Pokkén Tournament, the upcoming game that lets players battle as prized Pokémon in fighting arenas, will launch exclusively for Wii U on March 18 at a suggested retail price of $59.99.
Today, we’re pleased to announce the Xbox One Tom Clancy’s The Division Bundle – the ultimate next-gen experience that brings the RPG into a modern military setting. The bundle features a 1TB hard drive, giving you added space to play and store more games than ever, and a full-game download of Tom Clancy’s The Division. In addition, fans in the U.S. that pre-order the bundle will also receive guaranteed early access to the upcoming closed beta launching on Jan. 28. Tom Clancy’s The Division takes place weeks after a devastating pandemic sweeps through New York City on Black Friday. One... See the rest of the story on Xbox Wire
The Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 multiplayer beta is here – and it’s open to all Xbox One owners from now through Monday, January 18. Garden Warfare 2 delivers the first great shooter of 2016, and it’s absolutely worth spending the weekend with, to see what you’ll be able to look forward to at the game’s February 23 retail release. Here are four things that you’re missing for every moment that you aren’t in the beta! The Backyard Battleground Is the Best Kind of Sandbox Forget the typical, boring menu system – Garden Warfare 2 sports a hub zone... See the rest of the story on Xbox Wire
Night School Studio’s first game, Oxenfree, just released, and our team is beyond thrilled to share the story of Edwards Island with the world. We set out to build a variety of new gameplay and storytelling mechanics that would let players live their own coming of age tale, all set in a supernatural thriller. The core idea: build a narrative game without cut scenes, giving players full freedom to adventure and communicate with friends while never taking control from them. What starts out as a fun night of partying on the beach with friends quickly devolves into psychological terror. You... See the rest of the story on Xbox Wire
Certain images come to mind when you say “Italy”. Gentle hills and a seaside kissed by warm sunshine, a delicious plate of seafood, maybe a glass of red wine. You get the idea. You certainly don’t think about heavily-modded muscle cars capable of spaceflight and shooting lasers, grenades and rockets! The young, Turin-based game developers at 34BigThings say that they love both in equal measure. Hyperdrive Massacre is a local-multiplayer centered space shooter, a love letter to classic titles like Spacewar and Asteroids, enjoyed best at a frenzied pace. Reaction times, hand-eye coordination and split-second decision-making are all it takes... See the rest of the story on Xbox Wire
We’re a couple of weeks away from our release date, and we’ve just finished recording the last of the voice acting, which means it’s a good time to tell you about the actors!
The Witness deliberately riffs on several traditional elements of game design, and one of those elements is the classic audio log, where you are wandering along and you find a recording that was placed there by someone before.
The Witness has recordings like this, but let’s just say they are done in a highly non-traditional way. When you first encounter them you won’t find much in the way of answers, but, if you keep looking, you will eventually be able to piece together what’s going on.
We were overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response to RIGS Mechanized Combat League at PlayStation Experience last year. Players donned the colors of the Dynamos and the Cobras and pitched head-first into battle for their teams. Over the course of the event we saw rivalries grow, siblings duking it out for dominance, and heated exchanges in the RIGS locker room we had set-up on the booth — exactly as sports should be!
For those of you who weren’t able to get a slot to play RIGS or even get out to PlayStation Experience, we teamed up with Greg Miller from Kinda Funny to show you what RIGS Mechanized Combat League is all about and give him his first taste of shoutcasting. You can see how he got on in the video below.
To see fans step into the role of pilots in our combat sport of the future at an event drives us on to keep building what we believe will be one of the best multiplayer experiences on PlayStation VR. Seeing the look on people’s faces after finishing their first game is...
The original Toki Tori 2 didn’t have any writing. We were very strict about that! While it made for a unique, non-verbal puzzle adventure, the game’s backstory remained hidden. Now that it’s coming to PS4 on February 23rd, we decided to go back in and lift a tip of the veil… using telepathic frogs!
Sequel Principles
Before I go into the frogs, let’s retrace a few steps. When we started developing a sequel to level-based egg collection puzzler Toki Tori at Two Tribes, we wanted it to be a completely different experience. To achieve this goal, we formulated a bunch of rather bold principles.
Starting off, we wanted a large, open world without any traditional puzzle items. Our chicken hero would have just two moves, whistle and stomp, and great complexity would arise from that simple core. To raise the stakes even further, everything in Toki Tori 2 would speak for itself,...
Who knew we loved dark fantasy so much? On this week’s show, the team celebrates your picks for Game of the Year 2015. Spoiler alert: The Witcher 3 takes a lot of awards. Also, we name our most anticipated games of 2016 and describe our all-time-favorites like they were hearty sauces. All this and more, so enjoy the show!
ESPN X Games and Xbox will team up to bring Halo 5: Guardians to X Games Aspen 2016 from January 28 – 31, as part of the Halo World Championship Tour, and for the first time-ever, segments and highlights of the esports competition will be integrated into the X Games Aspen telecasts on ESPN. Eight of the top teams from around the world – six from North America and two international teams – will compete in group play that will culminate in a single-elimination bracket-style tournament onsite at X Games Aspen for medals and $30,000 in prize money. Competing teams... See the rest of the story on Xbox Wire
