Weekly Wrap-Up Gamescom Edition

<p>Welcome to the Weekly Wrap-Up&comma; the weekly &lpar;and ever evolving&rpar; time when we look at the top five news stories of the week&comma; in no particular order&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&period; 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; This week had a lot of great news coming off the heels of Gamescom in Germany&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Enjoy&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;small&lowbar;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;epic-games-purchases-bulletstorm-developer-people-fly&sol;people-can-fly&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-22555"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22555" title&equals;"People Can Fly" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;08&sol;06140148&sol;People-Can-Fly&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"601" height&equals;"451" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>People Can Fly&comma; developer of <em>Bulletstorm<&sol;em>&comma; is now <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;epic-games-purchases-bulletstorm-developer-people-fly&sol;">property of Epic Games<&sol;a>&period; The move is indeed linked to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;key-members-people-fly-depart-epic-games&sol;">three key members of PCF leaving the company<&sol;a>&comma; those being Andrzej Poznanski&comma; Adrian Chmielarz and Michal Kosieradzki&period; It’s being said though&comma; that their decision to part ways was done on friendly terms&period; Mark Rein of Epic stated that their departure would not impact games currently in development&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We doubled down on People Can Fly&comma;” he stated&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It was something we always hoped to do&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;small&lowbar;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;capcom-revealed-publisher-remember-ps3-bound&sol;rememberme&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-22639"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-22639" title&equals;"RememberMe" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;08&sol;RememberMe&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"576" height&equals;"323" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;capcom-revealed-publisher-remember-ps3-bound&sol;">Capcom has announced that it will be the publisher of the upcoming game Remember Me<&sol;a><em>&period;<&sol;em> The game was formerly under the alias <em>Adrift <&sol;em>last year&comma; and was to be a multiplatform project by French developer&comma; DONTNOD entertainment&period; However&comma; apparently Capcom has taken over publishing of the project within the last twelve months&comma; renamed it&comma; and ensured it will be an exclusive PlayStation 3 title&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;small&lowbar;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;developer-call-duty-vita-unknown&sol;call-of-duty-vita&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-19523"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19523" title&equals;"Call of Duty Vita" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;06&sol;06174417&sol;Call-of-Duty-Vita&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"590" height&equals;"341" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;call-duty-black-ops-declassified-trailer&sol;">Activision has released the trailer for Call of Duty&colon; Black Ops Declassified<&sol;a>&period; Neven Dravinski&comma; the game’s producer says of the Nihilistic Software developed title&comma; says&semi; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;One of Call of Duty&colon; Black Ops Declassified’s compelling features is the fact that you can take the established gameplay everyone knows and loves and bring it to the PS Vita&comma;” This means that familiar aspects of the game like Create-a-class&comma; Perks&comma; and Prestige Levels will all be present&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;small&lowbar;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;halo-4-weapons-trailer&sol;halo-4-5&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-22403"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22403" title&equals;"Halo 4" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;08&sol;06140433&sol;Halo-4&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"590" height&equals;"316" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you are like many fans of the Halo franchise&comma; you are excited for the upcoming <em>Halo 4<&sol;em> and the pending trilogy&period; You probably already have ideas of where you’d like to see the trilogy go and end&period; Steve Downes&comma; the voice actor who plays <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;voice-actor-reclaimer-trilogy-heros-death&sol;">Master Chief<&sol;a>&comma; has his own ideas of where he would like things to go for John-117&comma; and they are not pretty&period;<em> <&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em> &lbrack;small&lowbar;divider&rsqb;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;hitman-absolution-e3-saints-trailer&sol;hitman-absolution-2&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-16425"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16425" title&equals;"Hitman Absolution" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;06&sol;06195333&sol;Hitman-Absolution&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"590" height&equals;"341" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A new multiplayer mode in <em>Hitman&colon; Absolution<&sol;em> called &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;multiplayer-mode-contracts-hitman-absolution-gamescom&sol;">Contracts<&sol;a>” was previewed at Gamescom today&period; In Contracts&comma; players are able to play through a scenario and choose any NPC as a target to take out&period; How you play is all recorded and captured as separate objectives that other players must achieve while playing through your contract&comma; so you can make quite a challenge by using some unorthodox methods of taking out your targets<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;small&lowbar;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;borderlands-2-mechromancer-class-labelled-girlfriend-mode-lead-designer&sol;girl-gamer&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-22587"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-22587" title&equals;"girl-gamer" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;08&sol;06140045&sol;girl-gamer&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"558" height&equals;"352" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This week had a lot of big news &lpar;thanks to Camescom&rpar; 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&period; Borderlands 2 lead designer John Hemingway has landed himself in trouble with internet social activists&comma; after referring numerous times towards the skill set of the future character class for Borderlands 2 as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;borderlands-2-mechromancer-class-labelled-girlfriend-mode-lead-designer&sol;">Girlfriend Mode<&sol;a>&period;” Sony announced that <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;psone-classics-coming-playstation-vita&sol;">PSOne classics<&sol;a> will be coming to the PlayStation Vita on August 28 via a system update&period; Capcom has <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;capcom-unity&period;com&sol;brelston&sol;blog&sol;2012&sol;08&sol;14&sol;announcing&lowbar;resident&lowbar;evil&period;net&comma;&lowbar;a&lowbar;free&lowbar;online&lowbar;service&lowbar;for&lowbar;re6" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">announced<&sol;a> a new online service for the upcoming game Resident Evil 6&period; The service will be called <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;capcom-announces-free-online-service-resident-evilnet-stat-tracker-players&sol;">Resident Evil&period;net<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;small&lowbar;divider&rsqb;<&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;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"480" &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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