Nintendo’s digging deeper into the back catalogue for new Smash Bros. participants, as Kid Icarus’s Lady Palutena is the latest fighter that will be available on both Super Smash Bros. Wii U and Super Smash Bros. 3DS. Providing a pugilistic bookend to the day’s earlier announcement of Miis entering the fray, Palutena is a more traditional addition to the roster, and showing off her varied moveset makes up the majority of this latest Smash trailer.
Nintendo’s loveable pink airbag is getting a new title on 3DS, as Kirby and the Rainbow Curse has just been announced. Only one of several new titles to be unveiled at today’s Nintendo Direct event, the game looks to be a throwback to one of the original DS’s earliest, and best games, but comes packing a whole new art style.
This morning's Nintendo Direct led off with the Nintendo-est franchise of them all, as Super Smash Bros. Wii U and Super Smash Bros. 3DS took to the digital centre stage. Bringing heretofore unseen levels of self-awareness to the presentation, a mock fight between Nintendo execs Reggie Fils-Aime and Satoru Iwata was actually just the flashy preamble to the newest additions to the Smash roster: Miis.
Dead Island 2 was unveiled at Sony’s E3 press conference this evening, and as we’ve come to expect from Deep Silver Studios, the announcement trailer made quite an impression. The all CG footage leaves the sequel's actual gameplay a mystery, but the trailer sets a strong tone for what’s to come, much the way the original Dead Island did with its first time-rewinding and heartstring pulling trailer.
The first major exclusive that Sony chose to highlight during their E3 press conference today was the Victorian-themed shooter The Order: 1886, which premiered this time last year with a gorgeous CG trailer. We’ve gotten a glimpse of gameplay in the year since then, but the latest E3 trailer offers the best of both worlds, demonstrating just how thin the line between cutscene and gameplay is for The Order.
While Tom Clancy’s: The Division already made waves earlier today with a new gameplay demo during the Microsoft press conference, Ubisoft saved the real hype-stoking trailer for its own press conference. Introduced by producer Petter Mannerfelt with all the stone-faced seriousness you'd want to reserve for the real apocalypse, the dystopian third person shooter now has a brand-spanking new pre-rendered trailer to drive home its bleak setting and dour tone.
Just one day shy of the anniversary of its original announcement, Mirror’s Edge 2 returned to the EA press conference stage with a brand new trailer. After last year’s cinematic announcement trailer confirmed we’d be parkour-ing our way through a near-future dystopia once more, fans were no doubt hopeful that we’d finally see actual gameplay this year. The newest trailer offers a close approximation of that in the form of conceptual prototype footage, but spends more time focusing on the player character of Faith herself.
Criterion Games teased an inside look at their newest IP during the EA press conference today. The original, unnamed property looks to take the studios’ experience with all things fast, and apply it to every single vehicle in existence that isn’t a car, all from a first person perspective.
Bioware swooped into the Microsoft E3 press conference today with a new trailer for its current-gen, multi-platform RPG, Dragon Age: Inquisition. Touting early access to “Premiere Content” as the reason fans will want to pick it up on Xbox One, the trailer for the third game in the Dragon Age fantasy epic is big on mood, vistas and monsters. In the mix are little snippets of gameplay for what mostly appears to be a pre-rendered affair designed to stoke expectations.
It wouldn’t be a Microsoft press conference without Halo, and sure enough, fans of the flagship Xbox series can expect more Master Chief than ever with the announcement of Halo: The Master Chief Collection for Xbox One. The rumoured compilation of Halo-history was confirmed by 343 Studios head Bonnie Ross, who presented a mix of gameplay and CG trailers to give an overview on what looks to be the most fully-featured Halo experience ever.
