{"id":499,"date":"2014-08-16T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/?p=499"},"modified":"2014-08-15T23:40:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T03:40:30","slug":"blurb-gamescom-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"Blurb &#8211; Gamescom 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_500\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-500\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/download.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-500\" src=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/download.jpg\" alt=\"Gamescom\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gamescom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you have not heard there is a convention that is solely for console games and it is taking place this weekend in\u00a0Cologne, Germany. Below is\u00a0a quick\u00a0run down of the highlights so far from both Sony and Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Console Features:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #202022;\">PlayStation 4 gaming console announced new features including\u00a0SharePlay, the ability to search for PlayStation Network users by their real name, and uploading saved videos directly to YouTube. Xbox One new features will include a new &#8220;Friends&#8221; section that allows gamers to stay up-to-date with their friends; a &#8220;Snap Center&#8221; that will allow gamers to switch back and forth between games, Messages, friends and achievements; an Xbox One Digital TV Tuner; Stream TV and Boot-to-TV (August patch).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Game Announcments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Playstation 4 played up the soon to be released <a title=\"Destiny\" href=\"http:\/\/www.destinythegame.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Destiny<\/a> (not that it needed it) and Xbox One suggested \u00a0the sequel to <a title=\"Tomb Raider\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tombraider.com\/landing\/\" target=\"_blank\">T<\/a><span style=\"color: #202022;\"><a title=\"Tomb Raider\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tombraider.com\/landing\/\" target=\"_blank\">omb Raider<\/a>\u00a0will be an Xbox exclusive and will launch in late 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-499 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/?attachment_id=503'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/destiny-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-503\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-503'>\n\t\t\t\tDestiny\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/?attachment_id=504'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Tomb-Raider-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-504\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-504'>\n\t\t\t\tTomb Raider\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Play more games Nerds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have not heard there is a convention that is solely for console games and it is taking place this weekend in\u00a0Cologne, Germany. Below is\u00a0a quick\u00a0run down of the highlights so far from both Sony and Microsoft. Console Features: PlayStation 4 gaming console announced new features including\u00a0SharePlay, the ability to search for PlayStation Network [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blurb","category-console","category-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}