Top 5 Stories – Project Titan is Dead, Bioshock Infinite Lives On

<p>Ah&comma; the weekend&comma; the work week is done &lpar;for some of us&rpar; and it’s time for another entry of the Top 5 Stories of the Week&period; This week we had a few surprises&comma; like Blizzard abandoning it&&num;8217&semi;s next World of Warcraft type MMO called &&num;8220&semi;Project Titan&&num;8221&semi; out of the blue and the some better news that a final edition of Bioshock Infinite is on it&&num;8217&semi;s way&period; Below you&&num;8217&semi;ll find those stories and a few more to round out our top five stories of the week&comma; as always&comma; for the full article&comma; simple click on the hyperlink&period; Get in&comma; sit down and hold on because here we go&excl; Let us know your thoughts on Project Titan&&num;8217&semi;s abrupt cancellation and the other stories in the comment section below&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Number 5<&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;sleeping-dogs-successor-triad-wars-announced&sol;triad-wars-car-chase-bagogames&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-66888"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66888" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;05072257&sol;Triad-Wars-Car-Chase-BagoGames&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Triad Wars Car Chase BagoGames" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"300" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;sleeping-dogs-successor-triad-wars-announced&sol;">Sleeping Dogs Successor &OpenCurlyQuote;Triad Wars’ Announced<&sol;a><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p>Square Enix just can’t seem to let Sleeping Dogs lie&period; The cult-classic <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;dogs-sleeping-dogs-review&sol;">that blew us away<&sol;a> two years ago as a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Game of the Year candidate” will be followed up by Triad Wars from developer United Front <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;sleeping-dogs-successor-triad-wars-announced&sol;">Games <&sol;a> on PC next year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game aims to spiritually succeed its predecessor on the streets of Hong Kong as a like-minded open-world&comma; action-adventure game that sets you up on your rise to the top of the Triad underworld&period; An &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Enforcer” bent on masterminding your own criminal enterprise&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;sleeping-dogs-successor-triad-wars-announced&sol;">players <&sol;a> will use the resources at their disposal to construct an empire that their enemies &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;would never <em>dare <&sol;em>to mess with&period;” Yikes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>How to do all this&quest; Square Enix tells us we’ll need the cash&comma; and to do <em>that&comma; <&sol;em>players can set up &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;turfs&comma;” stacking up dirty money&comma; punching folks in the face&comma; and driving and shooting things at will&period; Sounds like a swell time to us&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A variety of crimes &lpar;hacking&comma; extortion&comma; carjacking&comma; etc&period;&rpar; and more await you&period; You can read the rest of the game’s features via the game’s <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;triadwars&period;com&sol;news&sol;about-triad-wars">freshly launched website<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Number 4<&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;assassins-creed-unity-season-pass-trailer&sol;assassins-creed-unity-season-pass-2&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-66962"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66962" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;05072147&sol;Assassins-Creed-Unity-Season-Pass&period;png" alt&equals;"AC Unity" width&equals;"631" height&equals;"263" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;assassins-creed-season-pass-new-assassin&sol;">Assassin’s Creed Has a Season Pass and a New Assassin<&sol;a><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p>Ubisoft has announced that Assassin’s Creed&colon; Unity will include a season pass that’ll take you to China and back&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The largest DLC edition&comma; Dead Kings&comma; takes assassin Arno Dorian to Saint Denis&comma; a French city outside of Paris following the events Unity&period; It’s the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;darkest story” the Assassin’s Creed series has ever told according to Creative Director Alex Amancio&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The burial place of most of France’s royal bloodline&comma; Saint Denis will include a wealth of puzzles&comma; treasure hunts&comma; murder mysteries&comma; and other assorted missions&comma; outfits&comma; skills&comma; and weapons&period; The biggest among them is the Guillotine gun&comma; which you can use to fire explosive rounds and chop your enemies in two with its nasty axe head&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A standalone downloadable game&comma; Assassin’s Creed Chronicles&colon; China&comma; will also debut starring a female assassin named Shao Jun and in 16th century China&period; Jun will still be free running in what amounts to a 2&period;5D&sol;platformer&comma; combining Assassin leaps of faith and stealth with her own flavor of martial arts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Number 3<&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;new-3ds-heading-australia-first&sol;basic-rgb&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-67007"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67007" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;05072113&sol;new-3ds-covers&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Basic RGB" width&equals;"3291" height&equals;"1794" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;new-3ds-heading-australia-first&sol;">New 3DS Heading to Australia First<&sol;a><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p>Nintendo is surprising everyone with lunching the New 3DS in Australia BEFORE it’s released in Europe or North America&period; Japan will see the New 3DS hit shelves in October&comma; and Aussie and New Zealand stores can purchase it in November&period; Nintendo of America has not announced when the New 3DS will be released here&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Australia also had their very first Nintendo Direct which showcases the New 3DS’ physical changes&period; You can watch the Nintendo