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The Division is Ubisoft's latest foray in to the open world genre and from everything I've seen in the open beta it has managed to avoid many of the pitfalls that befell the Assassin's Creed and Far Cry series.
With the launch a mere 7 days away Ubisoft has decided to release the official gameplay trailer (spoiler: contains very little actual gameplay) that comes with some pretty visuals and nice voice acting. Have a look:
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Killer Instinct Season 3 will be arriving for both the Xbox One and Windows 10 on March 29th, according to a recent Microsoft press release.
Season 3 will contain 8 fighters though only 4 will be available at launch with the rest coming at a later date, making you wonder why exactly are you paying full price for this. The launch characters are: Arbiter from Halo, Rash from Battletoads as well as Tusk and Kim Wu from previous Killer Instinct games. Here are the system requirements and a bit more info:
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After the massive success of Life is Strange the Paris based developer Dontnod announced that they would be transitioning from a coming-of-age adventure to a more serious action/RPG where you play as a doctor who has been inflicted with the Vampire plague.
While there is very little information about Vampyr right now the developers did release a couple of intriguing, but incredibly dark screenshots. I've taken the liberty of increasing the gamma slightly so you can actually see some of the details but if you're interested in the original screenshots in all of their dark glory head over to the Vampyr website. Here are the actually visible ones:
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After the system requirements were leaked a couple of days ago it was obvious that Microsoft was planning to do something with Gears of War: Ultimate Edition in the near future.
What no one could've expected is for Microsoft to not just release Gears of War: UE a few days later but to release it with no announcement or fanfare involved. Here's the trailer and a few words of warning:
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Fallout 4's launch may have been a rocky one but Bethesda has been working tirelessly to make amends by releasing frequent and most welcome updates.
One such example is Update 1.4 which went live today bringing with it some much needed quality of life changes for the settlements, general bug fixes and performance improvements. Here's the whole list of patch notes:
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Even though the latest iteration of Warhammer Fantasy Battle (Age of Sigmar) turned out to be a gigantic middle finger to anyone that cared about the lore its still good to see Total War: Warhammer chugging along so nicely.
In a video released today Creative Assembly decided to showcase an early mission from the Ork campaign where the somewhat demented (even by Ork standards) Warboss Azhag seeks to retrieve his propa' 'ard armor from the puny 'umies. Have a look:
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Minecraft might be one of the most popular games in the world yet despite that prestigious title it wasn't updated as often as one would expect.
However, the long streak between meaningful patches has now been broken as Mojang has released the biggest update in Minecraft's history - Update 1.9, titled simply as the "Combat Update". Here are the patch notes:
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It turns out that the recent rumor detailing HTC Vive international prices was a credible one after all as HTC has come out today and released the full set of information as well as an announcement that all Vive preorders will be coming with Google's Tilt Brush.
Here's the list of prices for all HTC Vive launch countries as well as a bit of information on the Tilt Brush itself:
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Warhorse Studios, the developers behind Kingdom Come: Deliverance, promised many things in their successful Kickstarter a while back and even though the idea of an open-world, realistic and choice driven medieval RPG sounds like a pipe dream they are making good progress.
In a video released today the developers showcased how exactly their combat system works, what they are focusing on and how they plan to bring realism to their duels. Here's the video:
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The Windows 10 Store has managed to garner a fair share of criticism the last few days after people found out that games bought from it won't have SLI/Crossfire support, an option to turn off Vsync, dedicated fullscreen, modding or even Steam integration due to lack of .exe file.
However, Microsoft's Mike Ybarra quickly came out and dispelled some of these rumors in a short tweet saying: