As you may have noticed from that woman telling you to “open your eyes” in the E3 trailer (opens in new tab) for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (opens in new tab), it will be the first Zelda game to feature voice acting – voice acting beyond …
Read More »Death Stranding trailer has “a lot of hints” and Kojimas having a great time not telling
We’ll likely have to wait years to play Death Stranding (opens in new tab), but you can already enjoy Hideo Kojima toying with you relentlessly. The newly independent Metal Gear creator told Eurogamer (opens in new tab) that he’s quite enjoying this part of the game development cycle. “The [Death …
Read More »The 12 most innovative game features at E3 2016
Take a deep breath. After a whirlwind week at E3 2016 (opens in new tab) full of impressive trailers and invigorating demos, let’s take a moment to highlight some of the original ideas and innovative approaches on display – from bewildering, unusual locations, like the Death Stranding beach; to weapons …
Read More »The E3 2016 awards
E3 2016 (opens in new tab) has been a blast. We’ve laughed, we’ve cried, we’ve scratched our heads at naked Norman Reedus. But now the dust is settling on another massive gaming brawl, it’s time to hand out some awards. These virtual gongs are for the best, worst, funniest, and …
Read More »For Honor coming out (at last!) on Valentines Day
For Honor has been a long time (opens in new tab) in the making, but the journey will finally conclude next Valentine’s Day: the game has a release set for Feb. 14, 2017. For Honor’s new E3 trailer shared the history of the thousand-year war among three factions: vikings, ninjas, …
Read More »How VR turned me into the eagle from Assassins Creed
You know the eagle that conveniently flaps away whenever you clamber to the top of a viewpoint in Assassin’s Creed? That’s me. Except I’m not perched on some church in the middle of Florence – I’m soaring over the buildings of Paris, zipping in and out of the (weirdly deserted) …
Read More »Mass Effects Mako will actually be fun to drive… thanks to the Need for Speed team
EA’s press conference (opens in new tab) may not have revealed a ton of new info about Mass Effect: Andromeda (opens in new tab), but it offered a brief glimpse of the return of the Mako. That’s right, the bouncing, rubbery, ice skate with wheels is back. But don’t groan …
Read More »Xbox Live gets Clubs, Looking For Group, and Arena features this fall
Xbox Live will be getting three major updates this fall, designed to make the online experience for Xbox users more connected. The updates are: Clubs, Looking For Group, and Arena. Clubs are sort of like guilds hosted on Xbox Live. If you’ve got a particular group of players you regularly …
Read More »Stalling the NX to 2017 and skipping E3 is the smartest thing Nintendo has done in years
No NX (opens in new tab) until March 2017. No NX at E3 2016. Zelda officially bumped to an (eventual) NX release, which will very probably lead to the Wii U version to being a 2017 release as well. Doom. Such doom, and additional gloom, and fair old dash of …
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