Chris is gone this week, so I guess your stuck with me. Yay? Only time will tell in this week’s edition of The Vertical Slice.

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What am I playing?

 

• Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

• Forza Horizon 2

• Party Hard

• Mirror’s Edge Catalyst Closed Beta

• Gears of War 4 Early Access Beta

 

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• Spider-Man: Web of Shadows

 

What’s important this week?

 

• Dead Years announced

• Furi announced

 

• Amazon locking certain games behind the Prime paywall

 

• Tekken X Street Fighter on hold

 

• The CEO of PlatinumGames steps down
• Mojang’s newest game — Crown and Council — is available for free
• PC Master Race, rejoice: Doom has plenty of graphics options
• John Romero and Adrian Carmack tease a new FPS

 

• Song of the Deep releasing July 12

 

• GameStop gets into game publishing with GameTrust

 

• Mirror’s Edge Cataylst pushed to June 7th

• Mafia III launches October 7th

 

• The new PS4 is codenamed “Neo”; includes interesting upgrades

 

• Batman: Return to Arkham leaked, didn’t happen

 

What have we put up this week?

• From Day One #8: 2008
• Capcom Drops A New Umbrella Corps Trailer

 

• Skyling: Garden Defense Review (Xbox One)

 

• From Day One #7: 2007

 

• Soda Drinker Pro Review (Xbox One)

 

Who or what is worth checking out this week?

 

• Party Hard (Xbox One, PS4)

• Alienation (PS4)

• The Magic Circle: Gold Edition (PS4)

• Ni-Oh (PS4 Demo)

• Severed (PS Vita)

• The Sun & Moon (PS4 & PS Vita Cross-Buy)

• Tales from the Borderlands: Season One (PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360)

• Deadpool (Digital HD)

• Dirty Grandpa Unrated (Digital HD)

 

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