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Watch The New Call of Duty Blow Up A Bridge
Most of the Call of Duty news since Advanced Warfare was first announced has focused on the multiplayer. That’s understandable. But it also means that one of the shooter franchise’s other important assets hasn’t had a chance to shine through: its unique ability to make blow up iconic pieces of architecture. Cue giant bridge explosion:…
By Yannick LeJacq Published August 12, 2014 -
Microsoft Announces The ‘Halo Channel’
Microsoft just announced that it’s making a special channel for all things Halo related for the Xbox One. It’s known simply as “The Halo Channel,” and looks like it will have lots of stuff to make fans of the shooter happy. Microsoft described it as an “interactive digital network that provides unprecedented, personalized access to…
By Yannick LeJacq Published August 12, 2014 -
Dark Souls veteran Vaati continues to amaze with his and detailed theories about the Souls games and their backstory. His latest one might be spoilerish if you haven’t finished Dark Souls II and its first DLC, but this might be the best source to speculate about the ending and what we’ll see in the two…
By Gergo Vas Published August 12, 2014 -
Play The Battle Of Endor On The Oculus Rift
James Clement created The Battle of Endor from Return of the Jedi for the Oculus Rift: It’s a work in progress and can be downloaded here Via R/Oculus You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.
By John Struan Published August 12, 2014 -
ScreamRide Announced For Xbox
New Rollercoaster Tycoon? Nope: this is ScreamRide, a newly-announced Rollercoaster Tycoon-like-game for Xbox One and 360, shown off at Microsoft’s Gamescom conference in Germany today. This one will be out in the spring, Microsoft says. “Make all your screams come true” is a pretty solid tagline.
By Jason Schreier Published August 12, 2014 -
The First Real Look at Quantum Break
Finally, a nice meaty preview of the next game from the makers of Max Payne and Alan Wake. Remedy creative director Sam Lake introduced a live gameplay demo for Quantum Break from Gamescom this morning, which showed hero Jack Joyce using his special powers in combat. After being caught in the blast of a time-travel…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 12, 2014 -
The Next Tomb Raider Is A Timed Xbox Exclusive [UPDATE]
UPDATE (8/13): Turns out Microsoft was just being misleading—Rise of the Tomb Raider is a timed exclusive. It’ll come to other platforms later. Original story follows: Wow! Microsoft just announced that Rise of the Tomb Raider, announced earlier this year at E3, will be an Xbox exclusive out holiday 2015. Rise of the Tomb Raider,…
By Jason Schreier Published August 12, 2014 -
Microsoft Offering The First Console To Ship With a 1TB Drive
Today at Gamescom, Microsoft announced that they’re launching a Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Xbox One bundle on November 4. Notably, the included console comes with a 1TB internal hard drive—double the size of the standard console’s HDD. The bundle costs $499.99, and includes an Advanced Warfare-branded console with a 1TB hard drive, a custom…
By András Neltz Published August 12, 2014 -
Assassin’s Creed Unity‘s Paris Looks Damned Good
Paris is a great choice to show off the evolution of the tech powering the next crop of Assassin’s Creed games, n’est-ce pas? In this new trailer for Assassin’s Creed Unity, you can get lingering looks at the bustling crowds, interior spaces and improved parkour that will be hitting the Xbox One, PS4 and PC…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 12, 2014 -
The Next Skylanders Is Coming To Tablets… The Same Day As Consoles
Not a side game, not a spin-off — the full console version of Skylanders: Trap Team will be available for Android, Amazon and iPad tablets on October 5, the same day it comes out on Xboxes, PlayStations and Wiis. That’s never happened before. Aside from downloadable titles like Telltale’s The Walking Dead games, a console…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2014 -
The Xbox One is getting several new features in the next few months. There’s a list of them here—notable ones include a Friends section, used to track what people on your friends are doing, including their played games and Gamerscores, and the Media Player app, which lets you play media files from USB devices.
By András Neltz Published August 12, 2014 -
Watch The Xbox One Press Conference Live, Right Here
Are you ready for some Xbox news? Microsoft’s got their top people in Germany today for the Gamescom trade show, and they’re starting things off with a press conference that you can watch here. What are we going to see today? Quantum Break? Some Halo 5? Sunset Overdrive? Other Xbox-y news nuggets? Microsoft’s presentation starts…
By Jason Schreier Published August 12, 2014 -
Let’s Hope Mirror’s Edge 2 Looks This Good
Until we find out, we have some great fan art to look at. These shots are from an Unreal Engine 4 environment done by 3D artist Jun Choi, and they show an interpretation of one of the areas from the first chapter of Mirror’s Edge. Choi first shared WIP shots of the map on the…
By András Neltz Published August 12, 2014 -
Saying Goodbye to a Three-Year-Old Minecraft World
Generally for Minecraft players, the more time they spend in their world, the more attached they’ll be. I don’t tend to get too attached because I play in several-hour spurts, usually moving on to a new file each time. But what if you decide to move on from a world that’s been with you for…
By András Neltz Published August 12, 2014 -
Paradox? Grand Strategy? World War Two? A new Hearts of Iron game? Be still, my beating heart.
By Luke Plunkett Published August 11, 2014
