GamingGeekly: The Roundup (October 18 - 24) *Better Late Than Never Edition*
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Gaming:
- Rise of the Tomb Raider DLC trailer.
- Dark Souls 3 Beta gameplay.
- Ubisoft's UPlay reward program becomes Ubisoft Club.
- Sega trademarks a new Valkyria Chronicles called "Valkyria of the Blue Revolution".
- Overkill adds microtransactions to Payday 2 although they said they never would. Then they add items that bypass the pay system due to overwhelming negative response.
- Pokken Tournament takes arcades with a whimper.
- Kojima has a farewell party. Konami denies this happened (despite photo proof) and tells the press that he is just on a "long vacation."
- Just Cause 3 gets a story trailer.
- King of Fighters XIV will be playable at PlayStation Experience 2015.
- Episode 6 of Game of Thrones is dated for November 17th.
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails in The Sky Second Chapter launch date announced.
- COD: BLOPS3 gameplay, and more gamplay.
- COD: BLOPS3 season pass details.
- Black Friday deals are incoming.
- XBone gets a custom Fallout 4 controller.
- Twitch app launches on PS4.
- Street Fighter V beta 2 starts.
- Divinity: Original Sin enhancement trailer.
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided in-game trailer.
- Lightning Returns XIII-3's PC version to launch in December.
- Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius launches in Japan.
- Dissidia: Final Fantasy hits arcades November 26th.
- SWTOR: Fallen Empire early access launches and brings "easier than Abyessa" content along with it.
Bentertainment:
- Metalocalypse's final season gets new details.
- Kong: Skull Island gets a release date.
- As does Godzilla 2.
- Rumored Justice League Dark details.
- New Legends of Tomorrow details, coming to CW in January 2016.
- The Smoking Man confirmed to return for the new X-Files.
- Christopher McQuarrie is rumored to have polished the script for Star Wars: Rogue One.
- Underworld 5: Next Generation is officially announced.
- Google announces a Netflix-like subscription for YouTube called Red.
- New trailer for The Revenant.
- Venture Bros. season 6 trailer.
- New Star Wars: Force Awakens poster.
- UK & EU SW:FA pre-sale tickets open to an overwhelming demand.
- NA SW:FA pre-sales have the same effect.
- SW:FA "final trailer" finally launches.
- SW:FA pre-sale ticket sales are record breaking.
- New Jessica Jones trailer, gets an earlier release of November 20th.
- Tom Holland, the new Spider-Man, has an interview about his role in Captain America: Civil War. Trailer expected within two weeks.
- Filming for Doctor Strange begins on November 4th.
- Power Rangers reboot cast announcements begin.
- New Supergirl details.
Most Welcome News of the Week:
Daisy Ridley & John Boyega have pretty much the same reaction to the new Star Wars trailer as most people.
As for my reaction
http://media.giphy.com/media/AjkUQrzvs5OCc/giphy.gif
I'm pretty sure Dimmauk & Geoff Ramsey (Rooster Teeth) had the same reaction.
Biggest Disappointment of the Week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Bo2wwip_w
or
Ratatapa has bad taste
Spoiler: show
Video of the Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-dMSstLDqM
Biggest Fail of the Week
Texas Education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6toBUyEAjM