CELEBRATE THE 80s WITH NEW ROCK BAND 4 TRACKS FROM DEPECHE MODE, INXS, AND NAKED EYES

Harmonix is excited to announced that a selection of classic 80s tracks is now in the Rock Band™ 4 Music Store for Xbox One and PlayStation®4, including music from Depeche Mode, INXS, and Naked Eyes.

Rock Band 4 players can celebrate the 80s with these classic tracks, starting with Depeche Mode’s “People Are People,” the group’s first breakout single in the United States, release in 1984. INXS’s 1985 Billboard Hot 100 hit “What You Need” will also be added to the Rock Band Music Store. Finally, Naked Eyes’ popular 1980s take on the catchy “Always Something There To Remind Me” rounds out this week’s Music Store releases. Each track can be purchased individually for $1.99.

Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. also announced the start of pre-orders for the all-new Rock Band 4 USB Microphone, expected to ship in time for Holiday 2015.

Designed to enhance the award-winning Rock Band 4 gameplay that enables up to three vocalists to harmonize in-game, with the stage-grade Rock Band 4 USB Microphone players can jump into music and join the fun. Boasting a wide dynamic range and high Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), the Rock Band 4 USB Microphone provides a studio-like experience for at-home singing sessions. Upgraded frequency response provides distortion-free vocals, ensuring that your voice is heard with utmost clarity, and the extended-length 15 foot USB cable provides plenty of room to rock around your living room!

For more information or to pre-order the Rock Band 4 USB Microphone, please visit:
http://store.madcatz.com/categories/Rock-Band-4/Mad-Catz-Microphone-for-Rock-Band-4.html

Called “the new benchmark for rhythm gaming” by GamesRadar+, Rock Band 4 delivers the ecstatic rush of a live full-band game experience like never before. Rock Band 4 builds on the core gameplay people love, with brand new features including game-changing Freestyle Guitar Solo gameplay that allows players to craft their own face-melting and truly original guitar solos.

For more information on Rock Band 4 and to stay up to date with the latest news and announcements, head over to http://www.rockband.com and follow @RockBand and @MadCatz on Twitter for updates.

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Street Fighter V Release Date, New Challenger and Post Launch Details!

Revealed during the Sony press conference at Paris Games Week, a host of brand new information for Street Fighter V was shared. Yoshinori Ono took to the stage to confirm that the title will be launching across Europe and North America on February 16, 2016! Additionally, everyone’s favorite yoga-inspired fighter, Dhalsim, has stretched his way into the Street Fighter V roster. Attendees at Paris Games Week had the opportunity to play the first ever demo build featuring Dhalsim, as well all of the previously confirmed characters: Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Cammy, Vega, M. Bison, Birdie, Charlie Nash, Necalli, R. Mika, Rashid, Karin, Zangief and Laura.

Also during the conference, new details were shared regarding post launch support plans for Street Fighter V. Over the course of 2016, six new characters will be added to the title, bringing the total roster up from 16 at launch to 22 by the end of next year. Additionally, gameplay content, costumes, new challenges and balance system updates will be continually made available throughout 2016 and beyond.

All gameplay related content, including the new characters, will be available for players to purchase for free by earning the in-game reward currency called Fight Money. Fight Money can be earned by players through in-game activities such as undertaking daily goals and leveling up individual characters. For those who just can’t wait to unlock each piece of new content, content can also be purchased instantly using real in-game money, named Zenny. All gameplay updates and balance changes will be made available to all players at the same time for free. This new release strategy means that for the first time ever, the initial purchase of Street Fighter V is all that players will need to make in order to stay current with the game and enjoy all future content.

About Dhalsim
Debuting in Street Fighter II, Dhalsim’s yoga fighting style means that using his long range limbs and slow projectiles will frustrate even the most aggressive of his World Warrior opponents. Although he’s a pacifist, Dhalsim is always saving others whether it’s helping to raise money for the poor or destroying dams that are keeping water from reaching his village. In Street Fighter V, Dhalsim joins the fray again with some new training under his rope belt and new yoga skills to unleash, including his V-Skill (Yoga Float) and V-Trigger (Yoga Burner).

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New Software Update Brings Mid-Level Checkpoints and New Courses to Super Mario Maker

On Nov. 4, a free software update for the Super Mario Maker game brings new content to the hit title for the Wii U console. These include the ability to add mid-level checkpoints to levels, as well as the addition of Course World categories that highlight new levels from Nintendo and partner creators outside Nintendo. To date, players have uploaded more than 3.3 million levels globally, and these new features add even more ways to play and create in the game than ever before.

