As you may or may not know, Gamescom 2013 kicked off today. While plenty of things have been shown off so far at the event, EA has also taken to the stage to show off one of their highly anticipated titles, Titanfall.
While we’ve seen a bit of what Titanfall has to offer from developer diaries, little gameplay has been shown off since the game was revealed and today the company released four minutes of footage with Titanfall running on an Xbox One. In the video, which can be seen below, we see the how fast paced the battles can be thanks to the high maneuverability of the player and the addition of “Titan” mechs to combat.
A couple of weeks ago it was announced that Live Viewing Japan would be presenting Hatsune Miku’s 6th birthday concert, Hatsune Miku Magical Mirai 2013, in both New York City and Los Angeles on August 31st. At that time, the theaters where the concert would be broadcasted were not named, but the locations have just been revealed today.
In New York City the concert will be held at the Anthology Film Archives which are located at 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003. The presentation will be from 2:00PM local time to 4:00PM and tickets can be purchased here for $20.
In Los Angeles the theater will be The Downtown Independent located at 251 S. Main St, Los Angeles, CA 90012. The broadcast will begin at 11:00AM and end at 1:00PM and tickets will also cost $20 and are currently available for purchase here.
President of Sony Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, started off the Sony Gamescom 2013 press briefing by sitting in an antique armchair – surely where he simultaneously games, smokes cigars and drinks cognac from at home – and demonstrating the PlayStation 4 user interface, live.
You can view the video embedded at the bottom of this article. Although a somewhat inauspicious opener (which followed an 11 minute delay and a further 2 minutes of nothing), the demo gave us a good indication of how we will move between points of interest on the console. Yoshida silently walked us through viewing a ‘Live from PlayStation’ feed of Killzone: Shadowfall, to almost seamlessly joining the game in progress (the transition took about 8 seconds) and finally, uploading a screenshot post-gameplay, which he titled “Let’s start the show”, leading into the rest of the presentation.
Sony also dropped the details we were waiting for on the PS4’s release schedule. For more on Gamescom 2013 coverage, stay tuned to Capsule Computers.
After being announced months ago, The Sims 4 has been officially unveiled at the EA Gamescom 2013 press briefing in Cologne, Germany. The reveal came with a live-action/CG mix trailer, and later, a first look at some of the new gameplay elements in this fourth main entrant in the definitive life-simulation series.
The EA Maxis team promises many improvements to the building tools, with a smarter interface that allows you to simply push, pull and place the rooms of your house to your heart’s content. Need to move an entire module, furniture and all? Now, you can do that. Before you even buy a home, you need to create a Sim, and in The Sims 4 you will have 18 touch points where you can shape individual parts of your Sim’s physique (get your minds out of the gutter), so models are no longer thin by default. One big element being pushed by the developers is the emotional states…
Sims will become depressed, angry, bored, and experience so many more emotions based on the actions you and those around them. No feeling is either good or bad, as each will allow state-specific opportunities. For example, if your Sim is a musician, and is in an especially furious mood, they will write a heavy, metal song that could launch their career! Sims can also multi-task, as the example of talking while using the treadmill demonstrates in the image above. There is so much more EA are waiting to talk about, but for now, you can check out the reveal trailer directly below and the first gameplay footage – showing what was described above – embedded at the bottom of the article.
The Roman gladiatorial title, which features a great variety of armor, weapons, shields, and more, was given a trailer today to show off the Gladiator mode. As you can see from the video, Gladiator mode appears to show off some cooperative play in a wave-based mode, similar to Gears of War‘s Horde Mode.
For more information on Ryse, be sure to check out the official website here. You can also see the Gladiator Mode trailer in the video player below this article.
I’ll be back… on video game consoles. Reef Entertainment, the studio behind Rambo the Video Game, announced that they have acquired the rights to the first two Terminator films, TheTerminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Both games will be reborn as Terminators: The Video Game.
