In the year 2150, Laser League is the new big thing. It’s a fast-paced sport where players must dodge the opposing teams’ lasers and survive in order to be deemed champions, leading to some bright spots of happiness and excitement in a post-conflict world. That is the concept of Roll7’s Laser League in a nutshell,
Month: June 2017
Like every year, Sony Interactive Entertainment hosted PlayStation E3 Experience, a series of viewings of its E3 press conference in theaters across North and South America. This year probably can’t be compared to the “E3 of Dreams” as many have grown to call the press conference in 2015, with the announcements of Final Fantasy VII
According to Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment President David Haddad, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes is the best-selling LEGO game of all time. This news comes from an interview with VentureBeat, where the president mentioned this news in passing during the second question. You can few the full quote below: GamesBeat: Superheroes seem to be pretty hot
Arc System Works and Bandai Namco Entertainment America released two new gameplay focused videos for Dragon Ball FighterZ, which was present at E3 this year after leaking early, and then being showcased during Microsoft’s press conference on Monday, where the Xbox One X was also unveiled. The first video showcases an entire 3-on-3 match taking
Phoenix Labs announced that Dauntless, an upcoming free-to-play co-op action RPG, will be getting its first publicly available build with the Dauntless Founder’s Alpha, which is currently set to begin on August 18. This alpha will be available to those who purchased the game’s Founder Edition-tier for $79.99, which was unveiled back in April. This
Today the statistics firm Media Create released its weekly analysis of the situation on the Japanese market, and we get an interesting piece of information. After the 15th week on the shelves (as of June 11th), the Nintendo Switch has an attach rate of 1.60. For those unfamiliar with the term, “attach rate” indicates the
FuturLab revealed their new PS VR game Tiny Trax a couple weeks ago, and at E3 this year, they provided a live-demo with PlayStation of the upcoming VR slot-car racing game, resulting in around ten minutes of brand new gameplay footage. The video features James Marsden and Dave Gabriel, who pitch the game as giving
While Naughty Dog and Sony Interactive Entertainment provided quite a nice look on Uncharted: The Lost Legacy at E3, you haven’t seen everything there is. A demo was showcased behind closed doors for media attendees, but you shouldn’t worry, because you’re going to see it too. The demo will be showcased on Naughty Dog’s own
Microsoft has been overhauling its services with frequent updates, so it was just a matter of time until they got to Xbox Avatars, and in fact they did. Announced during E3, and hinted by Phil Spencer a few months ago, the popular alter-egos of Xbox One and Windows 10 gamers will get a full restyling
The Californian based studio Messhof has come a long way in 5 years. Their latest work, Nidhogg 2, is slated to come out for PC and PS4 in summer of this year. A gameplay demonstration was recently showcased on PS Underground with the two creators, Mark Essen and Kristy Norindr. The first game in the
Developer New World Interactive and publisher Focus Home Interactive have unveiled for the first time, Insurgency Sandstorm, in a new “E3 2017” trailer. In development for PS4, PC, Xbox One, Mac, and Linux, Insurgency Sandstorm is the sequel to the multi-million selling Insurgency, that is poised to release sometime later this year. The multiplayer tactical
Level-5 is well known in the gaming community for their large portfolio of titles covering multiple genres such as Dark Cloud, Yo-kai Watch, and the Professor Layton series. Most Recently, the developer announced Layton’s Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaire’s Conspiracy for western 3DS and iOS/Android users. In the past, the Layton series has been
Late last night, Sony Interactive Entertainment released some new gameplay demo footage of Patapon Remastered that was captured during E3 2017, featuring President of Sony’s Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida. Announced back at PSX 2016, Patapon Remastered is a PS4 remastering of Patapon, a PSP rhythm/action/platformer game, that first released in 2007, and quickly became a
Microsoft had a strong E3 press conference this year. The company showcased an array of promising games: from AAA titles like Forza 7, Sea of Thieves, and State of Decay 2, to smaller titles like The Last Night, Ori and the Will of the Wisp, Cuphead, and Ashen, all of which are console exclusive or
Today, Denmark-based developer IO interactive announced that it is now officially an independent studio, and more importantly that is has retained the rights of the Hitman IP — the franchise it has worked on since 200o when it released Hitman: Codename 47, and made a total of six games for (including the most recent: 2016’s
