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Sunset Overdrive E3 trailer and quick gameplay walkthrough
Insomniac’s Sunset Overdrive has the company’s trademark wackiness. In the E3 trailer, the game mocks hyper-realistic shooter franchises like Call of Duty and Battlefield, with the main character saving a soldier and telling him, “You, and your crate, are safe now!” After the trailer, there’s a quick gameplay video, which makes the game look like a ridiculous mashup of Dead Rising and InFamous, as seen through a Ratchet & Clank filter (with its trademark weapons included), and a touch of Resistance monsters.
Sunset Overdrive will be released on October 28 for the Xbox One.
Posted in News, Xbox One
Tagged E3 2014, Sunset Overdrive
Super Smash Bros. 4 adds Miis, Pac-Man, Mr. Game & Watch
Picture it. The playground. You’re 10 years old. Someone has just said that Nintendo is working on a game that lets Mario, Sonic, Mega Man, and Pac-Man fight it out for video game glory. Well, the dream has become reality as Nintendo has confirmed that Pac-Man will be included in the 3DS and Wii U versions of Super Smash Bros. 4. Mr. Game & Watch, a stick figure-like character that served as the mascot for Nintendo’s early handhelds, has also been confirmed to be included in the game.
But wait, there’s more. GameSpot is reporting that Nintendo will also include Miis in the final fighting roster:
You can assign your Mii to one of three different fighting styles: brawlers rely on their fists and fight empty-handed, swordfighters specialize in weaponry, while gunners focus on projectile attacks. Each style has 12 different special moves to choose from, and players will be able to select four different abilities for their fighter. This gives Super Smash Bros. a light customization feel when it comes to playing with a Mii. I say light, however, because you won’t be able to mix and match abilities from different styles. So if you wanted to make your Mii into a gun-wielding martial arts expert, for example, you’re out of luck when it comes to Super Smash Bros.
It’s like Christmas! And that’s probably when we’ll finally get the chance to play Super Smash Bros. 4 on the Wii U as Nintendo is still saying that it will be released during the “holiday season.” The 3DS version of the game will be available on October 3.
Posted in 3DS, News, Wii U
Tagged E3 2014, Super Smash Bros. For 3DS, Super Smash Bros. For Wii U
Mortal Kombat X: Ed Boon reveals new characters and story, gameplay details
Ed Boon, the Creative Director at NetherRealm Studios, stopped by the PlayStation Blog Stage yesterday to talk about Mortal Kombat X. Secrets were revealed as Boon was finally ready to reveal the future of Mortal Kombat.
Those who enjoyed 2011’s Mortal Kombat will be right at home with Mortal Kombat X. The game uses a very similar fighting engine and retains the three-tiered Super Meter. Boon says the Meter has been “refined,” but it still offers the same progression of Enhanced Attack to Breaker to X-Ray Move. And for those that played NetherRealm’s Injustice: Gods Among Us, Boon confirmed that the interactive stages first seen in that game will also appear in MKX.
Boon also revealed some new stuff, including four brand new characters. Currently, the Character Selection screen has 24 slots. This may change in the future, but as it stands today, we’re looking at 18 additional characters yet to be discovered. D’Vorah is the half-insect/half-human character that we saw in the debut trailer as she did battle with Torr and Ferra, “the big hulk and the little lady on his shoulders,” according to Boon. We also got a quick glimpse of Kotal Kahn and Cassie Cage, who is the daughter of Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade. Boon said that her attacks will be patterned after both of her parents.
Before a fight, players will be able to select a Variation for each character. Similar to Fighting Styles from the Deadly Alliance trilogy, Variations will open up different attacks and strategic choices for each character.
Finally, the developer opened up about where the story will go after Mortal Kombat’s wild ending. According to Boon, “The story [begins] right after Mortal Kombat (2011) ended and goes as far as 25 years in the future.” That means that descendents of some of the original characters (like Cassie Cage) will show up along with aged versions of the more familiar characters. And the final boss is said to be “surprise returning character” that “not a lot of people will see coming.”
Is it Goro? I bet it’s Goro. Mortal Kombat X will be released for the PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One sometime in 2015.
