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UncategorizedFinal Fantasy VII Remake Announced For PS4, Other Platforms [UPDATE]
Eighteen years and three PlayStations later, Final Fantasy VII is getting a remake. A real one. For PlayStation 4, with other platforms to follow. Square Enix announced the news during Sony’s press conference at E3 tonight, following a day full of rumors. “Play it first on PlayStation,” read the trailer, implying that it’ll be out…
By Jason Schreier Published June 15, 2015 -
UncategorizedDestiny: The Taken King Is Official, Out In September
Last week, we told you all about The Taken King, Destiny’s next expansion, which will pit you against Oryx, father of Crota. Today we get to see it in action. As we reported, the new expansion will give you access to three new subclasses with special supers—an electrical storm for warlocks; a void bow for…
By Jason Schreier Published June 15, 2015 -
UncategorizedNew PS4 Game Lets You Build… Dreams?
Dreams is a game about building. Building dreams. It looks bizarre, but in a (I think?) good way. It’s from LittleBigPlanet creator Media Molecule. Their goal is to give people a set of tools that will enable them to build dream-like scenarios and share them with each other. Creation is based less on traditional video…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 15, 2015 -
UncategorizedSquare Enix Announces New Hitman
Square Enix revealed the latest Hitman game at Sony’s press conference, and it’s leading with a digital release that will, in their words, “grow, deepen, and evolve” as time goes on. There will also be a console beta for this new Hitman game, and the PS4 version will have six exclusive contracts. It sounds like…
By Patrick Klepek Published June 15, 2015 -
UncategorizedSony Announces Robot Dinosaur Game For PS4
Guerilla Games, long-time developers of Sony’s Killzone series, are trying something new. They just announced Horizon: Zero Dawn, a game about dinosaurs. And cavemen. And the apocalypse. It’s set in the distant future, where the end of human civilization (at least as it stands today) allows a damaged planet to rebuild, which means new plants…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 15, 2015 -
UncategorizedThe Last Guardian Is Back
Bombshell: The Last Guardian is still alive, and it’s coming out on the PS4 in 2016. The practically mythical game was shown off today during Sony’s E3 press conference. It’s a damn miracle. The Last Guardian, as you may already know, has had a troubled development cycle. Team Ico, the developers, originally announced the game…
By Patricia Hernandez Published June 15, 2015 -
UncategorizedWatch Sony’s E3 Press Conference Live, Right Here [UPDATE: Over]
It’s time for the fourth and final press conference of the day: Sony. Time for The Last Guardian to make its return (as a free-to-play game for Sony phones). Sony’s show starts at 9pm ET. You can watch live right here. Take a shot every time they say “Vita” if you want to stay sober…
By Jason Schreier Published June 15, 2015 -
UncategorizedOur Thoughts On Microsoft’s E3 Press Conference
We’re experimenting with Periscope this year at E3, so here’s an archive of us live-chatting about Microsoft’s E3 press conference and answering viewers’ questions. Watch out for tons more of these! To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find her on Twitter at @tinaamini
By Tina Amini Published June 15, 2015 - Uncategorized
Xbox One Getting New Dashboard UI
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 15, 2015 -
UncategorizedGhost Recon Wildlands Announced, Is Open-World
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,…
By Patrick Klepek Published June 15, 2015 -
UncategorizedAssassin’s Creed Syndicate Gets A Flashy CG Trailer
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…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 15, 2015 -
UncategorizedTrackmania 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.
By Luke Plunkett Published June 15, 2015 -
UncategorizedUbisoft 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]
By Patrick Klepek Published June 15, 2015 -
UncategorizedThe Division’s Multiplayer Looks Brutal
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…
By Patricia Hernandez Published June 15, 2015
