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E3 2019: Doom Eternal Is Assured This November

E3 2019: Doom Eternal Is Assured This November

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The highlight of Bethesda’s E3 conference came toward the end, when a big chunk of gameplay from Doom Eternal was unveiled, as well as a release date and everything else a demon hunter might want to know. We’re used to dealing with monsters emerging from hell portals on space stations…but this time they’ve invaded Earth! Subsantially more bullets and much louder explosives will be needed to send them back. The locations will be more diverse this go-round, taking you all over the world. The dev team even mentioned “heaven” as a possible location. The battle mode, now called Doom Eternal, pits one Demon Slayer against two demons. Is two against one fair? The DS will be fully stocked and when you’ve got this much firepower, it’s more like it’s unbalanced on the other end. The demons will have special abilities they can use to stand a fighting chance. Then there is the Collector’s Edition, now available for preorder. For 200 bucks you get a Doom lore book, a lithograph, a

E3 2019: Commander Keen Is Coming Back, But…

E3 2019: Commander Keen Is Coming Back, But…

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Retro gaming fans got a BIG surprise from Bethesda this evening….and then their expressions quickly changed. Everyone has a “rage moment” at E3, and we don’t mean the good kind of rage. That point when a company announces news that not only disappoints, but smashes all your hopes. For me, it was finding out Microsoft had purchased Double Fine, making a Switch or PS4 release of Psychonauts 2 impossible. For a lot of others, it was the appearance of Commander Keen. Commander Keen is an iD Software creation that predates Doom by several years. He was a little kid with a laser gun who hopped around alien worlds, and his original DOS game popularized the concept of shareware. Many a youngster had a blast guiding Keen through his garish CGA-tinted universe, and the sudden appearance of a game by that name tonight made those now-grown-up fans jump up and holler. COMMANDER KEEN!?!?!??!?!?!?! Be still my heart pic.twitter.com/tr4xpr4iD6 — Blake Grundman (@GrundyTheMan) June 10, 2019 Then the rest of the trailer

E3 2019: The Makers Of Dishonored Introduce Deathloop

E3 2019: The Makers Of Dishonored Introduce Deathloop

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Ever since Arkane Lyon, the studio behind Prey and the excellent Dishonored series, said they were retiring the latter in favor of something different, we wondered what their new idea was. Tonight during Bethesda’s E3 conference, they rolled out the first trailer for…Deathloop. The premise, as best as we can understand it: Two assassins, Colt and Julianna, wind up on a remote island called Blackreef. The island has all sorts of dangers, but Colt’s biggest problem is that his day keeps resetting and keeping him from making any progress escaping the island. He’s trapped in a time loop, and the trailer suggests the only way to break it….is to find and assassinate Julianna. Julianna seems to have the same goal, but HER mission is to PRESERVE the time loop. DEATHLOOP” transports players to the lawless island of Blackreef in an eternal struggle between two extraordinary assassins. Explore stunning environments and meticulously designed levels in an immersive gameplay experience that lets you approach every situation any way you like. Hunt down

E3 2019: Microsoft’s Most Expensive XBox Controller Ever

E3 2019: Microsoft’s Most Expensive XBox Controller Ever

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Did you ever look at the rack of video game controllers and wish they cost more? Microsoft knows how you feel. Today during their E3 presentation they unveiled their XBox Elite Controller Series 2, the most expensive controller ever offered for the XBox (it beats the original Elite by 30 bucks). The Elite 2 boasts sturdier construction than the original, thumbsticks with adjustable tension, a rubberized grip that can handle buckets of sweat, redesigned bumpers, and three selectable profiles. The whole package costs $179.99, and it was not lost on social media after its reveal that there are some NEW CONSOLES that can be had for that price. One might question the wisdom of offering an overpriced device like this when everyone knows an entirely new console is on the horizon — is this the 32X of controllers? Not exactly. Microsoft stated during the Elite 2’s reveal that it would be fully compatible with Project Scarlett. So no worries there. This also sort-of confirms there are no radical changes in

E3 2019: Project Scarlett Launches In 2020 With Halo Infinite

E3 2019: Project Scarlett Launches In 2020 With Halo Infinite

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When the holiday season of 2020 rolls around, it will have been seven years since the last game console turnover. Feels like high time for another one, don’t you think? Microsoft was way ahead of you….they’ve been working on Project Scarlett for some time, and it should be ready in eighteen months. Microsoft played a self-congratulatory video towards the end of their conference revealing the code name as well as some rehearsed thoughts about it. As expected, terminologies like “8K” and “Raytracing” were tossed around. No specific specs were given, but it’s supposed to be at least four times as powerful as the XBox One X, and it can spit out rendered graphics at a rate of 120 frames per second. Scarlett also has a solid state drive, but in the year of our Lord 2020, it BETTER have a solid state drive. If Project Scarlett is to truly succeed, we’re gonna need GAMES. Fortunately, Microsoft is smart enough to launch Scarlett with a big one: Halo 6, or Halo

