As part of an update due in the Fall, the Xbox One will be getting a new dashboard user interface. Looks nice! Microsoft is promising improvements to things like community interaction (via a new friends list system), but most important to users will be the pledge that this is going to be faster than the…
The Tom Clancy franchise returns with the ambitious Ghost Recon: Wildlands The whole game is playable by yourself or with three friends—the game dynamically scales. Here’s the setup: Bolivia has become the largest cocaine producer in the world. The vicious Santa Blanca drug cartel has turned the country into a narco-state, leading to fear, injustice,…
It’s not playable, but it is pretty cool looking. In it, Jacob and his crew, The Rooks, leap between stagecoaches, run across train rooftops, and steal members from other gangs by being too cool for school. Shit, they are probably even too cool to return to school at age 32 to finish those last few…
Trackmania Turbo, a game that was initially released on the Nintendo DS in 2011 (though which has now been “completely reworked”), is coming to modern consoles (and the PC). And, true to Trackmania style, it looks like a lot of fun. It’ll be out in November.
Ubisoft has revealed actress Angela Bassett will star in Rainbow Six Siege, and they’ve unveiled the unsettling villains known as the White Masks. There will be a beta on September 24, too. That’s how you bring gravitas to your video game. Contact the author at [email protected]
Good news: The Division, Ubisoft’s tactical Tom Clancy game, now has a release date: March 8, 2016. Better yet, Ubisoft debuted 5 minutes of new footage that give us a sense of just how savage playing with other Division players might be. Here we watch a squad go into something called a Dark Zone. They…
The latest in Ubisoft’s long-running building/trading series, Anno, is off into deep space. It’s called Anno 2205. Here’s a couple of trailers.
Trials Fusion: Awesome Max is an an expansion to Ubisoft’s bike trick/puzzle quest game that’ll be out on July 14. Trials Fusion gets even more awesome on July 14! For existing owners of Trials Fusion, get ready for our biggest DLC pack yet. Immerse yourself in a unique Trials experience through the 2 separately themed…
The Crew is getting an expansion. The Crew: WildRun will bring a “complete graphical overhaul” and “wild rides” to Ubisoft’s wide-open racer. That means monster trucks, motorcycles, dragsters, and drift cars. It’s out November 17th.
Ubisoft showed off a brand-new game today full of dudes fighting each other, For Honor. It basically looks like Ubisoft’s take on Dynasty Warriors? If you’re still not sure what Your Honor is, even the developers haven’t really categorized it. “I haven’t actually been able to really put a name to For Honor’s genre,” Vandenberghe…
Surprise! We’re getting a new South Park RPG, and this time it revolves around the superheroes Coon and Friends. This one is developed by Ubisoft San Francisco—guess they wanted to do it internally instead of relying on Obsidian again—and it’s called South Park: The Fractured But Whole. No word on release date, but it’ll be…
Bethesda is hoping to bring Fallout 4 mods to PS4. As part of Gameslice’s E3 show, Todd Howard mentioned that he wants to bring mods to PS4 sometime after Xbox, which we can expect next year. Fallout 4’s PC mod tool set won’t be available until early 2016, so console mods will come sometime after…
Time for round three, fans of E3. Now comes Ubisoft. I bet there’ll be something about assassins in this one. Assassins that follow a creed of some sort. “`
Get ready for Ubisoft’s big press conference, which should be chock full of news on The Division, Rainbow Six, and roughly 17,000 Assassin’s Creeds, each for a different platform. The presser starts at 6pm ET. Watch right here:
Gears of War Ultimate Edition, the GoW remaster on the Xbox One, is a very pretty game—especially when compared to the original. This is probably not surprising! However, it’s still nice to see just how much the graphics have improved. Here are a collection of comparison pictures for your viewing/chainsawing pleasure. Left screenshot is Xbox…
Watching EA’s E3 press conference from the hotel room, with caution.
Straight outta EA’s E3 press conference, here’s a big chunk of multiplayer gameplay from Star Wars Battlefront, out November 17 for PS4/Xbox One/PC. Looks pretty rad, don’t you think? EA says this is running on a PS4, captured from a 40-person battle between the Empire and Rebels on the frozen planet of Hoth. “As the…
We already knew Mirror’s Edge Catalyst was coming, but E3 brought us the first details on the series reboot. “Personal freedom comes at a price” is the theme underscoring Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst It’s an origin story about Faith, how she grows up and “opens the eye of an entire city.” Basically, they’re holding onto the…
Today at EA’s E3 press conference, we got to meet a guy who goes by “Hoop Gawd.” Hoop Gawd demonstrated a new way to make a self-styled custom character in NBA Live 16, and also gave lots of people opportunities to use the words “Hoop God” in complete sentences. Thanks, Hoop Gawd. Long may your…
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