I remember playing The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition on my 3DS back in 2011 and simultaneously texting some friends eagerly looking for a time to get together so we could tackle the game together as it was truly meant to be played. I remember even more vividly my disappointment when I saw that …
Sony has the utmost confidence in the ambitious open-universe title No Man’s Sky and rightfully so. Hello Games is creating a potential masterpiece and even boasts a universe full of explorable space, sea and terrain. Play how you want, do what you want, explore where you want. Such a wide array of promises, how could …
Cuphead was the Xbox One’s most creative and artistically ambitious title presented at E3 and its presence on the showfloor helped solidify its place as one of Microsoft’s mainstays. Cuphead’s most drawing feature is its art style. Based on 1930s era American cartoons, Cuphead replicates these old animations almost effortlessly. The developers, Chad & Jared …
During the Nintendo Digital Event video on the opening day of E3 2015 in Los Angeles, Nintendo announced games launching in the near future, with a focus on what fans can enjoy in the second half of 2015 and early 2016. This year Mario reaches an impressive milestone in video gaming: 30 years as a …
Home to the Oscars, Bethesda held its first ever E3 press conference at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles Sunday night. COO and vice-president of Bethesda Softworks, Pete Hines was the designated host of the evening. Unfortunately, there was little surprise on the games announced. Fallout 4 was revealed a week ago, Doom got a …
Electronic Arts rounded out its 2015 E3 conference with the game everyone in the theater had been waiting for, the new Star Wars:Battlefront. Developed by DICE, the trailer showed actual gameplay footage from the PS4, and as usual the Frostbite engine delivered something gorgeous. Showcasing the always popular Hoth attack sequence, the world of Star …
Nintendo has big plans for E3 2015, and it began with Masahiro Sakurai’s special video presentation for Super Smash Bros. Unfortunately, footage showcasing Ryu from Street Fighter and Roy from the Fire Emblem series as playable characters in the game was leaked yesterday, taking a bit of the fun out of the presentation that streamed …
Ever since last week there have been little nuggets of dark fantasy floating around the annals of the internet which suggest that 2016 is not too early to expect Dark Souls III, the latest in From Software’s wildly challenging action-RPG series. With IGN and VG24/7 backing the story and two promotional images leaked today, it …
Following yesterday’s mysterious Twitter announcement of another forthcoming announcement, Nintendo pulled back a bit of the curtain this morning on its E3 agenda with a short video and press release. While the basic setup will be very similar to last year, with a Nintendo Digital Event on Tuesday morning at 9am(PT) followed by Treehouse: Live ongoing throughout the …
Alongside Halos 1 through 4 in the upcoming Master Chief Collection, fans will also have access to the Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta, starting December 27 and ending January 22, 2015. Not much else is known, but it will go beyond server stress tests unlike most modern betas, analyzing and incorporating user feedback to create a more balanced, refined experience. This makes sense considering the beta begins almost one year before Guardians is expected to ship in the winter of 2015.
Read the comments section of any article or video on virtual reality, and the words “game changer” and “revolution” will most likely appear. Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist at Oculus, claims that VR could even “transform the entire entertainment industry”. Despite the enormous hype around virtual reality, there are lingering concerns whether VR can succeed as a …
This year’s E3 had a lot to like. We had more glimpses of the return of both Nathan Drake and Master Chief. We had the continued rise of the indie developer, showing fantastic stuff like No Man’s Sky and Inside. We had Nintendo finally delivering a strong showing – Zelda! Splatoon! Captain Toad! – with a pre-recorded event that arguably trumped both Sony and Microsoft’s live offerings (it was certainly a hell of a lot more fun – the Iwata/Reggie face off eliciting genuine laughs rather than awkward groans).
Microsoft recently held a closed-door meeting called Xbox 101 (Xbox One-0-1, if you will) where they demonstrated the computing power of the Xbox One, which they claim exceeds the computational power of more than ten Xbox 360 consoles. However, the hardware inside Microsoft’s new black box is not solely responsible for this. Its ability to …
Before Infamous: Second Son Sucker Punch Productions released Infamous on PS3. The story revolves around Cole MacGrath developing electrical superpowers after a huge explosion in the fictional Empire City. The game implements a Karma system that allows players to become a Hero or, as the title subtly suggests, Infamous. The decisions made determine how the …
When Microsoft announced the Xbox One they dropped the huge bombshell that the physical packaged games would be registered to only one Xbox One console/account. This would prevent consumers from sharing their copy with friends or from trading it in at retailers. Predictably, gamers were outraged and Xbox loyalists found themselves siding with Sony. Then, …
Nintendo’s Wii U was first announced back in 2011 and there were no statements regarding DRM back then. The console was only released in December though, so there’s no reason why Nintendo shouldn’t be facing the same challenges as Sony and Microsoft, but Satoru Iwata, global president of Nintendo, has a simple explanation. He believes …
I don’t know a lot about Quantum Break. I know it’s a next-gen game for the Xbox One that will be twinned with a TV series, and I know it’s being developed by Remedy Entertainment, the studio responsible for Max Payne and Alan Wake. It was announced at E3, but its reveal wasn’t accompanied by …