I was thinking that these two would come soon but honestly its hard to tell sometimes.  Glad to have these two as part of the list.  They are both underrated in my opinion and the only negative to these two is that the DLC for the first game is way over priced in my opinion.   Also the online community for both games is pretty DOA, but the important thing is that these games can be played again or enjoyed for the first time by newcomers.  Enjoy.

• Overlord $9.99 (also available on disc)
  • DLC w/Achievements: Challenge Pack $4.99
  • DLC w/Achievements: Raising Hell Map Pack $9.99
  • FREE DLC: Split Screen Pack
• Overlord II $9.99 (also available on disc)

Well, I wish I could say I stayed away from Diablo III last week, I would be a big fat liar if I did.  I’m up to 64% on the bounties and my witch doctor has recovered and exceeded anything that happened on that day where I lost some of my progress.  He is very much a killing machine and lightening pretty much shoots out of everywhere.  And if that doesn’t get you, then the numerous pets will.  For bounties, I do Torment 2 as if it were nothing.  For greater rifts, I think I’m up to the equivalent of Torment 5.  I went back and played my Wizard, even gave him a bunch of upgrades (since he also feeds off intelligence) and it was boring as shit.  So I’ll keep progressing on that.  Honestly, if I keep this up, I should get up to 100% in 3 or 4 weeks.

So we do have some sales this week.  Nice to see them put GRAW on the sale list a week after it goes BC.  I was also interested in From Dust but if you go to the download page, it actually isn’t on sale.  Hopefully it gets corrected by the end of the week.  We’ll see what happens with any new BC games today or Thursday but please enjoy the rest of your week and hope they are good ones.  Take care.

Well, as it turns out we did have two games released to backwards compatibility today.  Unfortunately, neither of which excite or surprise me.  Hey, I’m just being honest :).  But for AC and Ghost Recon/Tom Clancy fans, it’s awesome.  Liberation is only available Digitally (even if you got the America’s trilogy on disc, it was still issued as a code unfortunately), just FYI for the discers such as myself.  Enjoy.

• Assassin’s Creed: Liberation HD $19.99
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter $19.99 (also available on disc)

Well, I am still playing Diablo (no surprise there).  I even did a marathon type session on Friday.  I finished off the 100 treasure goblins achievement, got a ton of gold and legendary gear for my witch doctor, and even got the event where the portal is left behind by the treasure goblin which leads to Greed.  It was awesome, it was the most fun I had with the game in a long long time.  Then I login on Saturday and about 90% is gone.  The progress, the gear, the gold, almost all of it gone.  The only confirmation that it ever happened was the goblin achievement still registered.  And some of that stuff I’m not going to get back.  The legendary sword and chest piece come to mind quickly.  My only guess was that it did not back to the cloud or something else equally weird.

Anyway, I did find time to start another game, mostly in frustration to the event above.  WWE Legends of Wrestlemania.  It had been sitting on my shelf for a while, and I needed something to play on my 360.  It’s pretty easy so far, so I don’t expect for it to stick around too long, but I needed a diversion after the Diablo shenanigans.

Here are the sales for this week.  A nice assortment of Xbox One sales that might require some more research if nothing else.  I want the RWBY game (even if I hear it is a grind fest), but waiting for the right price point on the bundle.  Xbox 360 brings us mostly Mega Man this week it looks like.  Not a bad thing, just not very exciting either.   Maybe we’ll get a BC game today before heading off into July 4th weekend.    Enjoy yourself kids and the holiday.  Take care.

Looks like the new Games with Gold are being announced today.   This month did not get much better to be frankly honest.  I don’t even know what to make of the Xbox One games.  And to be honest, the 360 games are not my cup of tea.  Virtua Fighter V is a technical fighter junkie’s dream but that’s not anywhere near how I describe myself when it comes to games (RPG/Hack n Slash/StoryTelling Junkie if you are curious).  Splinter Cell, I’m a little more curious and might throw it in the backlog.  Hopefully one of the two games for Xbox One surprises me because there is little here to be happy about.  Enjoy.

