Sony’s conference had alot of movement (pun intended). One of the Move games we got a look at was the medieval themed action game, “Medieval Moves: Deadmund’s Quest”. In “Medieval Moves” you become a skeletal warrior in as you’d imagine, medieval times. The Move controller becomes your sword, bow and something that appears to be a shuriken (how that fits in with medieval times, I do not know.) It’s still a little hazy as to whether this is a continuation of the late great Medieval franchise. Lets hope it’s not and it’s just a large amount of coincidental similarities. Check out some gameplay footage below!
With all the announcements and reveals made today, Square want to make sure you keep an eye out for what is looking to be one of the biggest releases in the coming future. With that, I am talking about the sequel to 2010’s Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2.
In this clip, we see a direct continuation from the plot of XIII, with Lightning sporting new armor and Sara now being more heavily involved in the plot. As far the actual gameplay goes, not too much has actually changed from the looks of it, which means the debate will probably continue on this arc’s value Final Fantasy series. Either way though, you can’t deny that the clip looks stunning. Check out the brand new E3 trailer below and give us your thoughts in the comments below. Also, MOOGLES!
Despite writing for a games website, and not an internationally renowned news paper, I still consider myself to be some what of a renege reporter, with boy scout ethics and a trendy little quiff in my hair. Yes, Tintin and I are truly kindred spirits. It’s no wonder I got so excited hearing about the new Tintin game due to be released this year for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Windows PC, Nintendo 3DS and Wii.
Based on the upcoming feature film The Adventures of Tintin, directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy, The Adventures of Tintin: The Game will give fans the chance to experience the world of Tintin, reliving key adventures from the series. Developed by Unisoft Montpellier in collaboration with Paramount Digital Entertainment, the game will be based largely on the film, featuring iconic environments such as Captain Haddock’s ship the Karaboudjan and Omar Ben Salaad’s Palace. For more hardcore Tintin fans, loyal to the original text of the book, the game still borrows various elements from Hergé’s original comic books such as, The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham’s Treasure.
Players are given the choice to partake in the adventures from the movie either on their own or with friends in one of three gameplay modes. The singe-player mode offers a unique blend of platform-style exploration, encompassing puzzles and combat elements along the way. This portion of the game will also include support for Kinect for the Xbox 360 and Playstion Move for the Playstation 3. The game has also tried to capture the collaborative nature of Tintin adventures, offering cooperative challenges featuring classic Tintin characters. Players work together in special multiplayer maps based on the moody dreams of Captain Haddock. For those of you looking for a little extra competition, there is also challenge mode, allowing players to compete with each other for high scores. Make sure you check out the trailer below, it looks to be an awesome game.
If you read that title and thought it’s about time then you and I would certainly get along. Sony announced today during their E3 press conference that they are finally working on bringing a new Sly Cooper title to the PlayStation 3. Sure they released an HD collection which had all three Sly Cooper titles already on the PS3 but they had never mentioned a fourth Sly Cooper title, until today that is.
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time was only teased in a trailer that showed off the usual cel-shaded style that fans love as well as the game’s humor, as Dimitri disguises himself as Sly to steal different things, only to be scolded by an off camera Sly and gang. We’ll certainly be seeing more of Sly Cooper in the coming months and hopefully in the coming few days Sony will show off some more information for the title during the rest of E3.
Sony’s E3 press conference today wasn’t lacking in star power. They announced that the PlayStation Move will be supported in 2K sports’ next title which will be NBA 2K12. With this announcement also came a video demonstration of the PlayStation Move integration, which they believed was best highlighted by bringing Kobe Bryant on stage to play NBA 2K12 against one of the game’s developers.
The implementation of the Move feature is called NBA on the Move and it will allow players to move the target to any player and allow you to either tell them to pass to that character, or take a shot with the best of their ability. Also players can choose to block a ball with a pull of the trigger or switch characters and defend against the other players’ attempts to score. Kobe Bryant unfortunately didn’t seem to have a whole lot of time to practice in the back before they placed him in front of the crowd however as he didn’t seem to know what he was doing, also the implantation looked to be a bit bad from what was shown at the time. Hopefully Sony will work out the kinks before NBA 2K12 releases to stores on October 4th of this year.
