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Microsoft has “big surprises” planned for Gamescom 2014

Microsoft has big plans for this year’s Gamescom convention. The Xbox behemoth has a slew of presentations planned including a major Xbox Briefing on Tuesday, August 12 at 8:00 AM (Eastern Time). A teaser video above gives us a taste of what we can expect to see including Evolve, Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Sunset Overdrive, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Forza Horizon 2, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and Project Spark. The video also promises that we will get to see some “big surprises” at the show, one of which is surely Remedy’s Quantum Break.

What else will Microsoft unveil at Gamescom? You’ll have to tune in to see for yourself, but you’ve got plenty of options. The consolemaker will livestream their briefing through your Xbox console and Xbox.com and daily highlights will also appear on YouTube.

Gamescom 2014 officially kicks off on August 13.

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Game Critics Awards has announced their Best of E3 2014 nominees

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The Best of E3 2014 nominees are in, and Evolve is currently leading the pack with six nominations (Best of Show, Best Original Game, Best Console Game, Best PC Game, Best Action Game, and Best Online Multiplayer). The rest of the Best in Show games all have multiple nominations as well – Alien: Isolation, Batman: Arkham Knight, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, No Man’s Sky, and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege. After all the attention it’s gotten, I’m surprised Sunset Overdrive isn’t on that list, but it’s on a few others.

Check out the full list of nominees after the jump.

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Take that Ubisoft! Sunset Overdrive will include playable female characters

Insomniac’s Associate Community Manager, Brandon Winfrey, tells us a tale of magic and wonder in the latest “Sunset TV” developer diary for Sunset Overdrive . By “magic,” I mean he talks about the utterly amazing traps you can set up to kill enemies (the Pyro Geyser? Hell yes!). And by “wonder,” I mean you can play as a woman in Sunset Overdrive… or a person of another nationality, or a dude in a skirt, or whatever the heck you want to play as (limited only by the character creator and your imagination).

In the video, one of the female characters sports a hooded white robe. Surely this is a friendly poke at the backlash Ubisoft received during this year’s E3 Expo over the lack of female characters in Assassin’s Creed: Unity. Watch the video… it’s great.

Sunset Overdrive will be out on October 28 for the Xbox One.

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Sunset Overdrive E3 trailer and quick gameplay walkthrough

Insomniac’s Sunset Overdrive has the company’s trademark wackiness. In the E3 trailer, the game mocks hyper-realistic shooter franchises like Call of Duty and Battlefield, with the main character saving a soldier and telling him, “You, and your crate, are safe now!” After the trailer, there’s a quick gameplay video, which makes the game look like a ridiculous mashup of Dead Rising and InFamous, as seen through a Ratchet & Clank filter (with its trademark weapons included), and a touch of Resistance monsters.

Sunset Overdrive will be released on October 28 for the Xbox One.

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MS @ E3 14: Sunset Overdrive gets the apocalyptic party started on October 28

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With no Halo and no Gears of War, Insomniac’s Sunset Overdrive is being positioned as the big Xbox One exclusive of the Fall. And Insomniac’s Ted Price just stopped by Microsoft’s E3 Press Conference to show the world the latest technicolor trailer for the game. If you like your apocalypses bright and sunny and full of self-referential humor, then Sunset Overdrive might just be for you.

Sunset Overdrive will be released on October 28.

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Insomniac continues to get wacky with Sunset Overdrive’s E3 teaser trailer

Despite my tepid response to Insomniac’s Sunset Overdrive, this E3 teaser trailer has got me wishing I could sip on some (probably gross) Overcharge while chilling out on one of these awesome couches inside this ridiculous bus. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, just watch the ludicrous trailer above, in which my favorite line uttered is that “rules are meant to be exploded.”

You can expect to see even more Sunset Overdrive at 9:00 AM PST/Noon EST today (that’s in 10 minutes!) during Microsoft’s E3 Press Conference.

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Continue Countdown #4 – Xbox One Ditches Kinect, Halo 5, Sunset Overdrive, More

Nicole Kline dominated everyone in this episode of “Continue Countdown.” You’ll hear plenty of her big opinions as she, and the rest of the Warp Zoned staff, sat down to discuss Microsoft’s decision to unbundle the Kinect sensor from the Xbox One, Sunset Overdrive‘s less-than-impressive initial trailer, and Halo 5‘s delay.

From there we moved on to the possibility that Wolfenstein: The New Order could spark a resurgence in Doom-style first person shooters (consensus: maybe), what Naughty Dog is working on next (consensus: probably something brand new), and whether or not Dragon Quest X will appeal to an overseas audience (consensus: probably not). The home stretch of this week’s episode asked what we’d like to see from Darksiders III and Rockstar’s next-generation project.

Finally, the episode concluded with the echoing cries of “Why?” as the “Continue Countdown” crew talked about 3D Realms’ Bombshell.

9 Topics… 30 Minutes… And Go!

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Get a first look at Sunset Overdrive in this gameplay trailer

Insomniac wants to take a different tack with Sunset Overdrive, their post-apocalyptic shooter for the Xbox One. According to the developer, the game takes place during the “Awesomepocalypse of 2027” and doesn’t feature the drab grays and shuffling zombies of your typical apocalyptic game. Instead, Sunset Overdrive is an action-packed romp through a color city that features player movement based on parkour, zip-lining, and rail-grinding. Insomniac being Insomniac, it also features a strange collection of weaponry including the Roman Candle Gun, the High Fidelity Gun (a record rocket launcher), and the T-N-Teddy (a dynamite-packing teddy bear).

In addition to a wide array of mutant monster (the victims of a poisoned batch of energy drinks), the game will also include multiple Warriors-esque factions, such as a group of LARPers who finally get to live out their dreams of heroic conquest.

Sunset Overdrive will be available for the Xbox One this Fall in a special Day One Edition that will include exclusive outfits and weapons. More details on the Day One Edition can be found at the Xbox Wire.

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