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New Game Releases: What Geeks Want for the Week of 8-26-13

Well it’s another week packed full of new game releases, so hopefully your wallets and change purses have recovered from last week’s carnage.

The major console releases will surely get gamers excited with Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn (PC and PS3), Lost Planet 3, Madden NFL 25, Killer is Dead, and Painkiller: Hell & Damnation all releasing sometime this week. The major PC-only releases coming to a store near you are Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Ultimate Edition, Guardians of Middle-Earth, Grim Dawn, The Chaos Engine, and Shelter. The digital-only new releases feature a few worthy titles and add-ons with TMNT: Out of the Shadows leading the way on the Xbox 360, as well as the Call of Duty: Black Ops II – Apocalypse DLC. Wii U owners can also download Pokemon Rumble U from the eshop this week.

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Myst3898d ago

Kind of sucks that I have to get FFXIV on Wednesday. Being an adult with having bills and stuff sucks :(

HAMM3RofBUDDHA3898d ago

Another year, another Madden. At least no current players will be cursed this year since Barry is on the cover.

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Square Enix Releases Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail Benchmark Software

Final Fantasy XIV fans can now properly benchmark their PCs and check out some of what's coming to their game this summer.

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Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn Review | TheXboxHub

Richard writes: Final Fantasy XIV Online on Xbox is built for newcomers.

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Xbox Profanity Filter Is Ruining the FFXIV Chat

The Xbox profanity filter is currently ruining the readability of the FFXIV chat on Xbox Series X/S due to censored words.

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Snookies1226d ago

Lol, damn... At this point, they were better off keeping FF XIV away from Xbox. It has been nothing but obstacle, after obstacle.

gold_drake25d ago

wanted to say the exact same thjng.

VenomUK25d ago (Edited 25d ago )

What happens if you say things that used to get you banned on Twitter e.g. 'a man can't be a woman'?

RedDevils24d ago

*insert gift*
"Boys have a penis. Girls have a vagina."

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DivineHand12525d ago

I'm not convinced this is the profanity filter. It doesn't make sense to censor words like class, harvest and dance. It seems to be a bug.

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TheGamingHounds24d ago

Well, FF14 itself has some pretty awful chat censoring so Xbox being in the same boat isn't too farfetched

Eidolon24d ago

it censored the S T D in "harvest dance" and I bet the A S S in class. I know this because of Runescape

Aphrodia25d ago

Yeah these new fangled filters are going a bit too far. I have a game that filters "wtf". It's a censor for a self-censoring phrase. But I think overall it's how it should be. If you don't want certain language being used in your game by your player base, then it's up to you to filter/ censor the language you don't want. I can respect that. What I can't respect is when you say things that are not really offensive then you get ostracized for it.

shinoff218325d ago

What happened to just reporting people

NOMATICENIGMA25d ago

This is completely false, I tested this on my son's child account and mine, this is not Microsoft censoring they will censor swears but not the combination of letters I can prove this with a screenshot where I use all mentioned words in the article but do not know how to upload a picture.

NOMATICENIGMA25d ago

You can all continue your bashing, I was wrong someone explained to me this is a new policy, that's why it only happens for me in this brand new release. I'll try latter on ps to confirm but their response seemed informed wich leaves me rather worried for future censorship on my xbox.

CrimsonWing6925d ago

Geezus, Xbox, you get gifted gold and still f*ck things up.

NOMATICENIGMA25d ago

It's not xbox, go ahead start a chat with the youngest person on your friends list then say raid mass class sass said .... they do not censor any of these I even got away with R.Aids. sqaure on the other hand does.

CrimsonWing6925d ago

Does this affect PC and PS4/PS5 users, too? Or is it only happening on Xbox?

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