Missing Pieces: Oculus overload, Titanfall charlatan island, and COD meets Ahnold

Apologies, righteous readers, for a miss of Missing Pieces final week. Who knew that essay about Game Developers Conference would leave my face all smashed and painful by a end, digest me unqualified of picking adult news-related nonplus pieces off a ground?

But in a imperishable difference of Jake LaMotta, “I never went down. You never got me down, GDC.”

Here’s all a gaming news fit to imitation from a week of Mar 24.

Facebook purchased Oculus for $2 billion

Maybe we heard?

If we missed any gaming news on a site this week, chances are it was substantially Oculus-related. We’ve got a outline on what Facebook’s merger means to you, a square busting the 5 many inaccurate Oculus myths, non-Facebook-filled Oculus alternatives, a square hating on all a misled post-Oculus Kickstarter hate, and missing Minecrafts. Whew!

Call of Duty: Ghosts gets Predator DLC?

What a heck is function over in Call of Duty land? First we got Mike Myers DLC, and now Predator?

That’s positively what this video indicates, featuring a Predator’s barbarous clicking sound and a brief perspective of a cloaked enemy. Damn it, Infinity Ward, stop tickling my “all-things-dumb” bone and creation me wish to play your game.

Though let’s be honest, no DLC can compare a sovereignty of this video:

GameStop forced to contest by Wal-Mart

I haven’t traded a diversion behind to a store for a prolonged time now—it’s kind of tough when your whole collection is stored as a gold of 1s and 0s in Steam. But for those of we looking to get a few dollars behind after completing a earthy game, Wal-Mart launched a video diversion trade-in program to contest with GameStop progressing this week.

It’s extraordinary what a small foe can accomplish. Mere days after Wal-Mart’s devise launched, GameStop revised a notoriously low trade-in prices to be a bit some-more market-friendly. I’m certain some free-market entrepreneur video diversion fan is out there entertaining right now.

Goat Island

Remember that incredible pre-release trailer for Dead Island that got everybody vehement for a diversion that incited out to be a comparatively rote and stupid zombie torpedo instead of a intense hearing of humanity’s foibles? No, of march I’m not still bitter. That would be crazy.

This week Goat Simulator put out a launch trailer and it’s a bit…familiar. Oh Goat Simulator, you’re so funny. Even when you’re dousing people in kerosene and lighting them on fire.

Battlefield 4 carrying problems? My word.

I enjoyed my time with Battlefield 4′s Naval Strike DLC recently—at least, as most as we can suffer a slower-paced shooter after 3 weeks of Titanfall. we enjoyed Naval Strike so most we even endorsed people buy it.

Silly me. we should’ve famous zero could be so easy. Naval Strike has now been delayed on a PC until April. Maybe…maybe put your credit label divided until we know either it runs. Fool me once, Battlefield…

Killer Instinct moves to Divekick developer Iron Galaxy

When Amazon announced a merger of Double Helix, all a legions of people who caring about Killer Instinct were like, “Hey, what happens to Killer Instinct?”

Well stop seeking your uncomplicated and approach questions, legions of fans. The answer is that Divekick developer Iron Galaxy Studios will take over Killer Instinct development. we don’t wish to stir adult any debate in a fighting diversion community, so I’ll usually let we confirm how we feel about this news.

Cheaters infrequently win

Companies seem to have held on that simply banning cheaters from play is an ineffectual and rather vapid approach to go about cleaning adult multiplayer. Titanfall is a latest to enter a “Creative Approaches to Cheaters” crowd, quarantining any players of ill-repute into their possess matchmaking playlists in what Respawn calls a “Wimbledon of aimbot contests.”

“Hopefully a aimbot lie we paid for unequivocally is a best, or these all-cheater matches could be frustrating for you,” Respawn wrote in a news post.

Sweet, honeyed justice.

More reading

Sick of Oculus news? Here’s sum on the new Lego game that competence broke each parent, a new Kinect for Windows, a latest Nvidia Shield update (two words: remote streaming), and Nvidia’s glossy Titan Z graphics card—yours for usually $3,000.

That seems like copiousness to keep we assigned by a weekend. We’ll see we behind here subsequent week.