Minimur, WTH Happened This Week? Steam Machine from ibuypower design, Next-Gen Star Wars Game Discovered, And GTA News!
Hey guys, just to make sure I’m getting this on time I’ve been drafting this since Wednesday, just so when I get my PS4 most of it will be done so I’ll be not rushing it because I’ve been playing my PS4 🙂
Here’s the Vita games I could find that have been announced this week, sadly, I couldn’t find many. But at least we have never gone a week where there’s no new games at all!
Girls and Panzer: Master, Senshadō!
Free multiplayer maps update for Killzone: Mercenary
So Many Me – If kickstarter goal is met, 12 days to go
On the blog Guerilla Cambridge announced their plans for future updates. The first of which is extremely useful, which will free up around 800mb of space from the massive 1GB day one update and also the one following that, and should be out in a few weeks.
Update 4 will be out in January will improve matching and reduce the join-game connectivity problems, this update will also add an auto team-rebalancing feature.
Update 5 will supply you with 2 free maps, along with the release of offline botzone for Mercenary and Geurilla Warfere modes.
Following this, in the first early months of 2014, a patch will be brought in to make the game support PS Vita TV. Is this a hint as to when it’ll come over to the west?
Here’s ‘the so many me’ kickstarter video:
With the launch of the PS4 this Friday in EU, Sony decided to take it’s chance at Page 3 in UK newspaper ‘The Sun’, and I burst out laughing with what I saw:

What do you think of this?
So let’s move on to the much spoken about steam machine, custom PC company ibuypower have released their design for the steam machine, and it looks pretty neat. with a light bar surrounding all of it – here’s a picture of it:

The design is pretty simplistic, with a power on button and a beveled in steam logo on top, it’s a very nice design.
And as the basic specs of the steam machine said by Valve themselves, housing 16GB of ram and a GTX 780, will be priced at a surprising $499.
Here’s some awesome news that I know a lot of people will love, especially guest blogger Tonakai. As we all know EA acquired the rights to produce star wars games, and they’ve already made one, a mobile title named ‘Star Wars: Tiny Death Star’ but as the best way to leak a game, through job application listings at EA Canada, is requesting ‘an experienced Animation director to help define and deliver on the vision for a major new next gen open world action game’
How does this point to Star Wars you ask? With this tweet here which reveals it’s a Star Wars game being worked on.
Best job title EVER! Lead Combat Designer for Star Wars @EA! http://t.co/IC1WJgKdLn #job #starwars #Vancouver #ea #gaming
— Zeba Manki (@ZebaManki) September 18, 2013
We already know DICE are utilising their Frostbite 3 engine to make Star Wars: Battlefront 3, of which you can see the E3 teaser trailer for it here:
So with all this Virtual Reality talk, it was inevitable that someone was going to change GTA IV to make it VR compatible, and someone finally done it. I think the guy should’ve installed some graphics mod before doing that, but this looks pretty cool.
Here’s the video:
So here’s the other part of GTA news, Rockstar have announced that they will be porting the ever so popular GTA: San Andreas, with updated visuals. I’m just waiting for them to bring it to the Vita…
Its coming to iOS and Android, and a release date will be announced in the coming weeks. I’m just waiting for GTA IV to be ported to my nexus 5 now.
Weekly Blog round-up
Here’s what we posted:
- US PSN Accounts Struck By Unannounced Passwords Reset
- Chipworks reverse engineer the PS4′s CPU, GPU, RAM, and other modules
- Is this PS4 hack real? Fake PS4 exploit sets the scene on fire
- Black Friday is upon us, and Amazon have a bunch of cool deals for gamers today
- A legend returns or just a false hope? Official Dark~AleX website updated for Playstation 4!
- Where the F… is TN-v4?
Wait, where’s Tonakai been? I’m awaiting your return! 😀
Reddit Time
This week I found some right crackers, they’re awesome 🙂
I guess lebron didn’t want a post game interview…

In a glitch in AC IV, Edwards face was stuck like this for 15 minutes!

