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Ubisoft Just Announced A Wii Game

It is the year 2018 and Ubisoft is releasing Just Dance for the Wii. Not the Wii U, although that’s getting a version of the company’s perennially-popular motion-controlled dancing game, too. Just Dance 2019 is also coming out for the Xbox 360 Kinect! But really, the shocking part is that games are still being made…

The Division 2‘s three year one updates will all be free. The game is also getting 8-player raids, Ubisoft announced at its E3 press event today. That’s two more players than Destiny’s raids, although we don’t know yet how involved The Division 2‘s will be. The first Division’s DLCs were each paid.

Beyond Good & Evil 2 Features Young Jade, After All

Jade, the heroine of the original Beyond Good and Evil, will play a major role in the next game, Ubisoft said. Originally, Beyond Good and Evil 2 was said to take place before Jade was born, but instead a “ferocious young Jade” will appear in the game’s storyline. The long-awaited follow-up to Ubisoft’s critically acclaimed…

We’re Liveblogging Ubisoft’s E3 Press Conference [Update: It’s Over!]

Can’t watch the Ubisoft conference live? No worries! Follow along with me and Riley MacLeod for all the announcements, trailers and surprises. Ubisoft’s big press conference starts at 4pm eastern, and you can watch live here. In case you’re stuck at work, Riley and I are here to let you know what’s going down. We’re…

Watch Ubisoft’s E3 2018 Press Conference Here, Live [Update: Over]

E3 continues with Ubisoft’s press conference at 1pm PT/4pm ET. We’re sure to see more Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and The Division 2. And how are things going with Beyond Good & Evil 2? You can watch the show on YouTube, below, or on Twitch

Square Enix’s E3 Presentation Was A Joke

Expectations were high for the first E3 presser from Square Enix in three years. The publisher has a lot of exciting upcoming projects that we haven’t heard much about, including Final Fantasy VII Remake, The Avengers, and Guardians of the Galaxy. Naturally, Square Enix showed absolutely none of them. “That’s it?” was the resounding reaction…

Everything Square Enix Showed At E3 2018

It’s the third day of E3 press conferences, and Square Enix just showed up with… well, with a pretty disappointing show. The Japanese publisher had a couple of game announcements, some videos about games we already know about, and a pair of slightly longer looks at Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Just Cause 4.…

Babylon’s Fall Is The Next Game From Nier Developer Platinum Games

Platinum Games has a new project. During their E3 2018 press conference today, Square Enix announced Babylon’s Fall The reveal trailer dropped heavy lore for the setting and showed off some dark fantasy action. The teaser trailer didn’t reveal much about Babylon’s Fall, but eagle-eyed viewers can decipher a world history where the discovery of…

We’re Liveblogging Square Enix’s E3 Press Conference [Update: It’s Over]

It’s Monday morning, which means we’re ready to kick off E3’s most packed day of press conferences. First up is Square Enix. We’ve already seen a few of its games, but what else does the Final Fantasy maker have in store for us? You can watch the press conference here or follow along with our…

Watch Square Enix’s E3 2018 Press Conference Here [Update: Over]

Square Enix’s e3 conference airs at 10am PT/1pm ET. I imagine we’ll see more Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Just Cause 4, and Kingdom Hearts 3 You can watch on Twitch, below, or on YouTube

The Internet Reacts To Bonkers Anime Crossover Game, Jump Force

Ever wanted to see Goku fight Naruto? Most of the internet does, and after seeing the Jump Force trailer, they can’t stop freaking out about it. The upcoming game Jump Force is a cross over fighting game featuring some of the most iconic characters from boy’s manga magazine Shonen Jump. In this announcement trailer, we…

The Week In Games: Big Dinosaurs

This week is E3, so the game offerings are slight, but it’s the perfect time to learn how to create your own dinosaur park. Jurassic World Evolution is coming out this week, and there’s nothing that gets me more excited about the game than the inevitable reality that I will create a nightmare scenario in…

Track: Hold Me Now | Artist: The Polyphonic Spree | Album: Together We’re Heavy Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Everything Bethesda Showed At E3 2018

Bethesda capped off the second day of E3 press conferences by showing a bunch more Fallout 76, announcing Doom and Wolfenstein sequels, and teasing The Elder Scrolls VI as well as a new sci-fi game called Starfield The show got off to a slow start but picked up steam as it went, with an unexpected…

Bethesda Announces Elder Scrolls VI

During today’s press conference, Bethesda briefly teased The Elder Scrolls VI It was just a brief teaser that showed a large landscape, and Todd Howard implied it’ll be coming after single-player sci-fi RPG Starfield, which he announced seconds beforehand. If I had to guess, Elder Scrolls VI will almost certainly be on the next generation…

Bethesda’s Next Singleplayer RPG Is Starfield, A Sci-Fi Game

Bethesda’s Todd Howard just announced on stage at E3 that the company’s next big singleplayer RPG is an all-new story set in an all-new universe. Here’s a very brief trailer: Your guess as to what it’s all about is as good as mine. Interestingly, he also described it as a “next generation” game. Maybe it’s…

The Elder Scrolls Blades Announced For Phones

Today Bethesda announced a new Elder Scrolls game called Elder Scrolls Blades Todd Howard likened it philosophically to Fallout Shelter as a “uniquely mobile experience.” It’s first-person ala traditional Elder Scrolls games, but with touch-screen based swiping combat. It features both handcrafted and procedurally generated dungeons. It’s not just a dungeon-crawler, though. There are outdoor…

Bethesda Confirms Fallout 76 Is An Online Survival RPG

After a couple of teases and some inside information, we just got our first real look at Fallout 76, an upcoming survival RPG from Bethesda. As we told you last month, this isn’t a traditional Fallout adventure. While in the most immediate sense it looks like one, with its iconic visual style and first-person perspective,…

Prey‘s DLC Is Called Mooncrash, ‘Infinitely Replayable’

After a lot of teasing, Bethesda finally revealed Prey’s next DLC at their E3 press conference tonight, along with a bunch of new Prey stuff. Called Mooncrash, it’s available now. Mooncrash is a roguelike adventure on the moon in which enemies, goals, and loot will be different on each replay. You have to escape a…

Wolfenstein: Youngblood Is A Co-Op Game Coming Next Year

Today during Bethesda’s E3 press conference, Machine Games announced a new Wolfenstein game. The next Wolfenstein is called Youngblood. It’s set in the 1980s in Paris and stars series hero BJ Blazkowicz and love interest Anya’s twin daughters (!!!). It’s “a co-op experience” that you can also play solo. In the trailer, BJ monologues about…