Taking a step off the sun-drenched set of Breaking Bad – which has begun filming the second leg of its fifth and final season in Albuquerque, New Mexico – Bryan Cranston took some time to talk to The Guardian regarding the impending conclusion of AMC’s critical darling. Having kept us glued to our television screens for five gripping seasons, Cranston talked about the morally questionably Walter White, and how the challenging archetype is a first for the medium.
The developing team for Blizzard’s Titan revel in mystery, it seems. Heralded as the studio’s follow-up to their unparalleled success with World of Warcraft, their next-gen MMO was first teased back in 2007. Six years on and the wheels are still aching into motion. Firstly, we learned that the industry giant were reinventing the game back in May and now, in Activision Blizzard’s quarterly earnings call yesterday, the studio provided a brief update on the long-gestating project.
Sucker Punch has done plenty to stoke the excitement for their forthcoming threequel, inFamous: Second Son. Previous trailers have hinted at the game’s stunning graphics along with some new and innovative means of gameplay. However, today the studio published some fresh footage that focuses on Delsin Rowe – a new protagonist for the series – and his various magician-esque powers.
After lighting up the stage at the Playstation 4 reveal event back in February, Capcom’s Deep Down resided into the shadows of mystery. Not much was known about the visually impressive game and the renown publisher remained mum on all things swords and sorcery.
“Keep your ears to the ground.” That was the takeaway from Bruce Straley and Neil Druckmann’s Reddit AMA about all things The Last of Us. The Naughty Dog duo opened up the digital floodgates to allow the fans to ask any questions or queries they had about the studio’s rip-roaring success, which materialised in an interesting discussion about potential sequels, inspiration for the game and, perhaps most intriguing, the forthcoming DLC.
Q1 of 2013 may have marked a healthy financial turnover for Nintendo – a net income of ¥8.6 billion, no less – but their internal sales statistics have unveiled that their next-gen home console, the Wii U, mustered 160,000 sales in the period between April and June.
Ubisoft recently published a new promotional tease for their upcoming sandbox title Watch Dogs, which features some in-game footage orbiting around actress and comedienne Aisha Tyler. We already knew that Tyler would feature in the game in some capacity, having stepped on stage at E3 in order to present the company’s conference, however this is our first glimpse of her digital avatar in action.
Today, the illustrious publisher released details on the latter, which will contain around an hour of extra gameplay material orbiting around Aveline de Grandpré; the central character in the Playstation Vita rendition, Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation.
The notion of studios supporting their games with additional content has become pretty standardised in the industry of late. From paid DLC to software patches, it seems consumers are inundated with extra digital material. In saying that, not all developers have adopted this method of approach. Speaking with The Examiner, the team behind the The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt explained their reasoning behind providing the gamer with new content at no additional cost.
Sony revealed a series of new details today surrounding the forthcoming Playstation 4, including the capacity of the friends list and the nuances of the Playstation Plus subscription. All of these, and more, are answered in a neat Q&A video published by Playstation Access, which you can check out right here.
