We’re really starting to think that Austin may be bipolar or something…one minute he’s excited about Masters of Evil in a video game, the next he’s yelling at people who think PS Plus is still a good value. Sigh.

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What are we playing?

Austin

 

• Life is Strange

• LEGO Marvel’s Avengers

• The Witness

• Tom Clancy’s The Division Closed Beta

 

Chris

 

• Baseball Riot

• Resident Evil 0

• Grand Theft Auto 3

 

#SupportGoodGames

 

• Cook, Serve, Delicious

 

• Description: One of the few hardcore restaurant sims in existence, Cook, Serve, Delicious! is a deceptively easy game to learn but incredibly challenging to master as you progress through your career from owning a terrible zero star cafe into a five star world famous restaurant.

 

• Platforms: PC, iOS, and Android

• Time to complete: 31 hours and 30 minutes

• Achievement Guide

• Price: $9.99 on Steam, $4.99 on the iOS App Store, $3.99 on the Google Play Store

 

What’s in the headlines?

• Insomniac Games reveals their new game, Song of the Deep
• PlayStation gets a new name

 

• Umbrella Corps hits PS4 and PC in May

 

• BREAKING NEWS: The Division’s closed beta now ends on Monday
• EA exits E3 to give fans an event catering to their interests, “EA Play”

 

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan finally revealed

 

• PS Plus: Games for February 2016
• Games with Gold: February 2016

 

• Dangerous Golf revealed

• Mighty No. 9 has been delayed again

 

What’s went live?

 

Videos

 

The Vertical Slice

• Should other publishers follow EA’s new approach to E3?

 

• Unravel – Music as the Voice of the Game

• Livelock Announce Trailer

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan Announce Trailer

• Valkyria Chronicles Remastered – PS4 Announce Trailer

 

Austin

 

• Lazer Team Review

 

Chris

 

• Resident Evil Zero – There Were 2 of Them…

 

Articles

 

The Vertical Slice

• New Releases for the week of 1/26/2016

Austin

 

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan hits PS4, Xbox One, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 just in time for the sequel to the movie

 

• PlayStation gets a new name

 

• Dangerous Golf is a ridiculous game about destroying things with a golf ball

• Downwell is coming to Android today

• Final Fantasy XV’s next Active Time Report arrives this Saturday

• Life is Strange’s Everyday Heroes photo contest is now real

• Necropolis is coming March 17

• Mighty No. 9 has been delayed again

• Valkyria Chronicles Remastered heads to PS4 this Spring

• Street Fighter V’s story mode comes in June, and the last beta begins on January 30th

 

• Sam Barlow starts work on Her Story 2, but it is not a sequel, rather a “spiritual successor”

Chris

 

• Resident Evil 0 HD Remaster Review

• Umbrella Corps: New Info & Trailer via Capcom

 

What games should we spend our money on this week?

 

• Gravity Rush Remastered (PS4)

• Not A Hero (PS4)

• XCOM 2 (PC)

 

What social networks can you find us on?

• @VertSliceTweets
• @AustinBelzer
• @Heazie
• Vertical Slice
• podcast@theverticalslice.com
• @austinbelzer
• BladedTech
• BladedTechPS
• BladedTech
• The BladedTech Show
• The Vertical Slice
• VerticalSliceLIVE
• Heazie
• Heazie
• Heazie_USA
• Zombie Heazie

Who’s worth checking out this week?

 

• The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened? by Jon Schnepp