Ubisoft has announced Rainbow Six: Siege is in development at Ubisoft Montreal, coming in 2015.
The footage shown during the press conference demonstrated an early multiplayer match with one team attempting to rescue a hostage from the opposing forces. Environmental destruction plays a key role in how matches unfold, and it's possible to blast through walls and doors get to your objectives.
Crystal Dynamics has announced Rise of the Tomb Raider, coming Holiday 2015. A trailer shown during Microsoft's E3 Press Conference featured a visibly distressed Lara undergoing therapy after the events of 2012's Tomb Raider. Croft is also seen sneaking through enormous caves, once again killing enemies quietly with here bow.
Trailer:
"In the next chapter of her journey, Lara must use her survival skills and wits, learn to trust new friends, and ultimately accept her destiny as the Tomb Raider," Microsoft said. "Featuring epic, high-octane action moments, Rise of the Tomb Raider will take gamers to multiple locations around the world filled with exploration spaces that are some of the most beautifully hostile places on earth. In addition, after hearing the cry from fans loud and clear, the game will put the tombs back into “Tomb Raider" all in the franchise’s gritty Survival-Action style."
During the Ubisoft media briefing being held at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles the publisher published a new trailer of Tom Clancy’s The Division.The trailer is actually quite relevant, as it shows how it all happened, and how the pandemic spread in New York City.
Ubisoft showed Assassin's Creed: Unity co-op gameplay earlier today at Microsoft's E3 2014 press conference, but outdid that demo at its own conference with both a hyper-dramatic cinematic trailer and a long single-player gameplay demonstration in Unity's "systemic open world."
The single-player demo shows much bigger crowds than we've seen in previous Assassin's Creeds, as well as much more detailed interiors which can be entered seamlessly for the first time. There's also a new parkour system that makes it easier to descend from tall buildings, and some "choose or ignore" events. Pleasingly, Unity introduces a dedicated stealth mode, which hopefully means no more vaulting when you meant to crouch and hide.
Based on this look, though, co-op is still Unity's most notable change: how the new hero, Arno, "carves his own path" through Paris significantly differently than Kenway explored the Caribbean in Assassin's Creed IV is unclear so far (except that we might not see ships this time). It is exceptionally pretty in the state it's being demoed, of course.
Watch the cinematic trailer above, and the gameplay demonstration below.
At Sony's E3 press conference, Ubisoft has revealed a full two player cooperative mode across Far Cry 4's open world.
A new trailer has revealed significant new gameplay mechanics for Far Cry 4. The most significant of which is a two-player cooperative mode which plays out across the open world of Kyrat. The second player joins the game as Hurk, a side character. The trailer shows Hurk picking up the first player in his gyrocopter and ferrying them to an enemy outpost. In surprising news, players who own Far Cry 4 on PS3 or PS4 can invite their friends to play, even if that friend does not own the game.
Additional new mechanics included the ability to kick explosive barrels into enemies, as well as a new kind of takedown that saw the player leap from their car into a truck, kill both passenger and driver, and take control of the vehicle. Another addition includes the ability to fire one-handed weapons out of a vehicle whilst driving it. The wingsuit also made a return, and new animals such as elephants were seen stampeding through an outpost.
You don't even have to give up your multiplayer progress.
Rockstar's 2013 hit, Grand Theft Auto 5, is coming to PS4 this fall. It is also coming to Xbox One and PC, either at the same time or likely shortly thereafter.
If you've already spent tons of time in GTA Online, don't worry. Your multiplayer progress will carry over to the PS4 version whether you played on Xbox 360 or PS3.
In a recent poll, IGN's community rated Grand Theft Auto 5 as its third most popular game of the last generation,
YO! New Xbox One Ad Stars Breaking Bad Actor Aaron Paul
Microsoft enlists actor to help sell new $399 Xbox One.
Microsoft has launched a new Xbox One advertisement featuring Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul. In the commercial, Paul talks up the Xbox One's "Snap" multitasking functionality and is shown using the GameDVR feature. He ends the video with his signature "Yo!"
Paul is not the first celebrity Microsoft has enlisted to help sell Xbox Ones. Earlier commercials for the console featured professional soccer star Steven Gerrard and actor Zachary Quinto. Most recently, Paul starred in this year's Need for Speed movie.
