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E3 2014 • News

DICE and EA announce Mirrors Edge 2

DICE and EA today announced Mirrors Edge 2, the sequel to the much heralded parkour free-running story-driven game that released in 2008, and DICE has had real parkour artists come in and show them the nest ways to do things. The games slick white and black art style with hard color contrasts throughout the world holds true in the sequel, and while most of the gameplay we saw was conceptual prototypes, the team at DICE seems to be holding firm with what the fans know and...

E3 2014 • News

EA Teases new Mass Effect Game at E3

Electronic Arts granted my wish this E3, teasing BioWare’s development on their new chapter in the Mass Effect universe.  The tease cut between monologue from producer at large Casey Hudson and clips of development work on the worlds BioWare is envisioning.  Hudson said they are going farther and bigger than ever before in this new Mass Effect project that will truly amaze players.  There will be more worlds and the amount of exploration should be massive in an...

E3 2014 • News

Sledgehammer and Activision Release New Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Gameplay Trailer

Microsoft opened up it’s E3 2014 conference with our first look at Activision and Sledgehammer Games’ Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. The trailer showed three soldiers (the player controlled character named Mitchell) dropping in to South Korea in an ODST-style drop, pod. In what, as far as we know, is in-game gameplay, the graphics looked pretty impressive for a Call of Duty game. While not the most beautiful game in existence, it is a huge improvement from what...

E3 2014 • News

Happy Wars coming to Xbox One, features Cross Play with Xbox 360

Microsoft has just announced that Happy Wars – the free-to-play Multiplayer tower defense game – is coming to Xbox One later this year featuring cross platform play between Xbox One and Xbox 360. Featuring four-player split screen multiplayer on the Xbox One, your characters will also carry over to and from the next generation platform. ToyLogic and Microsoft Studios will be launching Happy Wars on the Xbox One at a TBA date, most likely later this year.

E3 2014 • News

Killer Instinct Season 2 Coming to Xbox One Later This Year with TJ Combo

“Don’t think for a moment that I’ll let anything get in my way – because if you give me that moment, I will.” Killer Instinct’s Season 2 will be starting this fall, with its first new character being TJ Combo, a Mike Tyson lookalike who kicks butts, takes names, and destroys UltraTech with extreme prejudice. Look forward to Season 2 of Killer Instinct later this year, coming exclusively to Xbox One later this year.

E3 2014 • News

Microsoft announces new Achievement features

Microsoft announced today that later this year Xbox One achievements will be viewable in snapped app mode, showing them based on how close you are to unlocking them, and changing in real time. You can also select the achievement and search for help for it directly from your Xbox One, using Bing and Internet Explorer to bring you content directly to your Xbox One and giving you real time help. This feature will be launching later this year in a future Xbox One update.

E3 2014 • News

Xbox’s E3 Conference is Live NOW

Microsoft’s biggest day of the year is here! Watch live now on the official Xbox Website here or on the official E3 Twitch page here. You can also watch straight from your Xbox One or Xbox 360 console using the app available for download. What do you predict to become reality today? Will dreams be broken? We’ll find out very, very soon.

E3 2014 • News

All your E3 2014 News, All In One Place

The day is finally here! The moment gamers live for each and every year has finally arrived, and LevelSave is here today to help you see and hear it all. Will your favorite companies announce your next obsession? Will dreams be made or crushed? We’ll know soon enough. Keep your eyes tuned to LevelSave all day for the news as it breaks. A full schedule, along with where to watch the streams, are below: Microsoft’s E3 2014 Stream (Xbox Official Stream): 9AM PST...

Editorials • Features

Xbox One: Reversing the Curse

I think it has been talked about enough that I don’t have to give you too much exposition on it but there’s been a trend in the console business that has been dubbed “the curse of the third console.”  In case you have no idea what I’m talking about, here’s a little back story.  When Sega launched their third console, the Saturn, it had a tumultuous time on the market to say the least.  Likewise, Nintendo struggled with the N64.  Both...