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PlayStation Flash Sale: Deals Under $5

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Don’t wait too long, our Deals Under $5 Flash Sale ends at 9:00 a.m. Pacific on Monday, May 18.

Check out the full lineup:

Games
Title Platform Sale Price Original Price
Ace Combat Assault Horizon PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Air Conflicts: Pacific Carriers PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Alter Echo PS3 $4.90 $9.99
Battlefield 3 PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Battlefield Bad Company 2 PS3 $4.80 $19.99
BioShock PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Borderlands PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Borderlands 2 PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Burnout Paradise PS3 $4.95 $14.99
Darksiders PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Ducktales: Remastered PS3 $4.95 $14.99
Frozen Synapse Prime PS3 $4.80 $19.99
I Am Alive PS3 $4.95 $14.99
Injustice: Gods Among Us PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Jeopardy! PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Kickbeat PS3 $3.50 $9.99
Krinkle Krusher PS3 $4.00 $9.99
LittleBigPlanet PS3 $4.80 $19.99
LittleBigPlanet 2 PS3 $4.80 $19.99
LittleBigPlanet Karting PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Mamorukun Curse! PS3 $3.50 $9.99
Mass Effect Trilogy PS3 $4.80 $29.99
Medal Of Honor Warfighter PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Moto GP14 PS3 $4.80 $39.99
Mx Va. Atv Alive PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Nascar ’14 PS3 $4.50 $49.99
NBA Jam: On Fire Edition / NFL Blitz – Bundle PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Need For Speed Hot Pursuit PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Need For Speed The Run PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Ni No Kuni: Wrath Of The White Witch PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Okami Hd PS3 $4.90 $13.99
Pac-Man Museum PS3 $4.80 $19.99
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Prince of Persia Classic PS3 $3.50 $9.99
Prince of Persia Sands of Time HD PS3 $4.95 $14.99
Prince Of Persia The Two Thrones HD PS3 $4.95 $14.99
Prince of Persia Warrior Within HD PS3 $4.95 $14.99
Raiden IV: OverKill PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Red Faction Armageddon PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Red Faction Guerilla PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Terraria Full Game Unlock PS3 $4.95 $14.99
The Jackbox Party Pack PS3 $4.75 $24.99
The Raven – Legacy of a Master Thief PS3 $4.50 $29.99
The Walking Dead – Season Pass PS3 $4.95 $14.99
The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Tiny Brains PS3 $3.50 $9.99
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Chaos Theory HD PS3 $4.95 $14.99
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell HD PS3 $4.95 $14.99
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow HD PS3 $4.95 $14.99
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD PS3 $4.95 $14.99
Wheel of Fortune PS3 $4.80 $19.99
Zombie Driver HD PS3 $4.00 $9.99
Don’t Starve: Console Edition PS4 $4.95 $14.99
Don’t Starve: Console Edition + Reign of Giants Expansion PS4 $4.94 $18.99
Entwined PS4 $3.00 $9.99
Escape Goat 2 PS4 $4.00 $9.99
Krinkle Krusher PS4 $4.00 $9.99
Nano Assault NEO-X PS4 $4.00 $9.99
Nidhogg PS4 $4.95 $14.99
Outlast PS4 $4.80 $19.99
Peggle 2 Magical Masters Edition PS4 $4.95 $14.99
Pure Chess Complete Bundle PS4 $3.60 $14.99
Pure Pool PS4 $4.80 $19.99
Super Mega Baseball PS4 $4.80 $19.99
Terraria: PS4 Edition PS4 $4.80 $19.99
The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season PS4 $4.75 $24.99
The Wolf Among Us PS4 $4.75 $24.99
Tiny Brains PS4 $3.50 $9.99
Trials Fusion PS4 $4.80 $19.99
Yorbie PS4 $4.00 $9.99
Flower PS4 / PS3 / Vita $1.40 $6.99
Monster Hunter Freedom Unite PSP / Vita $4.80 $19.99
NBA 2K13 PSP / Vita $4.80 $19.99
Prince of Persia Revelations PSP / Vita $3.50 $9.99
Prince of Persia Rival Swords PSP / Vita $3.50 $9.99
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands PSP / Vita $4.80 $19.99
Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max PSP / Vita $3.50 $9.99
Tekken PSP / Vita $4.95 $14.99
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Essentials PSP / Vita $3.50 $9.99
Don’t Starve: Giant Edition PS Vita $4.95 $14.99
Freedom Wars PS Vita $4.80 $29.99
Frozen Synapse Prime PS Vita $4.80 $19.99
Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational PS Vita $4.99 $13.49
KickBeat PS Vita $3.50 $9.99
Krinkle Krusher PS Vita $4.00 $9.99
LittleBigPlanet PS Vita $4.86 $17.99
Mortal Kombat PS Vita $4.80 $19.99
MotoGP14 PS Vita $3.90 $29.99
Nidhogg PS Vita $4.95 $14.99
Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD PS Vita $4.95 $14.99
Soul Sacrifice Delta PS Vita $4.86 $17.99
Terraria PS Vita $4.95 $14.99
The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season PS Vita $4.80 $19.99
Movies
Title SD Original Rental Price SD Rental
Sale Price		 HD Original Rental Price HD Rental Sale Price
Act of Valor $3.99 $2.99 $4.99 $3.99
Brick Mansions $3.99 $2.99 $4.99 $3.99
Devil’s Knot $3.99 $0.99 $4.99 $1.99
Earth to Echo $4.99 $2.99 $5.99 $3.99
Frankenstein Vs The Mummy $3.99 $0.99 $4.99 $1.99
Hacker Wars $3.99 $0.99 $4.99 $0.99
Jimi: All is by My Side $3.99 $0.99 $4.99 $0.99
Killers $2.99 $1.49 $3.99 $1.49
Left Behind $2.99 $0.99 $3.99 $0.99
Oculus $3.99 $2.99 $4.99 $3.99
Outcast US $3.99 $0.99 $4.99 $0.99
Resident Evil $2.99 $2.49 $3.99 $2.49
Supremacy $2.99 $1.49 $3.99 $1.49
Sword of Vengeance $6.99 $1.49 $7.99 $1.49
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles $3.99 $1.49 $4.99 $1.49
The Rewrite $3.99 $0.99 $4.99 $1.99
These Final Hours $2.99 $1.49 $3.99 $1.49
Think Like a Man $2.99 $2.49 $3.99 $2.49
Top 5 $4.99 $1.49 $5.99 $1.49
Underworld $2.99 $2.49 $3.99 $2.49
Vengeance of an Assassin $2.99 $1.49 $3.99 $1.49
Wolfcop $3.99 $0.99 $4.99 $1.99
Zombieworld $3.99 $0.99 $4.99 $1.99

