The next episode in Telltale’s award winning The Walking Dead game is subtitled 400 Days and will be heading to pretty much everything this summer. Choices players made in previous episodes will carry over into the new game which will feature five new characters in their very own stories. Telltale suggested that some of the characters the player meets in 400 Days might show up in Season Two with all the choices they make in the new episode also impacting that storyline.
Source: Joystiq
Another EA reveal was the highly anticipated Mirror’s Edge 2. The teaser is composed entirely of in-game footage and it looks absolutely stunning. The DICE-developed sequel will be released “when it’s ready.”
EA announced a new Plants Vs. Zombies game in a very Battlefield-esque teaser. The game is going to be a multiplayer plant-based shooter. It’s coming first to Xbox One with 360 and PC ports following. No official word on PlayStation releases, but it’s likely they will follow the PC release.
Microsoft’s digital distribution platform will be the home to the re-release of the first Far Cry game under the banner Far Cry Classic. This re-release is heading to XBLA for 560 Microsoft Points ($7) this summer; Ubisoft is describing it as the “ultimate console version.” This re-release of the classic open-world game is going to boast updated visuals featuring “stunningly realistic foliage” and “real-time day and night cycles.” No word yet on a PS3 release.
Source: EGMNOW
The more I see of this game, the more excited I get for it… and I’m really damn excited. This trailer shows off the seedy human trafficking side of the fictional Chicago. Crazy stuff ensues. Just watch.
Microsoft closed their conference with the announcement that the Xbox One will be available this November with a $500 price tag and Titanfall’s official reveal. A trailer prefaced Respawn Entertainment’s stage debut and a gameplay demo. Titanfall will be an Xbox console exclusive and is set to be released spring 2014. I’ll post videos when they become available.
Microsoft’s next Halo game is heading to Xbox One. The reveal began with a cloaked figure wandering a desolate wasteland. This figure was later revealed to be the one and only Spartan 117: Master Chief. A cryptic reveal with some non-information shared after the teaser. The game will be an FPS, feature the Chief, and run at 60 frames per second.
Capcom made an appearance at Microsoft’s conference with a live demo of their open-world zombie game Dead Rising 3. The game will be available at launch exclusively for Xbox One. I’ll post the video when it becomes available.
Xbox Live has some new features including sharing your account with all users on your console, paying with local currency and moving away from Microsoft Points, and an unlimited friends list. The account sharing will be nice and save people money and people have been clamoring for years about moving away from Microsoft Points and the friends list cap.
Absent since the first game, Turn 10 is bringing back the Drivatar for Forza 5. Now syncing up with the cloud, you will be able to play against your friends based on how they race even when they’re not online.
The Drivatar was a feature in the first Forza Motorsport and allowed players to create a digital profile of how they race in-game. This allowed players to race against themselves (in a way) and allowed them to simulate races based on how they would (theoretically) perform on a track. With Xbox One’s increased power (a substantial leap over the original Xbox) and the cloud, the simulation will be able to be more realistic and precise. It’s exciting to see the return of this feature and how it will expand the possibilities of what can be done in gaming.
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