Destiny: The Taken King Release Date Announced
In the wake of numerous leaks, we have our first official details on Destiny's next expansion, as well as a release date, courtesy of Sony's E3 2015 press conference. The expansion will be released on September 15, 2015.
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PS4 players will have exclusive access to one cooperative Strike mission, as well as exclusive gear.
A trailer for the expansion confirms that "The Taken King" himself is Oryx, the father of Crota, a Destiny raid boss that players worldwide have already defeated.
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Little Big Planet Dev Announces Dreams
Media Molecule announced its next game, Dreams, at the PlayStation E3 conference.
Watch the demo above.
Dreams allows players to create their own worlds that look like a "living painting," which you can sketch live with other players. The demo showed a sculpted old man that was moved around the painted room by using the DualShock 4. The trailer also showed polar bears, teddy bears fighting zombies, and robots flying through space.
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Street Fighter 5 Beta Starts in Summer
At Sony's E3 2015 press conference, Capcom announced the first details for its upcoming Street Fighter 5 beta test.
The beta will unroll in three phases, with the first beginning July 23 for PlayStation 4 owners only. Pre-ordering Street Fighter 5 at XXXXXXXX will grant you automatic entrance to this phase, which will run until XXXXXXX. Don't worry if you plan on playing on PC, as you'll be given a chance to join during later phases.
As has been confirmed multiple times, Street Fighter 5 will be console exclusive on PS4, and it adds and changes a lot from the Street Fighter 4 series. Be sure to check out what's new in Street Fighter 5, and for everything else from the show, bookmark IGN's big E3 hub and check it regularly.
Ghost Recon: Wildlands Announced
Ubisoft has announced Ghost Recon: Wildlands, an open-world, cooperative shooter in development at Ubisoft Paris, the studio that co-developed Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.
A trailer for the upcoming title was revealed during the company's E3 press conference this evening. Not much other information was given, though heaps of targets were shown across the entire world, suggesting we may be in for a spot of globetrotting.
It seems we'll be challenging the world's illegal drugs operations, with the trailer referencing South American governments and their collusion in these illicit activities. Cocaine is also a recurring theme.
The mission we saw in the trailer, White Hat's Drug Lab, can be approached in at least two ways. In the Stealth Option the players sneak in at night during the rain before blowing up the lab, while the Ambush Option sees them go in all guns blazing before stealing a shipment truck.
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Rainbow Six Siege Beta Announced
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege beta will be available on all platforms on September 24.
The beta includes PVP and the Terrorist Hunt mode that Ubisoft demonstrated at their E3 conference. Rainbow Six Siege will be out on October 13 and includes free copies of Rainbow Six Vegas and Rainbow Six Vegas 2 for Xbox One owners.
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For Honor and the Bushido Blade Effect
Ubisoft Montreal has revealed its next big new IP, For Honor, a melee-only combat game focusing on brutal battles between three factions: The viking Warborn, the knightly Legions, and the Chosen samurai.
“In some ways for me the story begins with Bushido Blade,” Creative Director Jason VandenBerghe told IGN. “It was a very hard, very ruthless sort of game. It had no time for your weakness, but it captured the way you feel when you’re facing an opponent, that sense of danger, like, ‘Oh, god, one miss and I’m in trouble.’”
That tension and fear of death is important in For Honor as it was in Bushido Blade. “In multiplayer, you want that high lethality,” otherwise the tension fizzles out over the course of an exhausting duel. Expand on Bushido Blade’s ideas -- fast fights, near-instant death -- and add multiple teams of four players apiece, and you’ve suddenly got a terrifying competitive experience where safety is a rare commodity.
The Division Excels in its Little Details
Two years after Ubisoft revealed The Division, we finally got a chance to go hands on with the ambitious, open-world RPG shooter. I joined a squad with two other players (in the final version, you can have teams of four), and was plopped down right at Times Square. Our mission was to infiltrate the Dark Zone, a former military area-turned quarantined block, and recover some essential supplies. First off, yes, the demo was gorgeous, and yes, the shooting feels great. But it was the little details that really left a lasting impression on me.
Watch the brand new E3 2015 gameplay demo of The Division.
So for that first part first – Ubisoft has created one hell of a pretty game. A sad, decrepit husk of Manhattan is fantastic looking. It looks like the same care that was given to Chicago in Watch Dogs is applicable this time around. The shooting also feels great. Anyone who played the underrated Splinter Cell Blacklist will be immediately familiar with how The Division controls. Ducking behind a piece of cover, pointing to the next piece and highlighting it, and scampered there all feels great. Your character has a great sense of weight, momentum, and inertia to them, and throwing your body against a piece of cover feels wonderful.
Rainbow Six Siege Terrorist Hunt Returns
The destruction-happy Rainbow Six Siege blew us away at its E3 2014 debut, and then continued to impress (mostly) when we got hands-on time with its closed alpha earlier this year. But I know the nagging thought in the back of your mind: you were worried that Rainbow's reboot would pull an Evolve, i.e. packing great gameplay but with no proper single-player campaign and a bit skimpy on content.
Fortunately, the E3 2015 reveal of the fan-favorite Terrorist Hunt mode in Siege goes a long way to vaporize those unhappy thoughts. And the mode, called TerroHunt, is a blast, to boot. The Ubisoft Montreal development team wants you to "never have the same experience twice" as you lock and load with four friends against waves of AI-controlled bad guys across 11 world locations and across several game modes.
Bryan Hitch’s Justice League of America Launches This Week!
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It’s finally here! Ever since we heard Bryan Hitch was doing JLA, we’ve been pumped to see what he has in store for us. Obviously it will be packed with widescreen visuals and insane action scenes, but we’re also intrigued to see what sort of story he tells using the main seven Leaguers.