It seems you're gonna be dealing with a hardened militia instead of an underground terrorist group, so they may be even more macho when they know Fisher's around.

EA announces a mega collection set called "Command & Conquer: The Ultimate Collection" is now available digital for their Origin service with a retail version arriving tomorrow.

The set has been priced at $50 and includes 17 Command & Conquer games, an art book, a compilation soundtrack, and a beta key for the upcoming free-to-play Command & Conquer Generals 2 game arriving next year.

There is a catch though involving the retail version since it is not a physical set and will not include the beta key for C&C Generals 2. Instead it is only a redeemable code for the set on Origin.

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http://www.destructoid.com/bam-comma...d-235988.phtml
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Daily Recap:
1) Major Nelson announces the October 8 XBLA "The Deal of the Week" is a 50% discount for Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown, Dungeon Fighter LIVE, Street Fighter 3 Online Edition, and Super Street Fighter 2 THD.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ighter-titles/
http://majornelson.com/2012/10/02/co...arketplace-16/

2) Major Nelson also confirmed earlier rumors of EA planning to make NBA Live 13 a downloadable title before cancelling the project last week. The game would have cost around $20 but also be heavily stripped of a lot of features.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ital-download/

3) In an interview with NOWGamer, Peter Molyneux states he doesn't care how powerful the next Xbox and PS4 might be, 22Cans will be dissolved after Curiosity is finished, and his current project will end up revolutionizing the industry.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/moly...-console-power
http://www.nowgamer.com/news/1615830...ole_power.html

Justin Beiber is a playable character in NBA 2K13. Not sure why.

Cause they hate us?

Cliffy B is leaving Epic Games.

Good, maybe we won't have Epic pushing for "2 year console life spans" anymore.

Wasn't he the one in Epic pushing against just that?

Looks like I'll be turning fouls off.

Some Stars Wars The Old Republic news as the lead designer leaves Bioware and future content packs might have been hinted at recently.

Two weeks after the founders of Bioware left, another high level employee has left as the lead designer for Stars Wars The Old Republic resigns from the company.

Daniel Erickson made the official announcement today of his resignation but had been hinting for the past several weeks a departure would be immediate. No official reason was given for the departure by him or Bioware though.

Future Star Wars The Old Republic content might have been hinted at from recent game files which tease at a new world boss, new daily quests, HK-51′s missions, and a lot more stuff could be arriving in the near future once the game is relaunched as a free-to-play game.

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http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...eaves-bioware/
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=539855
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Daily Recap:
1) Bethesda announces they have opened up a new development studio called Battlecry Studios which is currently working on an unannounced hybrid FPS and RPG game based on recent job descriptions.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/beth...ounced-project
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...in-studio.aspx

2) Web game developer KIXEYE studio announces they have fired their company manager and three employees after allegations of rampant racism by those individuals were leaked publicly by an employee of the company. The company was previously in trouble over a interview video which was meant to be comedic received negative backlash by the public and media.
http://kotaku.com/5948422/serious-ra...game-developer
http://www.screwattack.com/news/kixe...gations-racism

And I'm still waiting for the HK-51 companion to be available. Instead, they launch a new operation.

Rats fleeing a sinking ship.

Maine Democrat is Supposedly Unfit For Office Because She Loves ‘Poisoning and Stabbing’ in World of Warcraft

http://kotaku.com/5948987/maine-demo...ld-of-warcraft

Fans of the Suikoden series have recently started a movement through Facebook as part of request for Konami to release the PSN versions of Suikoden and Suikoden II outside of Japan.

The group which is called Suikoden Revival Movement stated they will be using other social sites to help with the request with the goal of Konami giving those games a worldwide PSN release.

Unlike other groups, the goal with the requests is to be as polite as possible since they believe it will be more effective than having a petition trashing or threatening a boycott by its members if their demands are not met.

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Daily News:
1) The long delayed downloadable title of Retro City Rampage will be finally getting an actual release date of October 9 for Steam, GOG.com, PS Vita, and PSN (US only). The WiiWare, XBLA, and PSN Europe version will arrive later in the year.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/retr...d-pc-five-days
http://www.destructoid.com/retro-cit...c-236139.phtml

2) Bethesda states they are still having a very difficult time getting the DLC packs for Skyrim to work to the point they might never be released for the console.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...t-good-enough/
http://www.destructoid.com/bethesda-...c-236133.phtml

I need a new Suikoden :'(

I thought the first Suikoden was already on PSN?

It is in North America but not the sequel while I think Europe and Australia has neither of them. Only Japan has both of them.

Son, you know what's getting redone?

Baldur's Gate.

And as much as I don't care about video games, I'm gonna play this motherfucker so hard.

I know, fucking gutted the PC version has been delayed. The iPad version should be out soon if you have one of those things.

