The Halo World Championship Tour: X Games Aspen Invitational 2016 kicks off today! The six teams from North America and two international teams (UK and Germany) – 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. The action will be streamed live on WatchESPN, Twitch.tv/Halo and mlg.tv/halo. The full streaming schedule includes: Time Activity 1/28, 3:00 MT / 5:00 ET Day 1 Pregame Show 1/28, 3:30 MT / 5:30 ET Group A – Team Allegiance vs. Epsilon 1/28, 4:30 MT / 6:30 ET Group B – CLG vs.... See the rest of the story on Xbox Wire
I’ve only played it for a couple of hours, but Primal is shaping up to be one of my favorite entries in the Far Cry series. In our new episode of PlayStation Underground, PlayStation Powerhouse Ryan Clements and I go spears-on with Ubisoft Montreal’s bold new open-world epic.
By now, you surely know the Far Cry formula. Set adrift in an exotic land, you must hunt wildlife, scavenge for supplies, and reclaim enemy territory in a desperate quest for survival. But Far Cry Primal’s prehistoric predisposition makes it a vastly different beast from its predecessors.
Set 12,000 years ago in an overgrown Central Europe populated by dire wolves (!), humongous wooly rhinos (!!), and towering mammoths (!!!), Primal represents the series’ biggest creative departure since the well-loved Blood Dragon. Ubisoft Montreal definitely deserves credit for trying something...
We Are Doomed is a twin-stick shooter where you zap polygon baddies with an absurdly overpowered laserbeam. It’s pure arcade action: no cutscenes, no storyline, no lengthy tutorials. It’s a perfect fit for PS Vita, and you’ll be able to get your hands on it soon: February 9th, 2016.
It also supports cross buy, so if you’ve already enjoyed We Are Doomed on PS4 you’ll get to play it on-the-go absolutely free.
One of the great joys I’ve had is checking out the incredible scores that the PlayStation community have achieved on PS4. So for the PS Vita version, I decided to put together a tips guide. Maybe it’ll help you make it to the top?
Collect Trinkets, Then Superbeam!
Collecting Trinkets (the purple cubes and diamonds) does two things: increments your score multiplier, and fills the Superbeam meter.
The basic strategy is to fill the meter, wait for a screen full of...
It’s a journey of courage and discovery in a haunting, lonely world.
As a child there were a few games that changed my life. Their stories changed how I thought about the world and how I thought about myself. Their journeys are ones that I still remember to this day.
What I love most about games as a medium is that they can take you to a world you’ve never seen and let you discover it on your own. At Insomniac, inventing new worlds is probably the best part of our job. You might have been inside one of them before. Maybe it was a magical world of dragons, or a fantastic science fiction galaxy. Or maybe it was crazy city where the apocalypse became your playground.
We’ve been hard at work on a new world. This one is built on a fantasy that I think we all share. The fantasy of the terrors and wonder that might lie in the depths of the sea. The endless possibilities that could be just outside our view, and the still undiscovered nightmares that...
“Don’t Tell Your Daughters They Are Pretty,” said the headline. “Screw you,” I thought to myself. “I’ll tell my daughter whatever I want.” I don’t need some amateur psychologist blogger telling me how to be a parent. But then I started noticing how often my daughter was complimented on her appearance and how that had become such a big part of her identity. When she told me about the female characters she liked in books and movies, she would always begin by telling me they were pretty. It was good that she was happy with how she looked, but I... See the rest of the story on Xbox Wire
Do you like fun? What’s that? You do? Well, come on down, because if there’s one thing you should’ve learned by now, it’s that the folks at TT Games – makers of LEGO Marvel’s Avengers, which came out this week – know how to pack a title with plenty of excitement. What you might not know, though, is that despite the LEGO moniker, these games have plenty to offer gamers of all ages, from comic book fans to folks just looking to blow off some steam with a high-quality beat-’em-up. For fans of the Marvel Universe, first of all, you... See the rest of the story on Xbox Wire
My time with Tom Clancy’s The Division began on West 24th Street in New York City’s historic Chelsea neighborhood. As a light snow fell, I passed rows of bundled Christmas trees ready to be sold to holiday revelers, a decorative mechanical Santa Clause ringing a bell, festive lights snaking around lamp posts, and two armed thugs looting a corpse in the middle of the street. For anyone who’s been following Ubisoft’s upcoming online, open-world role-playing game, that latter element will come as little surprise. The Division’s scary-real narrative unfolds shortly after a viral pandemic brings the city to its knees... See the rest of the story on Xbox Wire
I’m delighted to share that we are creating a special edition of the critically acclaimed and best-selling lock’em up Prison Architect for Xbox One and Xbox 360! In Prison Architect, players can build and manage a maximum security prison to hold the most hardened of criminals. Acting as the architect and governor, your prison’s design and operation determines the fate of your inmates. Will you build and manage a prison to create social order where it’s failed in their past, meeting all of their needs offering rehabilitation and peaceful coexistence? Or will you disregard human rights, impose intentional harshness and... See the rest of the story on Xbox Wire
When I first moved to New York in 2007, I stayed with my brother, Damon, in his gaming studio office/living space, which he was closing down to focus on developing 2D technology to make a new kind of game. He had built an interesting demo of the product that would become Organic Panic. It was very rough, but the potential got me very excited: really powerful physics, including liquids, in a 2D platfomer. Levels weren’t perfectly hand-crafted – they were modular, so that different tools, objects, textures, liquids and characters could be easily mixed and matched, which offered almost unlimited... See the rest of the story on Xbox Wire
In celebration of the Lunar New Year, Xbox worked with local artists from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan to help ring in the Year of the Monkey. This collaboration resulted in eight one-of-a-kind themed Xbox One consoles that capture the essence of the Lunar New Year. From stylistic decaling to a full-on monkey-themed Xbox Ones, the designers truly let their imaginations run wild to create some of the most unique consoles we’ve ever seen. More impressively, the hand-picked local artists conceptualized, designed and fabricated their creations in a short period of only one month. While you won’t be able to... See the rest of the story on Xbox Wire
