ArenaNet has announced Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns is now available for pre-purchase.
Anyone who opts to buy the MMO's first expansion now will have guaranteed access to every beta between now and launch.
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Planet Coaster Simulation Evolved Announced
At E3, David Braben, creator of Elite and Elite Dangerous, announced Planet Coaster Simulation Evolved.
Creator of Elite and Elite Dangerous - David Braben - CEO of Frontier
Another game we’ve wanted to make for a long time - revivival of a great genre.
Cute trailer - plopping trees and floor times - terrain deformation.
Building a theme park. Being chased by a mascot.
Rollercoasters and other rides.
Planet Coaster Simulation Evolved Music by lady antebellum
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 Sees Old Meet New
It's been a good long while since a Tony Hawk game ground into our lives, but while the latest title bearing that prefix arrived back in 2007, it's been over a decade since a Pro Skater game was released. Hard as it may seem to believe, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 was released way back in 2002, so you have to wonder if a sequel coming over 13 years later can possibly hope to be faithful to the name it revives. Thankfully after spending time with the game, it's clear Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 will build on its heritage where appropriate, while innovating where necessary.
There are three main changes to the way the game works. First up, the team have added the ability to push when you're playing - gone are the days of desperately jumping up and down to try and muster some speed. Holding down R2 causes you to push off, though you won't be able to achieve max speed this way. As you'd expect, this has also necessitated the creation of a brake ability, which can be found on L2.
Rise of The Tomb Raider is Old School, & That's Good
While hurtling Lara Croft into the slick, action-heavy world of the modern blockbuster made for a great new Tomb Raider experience back in 2013, fans of the original series certainly had some feedback for developer Crystal Dynamics. Tomb Raider, many argued, should be less about combat and more about the solo exploration of tombs; guns are fun, but so is clambering up an ancient aztec statue to reach a lever with a river rushing beneath you.
The developer has taken this feedback on board for Tomb Raider’s sequel, Rise of The Tomb Raider. In an extended behind-closed-doors demo, I saw a game that gave players the option to move away from bloodshed, as well as one that had more of a focus on its namesake.
Star Wars: Battlefront Makes it Fun to Be Rebel Scum
In Star Wars: Battlefront, sometimes you’re the powerful Jedi, swinging a lightsaber and saving the day. And sometimes, well… Sometimes you’re the Rebel Scum, snuffed out before you can even let out a Wilhelm scream.
For me, today was the latter. It was awesome.
I played Battlefront's wave-based co-op mode, Survival, on the Tatooine map. For the demo, we were pitted against six waves of enemies. I'm told the final version will have 15. On some waves, the goal is simply to survive and destroy the incoming troopers. Other waves tasked us with defending dropped pods or something similar.
There's plenty to love about the game. The shooting feels smooth and accurate. The environments, weapons, and characters are beautifully rendered and animated. What really nailed the experience for me, though, was way Battlefront uses sounds. They turn Battlefront from a great shooter (I've played a lot of those) into a great Star Wars shooter (Not quite so many of these).
Oculus CEO Discusses Mac Support
Current Macbooks, along with any being designed at the moment, won't be able to support Oculus Rift technology, Oculus VR CEO Palmer Luckey said during an E3 in Los Angeles today.
"It's not going to work on any Macbook that exists or is known to exist in the near future," Luckey said during an IGN Live interview. "One of the things that we actually announced is that we're putting Mac support on hold for launch, and focusing on Windows. People have said, 'Why don't you support Macs? So many people have Macs." It's true. A lot of people have Apple hardware, especially in the laptop space. But the GPUs in those, they're not even close to what we're pushing for our recommended spec."
Tripwire Reveals Rising Storm 2 Vietnam
At E3 2015, Tripwire announced that its working on Rising Storm 2 Vietnam.
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The Last Guardian Moved to PS4 Years Ago
The Last Guardian switched from a PlayStation 3 game to a PlayStation 4 title in 2012.
Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony Worldwide Studios, told IGN that The Last Guardian was running into technical problems on PlayStation 3 many years ago.
