Rumors! Some of my favorite things in the build up to E3 every year. Yesterday marked one of the bigger ones of this year’s show, with leaks of what may be the Xbox One Slim revision. Said to be 40% smaller than the launch Xbox One, the “S” has a 2 TB hard drive included, supports 4K video playback and High Dynamic Range (HDR). It looks like a vertical stand option will be included, as well as an updated controller. What exactly is updated ont he game pad...
Early on Monday morning, before the onslaught of day 1 news at E3, Microsoft released its full-featured Xbox App for both Android and iOS devices. This app will replace the company’s existing Xbox One Smartglass app, and instead brings the full featured app from the Windows 10 marketplace onto the other platforms. Users of Windows 10 and Windows phones will recognize the software right away as a more feature-rich version of their smart glass counterparts. Conceptually...
Bethesda announces that the sinister Dark Brotherhood is coming this Tuesday for The Elder Scrolls Online. With this new installment, we can relive the exciting questing and replayability that TSE IV: Oblivion offered back in 2006. This is exciting both for veterans of the franchise, and new players alike. Expect to see new stealth mechanics added to the vast ream we’ve come to love, as well as bloodthirsty take-downs and plenty of gore to satisfy the assassin in all...
“Dishonored 2 is going to be a very special game.” Harvey Smith, co-creative director at Arkane Studios took the stage tonight to detail new information on Dishonored 2 as well as give us our first look at actual gameplay. Returning to the Empire of the Isles, while the story starts and ends in Dunwall, we’ll be in Carnaka, a whole new area to the Dishonored story. Using a ‘The Void Engine,’ a custom game engine made to support their art...
Bethesda announced tonight they’ll be releasing Fallout 4 on the HTC Vive next year. Through the Bethesda VR program the company plans to bring both Fallout 4 and DOOM to the virtual reality stage, partnering to bring them to the HTC Vive
Bethesda just made the first level of DOOM’s campaign free to play for the week. Bethesda says this move is done to show gamers why DOOM is the best first-person shooter available on the market right now. You can grab DOOM’s single level campaign demo on your consoles respective store when they become available presumably later tonight.
Fallout 4 is adding a new DLC called Contraptions, which adds an entire new arsenal of things to build in a player’s settlements. The Contraptions DLC includes things such as conveyor belts and sorting machines. Another Fallout 4 DLC was the Vault-Tec Workshop DLC in which players appear to clear underground sections of enemies, expand and secure your vault, and even experiment on vault dwellers. Bethesda also teased what could be the next big Fallout DLC: Nuka World...
“Good morning Morgan. Today is Monday, March 15th, 2032.” We’re getting our new look at Arkane’s newest title. The trailer opens to our set in a futuristic San Francisco, our protagonist Morgan appears to be living the same day over and over again. Some first person gameplay was shown with our protagonist blasting away black, spacey-looking baddies with a shotgun and waking up in multiple locales. This new title will be available on Xbox One...
Bethesda has already beaten out EA and it’s only been forty second. The first trailer of Bethesda’s E3 2016 conference featured an announcement trailer for Quake Champions, the first in the series since Quake 4 in 2005. Tim Willits, co-designer of the original Quake, took to the stage to talk about the series and how it pushed the boundaries in e-sports, graphics, and gameplay of all types. Developed by id softworks, Quake Champions is going to be fast paced...
