Reboot: This Week In Games: The "Destiny" of "The Bureau" and "Titanfall"

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Gaming is complex, so catch up each week with the short and dirty in Reboot: This Week In Games.

Hey! You want to know what you'll be doing the winter and spring of 2014? Not leaving the house. With Sony finally revealing the launch date and line-up of the PlayStation 4 and Microsoft also rolling out its day one and launch window games, chances are you won't see daylight until next summer.

The Bureau: XCOM Declassified finally completed the prophecy of a shooter for the XCOM series this week while last year's hit XCOM title gets a huge new DLC. Rounding out the biggest comeback in over 20 year old games’ history.

Too stressed-out over your demanding video game schedule and the financial ruin following the cash-out of your 401k to buy video games? Then relax with Grand Theft Auto V's very own Yoga guru. Don't worry he absolutely, 100 percent doesn’t want to try to rape you.

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Jetpack armor, falling mechs from the sky and mid-air sniping, yes please. Titanfall is the sickest looking next-gen game we've seen yet. Titanfall is the first game from Respawn. A developer studio which is made up of ex Call of Duty: Modern Warfare developers from Infinity Ward. Titanfall won many critics 'Best In Show' at E3 and for good reason. Look at this trailer and tell us that Spring 2014 doesn't sound like it's a million years away.

Capcom also released a CGI trailer this week for the upcoming Dead Rising 3, a little potty mouthed, a little skunk hair, this game still looks awesome to us. It features shotgun-wielding zombies - just one of the many new, smarter zombie types - that may be a tinny bit smarter than the general hordes. New zombie types will include cops, prisoners, and football players.

Also this week announced a complex social environment surrounding The Division. The Division is an open world always-online RPG, action-shooter hybrid that takes place in a post-infection, destroyed New York City that promises a social environment that allows player to freely trade and form alliances within the world.

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After over ten years of on-again off-again development the XCOM series finally got its first real shooter adaptation. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified was release earlier this week. Check out our full review of the game and lots of extra coverage. Also take a look at the long and crazy history of the XCOM franchise. Also announced this week is an expansion DLC to last year's critical hit, XCOM Enemy Unknown in Enemy Within which will feature high tech levels and yes, flame-throwing mechs.

XCOM Enemy Within is set to drop in November.

Do you...yoga?

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youtu.be Turismo 6 drops December 6, just in time for you to toss it on your Holiday wish list. Right now Sony is offering a pretty sick pre-order deal for the insanely realistic racing sim. Those of you that pre-order will be eligi

Gran Turismo 6 drops December 6, just in time for you to toss it on your Holiday wish list. Right now Sony is offering a pretty sick pre-order deal for the insanely realistic racing simulation. Those of you that pre-order check out the sweet extras here.

In other automotive news, This teaser photo was posted to the Rockstar Games website with the headline "Coming Soon: The 2013 GTAV Bravado Banshee." Bravado is the fictional car manufacturer that makes the Banshee in the Grand Theft Auto franchise, we're hoping to break the fourth-wall and get our hands on one soon.

In other tech heavy news check out the future of under-the-hood in this sweet CryEngine demo, splash those puddles!

But if you need more than just bodywork, Grand Theft Auto V offers to get under your hood via Master Private Yoga Instructor Fabien LaRouche, who really wants to put some knowledge inside you.

November 15

If you though Xbox One had a crazy set of launch titles check out what Sony is bringing to the table:


  • NBA 2K14

  • Madden NFL 25

  • Killzone Shadow Fall

  • Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

  • Battlefield 4

  • Watch Dogs

  • Blacklight: Retribution

  • Call of Duty: Ghosts

Just to name a few, check out the full list here.

To go with this crazy luanch line-up, Sony has annouced, officially, that the PlayStation 4 will launch of November 15. More exciting than that, the Vita and PS3 are getting price cuts. Sony announced that it was slashing the price of  the PlayStation Vita from $250 to $199 here in the States. The new Vita price drop takes place tomorrow and will be followed up with a "significant" discount for the cost of its memory cards. As of right now they go for $14 for the 4GB, $37 for the 16GB, and $80 for the 32GB version.

In other Sony news, They've announced at a Gamescom press event, that a big screen adaptation of Watch Dogs has been confirmed in Variety later that afternoon. This isn't the first property that's been optioned for a Hollywood partnership. Ubisoft announced that an Assassin's Creed film is in the works as well. According the Variety,

Levo- what?

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While I would never go out of my way to call the Xbox One sexy per se, it is hard to deny the computing power that will soon grace living rooms. It is a bit of a turn on. Given the features that follow you might come to OXM's way of thinking.

First off, Destiny the halo RPG-shooter spin off looks incredible, but honestly a little hard to imagine how such a large world could be accessed by a little ol’ FPS character. Check out the gameplay dairy and try not to drool on yourself.

Next we have Microsoft's sizzle trailer for launch window (not day one) titles, and yes it also look glorious, is it bad that the trailers of games are usually more satisfying than the game themselves? Naw, it’s still pretty. But Microsoft backed it up with the official list of games you'll have access to day one. With a list of 23 titles for launch including: Assassin's Creed IV, Ballfield 4, Call of Duty: Ghosts, FIFA 14 and many others it's looking to be a very indoor Christmas.

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