Weekly Wrap-Up #20 – Ratchet & Clank Dated, PlayStation Update, G4 Cancelling Shows.

<p>It’s that time of week again when we take a fond look back at the top five news stories from the week&period; Welcome to the Weekly Wrap-Up&period; Below is a brief summary&comma; but for the full stories simply click on the hyperlink&period; Let us know if you agree with our top five&comma; and if you have suggestions for future Weekly Wrap-Ups&comma; feel free to email me at <a href&equals;"mailto&colon;jeremy&period;tyler&commat;bagogames&period;com"><strong>jeremy&period;tyler&commat;bagogames&period;com<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Enjoy&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>Number 5<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;ratchet-clank-full-frontal-assault-dated-november-27th&sol;ratchet&lowbar;clank&lowbar;full&lowbar;frontal&lowbar;assault&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-28204"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28204" title&equals;"ratchet&lowbar;clank&lowbar;full&lowbar;frontal&lowbar;assault" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;10&sol;06094113&sol;ratchet&lowbar;clank&lowbar;full&lowbar;frontal&lowbar;assault&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;ratchet-clank-full-frontal-assault-dated-november-27th&sol;">Ratchet &amp&semi; Clank&colon; Full Frontal Assault Dated for November 27th<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p>With the 10th anniversary of Insomniac’s <em>Ratchet &amp&semi; Clank<&sol;em> series set to occur next month&comma; the developer has given fans a reason to celebrate today&comma; as the newest entry into the series&comma; <em>Full Frontal Assault<&sol;em>&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;blog&period;us&period;playstation&period;com&sol;2012&sol;10&sol;26&sol;ratchet-clank-full-frontal-assault-out-1127-for-19-99&sol;">has been given a release date of November 27th<&sol;a>&period; Additionally&comma; the game will also come to retail stores&comma; as opposed to being the download exclusive it was once going to be&period; Retail &amp&semi; Downloadable releases getting the same date are becoming the norm&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>Number 4<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;ubisoft-unveils-assassins-creed-3-road-e3-2012&sol;assassins-creed-3-3&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-15170"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15170" title&equals;"Assassin's Creed 3" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;05&sol;06202015&sol;Assassins-Creed-32&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;assassins-creed-iii-breaks-ubisofts-preorder-sales-records&sol;">Assassin’s Creed III Breaks Ubisoft’s Pre-Order Sales Records<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p>Well&comma; Ubisoft is probably very pleased with itself right about now&period; <em>Assassin’s Creed III<&sol;em> has apparently broken pre-order sales records&comma; knocking former record holder <em>Assassin’s Creed&colon; Revelations<&sol;em> off the pedestal&period; Mike van den Berg&comma; executive at GameStop stated&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Pre-orders for <em>Assassin’s Creed III<&sol;em> at GameStop are 100&percnt; higher than last year&comma; putting the game on track to be one of the top titles of 2012&period; In addition&comma; Ubisoft is offering a Season Pass and high quality DLC available at launch to bring even more excitement to this title&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>Number 3<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;psn-store-update-29th-north-american-update&sol;playstationstoreupdate&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-15957"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15957" title&equals;"PlayStationStoreUpdate" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;05&sol;06200502&sol;PlayStationStoreUpdate&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" &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;playstation-update-adds-vita-trophy-support-discontinues-life-playstation-app&sol;">PlayStation Update Adds Vita Trophy Support&comma; Discontinues Life With PlayStation App<&sol;a><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p>On Wednesday&comma; the 24th of October&comma; Sony will be releasing software update version 4&period;30 for the PlayStation 3&period; This update will allow users to view PlayStation Vita Trophies on their PlayStation 3&period; The 4&period;30 update will also terminate the Life with PlayStation application&period; The service itself will end at the beginning of November&period; The termination of the program includes the termination of the partnership with Stanford University’s <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;folding&period;stanford&period;edu&sol;English&sol;HomePage">Folding&commat;home<&sol;a>&comma; a distributed computing project aimed at understanding protein folding&comma; misfolding and studying the causes of a variety of diseases such as Parkinson’s&comma; Alzheimer’s and cancers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<h1><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>Number 