"Because of the limitation of the hardware performance, the team was doing their best ... but we knew — from a design standpoint — in order to run it on PS3, the team would have to make some compromises in terms of the number of characters and these things," Yoshida said.
But as Fumito Ueda and his team worked on The Last Guardian over the years, the PlayStation 4 started to come to fruition. Sony, Yoshida and Ueda then realized that the full potential of the adventure game could be realized if the title moved development to the newer home console.
E3 2015: 33 Hi-Res Images of Every Upcoming Amiibo
At E3 2015 Nintendo announced a slew of new amiibo, and most of them are on display in their booth. In the gallery below you can see high-resolution shots of the recently-announced Super Mario Maker amiibo, the amazing crossover Skylanders amiibo, Animal Crossing amiibo, Yoshi's Wooly World amiibo, and tons of upcoming Smash Bros. amiibo.
Mad Max May Not Be Fury Road, But it’s Still a Fun Ride
Spare a thought for the team at Avalanche Software. Extended development time has seen its apocalyptic open-world game based off the iconic Aussie Road Warrior get its release delayed from an original 2014 target window to September 2015, thus leaving it a post-apocalyptic Mad Max game held to imposing post-Fury Road quality standards. Truly expectations around the franchise are at an all time high.
And there’s no escaping it, Mad Max’s vehicular combat feels somewhat reined in when experienced in the wake of the balletically ballistic car carnage that George Miller and his crew triumphantly delivered in the excellent Fury Road. Chrome-grilled goons on stilts and gimp-suited guitarists aboard hulking vessels that are ten per cent engine and 90 per cent subwoofer? Sadly you won’t find them here, or at least not in the build of the game that Avalanche is showing at E3 2015.
Sony is Funding Shenmue 3 Development
Sony is officially funding and helping with the development of the newly announced Shenmue III, Sony’s director of third party production Gio Corsi revealed at E3 2015 today.
“So, this
has been ask for ever since I've been at PlayStation,” Corsi said during the PlayStation Live from E3 Stream. “And we met with Suzuki-san at GDC last year and we started the long road to try to figure out how we were going to get this thing made. And we said the only way this is going to happen is if the fans speak up, and we thought Kickstarter was the perfect place to do this.”
Sony showcased Shenmue III and revealed the game's crowdfunding campaign yesterday during its E3 press conference. Shenmue III was successfully funded on Kickstarter, smashing through its USD $2 million target less than nine hours after the campaign went live.
I Played Star Fox in an Actual Arwing (Replica)
A fleet of Arwings has scrambled to Nintendo’s E3 2015 booth. E3 attendees can sit in an Arwing (Fox’s classic polygonal ship) and play Star Fox Zero in a replica cockpit with mounted monitors, surround sound, and, of course, a Wii U GamePad.
Check out images of the Star Fox Zero Arwing display in the slideshow above. Swipe to see more images on mobile.
Star Fox Zero features a steep learning curve, since you have to track two screens (one on the GamePad, on on the TV), and aim with the motion sensors of the GamePad. You can read all about how Star Fox Zero plays in Jose's preview. The juggling act that is Star Fox Zero actually worked really well for this demo. If I was thrown into a real Arwing cockpit I would probably feel similarly out of sorts.
Fallout 4 Mod Support Detailed
Fallout 4 mod support will work similarly to what's possible in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, according to game director Todd Howard.
Speaking with IGN, Howard said Bethesda is planning for Fallout 4 to feature the same level of mod support as Skyrim. "So, just like Skyrim, there are mods that can break your game pretty wildly, and so we have some safety things on the console for that, but at the same time, we are going to let people break their game. Because we try heavily not to."
As for how mods will work with Fallout 4, Howard explained that players will actually "create another version of your save game." From there, you choose from the menu to play a modded game, so that way nothing terrible can happen to your main save if things break.
Comic-Con Adds 12 Monkeys, Sharknado 3 and More
Syfy announced today their full panel schedule for San Diego Comic-Con, also revealing details for screenings of the first two episodes of Dominion: Season 2 and the series premiere of The Expanse.