Platinum Games will bring Scalebound exclusively to the Xbox One
Platinum Games loves their big action. Platinum’s core team began within the hallways of Capcom and produced some of the biggest action games around including the original Devil May Cry. After breaking away to form Clover, the team went on to create Viewtiful Joe and, as Platinum, Bayonetta and MadWorld. Their latest game, Scalebound, is their first partnership with Microsoft, but the E3 trailer showcases the big action Platinum is known for.
The next great adventure from critically-acclaimed developer Platinum Games and renowned Game Director Hideki Kamiya, Scalebound transports you to a distant, hostile world. You’ll come face to face with fearsome creatures, including a formidable dragon—and the bond you forge with this awesome predator will prove crucial to the survival of both worlds.
Check out the hydra dragon at the end for a taste of the large-scale dragon-versus-dragon battles that Platinum has planned for Scalebound. There’s no release date yet, but Scalebound should be available for the Xbox One sometime in 2015.
Posted in News, Xbox One
Tagged E3 2014, Scalebound
E3 2014 Trailer: Battle Cthulhu in Evolve
The four-eyed space squid at the center of Evolve‘s E3 2014 trailer might not be known as Cthulhu in the game, but it was clearly inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s most famous creation.
Evolve will be released for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One on October 21. Before that, Xbox One owners will be able to join an open beta in the Fall to test the game’s online multiplayer and all downloadable content will be made available on the Xbox One first.
UPDATE: 2K has confirmed that the Cthulhu-like Monster will be known as a Kraken.
DICE plays with Star Wars toys to help bring us an early look at Star Wars: Battlefront
“Do or do not. There is no try.”
Niklas Fegraeus is a Design Director at DICE and he has taken Yoda’s understanding of The Force to heart in developing Star Wars: Battlefront. He has encouraged his team to live and breath Star Wars in a way that most of us haven’t done since we were 12. In the course of developing the next Star Wars game, DICE visited the Lucasfilms archives to get an up-close look at the original models used to film the Star Wars trilogy and recreated the ice planet Hoth in their Swedish backyards.
All of this hard work has produced some very cool looking early footage of the game, which DICE has shared with us in this behind-the-scenes video. Star Wars: Battlefront is still a year away (a Spring 2015 launch is planned), but your E3 Expo won’t be complete until you watch this video.
Explore an open world in The Legend of Zelda for Wii U in 2015
Taking inspiration from the very first Legend of Zelda, Franchise Producer Eiji Aonuma has confirmed that The Legend of Zelda Wii U will take place in an open world similar to its 8-bit predecessor. The idea is that players will be able to go anywhere and do anything as they attempt to solve the puzzles the game will throw at them.
This open world also opens up a whole new way to battle enemies, as the teaser trailer above shows. A tentacled creature that looks like a cross between an Octorok and a Tektite chases Link across a field before he dispatches it with arrows on the shores of a pond.
The Legend of Zelda Wii U will be available sometime in 2015, which can’t come soon enough.
Posted in News, Wii U
Tagged E3 2014, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Super Smash Bros. 4 will be available for 3DS on October 3; Lady Palutena joins the fight
Super Smash Bros. 4 still doesn’t have an official title, but we do know when the 3DS version of the game will be released: October 3. The Wii U version of the game will be released by the end of the year.
In other Smash news, Nintendo has revealed that Lady Palutena, the Goddess of Light from Kid Icarus, will join the game as a playable character on both the 3DS and Wii U.
And in one final bit of news, Nintendo has confirmed that the GameCube Controller Adapter (which will be available on teh same day as the game) will be priced at $19.99. If you’ve lost track of your GameCube controllers over the years, the company will also release a special GameCube controller with Super Smash Bros. markings. The retro controller (which is currently only confirmed to work with Super Smash Bros. 4) will retail for $29.99. Finally, Nintendo also plans to release a special bundle that contains a copy of the game, a GameCube Controller Adapter, and a Smash Bros. GameCube controller, all for $99.99.
That’s a smashing savings of $10.
Posted in 3DS, News, Wii U
Tagged E3 2014, Super Smash Bros. For 3DS, Super Smash Bros. For Wii U