Gaming News of The Week

This week had enough gaming news to keep me excited for the rest of the year.  Today, we get to cover a little bit of Playstation, Final Fantasy XIV and Guild Wars 2 news!

Playstation 4 Launching This Holiday Season

The Playstation 4 was announced earlier this week.  It is set to be released in the later part of the year during the holiday season.  It is said to have 8gb of system memory and houses a highly enhanced PC GPU and a custom chip that has 8 cores.  For full specs, take a look here.

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Benchmark Test Available

Square Enix has released a Benchmark test for potential players to use to see if their computers make the cut to play their re-release of their second MMO of the Final Fantasy franchise.  The benchmark will run through a series of scenes full of particle effects to test the effectiveness of your machine and give you a score in the end to see how it runs.  They stress on their page that this is NOT the game and you can not play the game using this benchmark so don't expect much from this other than just another way to see how your computer performs.  If you would like to try the benchmark your self, you canf ind it on the official Final Fantasy XIV website.

Guild Wars 2 Trailer for Guild Missions Revealed

Arenanet released a trailer for Guild Missions today.  Not really much can be said about this except that it looks promising and seems to exceed what I was hoping for when I was asking for content for guilds to do as a group and I am excited to give this a shot.  Richie Procopio at Gamebreaker TV did a great article about it here.

And now to cut this a little short because it is time to get to work but if there are any other games or news you would like me to cover next week, feel free to leave a comment and let me know!  I am always willing to look into new things.  See you guys next week!

Gaming News of The Week

Hello again, folks.  This week, I felt I would start a new feature for the site called Gaming News of the Week.  Yes, not too fancy of a name but it gets the point across!  Each week, I will be sharing with you the gaming news that I thought was exciting.  Now that I am done with this introduction, let's get on to business!

World of Warcraft Subscriber Numbers Drop

Though this shouldn't be too surprising, the number of subscribers for the popular game franchise has dropped to 9.6 million, which is a drop from over 10 million reported subscribers from their quarter three statistics released in 2012.  Again, this shouldn't be too surprising because typically around this length of time, subscribers drop when they start to get bored of the current content and wait for the next tier of content.  Obviously, not the end of the world (of Warcraft.  Old joke is old).

The Witcher Franchise Not to Soon Be Over

Recent statements from Adam Badowski made it seem rather doom and gloom for a future of The Witcher franchise but that is not the case.  According to CD Projekt RED, The Witcher 3 will be a finale for the current trilogy but they are leaving it open for a future for the franchise.

Tiny Tina in Borderlands 2 Might Get a New Personality in Future Content

This past week, people took to twitter to request lead writer Anthony Burch to change Tiny Tina's dialog for fear that it is considered racist.  After much debate among twitter users, Mr. Burch was asked if he would re-write her dialog and he stated "That’s not actually feasible within the technical constraints of the game, but I’d alter her dialog in any future Borderlands 2 stuff."

Guild Wars 2 to Get an Expansion

Korean Investment Firm KDB Daewoo Securities released a report this month that we are to expect to see a Guild Wars 2 expansion in the near future (estimated to be released during the 2nd half of 2013).  The following is an excerpt from this page.

We anticipate NCsoft will also launch a mobile version of Blade & Soul in 1H through one of Japan’s leading mobile-gaming platform operators, DeNA. NCsoft plans to roll out its new title WildStar (currently being developed by US-based Carbine Studios) in 2H using CD packages in the US and Europe. It also intends to launch Guild Wars 2 in China, Taiwan, and Japan. An expansion pack for Guild Wars 2 is slated for a 2H release in the US and Europe. 

So that is the news of the big gaming news of the week for you.  If you like this, please check back next week for some more gaming news.  As always, you can follow me on twitter with @lethrface and you can subscribe to this blogger page for more news and updates as I post them.