Between Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!, Childhood’s End, Dominion, 12 Monkeys, The Expanse and Z Nation, Syfy is clearly bringing their biggest (space)guns to Comic-Con. Here’s a full summary of the network's panel & screening schedule, with guest information:
Thursday, July 9
Dominion
Screening: 8:15pm – 10:00pm | Room 6DE
All hell is breaking loose as the battle between angels and mankind continues in a second season of Syfy’s hit show Dominion. Join executive producer Vaun Wilmott for an exclusive screening of the first two episodes of Season 2. See episode 2 one week before it premieres on Syfy!
The Last Guardian Left Me Feeling Conflicted
When Sony took to the stage yesterday as part of its E3 2015, it had a clear game plan. Confident in the quality of so many of its titles, it decided to open the show with the game we've all heard about, yet weren't certain we'd see. By kicking off proceedings with The Last Guardian, Sony showed the audience it wasn't about to forget the promise it made when it revealed the game back in 2009. Even if we came away from the trailer not much clearer about plot or gameplay, it didn't matter. The Last Guardian is back. Trouble is, a day later and having seen more behind closed doors, the only thing that's crystalising about this reveal is it may not have been good enough.
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Metroid Prime: Federation Force Is E3's Biggest Tease
Metroid is at E3 for the first time since 2009. But this isn’t a moody, exploration-based, alien-shooter. It’s a 3-on-3 soccer minigame called Blast Ball. This is (presumably) a small part of a game called Metroid Prime: Federation Force, which Nintendo is keeping very quiet about for now.
While ‘Metroid Prime’ is in the name, and the HUD overlay does resemble Prime’s first-person view, but that’s where the Metroid similarities end. For instance, the demo starts out with your character (who is a small humanoid in a space suit) leaping into a larger suit of power armor. Then the soccer game starts. Just like Metroid, right? Just kidding. You might have seen this game in action at the Nintendo World Championships (and if you haven’t, you can watch it below) so I’ll just tell you how it plays.
Ghost Recon: Wildlands Breaks Ubisoft's Open-World Mold
Ubisoft says Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands is the biggest, most reactive open-world game it’s ever made, which is saying something given the scale and interactivity of its Far Cry games – and I’m happy to report there wasn’t a single capturable tower in sight during the impressive co-op demo shown at E3 2015. The premise of ultra-elite military dudes going into enemy territory for off-the-books third-person shooter action couldn’t be much less imaginative, but when it comes to the actual open-world gameplay, Wildlands looks like it intends to break Ubisoft’s mold.
Watch the announcement trailer above.
Co-op shooters have emerged as a trend over the past year or two, but Ghost Recon: Wildlands (which has been in development for three years) takes a much different approach than the near-future military Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 or the sci-fi Halo 5: Guardians. Here, your team (or just you) are dropped into the wide-open Bolivian countryside, given a list of objectives that will weaken the alliance between the drug cartels and the corrupt government, and cut loose to do as much damage as possible by taking them on in any order you choose.
Uncharted 4's Extended E3 Demo Is Incredible
The Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End demo that Sony showcased at the end of its E3 2015 Press Conference was an absolute stunner. But that’s not all that Naughty Dog had to show from one of 2016’s most-anticipated games. During a behind closed doors demo, Uncharted’s creative director Neil Druckmann once again played through the demo, but continued on with another 10 minutes of incredible action, stunning visuals, impeccable details, and story mysteries.
Where the Press Conference ended with Drake grappling onto a truck and preparing himself for an impact with scaffolding, the demo I saw kept going. Nate crashed through the wood, and continued to be dragged through the water underneath him. He climbed up the rope just in time to begun being dragged through a stretch of mud. The attention to detail as Drake got increasingly messy as tried to regain control was incredible.
Nintendo's 2015 E3 Digital Event Review
The wrapper around Nintendo’s digital event delivered on the mandatory charm. Puppet Satoru Iwata, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Reggie Fils-Aime were perfectly bizarre (Fils-Aime’s fuzzy creation in particular might inspire nightmares), and hit all the right playful, quirky notes.