Reef released the following statement:
“Here at Reef we are huge fans of 1984 & 1991 Sci-Fi action master-pieces. It’s an incredible opportunity and an equally huge responsibility to create a game that does great justice to the motion-pictures. We are studying all aspects and influences of the Terminator universe defined in Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. We have started on our journey and are drawing on all the diverse materials available to produce a high quality, authentic and exciting Terminator video game.”
No word on when the game will be released or for platforms.
Gamers complained, Ubisoft listened. PC gamers have been emboldened in the past few years to demand quality ports for games that would previously be console exclusives. Tom Clancy’s The Division was the target of one such demand, over 140,000 fans came together to petition Ubisoft to bring the title to PC. As part of the Gamescom festivities, Ubisoft has announced that The Division will be released for PC.
Tom Clancy’s The Division is a open world RPG third person shooter that follows a team from the Strategic Homeland Division after a deadly pandemic sweeps through New York City during the Black Friday. In the United States, the Friday after Thanksgiving is a massive shopping frenzy with large crowds lining up as early as midnight to purchase heavily discounted goods. Now, the team must combat the virus and those who deployed it as the world fall into chaos. The Division will be released at the end of 2014 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC.
Ahead of the public exhibition of a slate of new games at Gamescom 2013, CI Games‘ first official gameplay trailer for their brutal and intense arcade-style FPS, Alien Rage, is here.
Assaulting the Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and PC worldwide in Autumn 2013, the sci-fi shooter will immerse players in fierce battles across 14 different levels, using each of the 10 weapons that are all designed with two unique firing modes. When faced with an onslaught of enemies, or a hard boss-battle, those secondary fire abilities will definitely help turn the tide, although they each have their own strategic uses.
CI Games will showcase an action-packed demo of Alien Rage at Gamescom 2013 this week. Powered by the Unreal Engine 3, players will encounter hours of brutal, close combat gameplay. 21 varying enemy types make up the alien forces that have initiated their mission of destroying everything in their path to domination. The arcade-style FPS also features 8 destructive bosses, who bring a more visceral and extreme edge to the firefights.
If you’re going to be in attendance,Alien Rage will be presented at Gamescom 2013 at the following booths: Business Area, Hall 4.2 Stand A41, Room 22 and Entertainment Area, Hall 8.1 Stand A10, Roccat Booth. The gameplay trailer can be seen below, and for more information on Alien Rage, please visit the official website.
The Xbox One games just keep getting announced as today Lionhead Studios and Microsoft have officially announced a new game in the Fable series with a trailer. The new title, Fable Legends, allows players all the choice of previous games, whether Good or Evil, but also adds the possibility of 4 player coop.
Where past games could only get up to 2 players, Fable Legends will let up to 4 friends adventure together fighting the baddies in the style that they choose. The trailer itself showing off 4 possible archetypes from big shielded tanks, magic users, heavy ranged, and finesse swordsman. But, don’t let their starring role in the trailer fool you, players can also play the villain themselves.
Those wanting to check out the trailer can find it embedded below. Fable Legends will release exclusively for Xbox One, though no release date vague or specific has been revealed just yet.
Microsoft announced at their Gamescom 2013 press briefing that FIFA 14 Ultimate Team will include a host of footballing legends exclusively for the Xbox One. Players will be able to build their ultimate team from all of the best footballers of our generation as well as the men that inspired them to kick a ball in the first place.
The trailer features some of football’s greatest technicians including Freddie Ljungberg, Dennis Bergkamp, Ruud Gullit, Pelé, Patrick Viera, and even the face of Walkers Crisps himself, Mr Gary Lineker. In addition to this news, it has been announced that consoles purchased in Europe will include a copy of FIFA 14 on release for a limited time – a great system selling strategy for the region. FIFA 14 will be available for both Xbox 360 and the new next-gen console, the Xbox One, as well as for virtually every other major platform, later this year.
