As hinted at during yesterday's announcement of Telltale's The Walking Dead coming to Vita, The Walking Dead: 400 Days, a new downloadable episode for owners of Season One, will be released sometime this summer.
As promised, the long-awaited fourth entry in the Super Smash Bros. series has been confirmed for both the Wii U and the 3DS. Footage was shown of both games, and while the Wii U version will sport fancy HD graphics as expected, the 3DS version looks to have a slightly more colorful and cel-shaded approach being taken, akin to Street Fighter IV.
As promised in earlier statements, Nintendo has confirmed Mario Kart 8 for the Wii U during today's Nintendo Direct streaming conference. Other than a nice new high-def coat of paint, new features look to include more futuristic vehicles and the ability to drive on walls and upside down with apparent gravity-changing elements. Returning features include hang gliders from Mario Kart 7 and motorcycles from Mario Kart Wii. Miiverse integration and online play were also confirmed.
For fans of the Kingdom Hearts series, the long, long wait for the proper third entry in the series may finally be in its home stretch, because Square Enix has just confirmed Kingdom Hearts III for the PS4.
One of Sony's first announcements at their E3 conference was the exciting news that not only will a new episode of Telltale's The Walking Dead, titled 400 Days, arrive this July for PS3, but the full season of games will be coming to the Vita at the same time, along with the new episode and some unspecified bonus content.
Ubisoft continued their E3 conference by showing off what appeared to be a new, prerendered video for Watch Dogs. The demo started out following a man walking down a crowded city block, entering a seedy-looking nightclub, and going into a secret surveillance room downstairs, as a narration from the protagonist, Aiden Pearce, ensued. Eventually, Pearce hacks himself into the secret room and takes everyone but the man we follow out, using his hacking tricks to create distractions with the sprinkler. Eventually, police arrive to arrest Pearce, but he hacks the area to cause a temporary blackout, giving him an opportunity to escape.
Ubisoft kicked off their E3 conference by revealing Rocksmith 2014, a sequel to their 2012 game Rocksmith, which enabled players to learn how to play both a real guitar and bass. Little was confirmed other than the inclusion of the song Stone by Alice in Chains, and Kinect functionality for the Xbox version.
Today at Microsoft's E3 conference, a big announcement was made that will make old-school fans of the developer Rare very happy: Killer Instinct, after a long absence, is back.
Microsoft, while taking time at the start of their E3 press conference to discuss future plans for the Xbox 360, revealed that a new program will be starting in July for both new and existing members of Xbox Live Gold. The program, akin to PlayStation Plus, will involve two new games being released each month available to download for free. Assassin's Creed II and Halo 3 will kick off the program starting next month.