Following the update, players can also insert power-ups that are dependent on Mario’s status. For example, by attaching a Super Mushroom to a Fire Flower and placing it inside a block, Mario will receive the Super Mushroom when he is small, and the Fire Flower when he is large.With the addition of mid-level checkpoints, users now have the option to add flags to their levels, allowing players to start at the selected point if they lose a life – rather than having to start over at the beginning of the level. Players can choose to edit and re-upload their own levels, or create new levels from scratch using this feature. Shaking an arrow sign item from the course parts palette will allow you to place a checkpoint flag.

The software update also introduces Event Courses in the game’s Course World online hub. Event Courses will feature levels from partner creators outside Nintendo. One of the first Event Courses will be “Ship Love,” the winning level from the “hackathon” event that was held at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park earlier this year. Facebook is the first outside partner in the United States to design a level for Super Mario Maker; employees had the opportunity to design and present their creations to a panel of judges before the winning level was selected.

The level that was featured in the final round of the Omegathon event at this year’s Penny Arcade Expo event will also be available for players to experience shortly after the update goes live. New Event Courses will be added to the listing on an ongoing basis, some of which may even feature new Mystery Mushroom transformations. Additionally, a new Official Makers section in Course World will be added after downloading the update, featuring specially selected courses, including some created by Nintendo.

The free software update goes live on Nov. 4. For more information about Super Mario Maker, visit http://supermariomaker.nintendo.com/.

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MEET AN UNEXPECTED INDIVIDUAL WITH AN UNEXPECTED GIFT IN HUCK

The all-new series from Mark Millar and Rafael Albuquerque begins this November. New York Times bestselling writer Mark Millar (Kingsman: The Secret Service, Kick-Ass, JUPITER’S LEGACY) teams up with Eisner Award-winning artist Rafael Albuquerque (American Vampire) for an all-new series full of heart and drama in HUCK. First announced at Image Expo, the new series will launch from Image Comics this November.

“Even in a year where I had Kingsman: The Secret Service, I think this is the project I’m most excited about. I couldn’t stop writing this and just fell in love with the character, who’s unlike anything else I’ve ever written and anything else I’ve seen in a comic before,” said Millar. “I think people are going to go crazy for this one and having Rafael on the art just pushed the whole thing into overdrive for me. I think it’s the best art of his career and I wish it was out right now just so people could see the magic he’s working."

Albuquerque added: "Working on Huck is more than the opportunity of collaborate with one of my favorite writers, it’s also the chance to revisit some kind inner child, who still loves simple but strong and meaningful stories and ultimately made me get into comics business. It made me explore the positive and optimistic side of my art that was asleep for a while, and it’s been definitely an unbelievable experience."

HUCK #1 is set in a quiet American town, where Huck uses his special gifts to do a good deed each day. His neighbors return the favors by keeping his abilities a secret. But when a newcomer alerts the media, a firestorm erupts, sending Huck on an adventure that will change everything and show him where he came from.

This brand-new series presents a comic book unlike anything you've read before and features a Feel-Good Movie variant cover by Rafael Albuquerque.

HUCK #1 will hit stores on Wednesday, November 18th. 

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FIRST LOOK AT NEW LOCATION FOR HITMAN

IO-INTERACTIVE AND SQUARE ENIX WELCOME YOU TO SAPIENZA. Io-Interactive and Square Enix gave the first glimpse of a new location for the upcoming HITMAN, available on March 11th 2016. The video, which debuted at Paris Games Week, shows off sunny Sapienza, a fictional town situated on the southern coast of Italy.

Cut to the atmospheric track “Between Two Points” by The Glitch Mob featuring Swan, the video gives players a sense of the expansive scale of the location. From a luxurious mansion to the medieval church situated by the beach and the cramped alleys littered with stores, Sapienza is a dense location full of challenges and packed with opportunities and stories for the enterprising player to unfold. And as with all locations within HITMAN, dark secrets and engaging stories are everywhere to be found in charming Sapienza.

About HITMAN
HITMAN is a single player creative stealth action game, featuring the world’s ultimate assassin, Agent 47, in the prime of his career. As an operative of the International Contract Agency, his job is to take out powerful, high-profile targets around the world. Where each location is a living sandbox, where every NPC has a name and every room matters. The game has a pure focus on taking out your target and complete freedom of approach. Where you go, when you strike and who you kill… is all up to you. You have the power and intelligence of Agent 47 at your fingertips and it is your choice whether to use brute force or orchestrate a genuine masterpiece of assassination.

