Reboot: This Week In Games: "Grand Theft Auto V" Online, "COD" Embraces Equality and Will Xbox One's Kinect Dream?

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This week saw the release of two major multiplayer trailers: Call of Duty: Ghosts premiered its multiplayer gameplay with a few surprise ladies and a lot of Eminem. Grand Theft Auto V also released a trailer for its online multiplayer and detailed all the cool stuff we can do in Los Santos on the GTA V website. Oh, and it turns out the political landscape of Los Santos is filled with horrible douches, nothing like the real world.

The new Dishonored DLC The Brigmore Witches was released, this third and final DLC rounded-out possibly the best DLC content ever released for a game. We also got a peek at Telltale Games' -the geniuses behind The Walking Dead - new project The Wolf Among Us, that takes place in the Fables universe.

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"The Brigmore Withces" released

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Dishonored: The Brigmore Witches picks up from the previous DLC, The Knife of Dunwall, left off. Player’s powers, items, and weapons from The Knife of Dunwall will carry over to the new DLC as well the accumulated Chaos Level. So far the reviews have been off the chart.

Other follow-up releases include the new patch for World of Warcraft that includes an official trailer for the Siege of Orgrimmar. Following the story of that bastard Horde Warchief Garrosh Hellscream who's gone the way of his father and become power mad. They're lots of new goodies to grab and a new server integration feature meaning there will always be people to play with.

The Details of the soon to be released Batman: Arkham Origins Collectors' Edition was released by Warner Bros this week, and its ridiculous. Gamers get an 80-page art book, two pieces of evidence, a Batman Wanted Poster, Prototype Schematics for the Batwing, a couple of logo stencils, a glow-in-the-dark map of Gotham, a Wayne family photo - to replace your old family - an intel Dossier on eight assassins along with the Black Mask's contract and best of all a LED light up Joker statue.

Telltale Games, the studio responsible for the critically acclaimed The Walking Dead dropped the debut trailer for The Wolf Among Us. The game was announced back in 2011 but now has the studio’s full attention.

Defend the Kingdom!

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CineFix presents an 8-bit Cinema version of Blade Runner that turns the classic Hollywood Blockbuster into an 80's arcade and NES inspired action game. The gamified version's release is to celebrate the debut of the Blade Runner 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition.

Speaking of alternate versions check out the great work over at Fro Design with their series of Mushroom Kingdom propaganda posters. his poster series re-imagines the world of Nintendo's Super Mario Bros where Bowser has to drum-up support for the war effort by enlisting the resource of the people er, Koopas, whatever.

Cliff Bleszinski keeps dropping hints of projects that may or may not exist. Cliff Bleszinski, the former designer at Epic Games and most recently known for his work on the Gears of War series, has been slowly leaking concept art for a new project, "here's another closely cropped image of something I'm working on."

Just take our money alread Rockstar

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If we weren't excited enough about Grand Theft Auto V already the people over at Rockstar are merciless. Despite our repeated calls and mailed envelopes of cash we've yet to receive our copy. For the time being we'll have to wait and enjoy multiplayer reveal.

Rockstar also let us get a head start with our Los Santos trivia with the update to the GTAV website with tons of information about Los Santos and Blaine County. "A true paradise of golf courses, strip malls, environmental degradation and trailer parks..."

To get you up to speed on the political environment of GTAV, Rockstar released  campaign videos for the Governors race in GTA world. We can't decide which one we want to off first.

Console details revealed

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General Manager of Xbox accessories, Zulfi Alam, explained the improvements to the Xbox One controller, which number about 40, and its completely re-written protocol features. The emphasis seems to be on core gamers, naturally those who play ten hours or more at a time would be the ones most effected by a new controller design.

Highlights include: New D-pad, hepatic feedback in the triggers and Microsoft says you'll be able to use it with PCs by 2014.

In other Xbox One news, your Xbox Live DLC content will carry over from games released on both the Xbox One and Xbox 360, but unfortunately you'll still have to buy the game for both systems, digital trade in? We wish.

Also revealed this week is that Microsoft is delaying Xbox One's launch in some European countries by a few months, including: Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, Russia, Sweden, and Belgium. Microsoft says anyone who pre-ordered the Xbox One in the targeted countries will receive a "pack-in game" when the console finally ships in 2014.

Oh and we can't forget that it was revealed that week that yes, you have to get a Kinect 2 sensor with your new Xbox One - they come bundled - but you don't really need one. Microsoft really needs to get they're public relations and information in order, it feels like they've flipped-flopped on every detail released since June at E3.

If all this Xbox news has you reserved, it was announced this week that a 12 GB PlayStation 3 system that was released in Europe last year will hit North American shelves this coming week for only $199.

Eminem and dead women, no?

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Call of Duty: Ghosts finally released a trailer of its multiplayer gameplay, and yes it has much of what we're used to from COD, which is exactly what we want! Call of Duty: Ghosts is set to drop on all current-gen systems including the Wii-U (rejoice!) on November 15, and next-gen systems as they’re launched.

Eminem's new track "Survival" is featured in the trailer, also revealed was new gameplay modes dubbed "Cranked" and “Search and Rescue." We finally get to play female solders, use some new moves and the ability to transfer data and sats from your current-gen console.

If you prefer a way of killing and destroying lives without shooting people in the face, check out this mind-blowing trailer for Watch Dogs. A little creepy in the current political environment, does this game hit a little close to home?

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