The Quiet Man Announced
A new game titled The Quiet Man was announced during Square Enix's E3 2018 conference.
While little is known about the title, Square confirmed it will be released for both PC and PlayStation 4. A trailer featuring both live-action and in-engine footage was released during the showcase. Check it out below:
More information about the game will be revealed in August, which could potentially mean we'll hear more about The Quiet Man at gamescom.
For more from Square Enix's E3 conference, check out PlatinumGames' new title Babylon's Fall, as well as the new Final Fantasy XIV, Monster Hunter World crossover event coming this summer.
Geoff Johns Out as DC Entertainment President and COO
Geoff Johns is exiting his role as the president and chief creative officer of DC Entertainment, where he oversaw the recent spate of DC comic book movies including Justice League and Wonder Woman. He will segue into an exclusive writer-producer deal with Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment through his newly launched Mad Ghost Productions banner, where he will create comics, film and TV content.
DC Comics publisher Jim Lee will take over as chief creative officer of DC Entertainment. Lee will also continue to serve as DC Comics publisher alongside Dan DiDeo.
Johns' exit from his DC Entertainment post comes days after the departure of DC Entertainment president Diane Nelson, to whom Johns reported. Warners exec Walter Hamada was put in charge of DC movies development in January.
Square Enix Announces Babylon’s Fall From PlatinumGames
Square Enix announced Babylon's Fall, a new title coming from developer PlatinumGames. This news came during Square's E3 2018 conference.
While details about the title are scarce, Square released a trailer that showcasing the game's dark fantasy aesthetic. Babylon's Fall will be released for PS4 and PC via Steam in 2019.
This is the second partnership between Square Enix and PlatinumGames, the first being 2017's Nier: Automata.
For more from Square Enix's E3 conference, check out the publisher's new mysterious title The Quiet Man, as well as the new Final Fantasy XIV, Monster Hunter World crossover event coming this summer.
Final Fantasy XIV, Monster Hunter World Collaboration Announced
Update 06/12/2018: Capcom and Square Enix announced the Monster Hunter World counterpart to the Monster Hunter x Final Fantasy XIV collaboration announced yesterday. You can see Behemoth's Monster Hunter World reveal trailer below.
In the trailer, we see Final Fantasy’s iconic Behemoth fall to what appears to be Elder’s Recess and confront a hunter. There's a Deviljho in the Behemoth’s mouth, signaling the awesome size of the formidable beast.
In Final Fantasy XIV, Behemoth is a Primal that can be challenged as a FATE (Full Active Time Event). You can see the Behemoth in action in Final Fantasy XIV in the video below, where it wrecks dozens of players.
The Cactuar, another recognizable but much less intimidating Final Fantasy monster, also makes an appearance, but it's unknown as to what capacity it will appear.
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Amazon Alexa Skyrim: Very Special Edition Is Actually Real
During Bethesda's E3 Press Conference, Todd Howard introduced the Skyrim Very Special Edition for Amazon Alexa with a commercial featuring Keegan-Michael Key.
It was a fun in-joke for the community who have teased Bethesda about Skyrim being ported to every known system.
Or so we thought.
The Skyrim Very Special Edition is actually very real and you can download it right now.
According to the Amazon.com listing, the Skyrim Very Special Edition allows you to "take your rightful place as the Dragonborn of legend (again) and explore Skyrim using the power of your voice...your Thu'um!"
3 Things Fallout 76 Gives Up By Going Online-Only
Tonight, Bethesda Game Studios’ Todd Howard confirmed that Fallout 76 is an online-only game, fully embracing the model of multiplayer survival-crafting games like Rust and Conan Exiles. There’s plenty to be gained by taking this route with a spin-off from the mainline series of single-player action-RPGs, including an entire audience of gamers who are more interested in a social experience than a solitary one and may never have tried a Fallout game as a result. There is, after all, an explosion in multiplayer games right now in the form of Fortnite, PUBG, and the rest of the battle royale craze.
But there are also a lot of things that have been integral parts of Fallout as we’ve known it, going back at least to the 2008 revival in Fallout 3, if not all the way back to 1997’s Fallout: A Post-Nuclear RPG, that are incompatible with online gaming, and I can already tell I’m going to miss them in Fallout 76.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps Is All About Offering Multiple Play Styles
"How can we perfect a Metroidvania?" That is the question that Moon Studios designer Thomas Mahler told me he posed to the rest of the team after taking stock of their beautiful and challenging 2015 platformer/adventure, Ori and the Blind Forest. The answer, as he and the decentralized 50-person development team see it (it's true; they don't work in a single office but are all scattered in 40 different countries around the world), is to offer multiple play styles through combat and skill choices that can lead to unique playthroughs for the sequel, 2019's Ori and the Will of the Wisps.
After getting a demo of a slice of Ori 2 that's about 4-5 hours into the game (an adventure which, he says, will be longer than Blind Forest), I played it for myself. Not only are Mahler and the Moon team well on their way towards providing a fantastic answer to their own question, but I also can confidently say that Ori and the Will of the Wisps shows no hint that it will disappoint the many, many Xbox fans who enjoyed the original. Ori 2 looks absolutely glorious in 4K, as the painterly art style from Blind Forest Returns, but with, as Mahler notes, a new element of physicality added to the environment, meaning that branches sag under your weight when you jump on them and leaves blow in the wind. You might not even notice it if it weren't pointed out to you, but it does indeed make Will of the Wisps feel more alive.
Devolver Reveals My Friend Pedro for Switch, PC
At E3 today, Devolver Digital revealed new side-scrolling action game My Friend Pedro during its typically unconventional press conference.
Developed by DeadToast Entertainment, My Friend Pedro looks to be a stylishly violent game where the player performs a mix of ballet and gunplay to take down the enemies as instructed by a sentient banana. Here's the trailer for a better look.
Levels appear to be two-dimensional in which you can shoot in two different directions or ricochet bullets off certain items to kill enemies all while spinning through the air in slow motion.
While there's no exact release date yet, My Friend Pedro is set to launch on both PC and Nintendo Switch early in 2019. In the meantime, you can check out these screenshots from the game.