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CultureE3Bethesda’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…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2018 - Uncategorized
Base-building vault management sim Fallout Shelter is coming to PlayStation 4 and the Nintendo Switch tonight. It will still be free, and the Switch version will have both touchscreen and Joy-Con controls, so get to making some more of those horror vaults
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CultureE3The 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…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 10, 2018 -
CultureE3Bethesda 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,…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2018 -
CultureE3Prey‘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…
By Riley MacLeod Published June 10, 2018 -
CultureE3Wolfenstein: 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…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 10, 2018 -
CultureE3Doom Is Getting A Sequel, Doom Eternal
Players eager to rip and tear are in for a treat. Bethesda announced Doom Eternal during their E3 press conference tonight, showing off a trailer full of demons. Bethesda rebooted Doom in 2016, offering a slightly different take on the classic first person shooter that was full of arena fights and melee executions. At the…
By Heather Alexandra Published June 10, 2018 -
CultureE3Our First Proper Look At Rage 2
As part of today’s E3 press event, Bethesda revealed footage of Avalanche-developed post-apocalpytic shooter sequel, Rage 2 The demo was preceded by a full-blown goddamn Andrew W.K. concert, which absolutely rocked and was completely wasted on an audience full of already-tired E3 attendees. I mean, look at this: Amazing! The actual game was cool, too.…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 10, 2018 - CultureE3
Podcast: We React To Xbox And EA At E3 2018
We’re two press conferences into E3 2018, and there’s already so much to talk about. Won’t you join us? On the first episode of Kotaku Splitscreen’s special E3 coverage, Jason Schreier and I talked about everything we liked (and didn’t like) about EA’s press conference yesterday and Microsoft’s conference today. Listen below, and download an…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 10, 2018 - CultureE3
We’re Liveblogging Bethesda’s E3 Press Conference [Update: We’re Done!]
It’s the second big press conference of the day with Bethesda starting at 9:30PM EDT. Hopefully we’ll get more specifics about Fallout 76 and who knows, maybe a new Elder Scrolls. Gita and I will have live commentary here for you in a few moments. You can watch the press conference here or follow along…
Ethan Gach & Gita Jackson Published June 10, 2018 -
CultureE3Watch Bethesda’s E3 2018 Press Conference Here, Live [Update: Over]
It’s time for Bethesda’s E3 2018 press conference, starting at 6:30pm PT/9:30pm ET. I am here to finally see what new stuff we’re getting for Prey. Everything else is just icing to me. You can watch Kotaku’s own Stephen Totilo on Geoff Keighley’s stream below. Otherwise, Bethesda’s YouTube is here. There’s also Twitch
By Riley MacLeod Published June 10, 2018 -
CultureE3Skate 4 Was Not Shown At E3 Today
It’s been years since we got a good skateboarding game, and that fact—coupled with some runaway hope—led fans to expect a Skate 4 announcement at E3 this week. And for a brief few seconds, they thought they’d actually got one. Despite not being mentioned during EA’s E3 press conference, here’s the scene before Microsoft’s show…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2018 -
CultureE3Everything Microsoft Showed At E3 2018
Microsoft just showed off a ton of stuff at their E3 2018 Xbox press conference, including new Halo and Gears of War games, Fallout 76, The Division 2, Dying Light 2, a shiny Cyberpunk 2077 trailer, and a new samurai action game from the makers of Dark Souls. Personally speaking, I’m most excited about that last…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 10, 2018 -
CultureE3Cyberpunk 2077 Gets A New Teaser Trailer
As part of today’s Microsoft E3 press conference, Witcher developer CD Projekt Red showed off a new teaser of its next monster-sized, but also monster-free RPG, Cyberpunk 2077 The trailer began with a male character saying that his city is the worst in America, referencing a “sky high rate of violence” and “more people living…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 10, 2018 -
CultureE3Just Cause 4 Announced—Officially This Time
Sure, a Steam ad already leaked it, but Microsoft today officially announced Just Cause 4. This iteration of the open world action game features in-air helicopter collisions, a powerful private army and a huge, man-eating tornado. It will be out on Xbox One, PS4 and PC December 4, 2018. Here’s the trailer:
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published June 10, 2018 -
CultureE3Microsoft Reveals Gears Of War 5 (And Two Spinoffs)
Microsoft announced Gears of War 5 at its E3 Media Briefing today with a story trailer and is slated to arrive next year on Xbox One. But that’s not all: Microsoft-owned studio The Coalition is also working on two Gears of War spin-offs, Gears Pop, a mobile game, and Gears Tactics, a strategy game for…
By Ethan Gach Published June 10, 2018 -
CultureE3Jump Force Brings Goku, Naruto, And More Together For A Giant Battle [Update: Battle Footage]
Bandai Namco has announced Jump Force, a new game that mashes up characters from Shonen Jump manga, like Dragon Ball, Naruto, and One Piece. It’s coming in 2019. The three-versus-three tag team fighting game will be released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam. The trailer opened on a ruined urban setting, showing several famous…
By Chris Kohler Published June 10, 2018