More details expected tomorrow during EA's press conference.
Ahead of Electronic Arts' E3 press conference tomorrow, the official Mirror's Edge Facebook page today posted what looks like Mirror's Edge 2 concept art with the hashtag #E32014. The image shows off protagonist Faith looking ready to run through a sprawling city.
The Mirror's Edge sequel--an open-world game--was announced last year at E3. It is in development at Battlefield developer DICE for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. Just last week, it was revealed that Mirror's Edge 2 would be part of EA's media briefing tomorrow at E3.
E3 2014: Assassin's Creed Unity E3 Poster Shows Four Characters
What might it mean?
A massive poster for Assassin's Creed Unity covering one outside wall of the Los Angeles Convention Center--the site of next week's E3--shows what appears to be four different assassins. We also see the tall tower from the game's teaser trailer.
What could it mean? A past report suggested Assassin's Creed Unity would feature four-player co-op. In addition, a source previously told The Escapist that Assassin's Creed Unity would have a co-op mode and that it would be revealed at E3.
Assassin's Creed Unity launches this holiday season for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.
In addition to Assassin's Creed Unity, Ubisoft is rumored to be working on another Assassin's Creed game,subtitled Comet, for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. This game will reportedly let you play as a Templar.
In the final lead up to E3,
Sony today announced its full schedule for the event and revealed that
it will have at least 70 games on display at its booth on the show
floor.
Sony's main press conference begins
Monday, June 9 at 6 p.m. PDT / 9 p.m. EDT.
Following
the main event, Sony will host a three-day live broadcast beginning at
12 p.m. PDT / 3 p.m. EDT on Monday, June 10. Sony promises a
"smorgasbord" of live game demos, interviews with developers, and new
game trailers.
Finally, Sony published a list of the 70
games that it will show at its booth on the show floor. Importantly, the
list you see below is only a "selection" of PlayStation games that will
be there. Sony is of course expected to announce new games at its main
press conference.
Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Launching February 24 Across Xbox One, PS4, and PC
CD Projekt Red confirms release date for upcoming role-playing game and reveals preorder bonuses and collector's edition.
Polish developer CD Projekt Red today announced that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will launch across Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC on February 24, 2015. Previously, the game was expected to be released sometime in February 2015. CD Projekt Red made the announcement today during the company's annual summer conference, which recently ended.
In addition to announcing the game's release date, CD Projekt Red today revealed the preorder bonuses and collector's edition for The Witcher 3. The preorder bonuses, which leaked this morning, include a map, stickers, manual, a special Witcher Compendium, and a soundtrack. This will be available at all retailers where you can buy the game.
The collector's edition, meanwhile, includes a special Geralt figurine, a 200-page art book, steelbook game case, a wolf medallion made of steel, and everything from the standard edition. Pricing was not announced.
The latest Xbox One software development kit will allow for more GPU bandwidth on the console, with Microsoft promising more performance and flexibility from the machine.
Microsoft is looking to close the performance gap between the Xbox One and Sony's more powerful PlayStation 4, and is now giving developers access to more GPU bandwidth with the console's latest software development kit.
"June #XboxOne software dev kit gives devs access to more GPU bandwidth. More performance, new tools and flexibility to make games better," said Xbox Xboss Phil Spencer on Twitter. Microsoft had previously made rumblings that it was looking to make this the case as soon as possible.
It is widely believed that Microsoft reserved a chunk of the Xbox One's hardware potential for the Kinect, which was one of the many reasons that PlayStation 4 routinely trumped the machine with whizzier 1080p resolutions and zippier framerates. It is (or now, technically, was) widely believed, thanks to a fascinating Digital Foundry report, that Microsoft reserved 10 percent of its total graphics resources for the Kinect and apps. By giving more hardware oomph to developers, will we finally see the Xbox One catch up?
Microsoft has now removed the Kinect from the default Xbox One bundle, and will start selling the console for $399 starting June 9. Microsoft will begin selling standalone Kinect units for Xbox One later this year. Xbox One owners can also begin downloading the June software update for the console from today, which brings with it real name support on Xbox Live and the option to use external storage.
