Enlarge (credit: Square-Enix) LOS ANGELES—French game development studio Dontnod Entertainment didn’t make waves with its first big triple-A release, Remember Me. It took scaling down the scope of its projects to achieve real success. That success came with critically acclaimed adventure game Life Is Strange, which we at Ars liked quite a bit. Dontnod and publisher Square-Enix ..
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Enlarge / Don’t forget, you’re here forever! Epic accounts that have been used to play Fortnite on the PS4 are blocked from use on other console versions of the game, including the newly released Nintendo Switch version. The move is a seemingly untenable expansion of Sony’s long-standing unwillingness to allow cross-platform play between the PS4 ..
From teenage romance to carnage, and back again. Sony opened its E3 press conference this year with an unorthodox bang, packing assembled journalists and fans into an ersatz, standing-room-only church to show off the newest gameplay and cut scene footage of The Last of Us Part 2. The gripping trailer transitions abruptly from a heartwarming ..
Nathan Mattise LOS ANGELES—After rival Microsoft showed 50 games from a wide range of genres in a very traditional E3 press conference yesterday, Sony promoted its PlayStation platform with a focused and unconventional presentation. There were only a handful of games, but they were nearly all heavy hitters. The event started out in a small, ..
Ron Amadeo LOS ANGELES—Even as Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony hold events to promote games on their consoles at E3, a somewhat scrappier event to promote PC games takes place: the PC Gaming Show. This year’s too-long show was a barrage of trailers and brief developer talks. We basically lost count of the games, there were ..
Nathan Mattise LOS ANGELES—Ubisoft held a press conference at E3 today to show off its upcoming slate of games. As is usually the case with Ubisoft, the conference was heartfelt, zany, and high on showmanship. The company announced very few new games, but it went deeper on a few that players have been anticipating from ..
LOS ANGELES—Ubisoft didn’t do a great job hiding Assassin’s Creed Odyssey ahead of this year’s E3, thanks to a leaked promotional keychain of all things. But the game’s developers at Ubisoft Quebec redeemed the company by hiding the bigger news: that this annual Assassin’s Creed update actually feels ambitious. Monday’s Ubisoft press conference saw the company telling ..
Enlarge / Bethesda’s logo as carried by the publisher’s growing roster of mascots. New this year: Rage 2‘s punk rocker! (credit: Sam Machkovech) LOS ANGELES—Video game publisher Bethesda hosted a rollicking pre-E3 press conference on Sunday evening with a number of game reveals from existing franchises like Doom, Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, and Rage. But ..
Enlarge / It’s coming, Squid Boy. It’s coming…. (credit: Nintendo) Liveblog starts in: View Liveblog For the sixth straight year, Nintendo will forgo the traditional pre-E3 press conference in favor of a livestreamed Nintendo Direct video presentation. We’ll be on hand to deliver all the news straight from Nintendo starting at 9am PDT (12pm EDT, ..
LOS ANGELES—Microsoft used its pre-E3 press conference today to stress that, despite recent troubles securing high-profile exclusive content, the Xbox One can do toe-to-toe with the PlayStation 4 when it comes to games and content available on no other console. Many of those console exclusives will come from newly purchased developers that are now part ..
