Enlarge / Insomniac’s Spider-Man is one of four major PS4 exclusives to be featured at this year’s Sony press conference. (credit: Insomniac Games) Liveblog starts in: View Liveblog For the 24th straight year, Sony will be sharing its plans for the PlayStation brand at a pre-E3 press conference. The event will take place at LA’s ..
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LOS ANGELES—At a pre-E3 press briefing today, Microsoft teased Halo Infinite, the next chapter in its long-running first-person shooter series. A roughly two-minute “game engine demonstration” featured scenes of exotic alien animals over lush rain-soaked caves, forests, and savannah. As four tired-looking marines limp along a beach featuring broken Halo gates, the brief tease concludes ..
Really hoping someone announces a follow-up to the best PC game of all time. (credit: Microsoft) Liveblog starts in: View Liveblog For the fourth year running, PC gaming hardware and software makers will be gathering together for a pre-E3 PC Gaming Show from the Wiltern theater in Los Angeles. The show will take place at ..
Footage from “The Six Million Dollar Mon” AUSTIN, Texas—“What sets this show apart from the other shows you’ve worked on?” asks an audience member decked out in a potentially questionably licensed Planet Express tee. As the other four panelists look to see who’ll field this, actor Phil LaMarr doesn’t hesitate. “Most of the other shows ..
Enlarge / YOU. ARE. A. TOY! Liveblog starts in: View Liveblog For the first time since 2015, Square Enix will be doing a pre-E3 presentation, highlighting its coming year (and more) in games. The video presentation will be livestreamed starting at 10am PDT (1pm EDT, 5pm UTC) on Monday, June 11. This year is all ..
Enlarge / It’s time to embark in the next Desti—er, no, sorry, this is a teaser for BioWare’s new series Anthem. (credit: BioWare) EA’s E3 press conference on Saturday ended with a big, Anthem-loaded bang. The first entry in BioWare’s next game series, an open-world online-shooter that looks like Destiny with jetpacks, was showcased with ..
Enlarge / Creepy kid is creepy. (credit: A24) Every summer, stowed between the latest sequel to ComicBook Man Saves Everything and Johnny Depp Fights Special FX, Hollywood tries to sneak at least one interesting horror film into cineplexes. This week, we get Hereditary, a brilliant (and rare) mid-summer take on the slow-burn horror genre. What, ..
Enlarge / Games like Active Shooter will still be banned from Steam for “outright trolling,” Valve’s Doug Lombardi says. Yesterday, we noted that Valve’s new “almost-anything-goes” policy for games on the Steam Store still includes a bit of subjective wiggle room in its ban on “outright trolling.” Since then, a few things have happened that ..
Enlarge / We’ll test Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn during this week’s episode of Ars Frontlog, along with two other 2D video games. (credit: Saber Interactive) Ars Technica’s experimental foray into Twitch live-streaming continues today with our second episode of Ars Frontlog. The short version: tune in to our official Twitch channel today (Thursday, June 7) ..
Enlarge / A high-level concept diagram of how cloud gaming works. (credit: Venngage) Better start saving up for that PlayStation 5, Xbox Two, or Nintendo Swatch (that last follow-up name idea is a freebie, by the way). That generation of consoles might be the last one ever, according to Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot. After that, ..