E3 2019: Microsoft’s Best Trailers

E3 2019: Microsoft’s Best Trailers

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I just emerged from Microsoft’s E3 presentation, and I’m exhausted. When you have to watch 60 game trailers in a row, the cliches tend to blend together after a while. “Let’s see, is this about a post-apocalyptic magic cyborg trapped in a time loop with Keanu Reeves while being chased by a giant Lego Battletoad? No….it’s Gears 5….” Fortunately, you are not me and you get to enjoy my pruning of this mess down to its most interesting and most essential items. Here are the best trailers from Microsoft’s XBox show: I’m not an XBox owner, mostly because its exclusives rarely interest me, but one of the XBox games I’ve been most tempted by is the Ori series. This new game, which was revealed last year, looks excellent. It’s coming February 11, 2020. With the lack of Telltale in this world, it’s up to Microsoft themselves to get adventurous with the Minecraft brand. They know better than to mess with the original, but they’re willing to experiment with spinoffs. It’s

E3 2019: Kingdom Hearts 3 DLC Trailer

E3 2019: Kingdom Hearts 3 DLC Trailer

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In this day and age, you should have known Kingdom Hearts 3 wasn’t truly the end, even if it does wrap up a “trilogy.” There is DLC on the way, and it was confirmed at the Kingdom Hearts Ochestra: World of Tres performance in Los Angeles last night. Attendees of the concert got a surprise reveal of the DLC trailer on the big screen, and though they told everyone “no photography,” somebody sneaked a cell phone video and uploaded it that night. Fortunately, rather than fight the upload, Square did the smart thing and uploaded their own version a bit early. We’ll probably see this trailer at some of the conferences later today, but why wait — it’s here now. This trailer displays a conversation between young Xehanort and the Master of Masters at the Keyblade Graveyard, and another chat between Luxord and Xigbar. Yeah, I have no idea who they are either. The DLC, which is officially titled Kingdom Hearts III: ReMind, will be released on Playstation 4 and

E3 2019: Bandai Namco’s Entire Lineup Leaked

E3 2019: Bandai Namco’s Entire Lineup Leaked

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Every game Bandai Namco plans to show off on the E3 floor, and probably in a few press conferences, was revealed this afternoon via a huge leak. It sounds bad, but when you think about it, managing to hold off the ravenous press until ONE DAY before the festivities begin is quite impressive. What difference do a few hours make, anyway? First comes a welcome reprint of Ni No Kuni: Wrath Of The White Witch. Playstation 4, XBox One and PC will get a “Remastered” version of the game while the Nintendo Switch will get the game without that word. What’s the main difference? 4K support, we hear. Next comes Elden Ring, developed by FromSoftware and a co-production between Dark Souls creator Hidetaka Miyazaki and bearded lazy author George R.R. Martin. Rumors were flying about George’s involvement in a video game; this appears to be it. The game is on the way to PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One. Most surprising, at least to us, is the reveal of

Watch Dogs 3 Will Be Set In London

Watch Dogs 3 Will Be Set In London

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It’s become tradition for Ubisoft’s E3 game lineup to completely leak out at least one week before their actual presentation. It’s almost like Ubisoft lets these leaks happen on purpose, but….naaah, that couldn’t be it. As of today, we know one of Ubisoft’s next big games is Watch Dogs 3. A product listing for the game briefly appeared on Amazon UK and was scooped up by all the big news outlets before it could be deleted. Ironic that the leak came out of the UK, for this time, the city you’ll be hacking is London, England. Any particular reason? If you’ve been following the news, you know of at least one. The product description on the deleted page said Watch Dogs 3 takes place in a “post-Brexit world in which society, politics and technology have changed and altered London’s fortunes.” It’s quite risky of Ubisoft to set their game within a hypothetical event that’s about to actually happen — depending on how Brexit goes down, or even IF it goes

Your E3 2019 Press Conference Schedule

Your E3 2019 Press Conference Schedule

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Wondering when all the big news will be breaking this E3? Follow this schedule and tune in whenever possible. (Sony and EA will not be participating.) Microsoft: Sunday, June 9, 1 PM Pacific / 4 PM Eastern As usual, Microsoft shoves itself to the front of the line. Expect the usual boasting, the loud dude-bro FPS demos, maybe a new Halo or Gears thrown in there….but this time, with the absence of Sony, MS will have a lock on multiplatform trailers that might have otherwise made a splash at their rival’s presentation. One’s loss is another’s gain. Bethesda: Sunday, June 9, 5:30 PM Pacific / 8:30 PM Eastern Of all the companies listed here, we want to be Bethesda least of all, after the giant egg laid by Fallout 76. They have another Doom and another Quake in the works; a good basic FPS is (usually) harder to mess up. Limited Run: Monday, June 10, 12 PM Pacific / 3 PM Eastern Limited Run is promising some “bombshells” for E3,