Reboot: This Week In Games; Battelog, Kanye and the End of Fez?

Gaming is complex, so catch up each week with the short and dirty in Reboot: This Week In Games.

Important and interesting stories can get brushed under the rug, so we dig up the most interesting stories of the week and follow-up to keep you informed on your favorite games and gossipy goodness.

This week started out simply enough with the leaked Battlefield 4 footage of the new feature that'll never let you leave the game, and ended with Fez creator Phil Fish having - yet another - Twitter meltdown and claiming to be walking out on the industry.

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ESports have been coming up big lately. First, foreign eSports athletes will be recognized by the Department of Homeland Security and be eligible for visas as athletes, and now the Dota 2 International Championships have the largest prize pool in history.

$2.6 million dollars and rising are up for grabs at this year’s championships, beating out the $1.97 million from last years League of Legends Season 2 World Championships.

In related news Blizzard has finally upgraded its launcher, unifying all franchises of its games - Starcraft, Diablo, Warcraft - into one integrated system. Speculations abound but the rumors are that Blizzard is ramping up its system to handle more competitive gaming online and easier matchmaking and seeding.

Game On!

Just prior to its official release, a leaked trailer for Battlefield 4's brand new Battlelog feature surfaced.

Battlelog with be the all-consuming second-screen compliment to Battlefield 4, allowing you to change loadouts, follow a mini-map or stay in constant contact with game stats and achievements. Basically consuming your entire life, beware!

DICE, Battlefield’s developer is also working on the reboot end all reboots. Star Wars: Battlefront and has announced that its much farther along in development after only announcing the game at E3 last month. "The DICE team is well into development on that product already, so we feel very bullish about our shooter rotation over the next several years." We guess that's comforting but - of course - no date is given for the release

When it does come out though and you're playing with your Xbox One, you will be able to selectively record and edit segments of game, or the entire play with Kinect 2 voice commands. The last five minutes of every gameplay session will be automatically recorded though, whether you like it or not. A rumor surfaced this week that Microsoft would be releasing versions of Xbox One without a Kinect - making the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 the same price - Microsoft quickly squashed it, no go.

Sony keeps breaking new ground in realism and the cinematic feel of its games. Following the critical success and chart topping sales of The Last of Us, Beyond: Two Souls takes realism and immersion to a whole new level.

There has been some controversy between the two games. As the star of Beyond: Two Souls, Ellen Page claimed that her likeness was used in The Last of Us. While there are certainly likenesses we doubt they ripped of Ellen as much as captured her character type, is that the same thing?

Don't worry everyone; You can finally play Kanye West in a video game. Of course you're going to save the human race, and of course you're going to do it with a cloned 2-Pac in this "hip-hop-themed science-fiction 2D role-playing," as described by developer Phenix. We'll be amazed if Kanye actually lets us finish the game.

In other cross-media news, Lord LeBron James has deemed us fit to receive his soundrack for NBA 2K14. As an executive producer on the game James picked out some classics to sooth the ears. Selections include: Coldplay - Lost!, Kanye West - All Of The Lights and The Black Keys - Elevator among many others. Check out the full track list and listen here.

Speaking of NBA, Kyrie Irving was announced as the NBA LIVE 14 cover athlete. “I’m so proud to be the face of this franchise as it makes its much-anticipated return,” Irving said. “I’ve been on the court with the development team and I’ve seen first-hand some of the amazing things EA SPORTS is doing with NBA LIVE 14. The fans are going to love it.”

Last night it broke that after an - at best - amateur and expletive filled Twitter war following GameTrailers' Marcus Beer's extensive on-screen rant about Phil Fish and his development partner Jonathan Blow, Mr. Fish says Fez 2 is dead he's leaving the industry.

Beer called the due "self-styled kings of the indie genre," in an angry rant which Beer says started when Fish denied comment on the rumored details of Microsoft's indie publishing specifications, none of which Microsoft has confirmed. Beer followed with personal attacks mainly directed at Fish.

After the Twitter exchange that followed, Fish went autodestruct and announced the cancellation of Fez 2, only announced last month and alluded to walking away from the industry; "I'm done, Fez II is cancelled. Goodbye."

Fish's persona was brought into the public eye after he was a major part of the successful film "Indie Game: The Movie." Fish has not been known for his self-censorship and Beer was clearly trying to elicit a response.