Find any PSN gift cards under your Christmas tree this year? Well, as luck would have it, there's a flash sale going on right now to help you stretch that newly acquired credit as far as possible.
The deals aren't overly stellar, outside of perhaps The Walking Dead Season 2 for $6.25. You can also grab Akiba's Trip 2 for $24, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris at $13.39, and a smattering of hot games like The Evil Within and Dragon Age: Inquisition in the $30-40 range.
The sale draws to a close at 9am PST on Monday, December 29. See the full listing here.
Flash Sale: End of Year Discounts on 30+ Games [PlayStation Blog]
To celebrate the news that their Titan One cross-compatibility device now offers full support for Sony's PlayStation TV, our friends at ConsoleTuner are offering up a PlayStation TV, Xbox One controller, and Titan One adapter to one lucky Dtoider!
The PS TV is just the latest in the long line of devices supported by the Titan One, which allows cross-play between your favorite consoles and controllers, controller modding, and more! That means you can, for example, plug a Microsoft controller into a piece of Sony hardware (or vice versa) and have it work seamlessly, right out of the box. It's pretty awesome!
For a chance to try this out for yourself, just leave a comment in the thread below! Limit one entry per person, and you have until next Wednesday, December 31 at 11:59pm Pacific to enter. Contest is open to anyone with a US mailing address (unless you're a HUGE member, of course).
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Crunchyroll is pretty cool, right? I'll admit: I don't really know from experience. The only anime stuff I have watched lately have been Miyazaki films and the Professor Layton anime. But following people like our former Editor-in-Chief Dale North leads me to believe that Crunchyroll is the way to go for watching anime outside of Japan.
Starting today, Crunchyroll is available for the Wii U. Using it requires a premium Crunchyroll membership, which runs about $12 per month. Any new members wanting to dip his toes into the cartoon waters can get a free 14-day membership through the Wii U app.
It looks like the Lucario incident of 12/19 is coming to an end. After abrubtly canceling hundreds of orders for their exclusive Lucario amiibo, Toys"R"Us has re-instated some orders, and promised another group of people (who payed with PayPal or a gift card) another means of ordering. That method is clear as of this week.
If you were in the fabled "group two," check your email now, as you may have a redemption code for Lucario or some of your canceled Wave 3 orders. The affected amiibo are currently $999 online, so the coupon will bring it back down to $10.99 -- ensuring that scalpers can't grab your stock.
The elusive Pit and Little Mac are also in stock now at GameStop.com. Go ahead and grab them at the aforementioned links!
We hope you weren't planning to play many games online on Christmas. Xbox users in North America and Europe are having difficulties logging into Xbox Live today, and PlayStation owners are suffering similar problems. Some Internet troublemakers are claiming they knocked both offline. Bah humbug to this.
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is just one of those games you never forget. Although the slow sailing in the original version was a bit of a pain at times, and that scavenger hunt was even worse (both fixed in the Wii U remake), the world was just beautiful and a joy to explore.
It sounds like a fan who goes by the name of BrucilSprout feels the same way, as they've recreated the overworld from the game tile by tile. This was created by way of Lego Digital Designer Software in case you were wondering -- it's roughly 1,900 pieces if you want to make it yourself.
Wind Waker [imgur]
Comics blogger Michael Furth, editor of The Comic Archive, decided he needed a new way to appreciate the Marvel cinematic universe. So he painstakingly edited all the movies (and some Agents of SHIELD episodes) into chronological order to create the Marvel Omnibus Phase 1, a 12-hour extravaganza.
Many, many MMOs and other such online games (Destiny) have weekly "reset" periods. They usually take place on a Tuesday, and allow you earn raid loot and weekly quest rewards again, as well as earn whatever tokens or currency are part of the "cap" system, designed to elongate the game and prevent players from maxing out their gear instantly.
For the most part, I'm ok with them, as I've gotten used to the idea over many years. But sometimes they annoy the hell out of me, as is the case during the 2014 holidays. This week I have a lot of family related happenings, and I probably won't be able to get to games like Final Fantasy XIV, effectively putting me a week behind my friends.
It's not a huge deal in the slightest, but it got me thinking -- do people even like this concept in the first place? Do "caps" and limitations have any purpose in an MMO or loot-based game? Do you think developers do it to curb addictions or more often than not, just to keep people playing week after week?
I'm interested to hear your thoughts whether you're a veteran of online games and deal with this issue all the time, or you are put off by the concept entirely and avoid them.
You've unwrapped your presents and received everything you'd hoped you'd get. But now what? We've got you covered this holiday season with several guides to help you get acquainted with your brand new gadgets.
It's the Annual Smash Games and Wii Fit Trainer and Mega Man have been chosen as tributes.
The only thing more fun than receiving holiday gifts is... I'm going to go with giving them here, for the sake of not sounding like a monster. But a close second is telling everybody about the presents you secured during the winter festivities. I'll go first!
'tis the season, and Kickstarter's game dev community is making sure none of us forget it. In the past weeks, they've been sending out holiday wishes with their project updates, sometimes including some rather nice art.
Merry Christmas, everyone! (Or, if you don't celebrate the holiday: Have a terrific Thursday!) We hope you all have a great day.
