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By Mike Fahey Published June 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Live at Ubisoft’s E3 2011 Press Conference!
Kotaku is ears-deep in French accents at the Los Angeles Theater, where publisher Ubisoft will be talking about its upcoming slate, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Driver: San Francisco, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations and much much more. What else can we expect from Ubisoft at E3 2011? Well, would a new Brothers In Arms or a new…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 6, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Old Republic‘s Opening Cinematic Writes Checks the Game Can’t Cash
Even if BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic fails miserably, it will leave behind a series of extremely impressive cinematic trailers. How can a game possibly follow an opening cinematic this spectacular? The Sith have returned, the Republic is in grave danger, a Smuggler comes into his own, and war is waged with the same…
By Mike Fahey Published June 6, 2011 -
UncategorizedKingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Looks Like “Fable For Grown-Ups”
I don’t mean that Fable is for kids. I just mean that this game is giving off a very Fable vibe with its colour palette, magic and designs. Only, instead of cute people with big boots, there are angry knights stabbing anything that moves. You can read a lot more about this action RPG from…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Could We Be About To See a New Brothers in Arms?
This may be a bit of a leap. But we’ve spotted Gearbox Software’s Randy Pitchford in the VIP section for Ubisoft’s upcoming press conference. We’ve also heard, through sources, that he’s here to talk about a new game they’re working on for Ubisoft. Could it be a new Brothers in Arms? It would mean three…
By Brian Crecente Published June 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Mass Effect 3 Moves Beyond Dirty Dozen, To a Warring Galaxy
With the promise of more fluid combat, vicious melee attacks, tougher enemies and a nimbler Commander Shepard, Mass Effect 3 is shaping up to be the game Bioware says will be definitive Mass Effect experience. “Mass Effect was always designed as a trilogy,” Bioware game director Casey Hudson told a gathering of press, “and Mass…
By Brian Crecente Published June 6, 2011 -
UncategorizedGet a Look at the Halo Remake’s Shiny New Graphics
Sure, the Flood levels are a bit janky, but the first Halo still has some of the best campaign and multiplayer levels of the entire series. They now look a lot nicer. Halo: Combat Evolved’s 10th Anniversary Edition will be out this November. It sure will be nice playing Blood Gulch over Xbox Live.
By Luke Plunkett Published June 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Battlefield 3 Out In October, Beta Starts a Little Earlier
Electronic Arts announced today that upcoming shooter Battlefield 3 will be released on October 25. Those who can’t wait that long, know that a “multiplatform beta” will kick off a little sooner, in September.
By Luke Plunkett Published June 6, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis is Your 2011 Summer of Arcade Lineup
Every year Microsoft selects a handful of Xbox Live Arcade games it considers the very best the platform has to offer and releases them once a week as part of the Summer of Arcade promotion. With Ubisoft’s From Dust and Fuelcell’s Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet making the cut this time around, we’re in for one…
By Mike Fahey Published June 6, 2011 -
UncategorizedWhen EA and Insomniac Collide You Get Overstrike
Set to debut any minute now at EA’s E3 2011 press conference, the developer of Ratchet & Clank and the Resistance games is taking their next big thing multiplatform, and this is it. This is Overstrike What is Overstrike? Let’s not steal too much thunder from the press connference and give you the short and…
By Mike Fahey Published June 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Electronic Arts’ E3 2011 Keynote Liveblog
Console makers aren’t the only ones giving presentations during the week of E3. Publishers are, too, and Electronic Arts fires first with its news conference, and RPGs should figure prominently, with Mass Effect 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic all coming in the next year. Oh yeah, and there’s a game called Battlefield 3…
By Owen Good Published June 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Cloud Storage For Game Saves, ‘Beacons’ Coming to Xbox Live
Xbox Live will allow gamers to save their game saves to the cloud, so they can download them and resume playing their games on other online-connected Xboxes, Microsoft announced today. That feature will match the cloud-save option already offered on the PlayStation 3’s PlayStation Plus service. But what’s brand new are “Beacons”… a way to…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
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By Mike Fahey Published June 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Kinect Makes Taking Your Kids to Disneyland Much More Affordable
Frontier Developments is giving parents around the world an amazing gift this holiday season: The ability to take their children to Disneyland for the price of the Xbox 360, Kinect, and Kinect: Disneyland Adventures As a soon-to-be father, the idea of a virtual Disneyland where I do not need sunblock, wads of cash, and more…
By Mike Fahey Published June 6, 2011