Back in the day, the E3 video game trade show got too big for its britches and, as a result, too expensive for publishers. Activision announced it would bow out, EA reportedly felt the same way, and the Entertainment Software Association radically changed the E3 format. The changes lasted a few years, but eventually E3 […]
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Mario better grab an invincibility star soon, because the news out of Nintendo HQ today is far from rosy. We knew Sony sold 4.2 million PS4 consoles and Microsoft unloaded more than 3 million Xbox One consoles in about six weeks. Today Nintendo said its annual Wii U forecast for sales — as in “over
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Microsoft is trying a bunch of “firsts” with the Xbox One, from voice-controlled TV to an exclusive NFL App. Most of them, though, have focused on entertainment and functionality. Not the new Killer Instinct patch. The new KI update changes several things, but perhaps none is more notable than the Killer Instinct patch updating the
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With New Years now upon us, it’s time to look at what the PlayStation Plus January 2014 update includes for owners of a Sony system. After all, with the PS4 reportedly outselling the Xbox One two to one, there are millions of gamers interested in seeing what Sony will be bringing now that Santa’s done
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Electronic Arts has given Xbox One owners an early Christmas gift of sorts, releasing today a new Titanfall Atlas gameplay video. In the new Titanfall video, the publisher details some of the reasons the Atlas titan has been deemed “the workhorse” of the full Titanfall titan roster. Interestingly, Xbox One (and other) gamers who pre-order
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One of the biggest initial selling points for Xbox One is its inclusion of the Kinect 2.0 sensor. Bundled with every Xbox One console, the Kinect 2.0 hardware is key to Microsoft’s strategy for an all-in-one entertainment system. As we saw with Xbox 360 and the original Kinect camera, the technology also holds great promise
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The gaze of the undead really escapes no one. Not primetime TV viewers, not webisode lovers, not even early adopters of the Xbox One. When Microsoft announced Dead Rising 3 as an Xbox One-exclusive launch game, fans of the original Dead Rising peed a little at the prospect of a comedic, open-world zombie slasher. If
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Tom Clancy’s The Division is one of a handful of next-gen games we’re already frothing at the mouth to play more. When we saw the game at E3 this year, we knew Ubisoft was going for greatness. This open-world game seems like few others, with a game engine that would make previous console generations cry.
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I’ll be perfectly honest, I didn’t have high hopes for Ryse: Son of Rome. The Xbox One launch game got all sorts of negative press at E3 because it what seemed to be nothing but a series of quick-time event (QTE) interactive vignettes. When I experienced it in person at E3 I felt those comments
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With the Xbox One and PS4 now available but still missing a great role-playing game, Bethesda Softworks has taken the opportunity to announce The Elder Scrolls Online release date. Sort of. The publisher announced it will continue its tradition of clever dates in choosing an April 4, 2014, The Elder Scrolls Online release date for
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