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Ubisoft’s Steep is the Next Generation’s Wii Sports

Ubisoft just announced their latest title, Steep. Steep is a game that lets players do all manners of actives down the side of a mountain. Skiing, snowboarding, paragliding, and more manners of adventure fun all down the mountain. What’s unique about Steep is that it’s world is entirely connected. Skiing down the Alps will let you look up and watch a group of paragliders whisk through the clouds. This is very interesting and very unique, but a lot of the game...

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What’s Coming to The Division – E3 2016

Ubisoft talked about the new Underground DLC, which takes players underground through randomly generated missions. Underground releases June 28 XBOX and PC, and early August for PS4. Undergroud is a paid DLC, but is included in the season pass. Ubisoft also announced that Division players would receive free outfits in celebration of their 30th birthday. The outfits are based on the the other Ubisoft games Rainbow 6, Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon. To receive the outfits you have...

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Preorder the Dishonored 2 Collector’s Edition While You Can

Preorders for the Collector’s Edition of Arkane’s Dishonored 2 went live last night, and Bethesda is telling us they’ll be going just as fast as Fallout 4’s Pip-Boy edition. According to Amazon, the Dishonored 2 Collector’s Edition features: Corvo Attano’s Mask Replica and Stand. Emily Kaldwin’s Ring Replica and Display Box. This wearable replica of Emily’s ring is constructed of zinc alloy and includes a premium, embossed...

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Microsoft’s E3 Conference Did Not Impress – and that’s a problem

Microsoft just wrapped up their 2016 E3 press conference – what they said would be their biggest event since the launch of the Xbox 360 – and I am sorely unimpressed. What we saw at Microsoft’s conference was cool, sure. Forza Horizons 3 looks beautiful, Gears of War 4 is going to be great, Marcus looks terrifyingly hellish, and all those indie games sure look swell. But our biggest announcements of the day included two new Xbox’s – neither of...

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Microsoft announces Xbox One Project Scorpio

Phil Spencer took the stage at Microsoft’s E3 press conference to announce a new Xbox One, the Xbox One Project Scorpio. “Xbox has always meant innovation and the latest technology” “This is the console the developers have asked us to build” Featuring six teraflops of power – roughly ten times as powerful as the Xbox One, the ability to power 4K resolution and virtual reality, and four cores.

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First Gameplay from Sea of Thieves – E3 2016

Rare just dropped a new Sea of Thieves trailer along with a new gameplay presentation, our first from the title. The gameplay looked like a lot of fun. Players were thrown in with no tutorial and left at their own. What we saw was players learning how to raise the anchors and lower the sails, setting sail to a far away island, and then having to maroon one of their own as they made their ship battle ready for the approaching attackers.