Direct above&period; There is only one game confirmed to be playable only on the New 3DS&comma; <em>Xenoblade Chronicles&period;<&sol;em> But the original 3DS games currently available and yet to be released are playable on the console&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Upcoming games that will benefit using the second analog stick are <em>Super Smash Bros<&sol;em>&comma; and <em>Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate<&sol;em>&period; Having the Control Stick on the 3DS will be much easier than attaching the Circle Pad&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Number 2<&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;bioshock-infinite-complete-edition-releases-fall&sol;bioshock-infinite-complete-edition-ps3-bagogames&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-66833"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66833" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;05072515&sol;Bioshock-Infinite-Complete-Edition-PS3-BagoGames&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Bioshock Infinite Complete Edition PS3 BagoGames" width&equals;"190" height&equals;"240" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">              <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;bioshock-infinite-complete-edition-releases-fall&sol;">Bioshock Infinite&colon; The Complete Edition Releases This Fall<&sol;a><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p>Bioshock Infinite is now getting a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Complete Edition” with all of its DLC and extras in one package&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to a listing on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;bioshock-infinite-complete-edition-releases-fall&sol;">Gamestop <&sol;a>&comma; the 2K Games and the late Irrational Games will be releasing a Bioshock Infinite&colon; The Complete Edition on November 4th for &dollar;39&period;99 and includes both episodes of Burial at Sea&comma; the Clash in the Clouds pack&comma; the Early Bird Special&comma; and Columbia’s Finest pack&period; The latter two packs contain weapons&comma; gear&comma; and other amenities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sources at 2K have subsequently confirmed that the publisher will be putting out the Complete Edition later on all of the game’s original platforms&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;bioshock-infinite-complete-edition-releases-fall&sol;">PlayStation 3 <&sol;a>&comma; Xbox 360&comma; and PC&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Number 1<&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;blizzards-project-blackstone&sol;blizzard&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-31480"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31480" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;12&sol;06081724&sol;Blizzard&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Blizzard" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"352" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;blizzards-next-gen-mmo-titan-cancelled&sol;">Blizzard’s Next Gen MMO Titan Is Cancelled<&sol;a><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p>Blizzard has today confirmed that the long rumored project Titan has now officially ceased development&period; After seversl years of working on it&comma; the team were simply unable to find the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;blizzards-next-gen-mmo-titan-cancelled&sol;">fun <&sol;a> in what they had created&period; Blizzard officially confirmed the existence of Titan in December 2010 but not much was ever known about it&period; What we do know was that it was Blizzard’s attempt to create a second MMO that was just as successful as World of Warcraft&period; Rumours suggested that the developers were attempting to give the game more mass appeal than WoW by using a near future&sol;post-apocalyptic setting&period; The project went through several design and technology changes but never really seemed to get off the ground&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a recent interview with <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;polygon&period;com&sol;2014&sol;9&sol;23&sol;6833953&sol;blizzard-cancels-titan-next-gen-mmo-pc">Polygon<&sol;a>&comma; Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime explained that that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;we didn’t find the passion&period; We talked about how we put it through a re-evaluation period&comma; and actually&comma; what we re-evaluated is whether that’s the game we really wanted to be making&period; The answer is no&period;” He added that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;it was hard when we cancelled Warcraft Adventures&period; It was hard when we cancelled StarCraft Ghost&period; But it has always resulted in better-quality work&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Senior vice president of story and franchise development Chris Metzen said that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the discipline of knowing when to quit is important&period; We were losing perspective and getting lost in the weeds a little&period; We had to allow ourselves to take that step back and reassess why the hell we were doing that thing in the first place&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Honorable Mentions<&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;gamestop-accepting-skylanders-disney-infinity-figures&sol;disney-infinty-2-0-bagogames&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-66882"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66882" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;05072311&sol;Disney-Infinty-2&period;0-BagoGames&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Disney Infinty 2&period;0 BagoGames" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"313" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This week had a lot of big news and the news staff and I found it hard to narrow it down to the usual five stories&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;news&period;necessarygaming&period;com&sol;&quest;p&equals;1727http&colon;&sol;&sol;news&period;necessarygaming&period;com&sol;&quest;p&equals;1727">The Final Titanfall DLC launches&colon; IMC Rising&excl;<&sol;a><&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;gamestop-accepting-skylanders-disney-infinity-figures&sol;">Gamestop Accepting Skylanders and Disney Infinity Figures<&sol;a><&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>If you have suggestions for future entries&comma; feel free to email me at jeremy&period;tyler&commat;bagogames&period;com<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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