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During the Xbox One reveal, Remedy Entertainment unveiled their next title coming exclusively to Microsoft’s new console. The game is called Quantum Break. Remedy is the development team behind the first two Max Payne games and Alan Wake. The announcement included a brief teaser trailer which you can find after the jump.
There’s still much to learn about the game, and the teaser (which blends live action footage and in-game graphics) poses more questions than anything else. On the surface, it looks like the game will feature a little girl with some sort of psychic abilities. There’s also ample destruction and what looks like the return of Bullet Time – a gameplay mechanic that Remedy pioneered with the Max Payne series.
When Remedy appeared during the Xbox reveal, many people (including me) were hoping they’d reveal Alan Wake 2. Remedy has since said that they’ll return to that franchise when the time is right. Hit the jump for Quantum Break’s teaser trailer.
During yesterday’s reveal of the new Xbox One console, Activision and Infinity Ward were on hand to unveil the next iteration of the Call of Duty franchise, Call of Duty: Ghosts. The game has been built on a brand new engine capable of pushing out next-gen graphics that are commensurate with the series’ biggest competition, EA’s Battlefield and Frostbite engine.
In Call of Duty: Ghosts, the US army has been shattered and the world’s most powerful military force has been reduced to almost nothing. Players will take on the role of a member of what’s left of the world’s Special Forces units. From the sounds of it, these leftover Special Forces units are the only ones left fighting and they’re horribly outnumbered. As such, they use every type of Special Forces training from all nations across the globe.
The game starts with an as yet unrevealed global event that decimates the USA, sending it into a sort of post-apocalypse state. Actual gameplay kicks off about 10-15 years after this catastrophic event. Infinity Ward is placing a lot of emphasis on the world being a character rather than just an area in which the game takes place.
That about sums it up. Lest you think I play favourites: PlayStation 4 Reveal Highlights
Soooo, the internet was stunningly quiet today and I best that was down to one thing – no-one wants to work on Xbox day (that’s right, my official name for it). Today, or this evening rather, Microsoft is hosting a Xbox reveal event, during which they’ll be talking about the console and how they’ll be countering Sony’s PS4. Lets get started.
Hardware: Shipbreakers has my undivided attention for three reasons: first of all it’s a new real-time strategy IP and we sorely need more of those; second it’s being put together by a bunch of people who made the original Homeworld; and third, the game’s setting on the planet of LM-27 is so reminiscent of the planet Arrakis in Dune, that it makes me want to jump around and squee.
To date, there’s been no actual screenshots or in-game footage released, but developer Blackbird Interactive has put out these incredible lore trailers made up of slightly animated concept art. It’s very reminiscent of the cut-scenes from Homeworld.
After the jump is the most recent trailer, which explains the history behind a colossal piece of vehicular hardware known as a Baserunner. It’s likely that the Baserunner will be one of the more utilised units you’ll use in the game.
About two weeks ago, Flying Wild Hog (them of Hard Reset fame) revealed to the world that they’re rebooting/reimagining cult classic FPS Shadow Warrior. Aside from an image of a bloodied corpse of some dude who looked like he died painfully, there was nothing else to go on. That changes today.
After the jump there’s a teaser trailer that shows some of the locations and loads of blood. The overwhelming element that I took away from the trailer, however, was the shift in tone. The original Shadow Warrior was a humourous affair, but this reimagining looks to be heading down a road that‘s prefaced by a flashing neon billboard that reads “Realism this way”.
On top of the teaser there’s a mini gallery of screenshots for the game. Each screenshot features an in-game enemy and loads of colour. Got to admit, I’m kind of liking the colour.
While Microsoft preps the bite-sized pizza squares, witty banter cue cards, and spider pit under the seats just in case of any Twitter controversy ahead of tonight’s next-gen console reveal event (7 PM local time, broadcast live on Xbox… LIVE), I’ve finished the internet three times already to compile all the currently available information – speculative or otherwise – about the company’s next big thing, The Nextbox 3000. That’s not what it’s actually called, mind you so let’s call that the first thing we know for sure:
During development, the next-gen console has been codenamed Durango, but no official name has been confirmed yet. It’s probably not called the Xbox 720 either because that sounds stupid and it’s definitely not called the Xbox Infinity because the guy who created the Xbox Infinity image that went viral a week or two back was all, like, “Um, guys, I made that.”
I’ve got ten bucks on just Xbox, and another ten bucks on Xbox3 just in case Microsoft decided to adopt the Alien naming convention.
Today, Microsoft plans to reveal the successor to the Xbox 360 during a live-streamed event held on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. Not to miss out on any of the excitement and hype, Sony has released this epilepsy-inducing teaser trailer for the PlayStation 4 console.
If you recall, when Sony “unveiled” the PlayStation 4 all the way back in February this year, they never actually showed the console. We did, however, get to see the controller with its built-in PS Move lights and touch-pad. At the time, Sony said they still hadn’t finalised the look of the PlayStation 4 console. Many people said that it didn’t really matter that Sony didn’t show off the console because it’ll essentially be a black box that sits under your TV; the controller is what really matters anyway.
Now we get this teaser trailer that’s been carefully designed to show off bits of the console, but not enough to allow you to piece the whole thing together without it looking like it came out of a botched cloning experiment. Also there’s a lot of stuff that’s blurred out. Spoiler: you’re going to see practically nothing other than a hunk of black plastic with some fancy vents. You’ll have to wait until E3 to see the thing properly. Hit the jump for the teaser.
In this month’s edition of “industry people who lost their jobs because of saying dumb stuff on Twitter”, we turn our attention away from Adam Orth to watch the surely imminent employment meltdown of one Bob Summerwill.
Earlier, EA confirmed that they have absolutely nothing in pipelines for Nintendo’s Wii U console. This is likely due to the fact that the über massive Frostbite engine will not be making an appearance on the Wii U; that’s problematic when you remember that EA is using Frostbite to power pretty much everything, including the company filter coffee machines.
In the wake of this information, Mr. Summerwill of EA Sports’ Canada studios fired out a couple of foolish tweets in response to a prompt for information on why EA isn’t supporting the console: “The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an XBOX360. Poor online/store. Nintendo are walking dead at this point.”