via Flash Sale Now: Deals Under $5 – PlayStation.Blog.

The Oculus Rift’s Recommended PC Specs released

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Today in a blog post, Atman Binstock; chief architect and technical director for the Rift, dropped the skinny on what kind of hardware you are going to need in order to get what he called “the full Rift experience”. And fair warning, it is not for the faint of heart, there are going to be a LOT of people looking to upgrade in order to play games properly on the Rift. So without further ado, here are the recommended specs to get “the full Rift experience”

  • NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD 290 equivalent or greater
  • Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater
  • 8GB+ RAM
  • Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output (required)
  • 2x USB 3.0 ports (required)
  • Windows 7 SP1 or newer (required)

Like I said, not for the fair not heart as those are some fairly steep requirements, and we imagine that a lot of people will be looking to upgrade some hardware over the next 6-10 months before the Rift is released.

They also went on to say that they are going to be using those specs over the “lifetime of the Rift”, and as time goes on, naturally that hardware or the equivalent will come down in price. They are using this as a standard so that “Developers, in turn, can rely on Rift users having these modern machines, allowing them to optimize their game for a known target, simplifying development.”
He also went on to explain some of the resolution and latency details of the consumer model;

A traditional 1080p game at 60Hz requires 124 million shaded pixels per second. In contrast, the Rift runs at 2160×1200 at 90Hz split over dual displays, consuming 233 million pixels per second. At the default eye-target scale, the Rift’s rendering requirements go much higher: around 400 million shaded pixels per second. This means that by raw rendering costs alone, a VR game will require approximately 3x the GPU power of 1080p rendering.

You can read the whole, very detailed blog post over here.

Still no word on the pricing for the Rift when it is released sometime in Q1 of next year, but it is great to start seeing more details trickle out.

By Dayne “Anjel” Cody
Twitter- @DayneCody

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Reviews

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Witcher 3

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is the third game in the series, which started off on PC. The game takes protagonist Geralt of Rivia on a quest to track down Ciri, the Child of Prophecy. Ciri will even play a much bigger role later on. In parts of the game you’ll get to control her, a first for the series.

Here are the scores, and as usual, they’re out of ten, unless where noted.

Gamespot – 10
IGN – 9.3
Kotaku – Yes
GameTrailers – 9.8
Metro – 9
IGN Italy – 9.1
GamesVillage – 8.7
Gram.pl – 8.5
PlayStation Trophies – 92 / 100
Eurogamer – no score

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is out May 19 on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

via The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt reviews – everything in one place | VG247.

ARK: Survival Evolved Announced for PS4 and Project Morpheus

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ARK Riding

Today Studio Wildcard announced, ARK: Survival Evolved, an open world dinosaur survival game.  Along with this little nugget, they also came out along with Sony and announced that this would be coming to the PS4, and not only that, but that they are building it for Project Morpheus as well! So this would make it the first official Project Morpheus game to be announced. Along with the announcement they also released this gameplay video as well.


The game has you the the player, playing either a man or a woman stranded on a an Island called ARK that is inhabited by all sorts of dinosaurs and other primitive creatures, and you must use your wit and cunning to create tools, tame some of the dinosaurs and learn to survive.

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The player will be forced to hunt, harvest resources, craft items, grow crops, research technologies, and build shelters to withstand the elements, while teaming up with or preying upon hundreds of other players to survive, all while trying to escape.

