Forza Motorsport 6 has redefined racing on Xbox One with its powerful mix of stellar graphics, stunning realism, and the world’s best cars and tracks. Over the years, the Forza franchise has also established itself as an innovator in competitive racing, with programs such as ForzaFuel for Forza Motorsport 6 and Forza Horizon 2, the Mazda MX-5 Challenge, the Audi AXF-24 Challenge and most recently, the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Series, as well as other live events at the Gfinity Arena in London, San Diego Comic-Con, E3 and BMW Welt in Munich. Now, fans will have another chance to test their skills against fellow Forza Motorsport 6 players around the world with two brand new eSports racing competitions that pave the way for the future of competitive online racing on Xbox One. See the rest of the story on Xbox Wire
It's Pokémon vs. Pokémon as players take direct control of Pokémon fighters like Pikachu, Charizard and Lucario to battle it out in beautiful HD in the Pokkén Tournament game, now available for the Wii U console.
Spring forward to great deals! The Xbox Spring Sale begins on March 20, and we’re offering Xbox One consoles at a special $299 price for a limited time. That’s $50 off all Xbox One console bundles at participating retailers in the US including the Xbox One Tom Clancy’s The Division Bundle that launched this month, the Xbox One 500GB Name Your Game Bundle which lets you choose one of four great games, and even the upcoming Xbox One Special Edition Quantum Break bundle. Then, starting on March 22 for one week only you can get great deals on digital Xbox... See the rest of the story on Xbox Wire
Hi Playstation Nation! Today is the start of Paragon Early Access — we hope you join us on the battlefields of Agora.
Everyone on the Paragon team is looking forward to watching the game grow with our players. As we’ve written before, Early Access is new to us. It’s a real commitment to listen and refine the core game of Paragon alongside early players. Sure, you’ll notice rough edges, but we’re building and improving at a rapid pace. Join us and you’ll be able to play new Heroes, earn new cards, and more every few weeks.
While Paragon is designed to be completely free-to-play in Open Beta this summer, our Founder’s Packs let you get in early. You can play in Early Access today by purchasing a Founder’s Pack from PlayStation...
It’s been an exciting week for PS VR, but we still have more news to share. Starting at 7:00 a.m. PT on Tuesday, March 22nd, pre-orders will open for the PlayStation VR Launch Bundle at participating retailers. Exclusively for pre-sale and in limited quantities, this bundle will include:
The development studio of No Brakes Games is comprised of just one guy, Tomas Sakalauskas. His physics-based puzzle platformer, Human: Fall Flat, tells the story of a featureless person trapped in a dream. We recently got the chance to play co-op mode with Sakalauskas himself, and discover the oddities and challenges of Human: Fall Flat. In the game, you play a white, semi-amorphous humanoid named Bob, stumbling around and grasping at things. As this is a purely physics-based game, every movement you make comes with comical swaying and tumbling. Human: Fall Flat doesn’t control like a standard game. The left... See the rest of the story on Xbox Wire
The start of the regular baseball season is just around the corner – and we’re excited to bring R.B.I. Baseball back to the Xbox One for its third annual installment. R.B.I. Baseball 16 will debut as a digital download on March 29, and you’ll be able to purchase the game at participating retailers in the U.S. and Canada starting on April 5. You may remember seeing Boston Red Sox outfielder Mookie Betts doing his best superhero impression when we announced the official cover back in January. Today, we are announcing something exclusive for Canadian fans: They’ll get their own cover,... See the rest of the story on Xbox Wire
Is it possible to give gamers that magical, musical feeling of being “in a groove?”
How do we sync graphics and sound so they combine into something more powerful than the sum of their parts?
Most importantly, can we do all of this and still make something that is fun to play?
15 years ago when I set out to create the original Rez with my team at United Game Artists, we challenged ourselves to answer these difficult questions. Luckily we had a few key inspirations to help us find answers.
Core Influences
One was my first real experience with good techno music at the 1997 Street Parade music festival in Zurich. The power of simple, driving beats perfectly matching colorful lights and abstract imagery was a spectacle unlike anything I had ever experienced before.
Swedish studio Right Nice Games has teamed up with the folks at Grip Digital to bring you Adventure on Clover Island, a 3D action-platformer that’s wonderfully reminiscent of decade-old 64-bit greats like Jak and Daxter and Banjo-Kazooie. You play as Skylar, a feline heroine with a deadly mechanical arm. Her sidekick, Plux, is an owl that’s always flying by her side. And then there’s the lusciously vibrant world that you get to explore. It’s a welcome throwback to a genre that’s seen woefully few entries in recent years. A beautiful place to have an adventure, the titular Clover Island is... See the rest of the story on Xbox Wire
Developer Insomniac Games has a long history of creating memorable worlds and characters. Their upcoming ID@Xbox title, Song of the Deep, feels very different from anything else in their stable, but it keeps that same charm, same visual flair, and same tight gameplay that you’d expect from the developer who brought us Sunset Overdrive. Song of the Deep stars Marin, a sea-loving fisherman’s daughter who sets off on a quest to find her father after his ship fails to return home. She builds a submarine out of scrap metal and wood, and dives into the depths of the ocean. In... See the rest of the story on Xbox Wire
