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EA @ E3 12: SimCity coming to PC in February 2013
EA showed off some gameplay footage of the upcoming SimCity at their E3 2012 Press Conference. The game Promises an whole world of possibilities for your Sims and an entire world of cities with the game’s new multiplayer mode.
EA also announced a February 2013 release window for the game and we’ll have that trailer soon.
EA @ E3 12: Madden NFL 13 has a new engine, Connected Careers mode
It won’t be the same old Madden when Madden NFL 13 launches this August. The latest football sim from EA will include a brand new engine, the Infinity Engine, which is a brand new run-time physics engine. According to EA’s Cam Weber, “No two plays will be the same.”
Collisions will be affected by a player’s size, their speed, and how the hit begins. If a player is hit on the arm, they could lose the ball, but tackle animations are no longer the end of the play. Players will be able to “regain balance after contact to fight for a few more yards.”
Former Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin also took the stage to showcase the game’s RPG-like Connected Careers mode. In Connected Careers, players will select a current player, a created player, a legendary player, or a coach in a story-based mode. Completing goals will earn XP that can be used towards a Canton career. Goals can also be shared on Twitter and Facebook.
Madden NFL 13 will launch on August 28.
EA @ E3 12: Dead Space 3 with Isaac Clarke, co-op, MASSIVE NECROPMORPHS confirmed
Dead Space 3 is already on my want list, and the EA press conference made it that much more painful. It’s got everything a successful survival horror game – hell, third-person shooter game – should have. Drop-in, drop-out co-op? Check. Massive Necromorphs? Check. Isaac Clarke??? Check plus. And apparently they’ve found “the source.”
EA showed off some gameplay, which was absolutely over-the-top – intense battle, new item display as you’re picking up ammo and switching guns, and a lot of cursing. They showed off the co-op option, with two players fighting some of the aforementioned massive Necromorphs. Player one had the regular blue green life bar on his back, while the drop-in second player had one that was slighter darker blue.
But the best news? The game will be out in February 2013 for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. February! That’s nine months away. Bring it on, Visceral Games!
Here’s the Gears of War: Judgment E3 2012 trailer
As promised, here’s the Gears of War: Judgment trailer that Microsoft debuted at their E3 2012 Press Conference. It’s being developed by People Can Fly and it’s full of all the explosions and big, muscular guys in power armor you could ask for.
Gears of War: Judgment will be available for the Xbox 360 next year, and judging by the tags applied by Microsoft to the YouTube video, it may arrive with Kinect support.
Posted in News, Xbox 360
Tagged E3 2012, Gears of War: Judgment
MS @ E3 12: Call of Duty: Black Ops II DLC coming to Xbox 360 first
Microsoft closed out their 2012 E3 Press Conference with some gameplay footage of Call of Duty: Black Ops II. As someone who doesn’t play Call of Duty games, I wasn’t entirely sure what I was looking at. But the graphics and sounds were certainly impressive from a technical standpoint.
But the big news is that the Xbox 360 will once again be the home for Call of Duty: Black Ops II downloadable content before any other platform in 2013. This also means another year of deciphering the DLC release schedule for six different audiences: CoD Elite subscribers on Xbox 360, regular people on Xbox 360, CoD Elite subscribers of PS3, regular people on PS3, CoD Elite subscribers on PC, and regular people on PC.
Way to go Microsoft.
Posted in News, Xbox 360
Tagged Call of Duty: Black Ops II, E3 2012
MS @ E3 12: Dance Central 3 stars Usher, coming this year
Usher is on stage at Microsoft’s E3 Press Conference showing the dance moves from his latest single, “Scream,” in Dance Central 3. According to Usher, he designed the choeography himself with Harmonix. The game will also include another Usher song, “OMG,” as well as hits from the 70s, when it launches later this year.
He actually performed “Scream” on stage in its entirety. I think. I may have dozed off because the excessive padding was so soft.
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Tagged Dance Central 3, E3 2012
MS @ E3 12: You are the new kid in South Park: The Stick of Truth
Trey Parker and Matt Stone came out on stage at the Microsoft Press Conference to talk about South Park: The Stick of Truth. Approached to make a game a few years ago, they said they were excited to make the game, but only if they could make it feel like you were in an episode of South Park. They’ve had to do a lot of work with it, though – one of the things they had to work out was an actual map of the world. Before, they could just cut to Kyle’s house, but now that you have to walk there, they have to know where it is.
All of your favorite characters are present, and now you are a character as well. You have to work hard to become cool with the South Park boys, get accepted by them, and become the savior. Maybe then you can wear the Baratheon crown and take out some teenage vampires, too.
South Park: The Stick of Truth will be released on March 5, 2013.
Posted in News, Xbox 360
Tagged E3 2012, South Park: The Stick of Truth
MS @ E3 12: Ascend, LocoCycle, Matter coming in 2013
Microsoft just dropped three trailers for three new games with 2013 release dates in quick succession.
Ascend: New Gods looks to be Microsoft’s take on Shadow of the Colossus as bizarre-looking knights battle even more bizarre-looking giants. It’s coming from Signal Studios, the creators of Toy Soldiers.
LocoCycle is being developed by Twisted Pixel, and while we didn’t get any gameplay footage, it looks to be a spy game starring a sentient motorcycle. From any other developer, that’d be weird, but it’s more or less par for the course when it comes to the Twisted Pixel guys.
Finally, there’s Matter. It’s designed by Gore Verbinksi (director of the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies) and made for Kinect. It looks like a sleeker, more modern version of Marble Madness.