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Crackdown world premiere trailer is explosive
The new Crackdown game is heading to Xbox One, and to celebrate, Microsoft showed the world premiere trailer during its press conference. It’s full of the franchise’s trademark humor, as well as its over-the-top violence. This will be the third game in the series, and it looks better than ever.
Crackdown has no release date yet, but will be coming exclusively to Xbox One.
Posted in News, Xbox One
Tagged Crackdown 3, E3 2014
Atlus crosses space and time to bring you Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth
Ever wonder what it would be like if Atlus made a game that joined the worlds of Persona 3 and Persona 4? Well, you only have to wait until this Fall to find out, because Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth is going to do just that. The game will be coming to the Nintendo 3DS, and will have all of your favorite characters from both games. Check out the full E3 2014 trailer above.
Posted in 3DS, News
Tagged E3 2014, Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth
Assassin’s Creed: Unity single-player and multiplayer gameplay walkthroughs show you the French Revolution up close
Ubisoft has been anything but stingy with their gameplay videos of Assassin’s Creed: Unity. Above is the official E3 co-op gameplay trailer, which shows you the elaborate online system, and promises that you’ll have so many options that no experience will be the same twice. After the jump, you’ll see an equally awesome single-player gameplay trailer, which takes you through the chaotic streets of Paris during the French Revolution.
Assassin’s Creed: Unity will be out on October 28 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. (more…)
Final Fantasy Type-0 and Final Fantasy Agito announced for North America
North American Final Fantasy fans can finally rejoice: Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy Type-0 and Final Fantasy Agito are finally coming to our shores. Final Fantasy Type-0 was only available on the PSP in Japan, but will be coming to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One remastered in HD. Final Fantasy Agito, meanwhile, will be coming to iOS and Android devices.
Hajime Tabata, Final Fantasy Type-0’s director, said, “The voice of our Western fans was instrumental in the development of Final Fantasy Type-0, and we’re very excited to release this title soon… The new PlayStation 4 system and Xbox One gaming and entertainment platform have really helped to re-envision this dynamic and turbulent world of Orience [the setting of both games].”
Neither game has a confirmed release date yet, though Square Enix did say that Final Fantasy Agito will be a free download with in-app purchases.
Hit the jump for the full press release. (more…)
Watch out for the flaming battleship hazard in the PGA Tour 15 E3 trailer
It looks like EA Sports won’t be ditching their realistic golf simulator to focus on fantasy courses. Sure, the fantasy courses will be there too, but PGA Tour 15 will also feature a heavy sim component.
The game will be the first EA Sports title to utilize the power of the Frostbite 3 engine to render stunning courses and open up the golf experience like never before. With the ability to stream full environments, players will truly be able to play the ball as it lies no matter where it lands.
This newfound freedom will come in handy not just for PGA Tour courses fans know and love, but also in the new fantasy courses that will make their debut in EA Sports PGA Tour. Why take two shots to get a ball around a beached battleship in the Battlefield Paracel Storm course when you can fire a ball right at the bow, bounce it off the deck and land on the green in one?
“One of my favorite things about the game is discovering new shortcuts and alternate routes to the hole on fantasy courses,” stated Executive Producer Brent Nielsen. “Players are encouraged to wander off the beaten path and find new roads to success. Now that the entire course is open at all times you are as free to be as creative and imaginative as you want in your pursuit of a low score.”
PGA Tour 15 is in development at EA Tiburon and will be available for the PS4 and Xbox One in Spring 2015.
Posted in News, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged E3 2014, Rory McIlroy PGA Tour
N++ gameplay teaser trailer promises new levels, enemies, challenges
Ninja platformer N++ looks gorgeous in this brand new gameplay teaser trailer, and the music just makes it all so much more epic. It will have new levels, colours (those Brits), and enemies, and there will be explosions. Maybe a lot of explosions.
N++ is a PlayStation 4 exclusive and, if the trailer can be believed, is coming “soonish” (AKA sometime in 2014).
BioWare updates us on Mass Effect 4 and a brand new game in E3 2014 trailer
In what was more of a talking head, corporate sales pitch than the trailer many had hoped for, BioWare’s developers talked about how the story and characters of their beloved Mass Effect trilogy has shaped the next installment, the currently untitled Mass Effect 4. The most telling quote came from Project Director Casey Hudson:
We start by asking fans what they want, what Mass Effect means to them? One of the things that fans have told us most about what they want in the next Mass Effect game is to go somewhere new and move forward.
Given that Hudson and his team pretty much reworked the entire ending for Mass Effect 3, it would suggest that BioWare is on the level about building a game that the fans want to play. “We’re taking you to a whole new region of space,” he added later. But how new can it be? The jargony “conceptual prototype” featured a character dressed in the N7 Armor, which indicates the game will take place in roughly the same time period as what has come before.
One thing the video does confirm is that BioWare staff in Montreal like to stare into the darkness, and work in really dark rooms. Hudson also revealed that BioWare’s Edmonton studio is cooking up something brand new, but their words were chosen well so as not to reveal anything beyond that.
Posted in News
Tagged E3 2014, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Shadow Realms
Is Link the hero of The Legend of Zelda Wii U?
When Nintendo finally revealed the latest iteration of The Legend of Zelda franchise for the Wii U, many were focused on the open world aspects described by Producer Eiji Aonuma, or the cel-shaded graphics that the art team has settled upon. However, it seems that while the audience lapped up the brief battle between the game’s hero and the laser-wielding tentacle monster, they may have missed the obvious…
The hero may not be Link.
This is straight from Aonuma, who was quoted as saying, “No one explicitly said that that was Link.” Now, no one said it wasn’t either, but his big tease would indicate that Nintendo is taking a massive step away from the core formula of the series.
A key indicator seems to be the sky blue tunic worn by “Link” in the trailer, a departure from the game’s characteristic green uniform. In fact, it is remarkably similar to the clothes worn by young cel-shaded Link in The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker; could the two games share a continuity of some kind?
Another, more fantastical theory is that the hero is the son, or daughter, of Link and Zelda. This would certainly push the franchise into fresh, new territory, both in terms of history and storyline. What do you think, readers? Is Aonuma just teasing, or does Nintendo plan to expand their hero roster in the Zelda-verse?
[Source: Venture Beat]
Posted in News, Wii U
Tagged E3 2014, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild