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EA Sports UFC is Coming to PS4 and Xbox One in Spring 2014
EA Sports’ UFC game will launch in Spring 2014 on Xbox One and PlayStation 4. The game will feature something called “full body deformation,” which will show, in visceral detail, the effects of being punched, kicked, and choked out.
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Here is NBA Live, Reborn on the Next Console Generation
Back under new management, EA Sports’ beleaguered NBA Live series will return late this year only on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game promises a new ballhandling and dribbling engine called “bounceTek” that you can see in this video. NBA Live 14 also will be served by the official statistics service of the NBA,…
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The Next Need for Speed Game is Rivals
Electronic Arts’ racing franchise will debut on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 with Need for Speed Rivals under the Frostbite engine. It will be built by Ghost Games, working in partnership with Criterion, which handled 2010’s Hot Pursuit and 2012’s Most Wanted reboot. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find…
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Meet the New Redesigned Xbox 360, Same Price as the Old Xbox 360
The new Xbox 360 design—in stores today, says Microsoft—features a design consistent with the one-half-glossy/one-half-matte look of its successor, the Xbox One. It also bridges future with present by having the same price as all current Xbox 360 models. The new look will be available in all current formats: $199 for the 4 GB version;…
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Smartglass, Kinect and Video Editing to Enhance Xbox One Multiplayer
Smartglass should deliver a bunch of new functionality to multiplayer gaming on Xbox One, if this demonstration is any sign. It’ll keep tabs on your friends’ in-game progress and, ostensibly, find more competitive quickmatches suited to your playing skill. I say ostensibly because, on stage, an Xbox Live community manager, Ashton, was handily taken apart…
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Forza 5‘s ‘Driveatar’ Will Mimic Your Style for Others to Race Against
Promising “the end of AI” in its driving series, Forza 5 will introduce something called “Driveatar,” which will learn from players personal driving styles and upload them into the cloud as racing opponents, Turn 10 Studios said on stage at Microsot’s E3 news conference. Driver tendencies such as acceleration, aggression, how they drive in traffic…
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Free Games Coming to Xbox Live Gold Subscribers [Updated]
Existing Xbox Live Gold members will begin receiving two free games per month until the launch of the Xbox One in November. The first two games will be Halo 3 and Assassin’s Creed II. Fable III was already made free to Gold subscribers earlier today.
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The Xbox 360 has a New Design; It’s Available Today
The Xbox 360 has a new “smaller sleeker and quieter than ever” console design, available beginning today, said Microsoft. Specific features, such as hard drive size, were not mentioned. The design appears to mimic that of the Xbox One, coming later this year.
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What appeared to be a glitch earlier this morning is now intentional: Fable III is completely free for Xbox Live Gold subscribers (probably to promote the original game’s HD re-release later this year). Just go to the title in the On Demand section of the Marketplace and you’ll find it there for download. The game…
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You’ll Need Cat-Like Reflexes to Win the Arrested Development Fighter
From the warped mind of the guy who brought you LEGO Breaking Bad here is a game that will not be shown today at E3: Bluthfighter—The Arrested Development Fighting Game As a not-regular watcher of the show, I get very few of the references here but I will say tag-teaming Tobias Fünke with Carl Weathers…
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Here’s What Call of Duty: Ghosts Will Look Like on a Next-Gen Console
If you missed the “all-access event” for Call of Duty: Ghosts from earlier today, here is the gameplay footage from two campaign levels shown—”Into the Deep” and “No Man’s Land” featuring Riley Call of Duty Dog. Developer Infinity Ward said the sequences above were taken from the next-generation console version of Ghosts (you can tell…
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Sports at E3: A Viewer’s Guide
Covering E3 always felt like going to a midlevel bowl game for me. It’s a salad of over-produced photo opportunities with big props, costumed actors and nonplussed celebrities, and when you do get one-on-one time with the real players, they’re on heavy guard to say nothing but the right things before the big game. Every…
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Either Hip-Hop Gamer’s an official greeter at Los Angeles International Airport, or he was waiting patiently for Kotaku to touch down there today, as he was the first guy the gang saw after getting off the flight. Here, editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo models HHG’s state-of-the-art, platform-agnostic pants holder-upper.
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