Koei Tecmo and SNK are celebrating together the launch on Steam of The King of Fighter XIV and 8 million downloads for Dead or Alive 5: Last Round. An interesting effect of the Japanese culture of respect even among rivals, is that local developers love their crossovers, they’re offering as a gift to their fans
Today Sony Interactive Entertainment mobile subsidiary ForwardWorks and Compile Heart announced a partnership for a new mobile game titled Eshishin No Kizuna (which translate to “Bond of the Painter God“) The game will be developed by Compile Heart and will be released in 2018. It’s a completely new game in collaboration with Tezuka Productions, to
During its Treehouse coverage from the show floor at E3 2017 in Los Angeles, Nintendo and Koei Tecmo showcased more gameplay of the upcoming Musou-style game Fire Emblem Warriors. The gameplay, presented among others by Koei Tecmo’s own Keisuke Hayashi, shows a lot of hectic combat, a look at the menus and more. On top
During Sony Interactive Entertainment’s PlayStation Live coverage from the show floor at E3 2017 in Los Angeles, Bandai Namco showcased more gameplay of Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. This morning we got a look at the third mission of the campaign titled “Two Pronged Strategy” flying an F-14D Super Tomcat, and today we see the
Late last month, developer Dynamic Pixels and publisher tinyBuild Games announced that their already-popular (and it hasn’t even released yet) stealth horror game, Hello Neighbor, is launching on PC and Xbox One on August 29th. Fast-forward to today, and the pair released a new special, E3 2017 trailer. In addition to the new trailer, tinyBuild
During its Treehouse coverage, Nintendo showcased the first actual gameplay of the upcoming DLC of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, titled The Master Trials. We get to see the the sky platforms, which are basically floating platforms holding treasures and enemies to defeat, new gear for link, a meeting with a Korok
Nintendo’s signature third-person “shooter” Splatoon 2 is right around the corner, and the House of Mario isn’t shy showing off the additions that the sequel is bringing to the table. In Nintendo Treehouse’s E3 Livestream, the Nintendo staff and the Squid Research Lab development team on site demoed Splatoon 2‘s single player mode. The demo
During Sony Interactive Entertainment’s PlayStation Live coverage from the show floor at E3 2017 in Los Angeles, Sega showcased a nice batch of gameplay of its two upcoming Sonic games, Sonic Forces and Sonic Mania. The two games are very different, with Sonic Forces bringing an entirely new direction to the franchise, and even giving
Today developer Traveller’s Tales and publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced that their game LEGO Worlds will be getting some new downloadable content very soon. The Classic Space pack will include brand new quests, characters, builds, and vehicles, all inspired by space-themed LEGO sets. Some of these new vehicles include a Space Buggy, Space Cruiser,
Today, during Nintendo’s treehouse broadcast, the console manufacturer from Kyoto showcased the co-op mode of Super Mario Odyssey for the first time. Not only can Mario traverse the new worlds of the upcoming game on his own, but a second player can control Cappy, Mario’s new trusted companion in the form of a hat with
Rogue Trooper Redux has a strange and long history. The series itself started out as a story in the British comic 2000 AD about a genetically enhanced super soldier who happens to be blue. From there these stories garnered a strong cult following and a number of video games were made because of this. In
Today during the 2017 Electronics Entertainment Expo in California, developer indiezero, the studio behind NES Remix, announced a brand new game titled Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido. In this quirky puzzle-action game, players will have to eat sushi faster than their opponent. The empty sushi plates can then be thrown at your opponent, causing
As a shining beacon of the best in gaming from the 80s and 90s, publisher (and at the time, hardware maker) SEGA introduced a ton of classics to gamers like Golden Axe, Altered Beast, Vectorman, and many others, with a retro revival in the works (in some way) according to a tease from the company.
The biggest gaming conference in the world is in full swing, and there is no better time to be a gamer. With tons of new games announced, brand new hardware gracing the show floor, and hundreds of new trailers revealed — and I literally mean hundreds — E3 2017 wasn’t short on flair. But of
Today Atlus USA and Vanillaware released a new trailer of 13 Sentinels: Aegis rim. 13 Sentinels: Aegis rim is the next game by Dragon’s Crown developer Vanillaware, featuring the usual striking art style by George Kamitani. “Life as you know it is ending because 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim will be localized and released in the