2<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;john-schappert-resigns-zynga&sol;zynga&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-22336"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22336" title&equals;"zynga" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;08&sol;06140546&sol;zynga-e1344470675261&period;png" alt&equals;"" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;zynga-announces-loss-52-million-q3&sol;">Zynga Announces Loss of &dollar;52 million for Q3<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;investor&period;zynga&period;com&sol;releasedetail&period;cfm&quest;ReleaseID&equals;716058">Zynga’s financial statement<&sol;a> for Q3 has revealed that amongst a revenue of &dollar;317 million&comma; it also managed a loss of &dollar;52 million&period; Mark Pincus&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;zynga-announces-loss-52-million-q3&sol;">CEO<&sol;a> of Zynga stated today&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;While the last several months have been challenging for us&comma; Zynga remains well positioned to capitalize on the growth of social gaming&period; We’re implementing a number of steps to drive long-term growth and profitability&period; The successful launches of <em>FarmVille 2<&sol;em> and <em>ChefVille<&sol;em> in the third quarter demonstrate that when we develop great games&comma; our large <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;zynga-announces-loss-52-million-q3&sol;">player <&sol;a>audience engages&period; It’s more clear than ever that along with search&comma; shop&comma; and share&comma; play is a fundamental pillar of the Internet&comma; and Zynga continues to be the leader”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>Number 1<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;10&sol;06094045&sol;g4&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28270" title&equals;"g4" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;10&sol;06094045&sol;g4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;g4-cancelling-attack-show-xplay&sol;">G4TV Cancelling Attack of the Show and X-Play<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p>Earlier today <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;g4tv&period;com&sol;thefeed&sol;blog&sol;post&sol;729197&sol;g4-marks-the-end-of-aots-and-x-play-with-two-month-farewells&sol;">G4TV<&sol;a> announced that their two longest-running series&comma; Attack of the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;g4-cancelling-attack-show-xplay&sol;">Show<&sol;a>&excl; and X-Play will no longer air after the end of the year&period; They stated that both shows will continue to air new episodes until the end of the year&period; The remaining episodes will feature guest co-hosts&comma; including&colon; John Barrowman&comma; Michael Ian Black&comma; Josh Myers&comma; Paul Scheer&comma; Rob Huebel and Horatio Sanz will join AOTS hosts Candace Baily and Sara Underwood as well as Morgan Webb and Blair Herter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>Honorable Mentions<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;borderlands-legends-ios-incoming&sol;borderlands-legends&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-28008"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28008" title&equals;"Borderlands Legends" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;10&sol;06095021&sol;Borderlands-Legends&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" &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&period; Here are some of the articles for the honorable mention section&colon; <strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;borderlands-legends-ios-incoming&sol;">Borderlands Legends for iOS Incoming<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;vigil-games-cofounder-departs-studio&sol;">Vigil Games Co-founder Departs Studio<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;family-guy-multiverse-hits-store-shelves-november-23&sol;">Family Guy&colon; Back to the Multiverse Hits Store Shelves November 23<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;interview-boje-holtz-developer-fire-burst&sol;theinterview-2&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-14008"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14008" title&equals;"TheInterview" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;05&sol;06205733&sol;TheInterview1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you missed out on the big news items this week&comma; you can check out our weekly podcast and get an audio update of this week’s madness from our podcasting team&period; Listen to us as we talk about some things seriously and a few other things not so much&period; We guarantee this episode will make you shake your fist at times and nod your head at others&period; And finally&comma; check out<a title&equals;"The Interview with Q" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;interview-jacob-andersen-game-director-heroes-generals&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><strong> The Interview with Q<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&comma; hosted by Matthew Quinlan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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