But there was more to the shtick, as Fils-Aime later explained - this year’s theme for Nintendo at E3 was ‘transformation’. Not long-term transformation - which would involve juicy details on Nintendo’s next console, its mobile future and broader vision - but transformation in its more immediate future. The resulting event was a fun and breezy - yet at heart, inessential - direct focused entirely on upcoming games.
Halo 5: Guardians Editions, Price Tiers Revealed
Microsoft has revealed the prices for each of Halo 5: Guardians' various editions, ranging from $60 all the way to $250.
The Halo 5: Guardians Standard Edition - which comes with an Xbox Live Gold 14-day trial - will cost $60 USD.
The next step up is the Halo 5: Guardians Limited Edition, which will cost a full $100. It comes with the animated series Halo: The Fall of Reach, a Guardian model. a Spartan-themed SteelBook, Spartan Locke's Classified Orders, and dossiers on Blue Team and Fireteam Osiris.
Finally, if you've got $250 to spare, you could live large with the premium Halo 5: Guardians Limited Collector's Edition. It contains everything in the Limited Edition as well as additional content, including a commemorative numbered statue designed by 343 Industries. Unfortunately, Microsoft hasn't yet revealed any images of this statue.
Iwata Wants You to Know Nintendo Takes Your Opinions Seriously
Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata has taken to Twitter to talk about reactions to this year's Nintendo E3 Digital Event.
Iwata thanked fans for watching the Digital Event, and added Nintendo takes "opinions of this year's Digital Event seriously," and the company will "work to better meet your expectations."
Twitter user and Japanese translator Cheesemeister3k provided the English language version of an official Nintendo tweet attributed to Iwata.
During the kick-off of today's event, Nintendo officially announced Star Fox Zero for Wii U is being developed in partnership with Platinum Games.
E3 2015: Gears Of War Ultimate Edition Priced
The Gears of War: Ultimate Edition will cost $40 and include early beta access to the upcoming Gears of War 4.
The news comes via The Coalition studio head Rod Fergusson on Twitter. He also adds that the Gears Ultimate Edition will include new improved splitscreen for co-op and versus modes.
In our preview, we reveal that "it is still beautiful, and competitive multiplayer is still terrific."
Game of Thrones: Season 5 Finale Beats Show's Ratings Record
Game of Thrones' Season 5 finale beat out this year's season premiere to become the most watched episode in the series' history.
"Mother's Mercy" was watched by an average of 8.1 million people, according to Deadline. The previous record holder, the Season 5 premiere, brought in 7.99 million viewers. The record is even more impressive considering last week's finale went head-to-head with Game 5 of the NBA Finals.
Deadline also notes viewership for the finale was up 13% compared to the previous week's episode, and 14% compared to Season 4's finale.
Guitar Hero Live Release Date Announced
Activision has announced that Guitar Hero Live will be released on October 20, 2015.
The next entry in the long-running Guitar Hero franchise will cost $100 and is currently planned for PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii U. Select mobile devices will also support the game.
Guitar Hero Live is taking a new direction for the series' revival, including a first-person perspective with full-motion video and a redesigned controller that positions the buttons to feel more like moving between different strings. Guitar Hero TV Mode is a 24-hour playable music network that will offer preset, scheduled programming with various genres taking different hours of the day.
Marvel Congratulates Jurassic World on Beating Avengers' Opening
As you may know by now, Marvel's The Avengers no longer has the bragging rights of scoring the biggest North American debut of all time. It was dethroned this past weekend by Jurassic World, which just so happens to star Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy leading man Chris Pratt.
Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige tweeted the following congratulatory note and image today to the new champs: "Congrats Mr. Spielberg @UniversalPics @Legendary @LeDoctor @colintrevorrow and especially @prattprattpratt"
Final Fantasy VII Remake Boosts Square Enix Stock
In the wake of the surprise announcement of a Final Fantasy VII remake at Sony's E3 2015 press conference, Square Enix's stock value has increased.
