PlayStation is inviting fans across the US and Canada to come together and watch the excitement and announcements of E3 LIVE in movie theaters across North America. Attendees will get access to an exclusive 30 minute post-show hosted by Geoff Keighley and a special PlayStation surprise. Get your tickets while they last:
Official Mad Max Story Trailer Drops, Shows Us a Savage Road
So the guys over at Avalanche Studio’s dropped this sweet new Mad Max trailer on us. It shows off a bit more of the story and some of the world, lots of in game driving footage and some of cutscenes. If you are interested in this game, it is definitely worth a watch, and after how good the movie was, we have high hopes that the game will deliver as well.
Mad Max is due out on September 1st for Xbox One, PS4 and PC.
You can check out even more over on their website.
By Dayne “Anjel” Cody
Twitter- @DayneCody
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt- Graphics Comparison
Today our friends over at IGN dropped this very kool video showing off the graphics comparison between the PC, Xbox One, and the PS4. All in all the take away here is that the PC version looks far and away the best, that is of course assuming you have a PC that can run it well. Take a look at the video below, and let us know what version you guys think looks the best.
By Dayne “Anjel” Cody
Twitter- @DayneCody
More Bloodborne is Incoming, DLC Expansion Confirmed!
Bloodborne Fans of the world can rejoice, knowing that there is more of their beloved game on the way. Yesterday on Twitter, President of Sony Computer Entertainment’s World Wide Studio’s, Shuhei Yoshida responded to fans asking if there would be DLC for Bloodborne. His response…
So I have been asked by many people if we are making DLC for Bloodborne. I can say… An expansion is coming. More info later this year. 😀
— Shuhei Yoshida (@yosp) May 21, 2015
So my friends, there you have it, more Bloodborne for you is incoming this fall, and If I had to guess, I imagine we will be hearing more about this at E3 in the coming weeks.
By Dayne “Anjel” Cody
Twitter- @DayneCody
Need For Speed Announced, Open World “Full Reboot” On the Way
The new Need For Speed has been announced today by it’s developer, Ghost Games. This is going to be, as they said “a full reboot” of the series. This new game is being developed for the PS4, Xbox One and the PC and is going to be an open world, day-to-night racing game. The first look at this new game is shown in the teaser trailer below.
They have said it will offer the kinds of deep customizations that fans of the series have come to know and love and have even teamed up with EA’s own Speedhunters website, it will also offer an immersive narrative, a first for the series.
Not many details were given about this new game other then a a full gameplay trailer will be coming on June 15th, and that many more details will be shown at E3.
This new entry into the Need for Speed franchise is scheduled to hit gamers this fall. We will be following E3 and will let you all know when we have more details.
By Dayne “Anjel” Cody
Twitter- @DayneCody
Geekoholics Anonymous Episode 9 is LIVE!
In this weeks episode we play The Witcher 3, Destiny House of Wolves and Rogue Legacy. This weeks news includes Microsoft swinging the Ban Hammer, DOOM is teased, Oculus Specs are revealed, Bloodborne DLC is announced and H1Z1 cheaters beg for forgiveness. Also this week we begin the E3 hype train with speculation about what Sony and Microsoft might have up their sleeves. Check it out using the links below and please take the time to give us a 5 star review on iTunes or wherever you download our show. Reviews help us reach more listeners, and the feedback helps us to produce a better show. Thanks for listening!
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Launch Trailer “Go Your Way”
In Wild Hunt, you as Geralt embark on your most epic and dangerous journey yet. Your mission — to find the child of prophecy, an ashen-haired girl, a living and highly volatile weapon everyone wants to control. The stakes have never been higher: the Elder Blood flowing in the child’s veins can bring about a final end. The fate of worlds lies with you.
via The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Launch Trailer (“Go Your Way”) – YouTube.
PlayStation Flash Sale: Deals Under $5
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 |
The Oculus Rift’s Recommended PC Specs released
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
Geekoholics Anonymous Episode 8 is LIVE!
In this weeks episode we play more Marvel Heroes, The Witcher 2 and Splatoon. This weeks news includes tons of Nintendo, Theme parks, Nintendo at E3 and the Return of the Nintendo World Championships. Bloodstained is launched and funded within hours on Kickstarter, Sony announces the first Project Morpheus game Ark, and the Witcher 3 is getting excellent reviews around the web. Assassin’s Creed Syndicate is announced, The Division is delayed and the PS4 is hacked? Finally in entertainment we talk about the new Supergirl trailer. Check it out using the links below and please take the time to give us a 5 star review on iTunes or wherever you download our show. Reviews help us reach more listeners, and the feedback helps us to produce a better show. Thanks for listening!
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