And here’s another glitch from Assassins Creed, it seems that their crew decided to fly from the bottom of the ocean and then the boat raised from the depths aswell.
I purchased AC Blackflag, and in all honesty I’m pretty disapointed by how glitchy it is, there’s a riculous amount of pass through, and half the time I’m not sure whether the swords should be hidden behind his cloak or not.
Sorry about the low quality photo for the newspaper part, here’s another pic:
http://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/the-sun.jpg?w=650&h=487&crop=1#038;h=768
*** yea gta san andress for psvita:)bro
haha page 3… Saw that in the paper:’) brilliant!
GTA SA remake… Awesome!
PS4 – outstanding.
But why does that Steam console look like it copied the basic design of the PS4?
That’s exactly the same thing I was thinking! The Steam console is box shaped and had a light like the ps4.
Congrats to Sony for a funny page 3 ad 😀
PS4 can display any bra-less bimbo in natural 1080 dpi 😛
hey guys, anybody know when the new psp is coming out? I’m still on psp 3000, waiting for the new 4000. So excited to see what new features will come!
PSP 4000? isn’t that a wicked old rumor from about 4 years ago?
It’s been out for awhile dude. It’s called a PS Vita. PSP is dead. They won’t be iterating on the PSP anymore. Won’t be long before even games like God Eater 2 won’t get a PSP port and will just settle on PS Vita in Japan.
Well actually it’s not the Vita, if you do a google search you will see numerous posts and fake pictures of a PSP 4000, not the Vita.
Ps Vita, previously advertised as the NGP, is the next installment in Sony handhelds. They will NOT be revising the PSP hardware any longer. They won’t make another slim PS3 because the PS4 is out. The same is for the handhelds. They won’t revise the PSP when the Ps Vita is the new Sony handheld standard. They will just revise the Ps Vita, until the next standard is released.
Word
Whoa steam box looks way better than ps4. BTW does anyone else hate multiplayer as much as I do?
Single player is my jam.
I’m not fond of multiplayer either
The psp 4000 is already out. It’s called the PS-VITA.
sorry, but I had to.
Oh, and btw I’m the master of GTA everybody knows that :p
“Rockstar have announced that they will be porting the ever so popular GTA: San Andreas, with updated visuals. I’m just waiting for them to bring it to the Vita…”
From what I’ve read, there’s been no mention of it coming to the Vita; a LOT of hate being slung by IOS users too, calling us Vita owners “fanboys” for wanting this GTA port for our lovely Vita.
‘And as the basic specs of the steam machine said by Valve themselves, housing 16GB of ram and a GTX 780, will be priced at a surprising $499’
That price doesn’t make sense?
“the computer will offer a multicore AMD CPU and a discrete AMD Radeon R9 270 graphics card”
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/25/5146398/ibuypower-steam-machine-499-radeon-r9-270
I thought $500 seemed a bit low if they were including a 780 :P.
Sorry about that! Im not a PC guy, I just searched steambox specs and came up to the official site, I should do more research! 🙁
Easy enough mistake to make, just figured I’d say something :).
Minimur, the iBuypower Steam machine doesn’t have a GTX 780. A 780 alone costs more than the suggested price of that machine LOL. As someone else has mentioned, it’s an AMD CPU/GPU combo. The GPU has already been revealed as the Radeon R7 270, which is essentially a slightly modified rebadge of the older Radeon HD 7870. And considering the price, I’m guessing the CPU is either AMD’s quad core FX-4300 or X4 750/k( or 760/k), or the six core FX-6300
I’m sad that the GTA: San Andreas game isn’t coming out on PSVita… 🙁 I hate playing on an Android device.
The shield is perfect for GTA San Andres
lol I wonder how GTA SA would handle on my 600MHZ 3GS ***
…GTA3 runs decent on it …