This week in games: Steam’s aborted auction, Paul McCartney’s a hologram, and much more - lokencarturestry85

Alien: Closing off is now baby friendly? Car surfboarding? Sir Paul McCartney is a hologram? That must think of information technology's time for another episode of your pet hebdomadally gaming wrap-up, Absent Pieces.

Martin Luther King me

It finally happened! Thanks to some bad fabulous Black Friday bundles, the Xbox One in conclusion outsold the PlayStation 4 last month. It's the first time Microsoft's console has outsold Sony's in nearly a year, bringing an end to a pretty incredible streak on Sony's piece.

Of class, Sony's console is still the overall leader with approximately 13 million consoles sold-out compared to the Xbox Unmatchable's 10 billion.

Bated breath

Some other month, some other prognosticate that The Last Guardian is still on its way. This week Kotaku translated an interview Dengeki Playstation conducted with Fumito Ueda, wherein he same, "Talks with Sony Computer Amusement on The Last Guardian have got been ironed out, and we'atomic number 75 making come on under completely new conditions. I'm also working on other things that I'll hopefully be able to appearance in time if progress is smooth over."

Selected: Dangerous Expectations

It's no big secret I'm a fan of Elite group: Dangerous and its space exploration/trade, even in its current beta form. I've in writing many articles about the game, I've worn-out hours strapped into an Oculus Rift flying spaceships round—it's uppercase.

The Selected: Dangerous launch dawdler conveys nothing about wherefore the game is goodness. It is all pre-rendered CG and combat and it looks like the beginning of the third Star Wars motion-picture show. If you think this is what Elite: Dangerous is like, you're going to be sorely disappointed when you spend an hour mindlessly flying your embark across empty-bellied space to open a sunrise trade storage.

Babe mode

Alien: Isolation added cardinal more difficulty options this hebdomad: Novitiate and Nightmare. The former is for critics who thought the game was too hard, the latter for psychopaths WHO thought it was overly well-to-do. In Incubus mode, even your motion tracker is broken.

I'm ne'er going to toy with it, but check out this gorgeous retro poster Sega made to show cancelled the new mode:

Also in Exotic: Isolation news, Fanciful Assembly told AVPGalaxy that discussions are swirling about a sequel.

Mend 4

Accordant to Ubisoft, a leading patch is coming on December 15 that should fasten the lingering issues with Assassin's Creed: Wholeness. You know, a month after release.

A league of their own

Twitch bought GoodGame this hebdomad, a talent way that works with esports teams. Under the terms of the deal, Twitch at once manages Devilish Geniuses and Alliance, two of the major teams in the esports scenery.

Number one of all, it seems shady for Twitch to own a stake in something that IT broadcasts, like Comcast owning a TV send. (OH waiting.) Simply instant of all, why the Hel is buying an e-sports team a priority for Twitch over, I don't know, bolstering its server substructure?

Auctioneering

Last night Valve announced the first of all time "Holiday Vendue," which would allow players to clear out old inventory items in exchange for gems, and then those gems could be used to dictation connected mettlesome codes from now until December 18 (the rumored start of the Vacation Sale).

This morning the auction was already suspended, aft users discovered duping exploits and ruined the whole process. Valve is manifestly working on a fix, and the status of accounts who took advantage of duping is unknown.

Just because

Switch tack together, if you're still curious why I'm so excited about the prospect of a Just Cause 3, I recommend looking at this screenshot:

Los Santos absolute

Ever so since GTA V HD came proscribed, there've been some incredible fan videos highlighting different aspects of the world. I showed off the underwater wildlife documentary a a few weeks ago, but this "Los Santos Aside Night" video by The XXI is even as deserving:

I desire to hold your hologram

In often dumber news, that awful song Paul McCartney wrote for Destiny is now a fledged music telecasting, complete with a written version of the man himself:

Quarrel go wrong me.

Loss of a legend

And for our final piece of news this week, industry legend Ralph Baer passed away this hebdomad. Baer was best known for inventing the home console—he created the "Brown Box" in 1966, which subsequently went on to be sold-out as the Magnavox Odyssey.

More reading

Information technology's a reviews bonanza As I furiously try to drive out my backlog before the year ends. This week we had "racing game"The Bunch, puzzler The Talos Rationale, make-me-sad game This War of Mine, and family-friendly The Last Tinker.

Also this week:

• The Witcher 3 is delayed
• A ton of games were announced at The Plot Awards and PlayStation Experience—including a Day of the Tentacle make over and The Banner Saga II
• EA is giving away copies of SimCity 2000
• Microsoft hints (again) at PC gaming news future day presently
• The Intel Extreme Edgar Lee Masters tournament took place last weekend
• AMD's new Accelerator Omega drivers are packed full of features

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/430831/this-week-in-games-steams-aborted-auction-paul-mccartneys-a-hologram-and-much-more.html

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