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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 -
Get 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 -
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 -
This 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 -
When 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 -
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 -
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 -
ME3 Gallery
By Mike Fahey Published June 6, 2011 -
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 -
How Forza Motorsport 4 will change car culture forever
With Forza Motorsport 3, Microsoft’s Turn 10 Studios tried creating the greatest racing game. On October 11th, when Forza Motorsport 4 is released for Xbox 360, they’re setting their sights higher – creating the next generation of car enthusiasts. [Jalopnik]
By Apisuper Published June 6, 2011 -
Halo 4 and a Whole Lot of Kinect Headline Microsoft’s Big E3 Press Conference
There will be a new Halo trilogy, starting with late 2012’s Halo 4. That was the show-ending big news in a Microsoft E3 showcase that pushed Kinect hard. How much Kinect was there? We had Kinect Star Wars, a game that lets you control a Jedi hero with gesture and voice We had Ryse, a…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 6, 2011 -
Microsoft Keynote Roundup Gallery
By Drew Cohen Published June 6, 2011 -
Dance Central Returns with Two Player Dance Battles
Harmonix took the stage during Microsoft’s 2011 E3 press conference today to lift the curtain on Dance Central 2, detailing some of the new features coming in the follow-up to the popular Kinect-powered body mover. It’s time for a dance off! Dance Central is a lovely game, but it was obviously pushed out in rather…
By Mike Fahey Published June 6, 2011 -
Introducing Microsoft’s Kinect Fun Labs
Microsoft has shown us Kinect Fun Labs, describing it as “the place to check out the best innovations for Kinect.” The Fun Labs are set to be a permanent addition to the Xbox Dashboard, and you’ll be able to check out various indie and user generated additions to the Kinect library. Among the features scheduled…
By Drew Cohen Published June 6, 2011 -
Master Chief Returns with Halo 4 in 2012
A teaser trailer for Halo 4 concluded Microsoft’s E3 news conference today. In it, the series’ longtime hero, Master Chief, awakens from cryonic sleep to the voice of Cortana, calling him by his name. He then grabs Cortana and flees the wreckage a ship hurtling toward some sort of portal. Microsoft’s Don Mattrick said Halo…
By Owen Good Published June 6, 2011 -
Halo 4
By Mike Epstein Published June 6, 2011