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The Walking Dead S6, Ep. 4 "Here's Not Here" Recap

Episode starts with Morgan talking and telling his story. Flashback time! Morgan is ranting to himself and we see on the wall, "Here's not Here" so we see the name of the episode from the beginning. The place Morgan is residing is set on fire during his rant. Morgan is making his way through the forest with a gun. He uses the butt of the gun to kill walkers and then sets them on fire. This attracts more walkers which leads to more piles for the fire. Morgan sets up a fence for the walkers. He wrote on a rock the word "clear". Morgan is going through the woods when he realizes he is being followed. He kills the one guy and chokes out the other guy. He continues to live at his camp and burning the bodies of walkers. He comes across a beautiful meadow and you think Bella and Edward are going to show up. Morgan has a moment in the meadow. He then finds a cabin where there is a goat. There is a voice telling him to step away from the goat since he is still trying to figure out how to make cheese. Morgan takes a shot at the man. There is a weird fish eye effect on the camera occurring while Morgan tries to stalk the man. Morgan is knocked out.



Morgan wakes up captive but with food. When asked his name he responds with kill me and starts to scream it. The man provides him a book "The Art of Peace" and the man says his name is Eastman. Morgan is talking to himself in his cell all crazy like while Eastman continues on his day. Morgan can see that the man is practicing with a bo staff through his window and killing walkers. Weird fish eye camera view happening again. Eastman continues to practice making cheese. Eastman says he is from Atlanta and was a forensic psychologist. Morgan says that he clears. He clears walkers or people or anything that gets near him. Morgan starts hacking at the wood of his cell so he can get free. Eastman says that Morgan has PTSD. Eastman lets Morgan know that he is reliving his wife and child's death. Eastman says he can be free as the cell is not locked and that Morgan is free. Eastman says he can stay or go but he cannot kill him. Morgan immediately attacks him but Eastman wins and Morgan stops fighting. Morgan says kill me. Morgan is given two choices the door or the couch. Morgan instead goes into the cell and closes it behind me. Eastman opens the door and then Morgan closes it again. Eastman says that he knows Aikido and that Morgan is going to learn so they can make the trip together. Morgan asks to where and Eastman responds that he has no idea. Lights out. Morgan comes out of his cell and sits at the table as Eastman goes to bed. 

Morning time and Morgan is back in his cell while Eastman is still trying to perfect cheese. Eastman leaves to scavenge supplies. Morgan finally picks up the book and inside it says that Aikido teaches not to kill. There are walkers outside and eventually Morgan gets up to kill the walkers to protect the goat. Morgan takes the goat inside while he gets rid of the bodies of the walkers. He is dragging the body when he sees a graveyard for all the walkers. Morgan is digging the graves for the bodies. Eastman shows up and says that he is making progress. Eastman gives Morgan a bo staff. (cue inspirational music). Morgan and Eastman are now bonding and working together (so you know this is going to turn bad). Eastman tells a horrible story of how one of his clients broke out of prison and killed his family. Eastman planned to get the man and keep him in the cell and was going to starve him to death.

Morgan and Eastman plan their trip. Morgan takes him back to his camp to get his supplies. Morgan is sad talking about his family and Eastman redirects him by making him go through his bo staff forms. A walkers comes into the clearing and Morgan realizes its one of the guys that he killed. Morgan freezes and Eastman has to step in which ends up with him being bit. Morgan starts ranting and Eastman redirects him. They start to fight and Morgan says kill me while he is down on the ground. Eastman grabs the body while Morgan is shouting not here and Eastman responds that here is not here. Morgan is back at his camp. He kills a walker that was after two people. The couple says thank you and leaves him a can of food and a bullet. Morgan heads back to his camp and grabs his bo and runs back to Eastman's house. He finds a walker eating the goat. Eastman is digging a grave and sad to see the goat got out and was killed. Morgan notices the name of the guy that killed Eastman's family has a grave. Eastman admits that he kidnapped the man and put him in the cell and let him starve to death. It took 47 days and admits that he was just as bad off as Morgan afterwards. Eastman says he found his peace when he decide he will never kill again. He was going to turn himself in but then the world ended.

 Eastman tells Morgan that he can stay there but that he shouldn't because he would be alone. He says people are important. He gives Morgan his lucky rabbit's foot.. Eastman says he is ready to die. Morgan is still practicing his forms. We see Morgan all packed up and heading out. We see Eastman's grave and Morgan continues to make his way and is on the railroad tracks and sees the sign for Terminus. Present day we end with Morgan telling his story to one of the wolves that was in the house. The guy asks if that could be him and says he came to get medicine for the wound on his side. The guys says if he lives he will kill everyone here because that is his code. Morgan leaves the man locked up and uses a key. He here's someone yelling open the gates and runs to the gate. End.

My Thoughts: I liked learning about what happened to Morgan. It was a great story that he turns out to be telling to the wolf. I understand he cannot kill him but he could just tell everyone else about the man and let the town decide what will happen to him or wait till he turns and call it a day. 

While I was annoyed that we did not get to see anything currently happening but I will admit that this episode did not piss me off. However for it to be a hour and a half long it should have moved the story along. I think we could have something, this episode was like something you would see on the CW but that's just my opinion. Share your thoughts in the comments. 

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