(Some Of) The Big Stuff:

The PS4 may have beaten the Xbox One in October, but since Microsoft cut the Xbox One price by $50 earlier this month, the tide has turned. Microsoft announced this week that the Xbox One has been outselling the PS4 for two straight weeks now in the United States. The company cited excitement over the $50 price cut and the array of Xbox One bundles as fueling the turnaround. Microsoft also announced this week that it's now shipped 10 million Xbox Ones, behind PS4's 13.5 million. But with the busy holiday shopping season still in front of us, can the Xbox One finally catch up to and maybe overtake the PS4?

More talk about resolution and frame rate this week. 2015's Batman: Arkham Knight is aiming for graphical parity across all platforms, developer Rocksteady Studios announced this week. Final specifications aren't locked down yet--the game doesn't launch until June 2015, after all--so it's too early to say if it will be 1080p/30fps or some other variation.

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Fast and Furious fan? This one's for you. Mobile game developer Kabam on Monday released its latest licensed game, Fast & Furious 6: The Game, for Windows Phones and tablets running 8.0 or 8.1 operating systems. The game had already been released on iOS and Android devices (with 20 million downloads in its first month), but this marks Kabam's first game ever for Windows devices. Download the free game here.

Ahead of Dragon Age: Inquisition's release next Tuesday, free digital card game Dragon Age The Last Court was released this week. Described as a story-driven game, the title will fill in the gap between Dragon Age 2 and Dragon Age: Inquisition. Play it now right here via Origin.

Although Super Smash Bros. for Wii U won't be released until November 21, one fan has created a video showing off all 51 characters' Final Smashes. It's a fascinating thing to watch, even if you're a purist who doesn't play with items or Final Smashes. Watch video below.

Fans of Brutal Legend developer Double Fine can now play the studio's next game, as Massive Chalice is now available through Steam Early Access. There's even a 25 percent launch week discount offer, which lets you buy the game for $22.50 instead of $30. You're playing an in-development version of the game, though Double Fine says it's "pretty well complete" and already playable from start to finish. Work still to be done ahead of its 2015 release comes down to balancing, tuning, and polish, Double Fine said. Download the game on Steam today here.

PC MMO WildStar developer Carbine Studios on Wednesday released the game's biggest patch ever. Called Mystery of the Genesis Prime, the update adds new zones, areas to discover, quests, treasure, and more lore. It also fixes a range of bugs. You can read more about it at WildStar's website.

Sony this week published a list of panels that will take place at its two-day PlayStation Experience event in Las Vegas next month. Developers behind games like Far Cry 4, God of War, Little Big Planet, The Order: 1886, Diablo III, and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End will also give presentations at the event. There will also be a live, in-person Ask Me Anything-like session with various PlayStation executives, including Shuhei Yoshida, Adam Boyes, and Scott Rohde. Head to the PlayStation Blog to see a full rundown of what to expect from PlayStation Experience.

Blizzard Entertainment scored a legal victory this week, as a court ruled against a Chinese Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft clone that was trying to (illegally) piggyback on the overwhelming success of Blizzard's free-to-play digital card game. Not only is the Hearthstone clone getting shut down, but its creator must pay Blizzard and its partners $1.6 million for copyright violations.

Tickets for next year's PAX East in Boston, Mass. went on sale Wednesday. Three-day passes sold out almost instantly, though you can still buy one-day passes for Friday and Sunday (one-day Saturday tickets are sold out) for $45 each. PAX East comes to Beantown March 6-8, 2015. Buy your tickets here.

In its next step toward world domination, mobile game developer King this week announced a follow-up to the incredibly popular Candy Crush Saga. The new game is called Candy Crush Soda Saga, and yes, it's another match-three game. This time, though, the hook is that your goal is to make matches to pop soda bottles, per a report from Touch Arcade. You can download it today for free on iTunes and Google Play.

After nearly 1 million downloads across Xbox One and PS4, intriguing downloadable game Chariot has arrived on PC through Steam. The couch co-op game that's drawn the praise of Microsoft's top gaming executive features a princess and her fiance adventuring through dangerous worlds to find a final resting place for the King. The game is also coming to Wii U. You can buy Chariot today on Steam for $15.

A game based on the over-the-top and out-there animated show Adventure Time is coming to PlayStation TV next week, publisher Little Orbit announced on Wednesday. The game, Adventure Time: The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom, will be available on November 18, developed by WayForward in association with Cartoon Network Enterprises. It's a top-down action adventure game with puzzle-solving elements.

D.I.C.E. Summit organizers this week announced a slew of new speakers for this year's show, which comes to Las Vegas in early February 2015. One of the most interesting presentations will no doubt be the event where Oddworld creator and industry veteran Lorne Lanning interviews PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida about all-things PlayStation and the future of the brand. Other speakers include Call of Duty developer Treyarch Studios boss Mark Lamia, Super Time Force developer Capybara Games co-founder Nathan Vella, Star Citizen creator Chris Roberts, and UC Santa Cruz program director Brenda Romero, who is married to gaming legend John Romero.

That Dragon, Cancer, an indie game about a family's struggle with their young son's cancer, has turned to Kickstarter to complete its funding. Developers are looking for $85,000; and as of this writing, they are more than halfway there. The subject of the game, 5-year-old Joel Green, passed away earlier this year. That Dragon, Cancer is a tribute to him. "A video game developer's love letter to his son; an adventure game to inspire us to love each other; a voice for those fighting cancer."

Next week will be absolutely crazy for new video game releases, and, as you might expect, retailer GameStop is gearing up for it in a big way. The retailer announced this week that 4,000 of its US stores will hold midnight launch events on the evening of November 17 to mark the arrival of six huge games that go on sale at midnight. These include the Xbox One and PS4 versions of GTA V, Far Cry 4, Little Big Planet 3, Dragon Age: Inquisition, WWE 2K15 (Xbox One and PS4), and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Xbox 360 and PS3). Interestingly, GameStop will start selling all games at 12 Midnight Eastern--regardless of where you live.

We learned a lot more about the Call of Duty Endowment, Activision's initiative to help place military veterans in jobs, this week thanks to a great story about it. Polygon interviewed the folks behind it, and found that the group has tripled the number of veteran job placements since the effort launched in 2009. CODE helped 19,000 military veterans in 2013, and 5,600 found jobs. And not just any jobs. The positions paid an average salary of $46,000, which is $1,000 better than the national average.

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