Bloomberg reports Square's stock jumped 2.9 percent to 2,956 yen at the close of Tokyo's trading, the highest it's been since 2008.
No gameplay was shown, but the trailer made Final Fantasy VII appear to be a complete overhaul of the original PlayStation game released in 1997. It will debut on PlayStation, although its release window has not yet been announced.
E3 2015: What's Your Best Game of Show?
E3 2015 is finally here, and it's filled with new game announcements and demos. We're covering it all, you're reading and watching it all, and now it's time to talk about the best game of the show. Specifically your game of the show.
There is a lot of awesomeness this year, but a few things stand out. From Microsoft to Sony, Bethesda and Ubisoft, Nintendo and more —- let us know which game at this year's E3 is your absolute favorite! Be sure to also sound off in the comments about what else you liked.
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The Walking Dead and New Spinoff Both Set for Comic-Con
AMC have announced their San Diego Comic-Con panel schedule, revealing that not only will The Walking Dead once more be present, but the new spinoff, Fear The Walking Dead, will also be coming to SDCC. Also announced is a panel for Into the Badlands, AMC's upcoming martial arts series, which will be moderated by our own Roth Cornet!
All three shows are bringing nearly their entire casts, along with producers from the respective series. Here's how the panels break down...
The Walking Dead
- Panelists: Stars Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Lauren Cohan, Danai Gurira, Melissa McBride, Chandler Riggs, Michael Cudlitz, Lennie James and Sonequa Martin-Green, along with Executive Producer and Showrunner Scott M. Gimple, Executive Producer Gale Anne Hurd, Executive Producer Robert Kirkman, Executive Producer, Director and Special Effects Make-up Supervisor Greg Nicotero and Executive Producer David Alpert.
2 New Specialists Announced for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3
Activision has announced two new playable Specialists for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3’s multiplayer.
If you need a reminder, each Specialist in Black Ops 3 has one unique power and one unique weapon. You can enter a match using one or the other -- not both.
Prophet was a member of the British Engineering Corps. He wields the Tempest, a lightning gun that zaps out from the primary target to other nearby enemies. It works well for room clearing or holding down a choke point.
His power, Glitch, allows him to relocate to where he was seconds ago. So, if someone is chasing you down from behind, you can instantly pop back behind your pursuer and turn the fight around.
Here's Everything From Nintendo's Digital E3 Event
During the company's E3 2015 Digital Event today, Nintendo revealed a number of games headed to the Wii U and 3DS in the coming months.
The event kicked off with a fun opening featuring Satoru Iwata, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Reggie Fils-Aimé as puppets, preparing for the show and dancing. The puppet trio then slowly transformed into characters from the Star Fox franchise for the announcement of Star Fox Zero, the Wii U installment of the classic space shooter series.
With that out of the way, the event took a hard turn into announcements and details for Nintendo's upcoming lineup, stressing the theme for the digital event was transformation.
Square Enix Announces New Studio and RPG Project Setsuna
Square Enix has announced it's created a new studio called Tokyo RPG Factory with its first game, Project Setsuna, due in 2016.
The studio, which is dedicated to creating JRPGs, will be releasing its first console RPG next year, though details are fairly thin on the ground. Three pieces of environmental concept art were shown off, however.
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Release Window Confirmed
Square Enix has announced that Deus Ex: Mankind Divided will be released on Xbox One, PS4, and PC in early 2016.
The game will take place in 2029, two years after the events of Human Revolution and the Aug Incident that took place in Panchaea. Following the death of millions, a colossal rift has emerged between people with augmentations and those without, and in keeping with the political theme, there are other parties who plan to use the turmoil to further their own agenda.
The sequel was officially announced at the beginning April, after being leaked one day earlier.
Tangled World Coming to Kingdom Hearts 3
Square Enix has confirmed Kingdom Hearts III will feature a level based on Disney's Tangled.
During its press conference today, the company also revealed a new gameplay trailer offering a glimpse at some of the things we're likely to encounter.
The trailer features one of the Titans from Hercules, as well as the walled city we saw in the first demo that looks suspiciously like Agrabah. A Pegasus summon was shown, with Sora riding in the back of a chariot pulled by the winged horse and dealing death to numerous Heartless.
