Pardon me, if I just don’t give a crap :).  Yes, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was added today.  All of you folks can stop complaining now.  Finally, now we can move on to more important titles like Gun, Rumble Roses XX, and Outpost Kaloki X.  I’m semi-serious.  Enjoy.

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – $14.99 (19.99 Normally) (cheaper on disc)

Looks like the new Games with Gold are being announced today.   I’m not sure how to feel about it.  I have both of the Xbox 360 games, except that I guess I can get rid of my physical copy of Lego Star Wars III.  On the Xbox One side, I am mostly looking forward to Livelock, but I also have a physical copy of Prison Architect. So, really there isn’t much for me this month (unless I’m looking to free up a couple of physical copies), but hopefully you folks aren’t as unlucky as I am.  Enjoy.

Xbox One

• Prison Architect: Xbox One Edition (September 1st-30th)
• Livelock (September 16th – October 15th)

Xbox 360

• Lego Star Wars III (September 1st-15th)
• Sega Vintage Collection: Monster World (September 16th-30th)

Well, I am about halfway through the third episode of Minecraft Story.  The story is slightly picking up but it certainly isn’t at the level of some of the other Telltale games I have played.  It’s more of the fact that I have all eight episodes, and now I feel some weird need to finish them all.  Oh wait, that’s not weird, that’s the way I always am.

I also finished my first ACA NeoGeo game last week, Metal Slug.  100%ed it in 3 nights (at about half an hour a night).  It had some challenge, but practice made it perfect and I moved on.  I will attempt Burning Fight next in a week or so.

I am also playing Ziggurat still, I have all of the perks now.  The only things left that I can reasonably get is unlocking all of the characters (two left) and completing the bestiary (missing 11 Bone Summoners).  At that point, it will leave me with 6 missing achievements, all of which I am okay with admitting I’m not good enough to complete.  But I’ve gotten way more than my money’s worth when it comes to that game.

Anyway, if you haven’t figured it out, I’m being long and drawn out because there are no 360 sales right now I’m aware of right now.  Here is the sales page for Xbox One.  There are some good sales in there, but I was hoping for some 360/BC sales for the week.  Unfortunately, there wasn’t even any new BC announcements last week either.  I guess due to Gamescom, that just wasn’t the priority.  Hopefully that changes, and we have something to talk about a little later.  Enjoy.

10:30 am Edit: I have added the real link to Major’s page above.  Still nothing for the 360, but progress I guess.

Welp, for those who don’t know I turned 43 this weekend.  It was a nice birthday, I enjoyed it with my family (my wife and son) and that was that.  Nothing special, just simple and laid back.  Honestly that’s all you could ask for.  On the gaming front, I’m nearly through episode 2 of Minecraft Story mode.  I’m sticking with it for the time being, and I wish I could say why (because I have no clue).  But I am.  I did buy some of those NeoGeo games (Burning Fight, King of Monsters, Metal Slug)  from last week and will be trying to squeeze them in for the next month or so.  Oh, and of course I got the Sleeping Dogs 360 DLC.

Anyway, we do have some sales this week.  A lot of things we have seen on sale before.  I am still secretly hoping that the Risens go to backwards compatibility at some point.  But perhaps it is just so I have an excuse to buy them at these super low prices.  Enjoy your week.

Most of us knew these two were coming, it was just a matter of when.  Tomb Raider: Legend is the better one of the bunch but at $1.99 (Tekken Tag Team 2 Specials), they are excellent pick ups.  I will say, I do think both of them will be future GWG candidates but $4 isn’t going to break the bank.  In addition, both of them share DLC packs (the achievements show up under Legend) but they are unfortunately still highly priced at $9.99 each.  Still a couple of worthy additions, and worth playing.  Enjoy.

• Tomb Raider: Anniversary $1.99 (on sale) (normally $19.99) (also on disc)
• Tomb Raider: Legend $1.99 (on sale) (normally $19.99) (also on disc)
  • DLC w/Achievements: Tomb Raider: Anniversary Episodes 1 & 2 $9.99
  • DLC w/Achievements: Tomb Raider: Anniversary Episodes 3 & 4 $9.99

Well, I finished Diablo III.  I ran through the remaining 30 bounties and never looked back.  The rest of the week I spent revisiting a couple of older games in Pinball FX3 (spending the bulk of my time on the Universal Classics tables) and Ziggurat (finally got all of the perks and all remaining items in the Armory).  I also started Minecraft Story Mode for some silly reason.  I got through half of it and then put it down.  I’ll try to make myself get through the first episode this week, but I can’t guarantee after that I’ll keep trying.  Compared to Batman or Borderlands Telltale, it’s not exciting or funny at all.

