After an effective one-to punch that served up enticing software and a much-requested hardware tweak in the form of backwards compatibility, Microsoft is eyeing a "huge" holiday season this year for Xbox One, with the company's Aaron Greenberg noting that he fully expects millions of Xbox 360 owners to migrate from one generation to the next after a strong E3 showing.
After wowing fans with the opening cinematic for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Eidos Montreal has peeled back the curtain on the very first gameplay clip for the upcoming sequel, which takes grizzled protagonist Adam Jensen into the year 2029.
We've written extensively in the past few days about our admiration for Unravel, Coldwood's upcoming yarn-based plaformer looking to make an impression on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. As a peculair, off-beat indie game, many were surprised to see it as part of EA's press conference earlier this week, but the publisher has expressed an interest to explore more low-key titles in the vein of Martin Sahlin’s indie darling in the not-so-distant future.
Anyone with even a passing interest in the video game industry knows that Nintendo is a company that tends to dance to its own tune. In truth, it's an idiosyncratic quirk that keeps them unique - can you really imagine another company opening an E3 presentation with a Muppets sketch? - burning its own path through the likes of the Wii motion controller and the Virtual Boy. But 20 years after the release of the later peripheral, The Big N remains unexcited about the current state of virtual reality.
Sandwiched between two of Sony's crowd-pleasers was the unveiling of Guerrilla Games' brand new IP, Horizon: Zero Dawn, which received an overly positive reaction from the gaming community.
After attending its third and - hopefully - final E3, The Division is gearing up for its hotly-anticipated release in March of next year. For Ubisoft, that means trumpeting the new-fangled brand in any way possible, which has now produced a season pass for the RPG along with a $160 Collector’s Edition.
Coming out of E3, one tends to associate their favorite announcement with a particular game - after hours of deliberation, of course - but aside from Microsoft's backwards compatibility megaton, Sony had its own hardware tidbit that piqued the interest of PlayStation 4 owners the world over.
Leaving behind the linearity and corridor-based action of previous entries in the series, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is primed to introduce fans to a whole new world - quite literally - when it debuts in September.
Dontnod Entertainment, the creative minds behind such acclaimed titles as Remember Me and the episodic Life is Strange, has finally opened up about its in-development new IP, Vampyr.
CD Projekt Red may have effectively placed Cyberpunk 2077 on a shelf until 2017, but that doesn't mean the Polish developer isn't prepared to talk excitedly about the future project.
