Weekly Wrap-Up: Gamecsom 2012 Edition

Gamecsom 2012 took place this past week. If you've been following The Feed, you'll know Sony, EA, Capcom and many other publishers "brought it" this year. Games like Remember Me and Until Dawn, were announced, plus so much more. You can check out the Gamescom 2012 show floor for yourself with this photo gallery too!

And now for the news...

Monday

• Tommo Inc. confirms a December 6, 2012 release date and $199.99 price tag for its upcoming NeoGeo X Gold handheld/console combo.
• Nintendo confirms upcoming release dates for first- and third-party 3DS and DS games, including Paper Mario, Luigi's Mansion, and mor
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 will reportedly use a new competition-oriented matchmaking system that is based on a player's skill.
• Konami offers players the opportunity to swap their broken Xbox 360 verison of Silent Hill HD Collection for something else.
• Gearbox Software reveals new details about the Mechromancer, the downloadable fifth character class in Borderlands 2.
• It looks like a Sons of Anarchy game is doubtful.
• Epic Games has bought People Can Fly, the developers working on the upcoming Gears title, Gears of War Judgment.
• Sony has announced PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale will now be released on November 20, 2012.
• A supposed next-gen Xbox has sold on eBay for 20k.
• Former Irrational Games Art Director, Nate Wells, has announced his next move
• Borderlands 2' main baddie, Handsome Jack, is more than just a pretty face
• Battlefield 4 will be set in modern times, DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson said.
• You can buy a whole video game lifestyle for $3.5 million.
• Is a new faction coming to Team Fortress 2?
• LEGO The Lord of the Rings has a fresh new trailer from Gamescom 2012
• Darksiders 2 will feature a gameplay mode called Arena Mode: Crucible.
• Check out the best crowd-sourcing around in this week's Nerdsourcing.
• Primal Carnage is an upcoming class based shooter.
• Valve just announced some changes to Steam, adding community features.
• Tediore is the weapons manufacturer of choice in Borderlands 2.
• X-Play has a preview for Bethesda's Dishonored.

Tuesday

• Capcom releases the debut trailer for Remember Me, a third-person cyberpunk adventure, as part of its Gamescom 2012 lineup.
• Capcom reveals plans to launch ResidentEvil.net alongside fall 2012's Resident Evil 6, allowing players to track their stats.
• Capcom confirms that Ninja Theory's Devil May Cry reboot DmC includes Dante's twin brother Vergil as one of the key characters.
• Check out EA's Press Conference from Gamescom 2012.
• EA just announced that Army of Two: Devils Cartel is coming in 2013.
• EA Sports will launch the playable demo for NHL 13 on all platforms next week.
• Crysis 3 multiplayer will feature a mode called Hunter.
• EA confirms plans to release a value-priced Battlefield 3 Premium Edition next month, including the game, a Premium subscription, and
• EA reveals the weapon crafting feature and pre-order bonuses for Dead Space 3, which is now confirmed for a February 5, 2013 launch.
• We saw a few pieces of naval warfare in the Assassin's Creed 3 demo from E3.
• Sony has announced a new game, Tearaway.
• Sony's upcoming brawler, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale will feature Dante, Sackboy, Spike, Ratchet & Clank as playable characte
• Sony has announced Killzone Mercenary for the PS Vita.
• Until Dawn has just been announced for the PS3.
• Sony announced Rain at Gamescom today.
• Find out more in Sleeping Dogs review.
• Sony has announced Puppeteer at Gamescom 2012.
• Check out the review of Darksiders 2.
• Before jumping into the second game, catch up with the Story of Darksiders.
• Sony has announced its "Cross Buy" program.
• X-Play has another exclusive look at Borderlands 2.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 2's multiplayer is breaking all the rules.

Wednesday

• Ubisoft's uses its Gamescom 2012 press conference to highlight the rich and varied lineup of free-to-play games that are on the horiz
• Check out the first trailer for indie game "Routine."
• Check out our preview of the naval combat from Assassin's Creed 3.
• Square Enix has announced an interesting kind of multiplayer for Hitman: Absolution. The game will feature "Contracts."
• Mann vs. Machine is launching today, August 15, for Team Fortress 2.
• A release date for Train Simulator 2013 has been announced.
• We talk to the creator of Deep Sea about sharks and shaping fear with sound.
• Thieves made off with PCs containing Divinity: Dragon Commander And Divinity: Original Sin.
• Check out our hands-on preview of Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation.
• Check out this 007 Legends Trailer from Gamescom 2012.
• With Gamescom underway, we check out to see what gaming means to the Europe.
• We look back at the history of GameShark and how it changed gaming.
• Check out all the just-released details on Halo 4's specializations.

Thursday

• Players will be able to make use of roughly 50 Kinect voice commands in Need For Speed: Most Wanted.
• Take a peek at the new cinematic trailer video for the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, Mists of Pandaria.
• BioWare confirms that the Leviathan DLC for Mass Effect 3 will be released for all platforms on August 28, 2012.
• The Behemoth confirms plans to bring Castle Crashers to Valve's Steam digital distribution service.
• Capcom reveals plans to release Rockman Xover, a social-driven iOS RPG, as part of Mega Man's 25th anniversary celebration.
• The makers of Hitman: Absolution have changed the "Killer nun" level to give it more context.
• Nvidia is giving away Borderlands 2 with the 's GeForce GTX 660 Ti graphics card.
• The Gamescom 2012 trailer for Rayman Legends shows the game's Wii U potential.
• Cartoon Network will air a Darksiders 2 and Metalocalypse promo this Friday, August 17
• Check out the Humble Bundle for Android. It's pretty good.
• Neverwinter has been delayed until early 2013.
• Check out our preview of Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel.
• Check out this gallery of Gamescom 2012 cosplay.
• Check out all these photos from Gamescom 2012.
• Check out our hands-on preview of Borderlands 2's Mechromancer.
• Check out our hands-on preview of SimCity.
• Check out this hands-on preview of Dead Space 3!
• Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified will give Vita owners the ultimate FPS experience.
• We find out what's worse than meeting up with a shark with the Top 5 Terrors of the Deep.
• Check out our wrap-up of Day 2 of Gamescom 2012.

Friday

• GameStop confirms plans to launch Spawn Labs' cloud-based game streaming service in summer 2013 for PC, tablets, and Internet TVs.
• The director of Hitman: Absolution confirms that the game's content has been altered as a result of the negative reaction to the game
• Comic book publisher Dark Horse will be bringing Hyrule Historia, a Japan-exclusive encyclopedia for all things Zelda, to the U.S. in
• Sega's new mobile publishing division, Sega Alliance, aims to provide marketing and production support to indie devs on mobile platfo
• Konami confirms that MercurySteam's upcoming Nintendo 3DS game, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate, won't be arriving unti
• Check out our preview of Until Dawn.
• Check out our XCOM: Enemy Unknown preview
• A fresh batch of Deadpool screenshots have just been released.
• Crytek revealed two new multiplayer modes for Crysis 3 during Gamescom 2012.
• For the best in mobile games, you need only visit Knuckle Up.
• S2 has announced Heroes of Newerth: Core Pool.
• Halo 4 video "Prelude" takes us behind-the-scenes at 343 Industries.
• Sacred Citadel is a side-scrolling RPG with arcade elements.
• Check out this video of ZombiU's basics of survival.
• Want to know how to kill the boss in Darksiders 2? Here are some helpful videos!