PlayStation VR Release Date Announced
PlayStation VR will be officially released on October 13, Sony revealed during its E3 press conference.
PlayStation's Shawn Layden also announced Sony will support PSVR with 50 games this year, including newly announced titles Farpoint, Star War Battlefront X-Wing Mission, and Batman: Arkham VR.
Sony revealed an October launch window for PlayStation VR during this year's Game Developers Conference, along with a $399 / €399 /£349 /AUD $549 price. To see all of the games confirmed so far, check out IGN's PlayStation VR wiki. Sony will be allowing consumers to try out PlayStation VR before its launch, with 500,000 in-store demos coming to retailers beginning this month. And for more on which VR headset is right for you, check out IGN's comparison of PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.
Resident Evil 7 Announced, fully PSVR compatible
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard, announced at the Sony E3 press conference, is coming January 24, 2017.
Resident Evil 7 will be fully compatible with PlayStation VR. A demo is now available for PlayStation Plus members.
Capcom teased big Resident Evil plans earlier this year with the announcement of a "full-scale offensive planned for the second half of the year." A full Resident Evil 2 remake is also in the works following its announcement last year. Multiplayer Resident Evil game Umbrella Corps is coming on June 21 and Capcom will re-release Resident Evil 4, 5 and 6 throughout this year on PS4 and Xbox One.
Syphon Filter Developer Announces Days Gone
The developers of Syphon Filter, Sony Bend, have unveiled their newest project, Days Gone, at Sony's E3 2016 press conference.
Details on Days Gone are scarce for now, but based on the trailer, we know it is set in a post-civilization world. Check out some images from Days Gone's trailer below.
Sony's Scott Rhode said last year that Bend had been working on a number of ideas before landing on a job that the studio could "start massaging it" into a full project, and earlier in 2015 Bend's technical director Christopher Reese said the studio's next title would "blow people away."
The Last Guardian Release Date Announced
The Last Guardian is finally set for release on the PS4 on October 25, 2016, Sony announced at its E3 press conference.
The Last Guardian was re-revealed as part of Sony's E3 2015 press conference with a promise release in 2015. IGN recently visited Sony's Japan Studio for a look at the game as part of IGN First.
New God of War Announced
Today at Sony's E3 2016 press conference the company officially unveiled a new God of War, developed by Sony Santa Monica. As rumored, the game takes inspiration from Norse mythology, including a dramatic encounter with a dragon. For now the game seems to just be titled simply "God of War."
The game's soundtrack is composed by Bear McCreary, the composer behind Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead, and more.
The demo opens with a much older, bearded, player-controlled Kratos teaching his son how to hunt, and continues with the brutal weapon and hand-to-hand melee combat the franchise is known for. After saving his son from danger, the demo ends with a quiet father and son moment, seeming to indicate a more thoughtful and fleshed-out Kratos will be at the core of this new God of War game.
Phantom Dust Re-Revealed
The Phantom Dust reboot may have died a death, but Microsoft has found a way to bring the series back to life - Phantom Dust is now a remaster of the original Xbox game instead.
Announced on YouTube's Live at E3 stream, Phantom Dust is now an updated version of the cult card-battler/action-RPG hybrid, and will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title, meaning it's both cross-buy and cross-play across Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs.
Releasing in 2017, and taking advantage of the recently announced Xbox One Arena features, the game will use the original's assets, but has been tweaked so that players have access to a multiplayer-ready deck of cards far earlier in the game than in the 2005 version.
Ubisoft Exec: Dev for Upgraded Consoles ‘Not So Difficult’
Transition to developing for the upgraded consoles coming from both Sony and Microsoft may be an easy adjustment to make, according to an Ubisoft executive.
Managing Director of Ubisoft's Annecy, Paris and Montpellier studios Xavier Poix said during E3 that he believes adapting the development workload to the introduction PlayStation Neo and Xbox One Scorpio will be "not so difficult to do."
"Actually the
generation is good because it does turn into a more PC-oriented kind of architecture," Poix said.
"It enables us to put everything we put in a game with a little less limits, so that's, from what we know that's quite convenient."
Poix spoke ahead of Ubisoft's E3 presentation, which included the announcements of a Star Trek VR game, Trials of the Blood Dragon, and release dates for a number of titles. Check out more on both Star Trek: Bridge Crew and Ubisoft's newly announced Steep. Poix did no specify what, if any games in Ubisoft's portfolio, might have to adjust to this development change.
ReCore’s Pre-Order Bonus is Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts
Budding ReCore owners will get an Xbox One-compatible download code for 360 game, Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts in return for a pre-order. Because robots? Or rebuilding things? Who knows.
Confirmed by the ReCore website FAQ, your pre-order will also set you back a relatively inexpensive $40. That is unless you invest in the Limited Collector's Edition, which ups the price to $179.99 in return for statues of the game's two main characters.
ReCore got a confirmed release date of September 13 during Microsoft's E3 press conference.
Why Game of Thrones Felt Off This Week
Warning: Full spoilers for Game of Thrones' eighth Season 6 episode, "No One," below.
Game of Thrones: Season 6's eighth episode wrapped up a couple of storylines, including Arya in Braavos and the Riverrun standoff. But did it do so successfully? Let us discuss!
This week's Dragons on the Wall topics include:
-Whether the Mereen storyline is coming to a close and why some of the pacing felt off-Why the Braavos storyline felt way too drawn out given its payoff
-Pondering whether the Riverrun storyline had any story impact
-What we think Cersei is up to and why we're excited for it
-Book spoiler warning, as we discuss what might be next for the Brotherhood of Banners
Here’s What Apple Announced at WWDC Today
Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference kicked off today, and it made several software-based announcements during the keynote.
First off, OS X is dead. Or at least, the name "OS X." The moniker Apple's operating system has worn since evolving from OS 9 way back in 2001 is no more, and is now called macOS. Apple showed off a preview of macOS Sierra, which includes Siri integration and cross-device documents and even the desktop. In other words, documents on your laptop will also be on your iPad, iPhone, or iWhatever, with changes made on one device carrying over to all your devices.
Siri is coming to macOS Sierra.