ARK Dino

ARK Compass

They have also stated that the game will be coming for PC/MAC on Steam as well as Xbox One, no word on whither or not they will be supporting Occulus or the HTC Vive on PC or not, but here is hoping.

ARK dodo

No Official release date has been given yet, but they are doing a Steam early access release on June 2nd for anyone interested in getting in a little early.

ARK Croc

By Dayne “Anjel” Cody
Twitter- @DayneCody

Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 5 Announced

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It has been more then a decade since we have seen a new Pro Skater, but it looks like Activision has decided it is time. They have announced the new Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5 will be coming to Xbox One, PS4, PS3 as well as Xbox 360.

Robomodo, the developer of the previous Tony Hawk: Ride, Shred and Pro Skater HD is at the helm, and they are claiming that they are heading back to the roots of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series in this, which mean missions, power-ups and all sorts of ridiculousness.

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They are hoping to create a seamless online world were you can be online and playing with friends and then be offline and have the transition be invisible to the user. They are also saying that players will be able to create and design their own skate parks and share them online.

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Activision has come out and said that the game will be 20$ cheaper on Xbox 360 and PS3, and that some of the “seamless” online play may not make it onto those platforms.

No release date has been announced yet

By Dayne “Anjel” Cody
Twitter- @DayneCody

Heroes of the Storm: Kael’thas Hero Reveal

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Kael'Thas

Heroes of the Storm proudly presents Kael’thas.

via Heroes of the Storm: Kael’thas – YouTube.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – RAGE & STEEL Trailer

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Witcher 3

You don’t mess with Geralt! See the brutal trailer now! Viewer discretion is advised.

via The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – RAGE & STEEL – YouTube.

Get The Witcher 3 and Batman: Arkham Knight free with purchase of new Nvidia GPUs

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Those thinking about getting a GTX 980, or its more affordable brother the GTX 970, will be very happy to know that Nvidia will throw in free copies of both The Witcher 3 and Batman: Arkham Knight when you buy either of the cards.

The GPU manufacturer revealed the promotion recently.

You will receive a copy of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with purchase of all 900 series cards. Purchase of the higher-end cards (GTX 980 or GTX 970) gets you both The Witcher 3 and Arkham Knight.

The offer is valid through June 1 at participating retailers around the world.

via Get The Witcher 3 and Batman: Arkham Knight free with purchase of new Nvidia GPUs | VG247.

Oculus Rift will be shipping to consumers in Q1 2016

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Oculus Rift will be shipping to consumers in Q1 2016, with pre-orders later this year.

The Oculus Rift builds on the presence, immersion, and comfort of the Crescent Bay prototype with an improved tracking system that supports both seated and standing experiences, as well as a highly refined industrial design, and updated ergonomics for a more natural fit.

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In the weeks ahead, Oculus will be revealing the details around hardware, software, input, and many of unannounced made-for-VR games and experiences coming to the Rift. Next week, Oculus will share more of the technical specifications on the Oculus blog.

via Oculus Blog

Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition Announcement Trailer

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Star Wars

Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition now welcomes Star Wars to the ever-growing collection of Marvel, Disney and Disney•Pixar characters, stories and worlds. This fall, Join Forces with some of your favorite characters as you play in their galaxies in story-driven adventures inside Play Sets or create your own universe in the Toy Box! Disney Infinity is the only game franchise where fans can play with Disney, Disney•Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars characters together in one experience.

About the game:

• Three Star Wars Play Sets, one set in the timeline of Episodes I-III, the second set during the original trilogy, Episodes IV-VI, and the third available this winter based on Star Wars: The Force Awakens

• Additional Play Sets offering distinct gameplay and environments, including a Disney•Pixar Play Set based on the upcoming film Inside Out, and a Marvel Play Set featuring Hulkbuster Iron Man, Ultron, and other Marvel characters

• A fully enhanced Toy Box with two new multiplayer Toy Box Expansion Games, Toy Box Speedway (kart racing) and Toy Box Takeover (action-adventure)

• More figures of fan-favorite characters from across The Walt Disney Company, like Mickey and Minnie, Sam Flynn and Quorra from Tron: Legacy, Mulan and Olaf, among many others

Each of the Star Wars Play Sets offers distinct experiences, with varied gameplay, environments and characters. The Star Wars: Twilight of the Republic Play Set takes place in the height of the Jedi’s powers, where players will use the Force and Lightsabers in epic battles and master their combat skills alongside Ahsoka Tano, Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Darth Maul. The Star Wars: Rise Against the Empire Play Set will take players on galaxy-spanning missions with Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia Organa, Han Solo, Chewbacca and Darth Vader, piloting X-wing fighters or the Millennium Falcon to fight stormtroopers, or exploring and partaking in land-based missions on planets like Tatooine, Hoth, and Endor. Additionally, fans will have the unique opportunity to play with all of the Star Wars characters in all of the Star Wars Play Sets.

via Announcement Trailer – Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition – YouTube.