NBA Live 19 Release Date Announced
At EA Play today, EA announced that NBA Live will be released on PS4 and Xbox One on September 7, with a free demo coming on August 24th.
A trailer shown during the conference featured the return of The One, the career mode introduced in NBA Live 18. This time around, a trailer showed off new features including building a squad to take on the road.
The game seems to have a more international outlook, adding courts in Paris, Brazil and the Philippines, "offering unique rules and challenges specific to those courts."
A so-far unspecified new progression system will also be introduced, and there are now more choices of cosmetic customisation for your players, including clothes, shoes and gear.
EA’s Sea of Solitude Coming in Early 2019
At EA Play today, EA revealed that Sea of Solitude will be released in early 2019.
Sea of Solitude is developed by Jo-Mei and is the next title in the EA Originals lineup, which EA uses to publish smaller titles by independent developers. Previous EA Originals titles include Fe by Zoink Games and A Way Out from Hazelight.
EA first announced that Sea of Solitude would join the EA Originals lineup back in 2016, though today was our most significant look at gameplay in a new trailer.
For more, read about why you shouldn’t dismiss EA Originals as well as IGN’s Fe review and A Way Out review.
Unravel 2 Revealed, Available Today
At EA Play, EA revealed Unravel 2 and announced that it will be available on PS4, Xbox One, and PC today.
The sequel focuses on co-op mechanics (although it's playable by one or two players) with an additional blue Yarny and is once again developed by Coldwood Interactive and published by EA. There's also an evil turkey, which is pretty great.
According to EA, players can customize their own Yarnys by assisting others in Unravel 2. Players can explore the world of Unravel either alone (controlling both Yarnys) or with a friend, surviving natural and urban locales, as well as by solving environmental puzzles.
You can watch the first 24 minutes of Unravel 2 below if you're interested in checking out the sequel:
Star Wars Battlefront 2 Clone Wars Content Revealed
At EA Play today, EA revealed that the next content season for Star Wars Battlefront 2 will focus on Clone Wars.
A new Geonosis map will be added, including the largest level ever in Battlefront. Battlefront will also add playable heroes including Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Count Dooku, and General Grievous.
EA has been teasing a Clone Wars season for months. The next big update for Star Wars Battlefront 2 arrives next week, with new content focused on Solo as well as the return of Extraction mode. For much more, read all the details on Battlefront 2’s Solo content.
Respawn Teases Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Release Window
At EA Play today, Respawn CEO Vince Zampella teased its Star Wars game is titled Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
Zampella teased that Jedi Fallen Order's title gives players some sense you'll be playing a Jedi. And that means, yes, you'll get to wield a lightsaber. It takes place during the "dark times" when Jedi are being hunted. Specifically, Jedi Fallen Order occurs between Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: A New Hope. Jedi Fallen Order is aimed for a holiday 2019 release.
Respawn first announced that it was working on a third-person Star Wars game back in 2016, simply calling it "an all-new 3rd person action adventure game set in the Star Wars universe.” The project is led by Stig Asmussen, the former God of War III creative director who joined Respawn back in 2014.
FIFA 19 Release Date Announced
At EA Play today, EA officially revealed FIFA 19 and confirmed that it will be released on September 28, 2018.
FIFA 19 will include a Champions League mode (a license recently lost by football game rival, Pro Evolution Soccer), and will also add the Europa League and UEFA Super Cup. All of these modes will be available in all versions of the game, including on Nintendo Switch.
The Champions League mode will include the real-world tournament and custom tournament options that let players take any European team into the competition.
A trailer was shown featuring Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar Jr., who will be the game's cover stars:
Battlefield 5 Teases Battle Royale Mode
At EA Play today, EA teased a battle royale mode coming to Battlefield V after launch.
Not many details were revealed, but DICE promises more details will come later this year.
EA also teased the first War Story from Battlefield V, which DICE describes as experiences focusing on "real and relatable people facing the brutality of war." The first War story to be revealed -- Nordlys War Story -- got a quick teaser, with a full reveal is set to come tomorrow (Sunday, June 10) during Microsoft’s E3 briefing at 1:00 PM Pacific Time.
EA also showed off new multiplayer content for Battlefield V, including a quick look at gigantic multi-round multiplayer mode Grand Operations.
Ghost Giant Announced for PlayStation VR
Ghost Giant a new puzzle adventure game from Fe developer Zoink has been announced for PlayStation VR.
According to a post on the official PlayStation website, in the game you play as the Ghost Giant, a friend and protector of a little boy named Louis. You're only visible to Louis, who lives on a sunflower farm with his mother and is very lonely until he meets you.
Ghost Giant takes place in a town called Sancourt. There you'll be able to explore and discover secrets scattered throughout the town, and help Louis and his neighbors complete various tasks, be it at the farm, local junkyard, or the harbor.
The Many Pale Faces of Halloween’s Michael Myers
When Dr. Sam Loomis first met a six-year-old Michael Myers, he was struck by the boy’s blank, pale, emotionless face, and… the blackest eyes – the Devil’s eyes. And that was before he even put on the mask.
The disturbing appearance of Michael in the original Halloween remains undiminished, despite its simplicity. He wears a dark-blue boiler suit and a modest Halloween mask, which in the fiction of the movie, he steals from a hardware store.
And it really was a Halloween mask, but one depicting William Shatner as Star Trek’s Captain Kirk.
The original Captain Kirk mask that was used as the basis for The Shape's mask.
Jamie Lee Curtis Is “Prepared” for Michael Myers
“How f**king crazy is this?” Jamie Lee Curtis asks us, fully decked out in her Laurie Strode costume and hairstyle, even though she says she’s not even filming anything today. It’s one of the many signs that the production of the new Halloween must be going relatively well. Certainly everyone seems happy to be there.
Jamie Lee Curtis immediately jumps into a story about going in for ballistic training, surprising the local proprietor, and helping him get his merch signed. And when he asked her to shoot a bullet through the cover of his vinyl soundtrack to the original film, you better believe she did it. (And it was her first shot on a bolt action rifle, too.)
But the life of Laurie Strode, her character in the Halloween franchise, isn’t nearly as cheerful. Despite appearing in four of the original Halloween sequels, David Gordon Green’s new film completely rewrites the history of Laurie, and the whole Halloween series. Now, only the first film happened, leaving Laurie - the teenaged survivor of the 1978 Halloween night massacre, perpetrated by the masked killer Michael Myers - in a state of deep, deep trauma which has followed her throughout her entire life.