Crackdown 3 Will Let Us Level an Entire City
Examining Crackdown 3 at this early stage it very much feels like a game of two halves. There’s the campaign mode, which looks to be an experience built to remain faithful to the spirit of the original, much-loved Crackdown. Then there’s the online-only multiplayer side, which takes the Crackdown formula and adds incredible and total destruction in a dense, urban environment.
Completely non-linear and playable entirely offline, Crackdown 3’s campaign mode certainly appears to be hitting the right kind of beats. The firefights look frantic and Crackdown’s focus on verticality and its over-the-top approach to leaping and navigating your way around the city is very much alive and well.
Crackdown 3 Release Window Announced
Crackdown 3 will be released in summer 2016.
The release window for the Xbox One exclusive was confirmed by developer Dave Jones in an IGN Live interview.
First teased at E3 2014, Crackdown 3 skipped this year’s E3 to be featured in Microsoft’s Gamescom press conference this week.
Gameplay was officially revealed for Crackdown 3. It will feature transforming vehicles and a “100% destructible” game world. Further clarification stated the 100 percent destruction is only available in online mode, due to the cloud processing required.
Neverwinter Hits 2.1 Million Players on Xbox One
Free-to-play MMO Neverwinter has racked up over 2.1 million players since its release on Xbox One, developer Perfect World has revealed.
Speaking to IGN during Gamescom 2015, the company confirmed the landmark includes everyone who's ever played the game on the console. The last time we got an update on player numbers was back in May, when 1.6 million gamers had explored the Dungeons & Dragons title.
A new update for Neverwinter is coming to Xbox One owners in September, bringing with it four new expansions including a new class, dungeons and a raise in level cap.
TellTale’s The Walking Dead Series May Be Coming to Wii U
Telltale Games' The Walking Dead series may be coming to the Wii U.
Eurogamer spotted a posting on the UK retail site GAME, which is taking pre-orders for a boxed version scheduled for release on October 30.
The "combo pack" is set to include the GOTY edition of The Walking Dead - Season One and The Walking Dead - Season Two for £30.
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Claim $1,000 for Replicating Mario 64 Glitch
A new Super Mario 64 glitch was discovered on Twitch and now there is a $1,000 bounty for it.
Famed Mario 64 glitch hunter, pannenkoek2012, has uploaded a video discussing the details behind the discovery of the glitch and his $1,000 reward to anyone who can replicate it.
Streamer DOTA_TeaBag discovered the glitch by accident while he was collecting red coins on a Japanese version of Super Mario 64’s Tick Tock Clock stage. The glitch caused him to warp upwards, skipping a large part of the level.
Being able to warp upwards is apparently a rare oddity for the game, which is the reason behind its large bounty. If the glitch is successfully reproduced, it holds a lot of value to speedrunners, allowing them to shave off precious seconds during their runs. It could also lead to the discovery of other glitches.
Destiny’s “Kingsfall” Raid to Be Biggest Ever
Today on IGN Live you can catch our interview with Bungie's community lead, DeeJ. A number of big things were revealed and clarified. Most interesting is Destiny's new and upcoming raid King's Fall.
DeeJ detailed, “The new destination in The Taken King is the Dreadnaught. This is the hive ship. It is Oryx the Taken King’s capital ship. You can patrol it, it’s home to its own story missions, its own strikes... It’s home to King's Fall, which is the biggest raid we’ve ever created.”
“It’s got its own bounties, it’s got new activities," he said revealing it may have its own new alternative to House of Wolves' Prison of Elders arena mode. He revealed a new mode called Court of Oryx, which by our estimation sounds similar in thinking.
Destiny Will be Down for Scheduled Maintenance Today
Destiny servers will be down for several hours today for scheduled maintenance.
Bungie has confimed the downtime - commencing at 8.00am PDT/3.00pm UTC - is expected to last until 12pm PDT/7.00pm UTC, and may also affect the companion app and the Bungie.net website.
Players that log-in before the downtime begins will be reminded via an in-game notice, and guardians attempting to log-in during the maintenance period will not be able to play.
Bungie is making several key changes to the shooter - which now has over 20 million players - including removing Destiny's leveling system and replacing Peter Dinklage's Ghost's lines with Nolan North.
More New Forza Motorsport 6 Cars and Tracks Confirmed
Turn 10 has revealed another horde of new cars, as well as some new tracks for Forza Motorsport 6.
In the spirit of Gamescom the bulk of the vehicles confirmed this week are cars from Germany and elsewhere in Europe, including the classic 1975 #25 BMW Motorsport 3.0 CSL and the 2014 #55 BMW Team RLL Z4 GTE.
Turn 10 has also confirmed the final four unannounced tracks for Forza Motorsport 6; rebuilt versions of Hockenheimring and Sonoma Raceway (formerly known as Infineon Raceway) are returning to the series for the first time since Forza Motorsport 4, and Italy's Monza and Austin, TX track Circuit of the Americas (or COTA) are making their debut.
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate’s Evie Brings Subtlety to the Slaughter
I stepped off a boat on the Thames and stared at the Tower of London looming in the darkness before me. It was the first time I’d gone hands on with Evie, the more strategically minded of the two playable siblings in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. While her brother Jacob is a more confrontation-prone ‘act first, think later’ kind of character as revealed by his trigger-happy antics at this year’s E3, Evie is more reliant on subtlety and her character skill tree reflects her penchant for a more silent style of violence. Thus I was encouraged by the development team member assisting me to use her chameleon skill to effectively hide in plain sight rather than take patrolling Beefeater guards head on, as I attempted to infiltrate the tower and take out British Templar Lucy Thorne.