There are a ton of sales this week.  Lots of good stuff, especially if you have held out on Season Passes or the like.  On the X1 (and 360) side it should be noted that quite a few of the NeoGeo ports are on sale.  This is the first time they have been and if you like the ports at all, I would recommend buying one so hopefully we can see future sales of them.  $4.79 to me is a sweet spot and $7.99 is no offense, but not working for me.  Also among those NeoGeo ports is a Xbox original on sale as well (King of Fighters; Neowave).  One final thing, in the Non-BC department, the rest of the Sleeping Dogs DLC is on sale, woohoo!  Anyway, that’s it for this week, we should see a BC announcement today, hopefully it’s something good.  Remember to hit the -Read More- for all of the titles.  Take care kids.

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Well, not exactly the three I was hoping for, but games are games nevertheless.  Prince of Persia is the game where they actually charged you $10 in DLC to play the Epilogue.  It also has a glitched achievement which might or might not unlock for you too.  So we move on to Sine Mora which has a Xbox One port, so not too exciting there.  Finally, Earth Defense Force 2025 is about the only standout and is fairly easy to get on Amazon, brand spanking new even.  There we go, have fun, and again have a great week.

• Prince of Persia $19.99 (available on disc for far cheaper)
  • DLC w/Achievements: Epilogue $9.99 
• Earth Defense Force 2025: $49.99 (dear god, buy it on disc, it’s $12 @ Amazon)
  • Free DLC: Ranger Weapon Set
  • Free DLC: Air Raider Weapon Set
  • Free DLC: Wing Diver: Weapon Set
  • Free DLC: Fencer Weapon Set
• Sine Mora $9.99

Welp, I am down to less than 30 bounties on Diablo 3 before it is said and done.  This time next week I will have 100% the game (remember I had 100% the 360 version as well) and just maybe I’ll be finished with it.  I am also trying to get to 3000 challenge points (at 2980) as I never really tried for any of them until recently.  A nice way to end many hundreds of hours at this game.  I’m not sure what will be the next big game I’ll play, but we’ll see what happens.

So this week looks like a whole lot of Fallout and the usual Faery & Mars: War Logs (I own Faery but never got around to playing it) assortment.  Honestly, nothing much and hopefully we’ll get a good BC announcement today.  Take care, enjoy your week and I’ll try to do the same.  Take care.

Backwards compatibility, Tom Clancy style.  With Conviction getting the nod nearly six months ago, it was about time for these two to be added as well.  The first thing you will probably notice is Blacklist is physical only.  The digital got removed a while back but you can still obtain the disc for under $10.  Double Agent is still widely available, digital is $20 but physically is a lot cheaper, going for $5 in some cases (if you don’t care about condition).  So have a date with Sam Fisher and death the rest of the day, or don’t.  Enjoy 🙂

• Splinter Cell: Blacklist (available on disc only)
• Splinter Cell: Double Agent $19.99 (cheaper on disc)
  • Free DLC: 360 Downloadable Content (Looks like a couple of multiplayer maps/challenges and a new character w/3 outfits).

The last day of the month.  Yes, I’m still playing Diablo 3, I finally got another Greed Portal and I think I hit 87% on the bounties.  I’m about 50 left.  But on Saturday, I did actually play something else for about 2 hours.  Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown.  It was a former GWG and it looked fairly easy in the achievements.  True to its Sega form, it was just that.  This included even the two online achievements which thankfully still has a strong community.  I never played the same person twice in fact in my ten fights.  Even won four of them too.  (Yes, I was surprised as well)  Anyway, back to Diablo I guess, lol.

Well, this week can be called the Street Fighter sales week.  The only Street Fighter related items that are not BC is anything involving Tekken or Street Fighter II/III.  This might mean one of those titles goes BC this week, but we’ll see.  I’ve been disappointed many many times before.  Enjoy your week..