Reboot: This Week In Games: "Pokemon" Bugs, "Watch Dogs" Delays and the Sh-t Nerds Say

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Oh no! Ubisoft delayed Watch Dogs this week. It has been pushed back deep into 2014 with only a month to go until its original release date. We'll all have to wait a while longer to start hacking Chicago.

Pokemon X & Y shipped with a game-breaking bug that you should know about, don't get stuck losing your most evolved dino-feathered-fairy whatever to this nasty save bug.

Turns out we're still playing a lot of Borderlands 2 these days, so much so that 2K games is slated a new round of short and sweet downloadable content. Starting off with a Halloween theme romp through a murderous pumpkin patch to be released just before the day of the dead.

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Augmented reality and corporate hyperbole

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CastAR is a new project from two former Valve employees that’s using mini-projectors and eye tracking software to project 3D images in front the viewer than can be manipulated. In combination with the use of a Radio-frequency identification (RFID) mat, physical objects can be used to manipulate digital ones. We realize that this version of CastAR is only a prototype but it looks exactly like what we imagine virtual reality looked like in the 1980s.

Last month Valve released details about its new living room friendly Steam Machines; the strangest part of the announcment was the controller. The Steam Controller looks much like an Xbox 360 controller except is has no thumbsticks. Instead the controller features two super-sensitive touch pads that can be mapped however players want. Check out this first look at the controller in action.

Do you like watching feel-good corporate propaganda? We do too! For all the problems and complaints that will inevitably surface with the launching of a next generation of consoles its nice to take a look through the sunshine and lollipops veil of corporate press relations. Take a look at how Microsoft has built the Xbox One not for now...but for the future!

In other next-gen news, it must suck to live in Brazil. After having to wade through hot-body beaches and half-naked street parties to your local electronics retailer only to discover that a PlayStation 4 is selling for 3,999 Brazilian Real or about $1850 US Dollars, ouch.

In comparison Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox One will cost merely $2,200 Brazilian Real or $1,016 USD.

Stabbings and Loot

Previously, on GTA V...

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Got some free time in Grand Theft Auto Online? Can you take precious time away from killing and robbing sprees to put together something epic? YouTube User Kyoto-Moto did, putting together this crazy demolition derby on the top of Los Santos' highest building.

Check out this GTA fan film put together by GrizzlyReboots turning into an even more uber-violent experience. We all know how these fan-films can sometimes turn out, and it's surprising that the team at GrizzlyReboots pulled this off as well they did.

Even if you're the most cautious Grand Theft Auto V player, there's no denying that racking up wanted level stars can be fun, especially between missions. Twitch user EddieRuckus streamed an awesome video himself getting Trevor into trouble by blowing up random cars. When the cops come, things get even more interesting.

Lastly during a panel at New York Comic-Con last week the fourth wall crumbled when voice-actor Steven Ogg, the voice of Trevor from Grand Theft Auto V, brought the crazed character to life at a fans request, kindly advising him to "Go F**K Yourself!"

The dog is delayed but the bird is go!

"I enjoy downloading game-breaking patches"

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Hey remember that "Sh-t White Girls Say" meme that then deteriorated into every noun available? Well it's back! But this time it's factual and hilarious. Bill Scurry and Kevin Maher enlisted the help of New York Comic-Con attendees to deliver lines you would never expect to hear at any Comic-Con.

Vice, always in search of the underbelly of history, was inspired by the pirate shenanigans of Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag to go down to the Caribbean and blow some stuff up, swim with sharks and get drunk on some crazy-strong illegal rum. Check out the the full 3-part Vice series of getting drunk and shooting guns.

Speaking of things that freak out nerds, and everyone else, are game-ending bugs. It turns out people have been reporting a massive bug found in their copies of Pokémon X and Y.

The glitch is apparently rather serious and some players have reported their games being completely unplayable after the bug takes effect. When a player loads a file saved in Lumiose City the game freezes and becomes unsalvageable.



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