According to 343 Studios, the company would rather kill off the Master Chief character than have his face be shown if those were the only two options available.

In an interview with Eurogamer, Frank O’Connor revealed they don't feel the time is ready to physically reveal Master Chief's face. They did tease its possible to make an accurate mental image of his face based on past Halo books.

In terms of actually killing him off as a character, they have discussed it being possible for storyline reasons but not anytime soon. If it were to ever occur it would have to be done to benefit the overall story itself and not solely for shock reasons.

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Daily Recap:
1) Hackers managed to recreate the episode of South Park involving World of Warcraft after a group of Level 1 characters started to kill off entire populations across several servers before being stopped by Blizzard.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/wow-...-hackers-blame
http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/10/07/re...ertain-realms/

2) Actor Jerry Lambert, Bridgestone, and Wildcat Creek Inc are all currently being sued by Sony after Lambert appeared in a Bridgestone commercial which promoted the Wii as part of their current contest. Sony is claiming they own the physical likeness to Kevin Butler and are suing for damages regardless of Lambert not playing the Butler character in the commercial.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/upda...g-kevin-butler
http://www.destructoid.com/sony-sues...t-236246.phtml

3) According to the Verge, Windows 8 will not be using the MS Points system for marketplace purchases with other sources rumoring the entire Points system for other Microsoft products will be dropped at the end of 2012.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-in-windows-8/
http://www.destructoid.com/windows-8...s-236277.phtml

Like Hell they would kill Chief. My guess is he will be changed by the Promethean tech in some way. I still believe Cortana will somehow extend her life with a new physical body sort of deal.

They must have gotten their hands on The Sword of a Thousand Truths.

I came.

HD remake?

Sony's lawsuit demands Jerry get extensive facial surgery so his likeness no longer resembles Kevin Butler.

EA announces Battlefield Bad Company is being made into a tv series which will be handled by Happy Madison Productions as a comedy series for FOX.

According to early details about the show, it is being envision as a modern version of the classic A-Team tv show with the members of Bad Company leaving the military to work for a private company. Each episode is also being planned to last about an hour. The writer for Alias and Felicity, John Eisendrath, has joined as the lead writer for the show.

No tentative dates regarding a potential debut were not revealed although the show is currently in the very early stage of production.

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Daily Recap:
1) Ubisoft teases a huge Splinter Cell announcement is immanent with it possibly being a new comic or animated show for the series based on the teaser released.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-announcement/

2) Major Nelson announces a current contest to win a free year's worth of Xbox Live has started with the only requirement being you tell him which game released this week you want to play the most.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...gold-as-prize/

That could work.

I don't know what's worse. Fox being dumb enough to make this into a show. Or Adam Sandler having a hand in this.

New rules regarding the content usage policy for Microsoft properties could potentially ban Machinima and others bin the future from making videos with their game content in them.

The new policy affects all games published by Microsoft regardless of their status as a first or third party game.

The decision also specifically targets anyone on Yotube who tries to profit from videos containing their footage but will not target advertisers of those videos as long as the ad revenues do not go to the people who created the videos.

While Halo 4 could potentially be the first affected by the new rules, 343 Studios thinks it won't be an issue and have no issue with Halo-related videos being made. They do emphasis Microsoft is mostly targeting those who have no deals with them under the new rules.

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Daily Recap:
1) Update to Microsoft phasing out MS Points for Windows 8 as the company states they are not dropping the Points system any time soon for the Xbox 360.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-on-xbox-live/
http://www.destructoid.com/microsoft...e-236407.phtml

2) Valve announces they are beginning to hire people to playtest several new "prototype" hardware units with the main emphasis on hiring people who are primary console users.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/valv...s-and-hardware
http://www.destructoid.com/sign-up-f...e-236370.phtml

3) Square Enix recently explained the reason their games tend to be more the most expensive on mobile devices is due to them feeling the "high quality graphics" and hours worth of gameplay is worth the price to consumers. They also addressed criticisms of having high priced ports by saying they are a lot lower than what they were priced on their original platforms.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...so-much-money/

Should be interesting to see how Arby and Chief deals with this.

Doubt most of the big machinima makers will be effected by it.

Red vs Blue and Machinima.com (with everything in it) are in the clear.

Thing is, this was already kinda against the agreement previously. They simply made it more explicit.

Retro City Rampage is phenomenal. Get it on PSN or PC right now you slags.

Sort of kinda vaguely interested in maybe checking it out sometime, perhaps.

Betting it'll require an HD TV for no real reason, thus making text unreadable.

Leaked. Set for release on the 13th of November.
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Eh. Games are great but this collection seems eh.

Thought they would have thrown GTA 4 on there.

"All winners of the IGN Editors Choice Award" cheapens it slightly.

The 'other' Comic-Con starts tomorrow. Gonna be a busy news week.

I've lost count of how many Jewish people greet me with "Howdy".