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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by dragon speech retail gaming revenues for november 2013 minecraft mega milestone a potential release date for super smash brothers wii u 1 hit killing in samurai gunn and this week's best new game releases let's get out of controller hello and welcome to out of controller the weekly TechnoBuffalo show that covers all your gaming news reviews demos and new releases in an easy to digest capsule form I'm your host Ashley sceva it's always a big week in gaming so let's start out with the news official numbers are finally starting to solidify for last month's gaming revenues and it's kind of a mixed bag so it looks like the playstation 4 and xbox one launches help boost hardware sales quite a bit as expected with console and handheld devices jumping fifty-eight percent to 2.7 4 billion in revenue over last year's 2.55 billion in revenue on the other hand software revenue was down twenty four percent from one point four three billion to one point zero eight six billion in sales another important note though is that the NPD who's the company that does this research doesn't actually track digital online sales or use sales so I guess take all of these numbers with a huge rain of salt minecraft making the news this week after a pretty huge milestone the original PC and Mac version of the game officially crossed the 13 million sold mark last Friday prompting a pretty awesome tweet from minecraft creator notch his official statement and I quote whoa that's it no flowery PR speak no ego just whoa that's not counting versions of the game available on other platforms like the Xbox 360 edition and the Pocket Edition for iOS and Android it's kind of amazing to see minecraft continued to entertain gamers even over two years after its initial release it looks like the rumor mill is a turnon this week with whispers of a potential release date for super smash brothers wii u and 3ds a year or two years know the rumors pointed to a very very exciting possibility spring 2014 as in a few months from now unfortunately before you get all excited that gossip fire was put out pretty quickly by super smash brothers director Masahiro Sakurai who called it an incorrect report he also went on to say he wasn't sure when the game would drop but that he was trying desperately to make it happen soon either way I'm sure super smash brothers wii u will be a console purchasing game for a lot of you out there let's play as a feature on our gaming channel we're a member of our writing staff plays a game talks about it over the footage this week joey is playing samurai Gunn a multiplayer deathmatch samurai game for PC that features one hit kills seriously guys it is so fun make it your next party game you won't regret it I got to take a quick second to thank our friend and sponsor for today's show dragons speech voice commands are pretty huge these days of cars phones gaming consoles and TVs everything's taking advantage of our desire to just talk it's something to make it work as the world's best-selling speech recognition software Dragon technology brings that same power to your computer if you have a specific accent you think might not work with dragon don't worry Dragon has the ability to learn how you speak so over time a dragon gets better and better and nailing your speech patterns and translating them to your screen right now dragon is available for 5999 that's forty percent off of its regular price and because you're a fan of TechnoBuffalo dragon will hook you up with a free USB headset and a trial of password genie if you want to take advantage of this offer just head over to give dragon calm / TechnoBuffalo and make sure you use that link so they know we sent you that's give dragon calm / technobuffalo finally it's tuesday which means new games this week is a really good one with the walking dead season 2 from Telltale available on PC and Mac today and then playstation network and xbox live arcade tomorrow in addition the freedom cry dlc for assassin's creed 4 black flag drops today and consists of 9 self-contained single-player missions that's it for this week's out of control or feel free to give this 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 TechnoBuffalo for all the latest and greatest tech news and also subscribe to our dedicated video game channel technobuffalo plays for trailers gameplay videos and deeper game from our team of experts thanks for watching I'll see you guys next week