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What Xbox One Games Gain And Lose With The New Kinect-Free Option
Microsoft recently said that game developers will be able to get a little more power out of the Xbox One to make their games more visually impressive if they choose to forgo some Kinect features. What’s the actual trade-off? As previously indicated by Microsoft, developers willing to go forgo Kinect sensor support for their games…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 16, 2014 -
GTA V Looks Better On PS4—Or At Least The Trailer Does
Now that the inevitable has happened and versions of Grand Theft Auto V for PS4, PC and Xbox One have been announced, it’s time to discuss what’s on everybody’s minds: how’s the 2014 version going to look? Pretty good if the trailers are any indication. Digital Foundry spliced together footage from last year’s GTA V…
By Evan Narcisse Published June 16, 2014 -
How The Alien In Alien: Isolation Works
The best kind of horror game doesn’t need any guns. It doesn’t need to scare you with difficult enemy encounters and shock value. Sometimes, silence is scarier than all of that. That’s a lot of what Alien: Isolation is about. Creeping through dark hallways of a mostly-abandoned space station called Sevostopol, you have to try…
By Tina Amini Published June 16, 2014 -
One Of The Show-Stoppers At E3 Was An Awesome Kinect Game. Not Kidding.
We’ve covered Fru before, and we’ll cover Fru again, because Fru isn’t just the best game I’ve ever seen on Kinect (sorry, Dance Central, though you’re pretty good, too)…it’s a game I really want to play. I shot a short video of it in action at E3 with developer Mattia Traverso at my side. Fru…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 13, 2014 -
Payday 2 Coming to Xbox One, PS4
The super-popular criminal heist game is making its way to Microsoft and Sony’s newest video game consoles. During a livestream session on Twitch showing off the upcoming Big Bank expansion, members of the Overkill developer studio confirmed an earlier tweet that said that the team-based co-op shooter would be going next-gen. No time frame was…
By Evan Narcisse Published June 12, 2014 -
Five Things BioWare Wants You To Know About The Next Dragon Age
If I had to explain what BioWare’s RPG, Dragon Age, is all about, I’d easily cram it all into one word: relationships. But that’s my personal experience, and I’m not developing Dragon Age: Inquisition, so I couldn’t tell you what the next Dragon Age will be all about. BioWare’s executive producer, Mark Darrah, however, can.…
By Tina Amini Published June 12, 2014 -
The New Crackdown Will Use The Cloud A Lot
The newest game in Microsoft’s open-world crime series, Crackdown, has been in development for about a year, Xbox chief Phil Spencer told me during an interview here at E3. It’s early, but Spencer didn’t want to have to keep quiet about it any longer. “Certain people say, ‘Why do you announce it? It’s not a…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 12, 2014 -
Report: Xbox Making Show About A “Bastion Of Bro-Fueled Debauchery”
Or, how not to smash a console stereotype. Deadline is reporting that Xbox Studios, the group responsible for bringing original programming to Microsoft’s consoles, is working on “scripted comedy East Of Exurbia”. It is based on…a story that was written on…Brobible. If you’re unfamiliar with the site, it is exactly what it sounds like. That…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 11, 2014 -
Pleasant E3 Surprise: A Game Called White Night
You might think you know what you’ll see in a big E3 booth like Microsoft’s: some Forza, some Fable, some shooters, some indies, but there still always some surprises. Case in point: White Night. Black-and-white, Hitchcock-esque, and very cool. Where did this thing come from??? We don’t have a lot of detail on the game…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 11, 2014 -
Looks Like a Mutant Xbox One To Me
This is not a new model of the Xbox One. (Nor is it a paper-cutter.) It’s Microsoft’s console bedecked with peripherals from Nyko. On the left, a “modular power station” ($29.99, fall) that plugs into a USB port on the console and charges your controller batteries. On top, an intercooler ($24.99, holiday) to keep the…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 10, 2014 -
Xbox One Controller’s Rainbow Lights Are So Pretty
Watch the PDP company’s new Xbox One Afterglow controller cycle through the rainbow. It’s art! The PDP people say they’re using a new peripheral lighting technique instead of having the glow emerge from the center of the controller. Price: TBD. Out early 2015. Correction: We originally reported that the controller would cost $24.99, but PDP…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 10, 2014 -
Assassin’s Creed Unity‘s Paris Is Huge. Really Huge.
The city of Paris in Assassin’s Creed Unity will be the largest city in the series’ history, the game’s developers told me yesterday as we played the game and I grilled them with tons of questions. Unity’s Paris will be bigger than the combined island landmasses of Assassin’s Creed IV. It’s rendition of the famous…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 10, 2014 -
A Handy List Of Yesterday’s Big E3 Moments
Now wasn’t yesterday quite something? Phantom Dust, GTA V for current-gen, dragons from the new Dragon Age and elephants from the new Far Cry… It’s hard to keep track of everything that happened. So let’s take a look at yesterday’s events, as told by our headlines, in (a mostly) chronological order. Microsoft Microsoft did the…
By András Neltz Published June 10, 2014 -
Ubisoft’s MMO racer, The Crew, is out on November 11. A closed beta for the game’s PC version is starting on July 23, for which registrations are already open. Up top is the new Coast To Coast trailer, which shows off a two-hour driving mission from Miami to Los Angeles.
By András Neltz Published June 9, 2014 -
Forget Call of Duty, Xbox Is Getting Some Amazing-Looking Indies
There are a lot of cool trailers here, but I’m probably most excited for Cuphead, the game styled after 1930’s animation: Ori and the Blind Forest is an adventure platformer that looks oh-so-pretty: Grave is some kind of open-world horror game where reality shifts and changes. Looks different enough to possibly refresh my interest in…
By Steve Marinconz Published June 9, 2014 -
What Fighting A Dragon Looks Like In Dragon Age: Inquisition
Today at E3, EA showcased some combat-filled gameplay from Bioware’s upcoming RPG, Dragon Age: Inquisition During the fight, we get to see both a more in-your-face third-person view and a tactical top-down view as the group faced off against the Dragon Age world’s apex predator, the high dragon. Dragon Age: Inquisition arrives to PC, Xbox…
By András Neltz Published June 9, 2014 -
New Crackdown Goes Multiplayer in a Big Way
“Hello, Agent.” Man, we’ve all missed that voice, huh? CORRECTION: The original version of this post stated that Platinum Games would be working on the new Crackdown. This isn’t the case. It’s being developed by series creator Dave Jones and a new UK studio called Cloudgine, which is made up of former Crackdown developers. We…
By Evan Narcisse Published June 9, 2014
