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The Throwdown #58

Featured Topics

• New York Comic Con 2013 impressions and stories
• Brian’s PlayExpo 2013 Impressions

Gaming news

• GTAV Online players get 500k for shitty launch
• WATCH_DOGS and The Crew delayed until Spring 2014. Ubisoft stocks drop by 25% after this announcement. DriveClub also delayed.
• PS4 tidbits: PS4 at Select Retailers, Flower, flOw, Sound Shapes, Escape Plan Coming to PS4, Pre-order PS4 games on PSN, PS4 will cost $1,800 is Brazil
• MonoGame is getting a PS4 port
• Xbox One will have dedicated servers for MP games
• Riku’s Ps3 Firmware Issues

Pop Culture news

• Producer Of Assassin’s Creed Movie Reveals He Had Never Played The Series
• Michael Bay assaulted on the set of Transformers 4?
• Damon Lindelof Quits Twitter
• Pacific Rim 2 being written

Listener Questions

• What is the scariest video game you ever played?
• What is the scariest movie you ever watched?

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PlayStation Store’s top downloads of 2025

O'Dell Harmon Jr. writes: "Before we say goodbye to 2025, let’s take a look back and see what were the most downloaded games of the year. It was a great time for sports, shooters, and some new PlayStation VR2 games. Sports favorites topped the charts in US/Canada and EU, with NBA 2K26 and EA Sports FC26, respectively.

Juggernaut GTA V found a home in the top three for both regions, with new 2025 release Battlefield 6 claiming second place in the US. Fortnite took top place for free-to-play games, and Beat Saber continues its PS VR2 success."

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blog.playstation.com
maximusprime_2d ago

FH5 4th in Europe compared to North America 14th. Not surprising.

LucasRuinedChildhood1d 23h ago

I think it shows how shortsighted it was for Sony to let go of Evolution and not get them to make some sort of competitor (open world Driveclub?) 10 years ago.

bionicstar1d 16h ago (Edited 1d 16h ago )

its a hard bet to make. hindsight is always 20/20.

Christopher1d 13h ago

After Driveclub's reception, hard to say it would have done well enough to compete. It's easy to dream of such a thing, but to make it happen? It's taken how long for CoD to be dethroned? And it was dethroned by Hogwart's Legacy and has gained it right back just the next year.

1d 12h ago
1Victor1d 19h ago

It’s funny to watch the only games EU and USA agree on was Minecraft and back ops 7 both regions on 6 and 7 spot respectively other than that FIFA rules EU

gold_drake1d 13h ago

yeh, football is really popular here in europe ha

1d 16h ago Replies(3)
DivineHand1251d 11h ago

I would like to see a list that has both free to play and paid games together, but at least we have this.

To this day GTA5 is a top downloaded game and it makes me wonder if the industry is really ready for GTA6. I imagine almost nothing else will sell during that game's release window.

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CWA Canada vows to fight Ubisoft Halifax closure, defend workers

CWA Canada will “pursue every legal recourse” to protect our members at Ubisoft Halifax after the company announced today that it is shutting down the operation just three weeks after workers voted to unionize.

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cwacanada.ca
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Ubisoft has closed its Halifax studio and claims the decision is unrelated to recent unionization

70 roles are affected at the Assassin’s Creed Rebellion studio.

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videogameschronicle.com
Warrior949d ago

Very sad news shame on Ubisoft, Also whats going on with the n4g website the webpages have issues loading for the past 2 months?

maximusprime_9d ago

It's broken and unfortunately poorly supported. Some of us, longtime members, are still here and enduring this painful experience

Skate-AK9d ago (Edited 9d ago )

Info is here. Got posted earlier today.

https://n4g.com/user/blogpo...

Warrior948d ago (Edited 8d ago )

I am aware of that my previous comment about the website issues was made an hour before Christopher posted the update

Yui_Suzumiya8d ago

I've been getting nonstop Runtime Errors for almost a year. This website is borderline unusable nowadays.

Toecutter008d ago

Funny how these sudden mass firings at major studios where employees unionized have nothing to do with union busting. Must be just a coincidence that it happens exactly the same way every single time.

Furesis8d ago

right... they really think we are that dumb, huh?

Inverno8d ago

Can't hate corporations enough. Society has such low standards, and when people wake up to it and try to push positive change that's when you realize the rich are the root of most our problems. Honestly so tiring to see just how much more comfortably we can all live and see others actively push against it.