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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by Linda calm gears of war goes full Microsoft Michael Pachter gives random guesses on the future of handheld gaming and cat lateral damage gets a green light also we played dr. Luigi and discuss this week's hot new releases let's get out of controller hello and welcome out of control or the weekly TechnoBuffalo show that covers all your gaming news reviews demos and new releases and it easy to digest capsule form I'm your host Ashley Scott that it's always a big vici gaming so let's hit the news if anyone out there was hoping to see the Gears of War series go cross-platform for this generation of consoles well don't hold your breath Microsoft officially purchased the past present and future of the popular franchise from Epic Games making it an official microsoft studios title with black tusk studios taking over developing future titles microsoft's phil spencer said quote it all comes back to our commitment to xbox fans the Gears of War franchise has a very strong passionate and valued fan based on Xbox over 22 million units have been sold across all gears of war titles worldwide grossing over 1 billion dollars on end quote and when I put that through my magic translator machine that quote turned into it looks getting kind of old and we figured we'd hedge our bets plus we really didn't want it to show up on the ps4 you've probably heard of Michael Pachter an analyst with Wedbush Securities who loves to make predictions about gaming he recently made some handheld predictions and he presented two very different futures for Nintendo's 3ds and PlayStation Vita he says the 3ds will survive because of its appeal to core gamers although phones will cut deeply into their sales for more casual gamers now as for the Vita pachter paints a far bleecker picture saying it will die a slow painful death this guy's a modern day Nostradamus and by that I mean his rate of success on predictions falls between a sack of potatoes and a neighborhood cat so I'm going to go ahead and predict the Vita gets a nice boost from PlayStation now and remote play on the ps4 while Nintendo continues to crank out good stuff on the 3ds indie game cat lateral damage generated some serious buzz a few weeks back and now it's going to be official on Steam the first person house cat destruction game is now headed to the steam platform at some point after getting enough attention and votes to get a green light from valve creator Chris Cheung surely has his work cut out for him and we likely won't see the official game any time in the immediate future since it's still an alpha but we're excited to see how the game develops over time if you're interested in checking out cat lateral damage you can do that in your browser or as a standalone executable for Windows Mac and Linux over at cat lateral damage com other freshly green 'let's team titles include time rifters dungeon forge and aces wild let's play as a feature on our gaming channel where a member of our writing staff plays a game and then talks about it over the footage this week joey is playing dr. luigi it's the final title launch for Nintendo's year of luigi and it's a new spin on the classic nes title dr. mario it's only ten bucks in the eShop so you should definitely check it out I got to take a minute to thank our friend and sponsor at lynda.com you can learn it at Linda calm it's an online learning company with more than 77,000 video tutorials that teach software creative and business skills a membership starts at just 25 dollars a month and you get 24 7 access to high quality video courses taught by expert instructors with real-world experience videos range from bite size tutorials all the way to comprehensive courses and subjects like programming web design business photography animation and more we have a special offer if you want to check out Linda calm no Buffalo fans get a free 7-day trial by visiting Linda calm / TechnoBuffalo while they add new courses every single week so it's always a great time to start that's Linda calm / techno Buffalo it's Tuesday it means new releases some really good ones this week act one of Double Fine's broken age gets its official open to the public release on PC Lara Croft shoots her way into the xbox one and ps4 with Tomb Raider definitive edition and hilarious indeed darling octodad Deadliest Catch hits PC this week but you still gotta wait until March for its ps4 release that's it for this week's out of control or feel free to give the show a thumbs up if you enjoyed it no pressure i'm going to give you two channels for the price of one to subscribe to subscribe to our main TechnoBuffalo channel for all the latest and greatest tech news and also subscribe to our dedicated video gaming channel TechnoBuffalo plays for trailers gameplay videos and deeper gaming analysis from our team of gaming experts thanks for watching I'll see you guys next week