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Square 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…

Sony 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…

The 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…

E3 2015: Sony Press Conference Liveblog 

Sony’s E3 press conference is about to begin. Does greatness await, or are we in for 90-odd minutes of corporate mediocrity? Follow along, and we’ll find out together. “`

Watch 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…

Our 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

Castle Crashers, one of the first great indie action games for consoles, is getting a remaster on the Xbox One. It’s due this Summer.

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…

Ghost 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,…

Assassin’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…

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]

The 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…

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 Announces New Sword Game, For Honor

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…

South Park: The Stick of Truth Gets A Sequel

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…