Xbox One

• Assault Android Cactus (July 1st-31st)
• Death Squared (July 16th – August 15th)

Xbox 360

• Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown (July 1st-15th)
• Splinter Cell Conviction (July 16th-31st)

I did read the Codemasters rumor earlier in the day, but alas did not report on it because I knew that I’d probably be wrong which games it would be.  Because I was simply dreading yet another racing game which will probably end up being a future GWG.  The soccer one makes sense too I suppose with the World Cup and everything.  Fable Heroes, I played the demo a couple of times and was very unimpressed.  I guess if they knock it down to $5 or something, I’ll probably be bamboozled into trying it a third time.  I just was hoping with a Codemasters rumor that we might actually get the Overlord games..  That would certainly be a welcome surprise.  Enjoy kids.

• Sensible World of Soccer $9.99
• GRID Autosport $24.99 (Cheaper on retail disc)
  • DLC w/Achievements: Sprint Pack $5.99
  • DLC w/Achievements: Touring Legends Pack $12.99
  • DLC w/Achievements: Drag Pack $4.99
• Fable Heroes $9.99

Welp, got my second hardcore character to 70 in Diablo 3.  This one actually counts since it happened on my Xbox One and not my 360.  So 2 achievements left.  Treasure Goblins (up to 81 now with 19 to go) and bounties (42% according to the ticker, so I have ~290 bounties left).  So, at this point I’ll probably take a little break and play something else or finish up something I had left over (like my third playthrough of Oxenfree).  If I don’t, I’ll get 50 to 100 bounties in to it and start hating myself (and then stop playing for a year).  The Goblins will happen while I do bounties, so I’m not concerned about that.

I would love to say we have some 360 deals today, but that is not the case yet.     There are a few XB1 offers that might warrant more than a glance.  But I’ll respond back later in case there are some 360 sales or perhaps a new BC game for us to talk about.  Take care and have a good week.

EDIT: June 27th, 2018 11:00am update.  The 360 Deals are finally live.  Great if you enjoy Sonic, not really much else.  Enjoy.

It’s a Call of Duty game…cause we have never seen that before /sarcasm.  I know I should be more happy, if nothing else the COD trolls are running out of things to complain about (I think they are down to just MW2).  And it is a Tekken Tag special this week too.    It’s just hard when the BC library is so crowded with COD titles and not enough RPGs.  Well, enjoy kids.

So, I would like to say I started a new game last week but the best I could muster was about an hour of Lego Indiana Jones 2 before I remembered that playing the older Lego games is usually an exercise in frustration.  And LIJ2 was no different.  I spent most of the gaming time in the last week playing Diablo III.  Hardcore character up to level 57, have 30% of the bounties and 2/3rds of the treasure goblins for the remaining three achievements.  Needless to say but the bounties will be the slog.  I would imagine the Hardcore will take only a couple more weeks, and maybe the treasure goblins sometime after that.  But bounties?  Maybe the end of the year and that’s if I keep at it which I usually don’t.

Anyway, we are back to something resembling a normal sale this week.  Though most of the games on sale are not BC.  Maybe this means we get a few new BC games, I sure would like to see RAW and Final Exam make that list off the sale page today.  We shall see I guess, enjoy.

Well, last weekend I did decide to play a short game called World II: Hunting Boss and soundly beat it in about 5 hours.  At least I only paid $1.80 for it.  I have been playing some Diablo III (Xbox One version) as well.  I’m about level 40 with my hardcore character and 100 bounties into the 500 for achievement.  I’d like to say I would complete it before the end of the year (I know I could given the right circumstances), but I’ll keep it casual and do 4-8 bounties and then go do something else.

So, it is E3 week and we had a bunch of sales posted last week (anything that’s an E3 is lasting two weeks).  I picked up the first 2 Saints Row titles and almost bought Gat out Of Hell too despite having the disc.  But I didn’t.  We don’t really have any new sales, but I don’t think anybody really expected any.  Maybe they will throw in a surprise BC game for us this week, but probably just better off playing your old ones.  Enjoy.

12:00PM Noon Update – Official Link from Major Nelson (nothing new to report)