed on Instagram. Bungie is also offering a Physical Collectors Edition Giveaway on their account if you have Instagram and are on PS4 you can go on and tag your fire team for a chance to win.   Let us know in the comments below which of these Exotics you are most excited about so far and why and as always stay tuned for more Destiny news!    

YouTube Gaming VS Twitch For Game Streaming Glory

YouTube Gaming, Google’s attempt at taking on Twitch, is allegedly set to launch tomorrow, August 26. The site will go live at gaming.youtube.com tomorrow in the US and the UK and will act as a central hub where viewers can find and watch people live streaming their own video gameplay. YouTube calls YouTube Gaming the “go-to destination for anything and everything gaming.” It not only shows who is live streaming, but serves as a collection point for all gaming content on YouTube. YouTube Gaming automatically categorizes YouTube’s gaming content and sorts it by game and by the content of video. This allows users to easily see the most popular content for their favorite game. A beta version of the new live streaming dashboard is also launching tomorrow. The new dashboard makes streaming less of a scheduled event and more of a casual thing that streamers can do whenever they want. Streaming on YouTube Gaming is done on HTML5, and, unlike Twitch, streamers can enable a “DVR Mode” that buffers the last four hours of a stream and allows viewers to rewind! The questions is: Will YouTube compete with Amazon’s Twitch effectively? Twitch has more than 1.5 million broadcasters and amasses over 100 million visitors every month and cost Amazon nearly $1 billion in September last year. Interestingly, Google itself was an interested party and was bidding in competition with Amazon to buy Twitch last year — at times Google was even believed to have closed the deal. YouTube Gaming will be available to download for iOS when it launches. Will you be getting the app or trying the streaming service out for yourself? Let us know in the comments below OR our forums!

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Multiplayer BETA Is Now LIVE

It’s LIVE!!! The Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 multiplayer beta is now live on Xbox One and PC XBOX ONE PLAYERS Players who preordered Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 at a retailer and entered a code on the Call of Duty site, be sure to check your email. Activision has started sending out beta tokens to players; it may take time for all codes to be sent out to everyone. Each email contains 3 download tokens, so you can use one and give the other two to friends. If you don’t get a code after several hours and you are sure you did redeem your code before, please check your Call of Duty Profile HERE. If you preordered Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 digitally on the Xbox One Store, you should now be able to download the Black Ops III Multiplayer Beta directly on your console – no code required! The beta is a 13.73 GB download on Xbox One. PC PLAYERS Customers that preordered Black Ops 3 on Steam should now be seeing the Black Ops 3 beta appear in their Library. If you don’t – stay tuned; it may take time for it to appear for everyone. If you preordered the PC version of Black Ops 3 at a retailer, Activision has begun sending out codes to emails. Please check your email over the next few hours for your redemption code. PC players, due note, Paint Shop feature is not available in the beta. Paint Shop will be available in the final game. Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 multiplayer beta will end on Sunday, August 30th on Xbox One and PC. If you have any questions or need support, please contact Activision Support. Visitsupport.activision.com to get more information on the beta. Activision and Treyarch have also opened up a beta survey – allowing players to give their feedback or report bugs. You can visit the link HERE to do so.

Here are your September Games with Gold

The September Games with Gold have been announced and they are as follows Xbox One Tomb Raider Definitive Edition The Deer God Xbox 360 Battlestations Pacific Crysis 3

PlayStation getting two exclusive Earth Defense Force titles

PQube and D3 studios are bringing two new Earth Defense games to PlayStation platforms later this year. Both PS4 and Vita will be getting an exclusive EDF title which will make it the first time the franchise appears on a current generation console. PS4 will have Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair. A total remake of the previously released EDF 2025, Shadow of New Despair will include a number of new features all the while maintaining the classic giant bug squashing battles: Take on almost 100 levels – solo, couch co-op, or online with up to three friends! Use tanks, helicopters, jetpacks, air bikes, armoured rail guns, and giant robots to take on the invading alien force! Huge, open levels with fully destructible environments. Hundreds of weapons and gadgets from grenades, rifles, and airstrikes, to giant mecha with rocket-powered fists! Four different classes for unique play experiences. Soar over the battlefield as a Wing Diver, call the shots as an Air Raider, wade into the thick of it as a heavily armoured Fencer, or do it the old-fashioned way as a Ranger! Vita users will be able to get their hands on Earth Defense Force 2: Invaders from Planet Space. Also a remaster of Global Defense Force 2 on PlayStation 2, Invaders from Planet Space will also include Vita exclusive online multiplayer along with other features: All the explosive free-roaming action of Earth Defense Force in the palm of your hand! Three character classes to chose from – the agile Pale Wing, the hard-hitting Infantryman, and the tactically gifted Air Raider. Increase your firepower with a range of heavily armed vehicles and protect (or lay waste to) the fully destructible cities. Join up to three friends in local multiplayer or online co-op! Both games will be console exclusive and release in the final quarter of 2015.

Sony’s TGS 2015 conference date and time revealed

Sony has announced that their press conference for TGS 2015 will be held a full two days before TGS 2015 on September 15th, 2015 and take place from 4-530PM local time. TGS 2015 will be Sony’s time to shine after they skipped Gamescom and left the spotlight for MIcrosoft. There hasn’t been any leaks as far as what games will be shown as of yet, but that won’t stop us from throwing out our own guesses. We’ll probably see some info and/or footage about The Last Guardian and maybe even the Final Fantasy VII remake. It’s an estimated 90 minute conference and of course Sony will most likely have some surprises up their sleeve for us, but what are you hoping they show? Let us know below. You can watch the press conference live on the PlayStation blog.

Here are this week’s Deals with Gold Aug 25th-31st

Microsoft has announced this week’s deals with Gold with Life is Strange and Rory Mcilroy PGA TOUR headlining the list for Xbox One. The Gears of War 3 DLC packs are on sale over on Xbox 360 in order to coincide with the release of Gears of War Ultimate Edition which also releases today exclusively on Xbox One. The deals on Xbox 360 are available for all members regardless of your Xbox Live subscription. While majority of the titles on Xbox One are available for all to enjoy, you must be a Gold member in order to pick up Life is Strange or PGA TOUR. All sales will be available through next Monday, August 31st. XBOX ONE DEALS CONTENT TITLE DISCOUNT EA SPORTS Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR* 33% Life is Strange* 50% Life is Strange Season Pass (Episodes 2-5)* 20% Life is Strange Complete Season (Episodes 1-5)* 20% Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty 33% Stealth Inc. 2: A Game of Clones 50% The Swapper 33% BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition 50% Stick It To The Man 67% Worms Battlegrounds 50% LA Cops 50% The Escapists 40% Ziggaraut 50% Ultratron 50% XBOX 360 DEALS  CONTENT TITLE DISCOUNT Gears of War 3 Horde Command Pack 50% Gears of War 3 RAAM’s Shadow: Pack 2  50% Gears of War 3 Fenix Rising Map Pack 50% Gears of War 3 Forces of Nature Map Pack 50% Diablo III: Reaper of Souls 50% Life is Strange 50% Life is Strange Season Pass (Episodes 2-5) 20% GRID 2 60% GRID 2 All-in-Pack 60% [Major Nelson]