E3 2011 has been a huge year for Kinect integration, with some interesting and innovative ways to use the technology, aimed at a more hardcore gamer market. However, Microsoft have not forgotten their faithful, yet casual market, and announced the release of Dance Central 2. For fans of Harmonix’s original Dance Central, this is sure to be a winner, especially considering you can import all your old Dance Central classics into the new game. Rather than just release a bunch of new songs, Microsoft and Harmonix have made a real effort to please their casual gamers. Dance Central 2 features voice control, a campaign mode and most significantly, the ability to have simultaneous multiplayer dancing. While I can safely assume that not everyone is a dance of dancing games, you have to admit, that the amount of effort put in my Microsoft is admirable, and their pushing forward of motion sensitive gaming technology means big things for the future of gaming.
Nintendo has some news for you. No it isn’t E3 related, because their E3 conference is in about 8 hours from now. Don’t worry your night owl editors will be there to give you the news as soon as it comes out, but we have more important things at hand at the moment. Nintendo has made their 3DS update available to everyone today. This update will remove the OK Go video that was given out for free in the United States but it places the 3DS eShop on the 3DS free of charge.
Also free of charge for the first month is a free copy of Excitebike 3D as well as a forever free Pokedex 3D app. Also coming with this update is a free browser with 3D functionaility for supportin websites and the ability to transfer and buy various DSiWare games from the store. More news will be coming in a few hours for 3DS owners but for now, power it on and get your update with a free game and app to look at until Nintendo’s conference in a few hours.
This year, the latest in a franchise of highly regarded games by Eidos, Tomb Raider, was shown off at the Microsoft Keynote earlier today.
The game itself looks to be an extremely updated take on the Tomb Raider theme while still retaining the feel of a Tomb Raider adventure. The game was shown to a large audience and the sequence that was shown included what appeared to be gameplay footage of a level (or most of) where Lara Croft had to find her way out of a shipwreck and through some dangerous caverns to reach safety. She had to do all of this while she was bruised and battered from the crash.
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There’s no doubt Kinect is capable of some very exciting things. And although they may be very interesting in themselves, some of its capabilities may not lend themselves to a full retail game. At least, not yet.
Kudo Tsunoda, the Kinect Creative Director, today announced Kinect Fun Labs, a playground for new ideas using the Kinect hardware. These small “games” or programs basically act as prototypes, and the interesting mechanics they demonstrate could later become springboards for interesting game concepts. Fun Labs will sit on the Xbox Dashboard from today, and allow all Xbox Live users to access and experiment with these features.
Tsunoda gave three examples of the kind of technology available to play with. The first demo showed an easier way to create Xbox Avatars; rather than scroll through countless menus to pick facial features that don’t quite fit you, the camera simply scans your body and face and churns out a fairly accurate digital representation of yourself. Yeah, the 3DS does the same thing, but with so few options it never gets it right.
The second demo showed off an interesting feature, although it’s hard to see how it could be implemented into a game. But hey, that’s for the designers to figure out. The presenters called it “finger tracking”, and one use for it lets you draw across the screen by moving your fingers. Doesn’t sound too interesting yet, but after taking a photo of himself, the presenter drew lines both in front of and behind his photographed image. And in true Matrix fashion, he could rotate the image by leaning left and right, giving it a 3D appearance. It’s sort of hard to explain, but it looks pretty cool. Have a look at the video.
The third demo shows some potential for user-generated game content. By holding an object up to the unit, users can create an animated digital likeness of the scanned object. The presenter scanned a monster teddy thing, which appeared on screen in surprising detail, and responded to her movements. The potential for LittleBigPlanet style games becomes almost endless, giving users the power to create unique environments out of anything around them, not limiting them to the same palette of objects in-game as everyone else.
I can’t wait to see what creative indy developers can do with this kind of technology. Have a look at the video below to see it in action (courtesy of IGN).
During Sony’s E3 2011 Press Event, Yoshinori Ono came on stage to talk about the Street Fighter X Tekken crossover. In addition to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game there’s a PlayStation Vita edition in the works as well. Ono, always fun to watch, demonstrated the PSV version with a PlayStation-exclusive character: Cole from InFamous. Ono started well but quickly put the PlayStation Vita down once he started to perform poorly. It was only shown for a moment but the game is already looking in great shape.
No release date or new details on the console versions were announced.