Other reveals include a lush grassland, presumably the Tangled level, and Sora's ability to turn the Keyblade into both dual-wielded pistols, and a double-bladed weapon. A galleon summon was also present.
Kingdom Hearts X Unchained Key Confirmed For Western Release
Square Enix has announced Kingdom Hearts Unchained Key, its upcoming Kingdom Hearts game in development for iOS and Android, will be getting a Western release.
Unchained Key is the first Kingdom Hearts game to be developed specifically for smartphones, and will apparently link its storyline directly to that of Kingdom Hearts 3. As is typical for the series, the game will feature numerous appearances from iconic Disney characters such as Mickey Mouse and Snow White, only this time the visual style has taken on a flatter, cel-shaded look.
Kingdom Hearts Unchained Key will be released in Japan in 2015, however a release window for the West has not yet been given.
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Final Fantasy VII Coming to iOS
Today at Square-Enix's E3 2015 press conference, company executive Shinji Hashimoto announced that a port of Final Fantasy VII is currently in the works for iOS.
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Lara Croft Go Announced
Square Enix has announced Lara Croft Go, a new Tomb Raider mobile game from the developer of Hitman Go.
Lara Croft Go has a striking and colorful art style and elements of Monument Valley in its turn-based adventuring.
The game is coming to mobile and tablets in 2015.
New Nier Project Announced
Square Enix has announced a new Nier game, the sequel to the cult game Nier.
Platinum Games is leading development.
Nier's original developer, Cavia, disbanded in 2010 after the Director left the studio.
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AMD Announces R9 Fury, Fury X, and Nano Cards
AMD announced its Radeon R9 Fury X, R9 Fury, and R9 Nano graphics cards today. It also took the opportunity to unveil a new, pre-built PC called Project Quantum it says it's working with partners to bring to the market.
AMD also announced a dual-Fiji GPU, but gave no name or expectation of price, only saying it would be available later in the year.
All of the cards will run its Fiji GPU. AMD claims the new line sees a 1.5x increase in performance per watt over the 290x. The Fury will be air-cooled, while the Fury X will be liquid cooled. The Nano is a Fiji-based card running HBM in a 6" form factor and promises "significantly more performance" than the 290x.
Star Wars Fan Comic Tells Green Leader's Untold Tale
There are a lot of memorable moments from the final space battle in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, but the destruction of the Super Star Destroyer Executor is particularly important.
Although this was a massive tipping point in the battle, the one character responsible for it is never credited, properly introduced, or even given a second thought.
That's why Daniel Warren Johnson (via Kotaku) created Green Leader, a short fan comic about the brave action taken by Arvel Crynyd, the heroic Green Leader himself.
E3 2015: Guitar Hero Live: The Music Game for Millennials?
Freestyle Games creative director Jamie Jackson is showing me Guitar Hero Live's ambitious Guitar Hero TV mode, in which scores of frequently added music is curated for you based on your song preferences throughout the rest of the game. He's demoing a Premium Show – in this case, a three-song live concert set from an actual Pantera concert – riffing along to show off the note highway in the series reboot, as this is my first time seeing it in action. He pauses the gameplay to show me some of the things you can do in the menus, right from inside the song.
"It's our always-on, 24-hour playable music network," he begins to explain.
But I notice that the song doesn't stop. The music video keeps playing in the background, it's just that the note highway is gone while we poke around in the interface. I ask if you can actually pause the song proper – you know, in case the phone rings or someone knocks on the door. No, I'm told. Not in a Premium Show. Apparently the show must go on with or without you. Which makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever, especially when you consider that Premium Shows are always more than one song long.
Yo-Kai Watch’s Release Window Revealed
We knew Yo-Kai Watch was coming west, but today Nintendo announced a more specific time frame for its western release. Yo-Kai Watch will release this year during the Holiday 2015 window.
Yo-Kai Watch is a national sensation in Japan, and it could very well be the next Pokemon in the West.
