Call of Duty: Ghosts sells $1 Billion on the First Day

We all thought that Activision had a wounded pride when they stated that they'd outsell GTA V's $1 billion in one day rather than the latter title's three. Especially since the release of Black Ops 2 took a little under a month to reach that point.

No one thought they were going to do it, but they did.

The game is currently ranked #1 on Xbox live and was the most pre-ordered from GameStop. Not to mention that it is also the most pre-ordered for the release of the Xbox One.

Their success on this title can only rise from this point, and is suspected by the company to be the most successful launch title "by a large margin".

~ Ametis

Half Life 3 Trademark: True or False?

After the internet buzzed about Valve applying for the Half Life 3 trademark, the application was taken down and now ceases to exist. Fans of the well loved game series will appear to be let down again as Valve has withheld comment.

From ValveTime:

We can now confirm that the "Half-Life 3" trademark has been removed from the Trademarks and Design Registration Office of the European Union (OHIM) website. The entrant appears to have disappeared entirely after only being listed on the website database for little over a week, allowing us to identify that the trademark's listing was more than likely a hoax intended to generate fake buzz for a game which is unlikely to appear for several years. Returning readers may remember when we had discussed how the "Half-Life 3" listing was previously never officially checked or authenticated before its removal.

On October 2nd 2013, a brand new trademark filing appeared on the same site, this time for "Portal 3", which is listed under the trademark number of "012190286". While this new filing should almost definitely be taken with a rather large pinch of salt, we can confirm that the "Portal 3" listing appears to have been appropriately examined by OHIM, unlike the previously listed "Half-Life 3" trademark. Thanks to the recent sneak peak into Valve's Jira account, we can confirm that there is currently no "Portal 3" development team within the company, highlighting that this brand new listing is also very likely a hoax of some kind, regardless of whether or not it has been officially examined. We'll keep you posted if and when we learn more.

On the bright side, the "Half Life 3 Confirmed" meme can continue on.

~ Ametis

Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/01/half-life-3-trademark-filed-by-valve?utm_campaign=fbposts&utm_source=facebook

Steam OS Update

With the announcement of the Steam OS, there's been a lot of speculation (and there still is) on what exactly this new product will do. Today, on the steam group, an update was sent out with the hardware specs. These new systems that they're working could easily be built from home and are fully customizable should you feel the need to buy the bits and pieces.

For those of you not so hardware savvy who won't be changing out the entire machine as soon as they get it, here are the beta specs:

More to come on the controller later, but for now this is enough to get me as excited as a little kid on Christmas.

~ Ametis

Video of the Week #1

As gamers, we're not the most social collective and we certainly don't know what we're doing when it comes to someone we're attracted to (*cough* Sephie *cough*), which is why this has made it to our video of the week. Take advice from Ash and learn how to deal with booth babes like a champ.

Warning: We are not responsible for any booth babe related injuries.

~ Ametis

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Review: Fire Emblem

The Fire Emblem series is probably one of my favorite 'Under the Radar' games, mainly because most of its games were never released outside Japan, Fire Emblem: Awakening is the series' latest entry and is a 3DS exclusive.

While the game is short (take this with a grain of salt, I usually speed-play through my first playthroughs), there are still tons of side-missions and DLC's, unlockable characters, and a myriad of relationship options for all the characters.

The game gives you difficutly options when starting, Normal, Hard and Lunatic modes, I think the names explain them clearly, what the series used on Awakening from one of the Japan-Only Fire Emblem games, Fire Emblem: Hero of Light and Shadow, is the option to choose from Classic or Casual mode, Classic mode, as the series is probably most known for, is once a character dies, he/she is gone forever. Casual mode makes the units 'retreat' once they hit 0 HP so they become available again in the next battles.

Dialogue is very well written, considering there are tons of different relationship options. The cast of Fire Emblem: Awakening will certainly make themselves lovable in their own way that if you play in Classic mode, will kill parts of you as well as they die. You will be able to load a save file, yes, but that defeats the purpose of playing in Classic Mode.

Voice Acting is also fantastic whether you're playing on English or Japanese(Subbed), the Voice Cast is so star studded that you're bound to recognize one soon enough.

Fire Emblem: Awakening is an awesome addition to the series' already incredible line-up

It also might make you cry during certain points of the game, so get those napkins ready!

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Score : 9 / 10

Platform : 3DS

By: Sephie

Review: The Next BIG Thing

I honestly wouldn't have bought this game if it weren't on sale, but the concept looked interesting and so I thought I'd give it a try. I'm glad that I didn't buy this alone and there are other games to capture my attention because, quite frankly, this game thoroughly annoyed me. 

Sure, it's a nice concept. The reporters following leads, finding clues, figuring out creative ways to use completely (and otherwise should be) useless materials, monsters (er... well this part is debatable); but the 1950's style wasn't pulled off to the best of its abilities and, I swear to god, if I hear another person say, "Ayo" I think I might just kill myself. 

I hated the dialogue. Hated. Liz does not need to repeat "Dan Murray"'s name every time she speaks to him. Liz also doesn't need to be a psychopath. Maybe this game wasn't meant for my age range... Maybe this was all a dream...

Nope. I actually paid for this.

Damn it.

On the bright side, at least some of the other games (one at least that I've tried) in the Pendulo Adventure pack weren't that bad...

Score: 3/10

Price: $2.49 (during the sale)/$9.99 (full price)

Site: http://www.thenextbig-game.com/index.php

Platform: PC 

P.S. What the hell? You can't even play this is windowed mode. Seriously, what kind of madness is that?