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Yoshi’s Woolly World US Release Date Revealed
During Nintendo’s Digital Event at E3 2015, the company confirmed that Yoshi’s Woolly World will release in the United States on October 16. This is months later than the Australian release date of June 25, European date of June 26, and the Japanese date of July 16.
Yoshi’s Woolly World will support Nintendo’s Amiibo figurines, including the impossibly-adorable yarn Yoshis that came as pre-order bonuses in the UK. No word yet on if the same is true for us in the States.
Yoshi’s Woolly World was originally revealed back in 2013 under the tentative name Yarn Yoshi. The game shares a similar aesthetic to 2010’s Kirby’s Epic Yarn.
Stay tuned in the coming weeks for our review of Yoshi’s Woolly World once it releases in Europe.
The Legend of Zelda: Triforce Heroes Revealed for 3DS
Nintendo has announced The Legend of Zelda: Triforce Heroes, a co-op multiplayer adventure game for up to three players that's coming to 3DS in Fall 2015.
In a brief presentation, Zelda Producer Eiji Aonuma and Director Hiromasa Shikata gave an overview of how co-op will work in the new game.
The Zelda series has experimented with multiplayer gameplay in the past, but Nintendo wanted to make this iteration less focused around competition. "I wanted players to cooperatively enjoy more serious Zelda gameplay elements, like solving puzzles and going through dungeons," Shikata said.
The new footage shows off a totem mechanic, where Link can pick up his other two companions so they can stack up to reach higher places, activate switches, and hit weak points on taller enemies.
Nintendo Characters Coming to Skylanders Super Chargers on Wii U
Nintendo characters are coming to Skylanders Super Chargers for Wii U with Skylander and amiibo hybrid figures, CTO of Activision Mobile Karthik Bala revealed in an interview during E3 2015.
Turbo Charged Donkey Kong and Hammer Slam Bowser characters will be the first figures that can be used in Skylanders and amiibo supported games.
The figures can switch between Skylander and amiibo game support by clicking the bottom of the base around by 10 degrees. The Donkey Kong and Bowser figures can be used as in any Nintendo games that supsports any Donkey Kong and Bowser amiibos.
Footage revealed some insights into the new characters. For instance, Bowser can transform into a supercharged Magma Bowser and Diddy Kong makes a cammo, appearing in the passenger seat of Donkey Kong’s Barrel Blaster.
Podcast: The Digigods groove with Parks and Recreation
From their secluded home-theater compound, film critics Wade Major and Mark Keizer mix insightful commentary with irreverent banter, covering the latest DVD and Blu-ray news and new releases of the week, including studio, independent, television and special-interest titles.
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Rockstar Targets Cheaters in Grand Theft Auto: Online
Rockstar has introduced new systems to improve the detection of cheaters in Grand Theft Auto: Online.
"As part of our ongoing commitment to combat cheating and griefing, we have recently implemented new systems to allow us to more efficiently detect and target any players found running mods and cheat programs within GTA Online," writes Rockstar's "Q" on the Newswire.
"As a reminder, any attempt to tamper with the behavior of GTA Online by installing or executing mods, scripts, or other exploits, modifying the game files or manipulating the game in any way while it is executing will result in disciplinary action including but not limited to time in the cheater pool, bans and potential suspension of your account. Please help maintain the integrity of the GTA Online experience by keeping sessions free of modifications and exploits."
King's Quest: A Knight to Remember Releases Next Month
The debut episode of the reimagined King’s Quest will release in "late" July on PC, Playstation 4 and 3, and Xbox One and 360.
The chapter - entitled A Knight to Remember - is the first of five downloadable episodes of "the bold reimagining of one of adventure gaming’s most memorable franchises" and stars Christopher Lloyd as an old King Graham, Josh Keaton as a young Graham, Maggie Elizabeth Jones as Gwendolyn, and Zelda Williams as Amaya the Blacksmith.
We've enjoyed what we've played so far. In our hands-on preview earlier this year, we said that "this new reimagining of King’s Quest is a delightful surprise for an old-school adventurer like myself."
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