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EA @ E3 12: Need For Speed: Most Wanted coming in October
Criterion has just left the stage at EA’s E3 2012 Press Conference where they showed off Need For Speed: Most Wanted, their open-world take on one of “the best games in the franchise.”
Need For Speed: Most Wanted will be available on October 30 for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.
EA @ E3 12: EA Sports secures UFC license in “multi-year, multi-product” deal
It looks like THQ’s money troubles have killed the UFC Undisputed franchise. Joined by Dana White, an EA Sports executive just announced a “multi-year, multi-product” deal with Ultimate Fighting Championship during the company’s E3 2012 Press Conference.
No release date was given, and no platforms were announced, but EA Sports UFC (a working title) will surely be available sometime in 2013.
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Tagged E3 2012, EA Sports UFC
EA @ E3 12: SimCity coming to PC in February 2013
EA showed off some gameplay footage of the upcoming SimCity at their E3 2012 Press Conference. The game Promises an whole world of possibilities for your Sims and an entire world of cities with the game’s new multiplayer mode.
EA also announced a February 2013 release window for the game and we’ll have that trailer soon.
EA @ E3 12: Madden NFL 13 has a new engine, Connected Careers mode
It won’t be the same old Madden when Madden NFL 13 launches this August. The latest football sim from EA will include a brand new engine, the Infinity Engine, which is a brand new run-time physics engine. According to EA’s Cam Weber, “No two plays will be the same.”
Collisions will be affected by a player’s size, their speed, and how the hit begins. If a player is hit on the arm, they could lose the ball, but tackle animations are no longer the end of the play. Players will be able to “regain balance after contact to fight for a few more yards.”
Former Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin also took the stage to showcase the game’s RPG-like Connected Careers mode. In Connected Careers, players will select a current player, a created player, a legendary player, or a coach in a story-based mode. Completing goals will earn XP that can be used towards a Canton career. Goals can also be shared on Twitter and Facebook.
Madden NFL 13 will launch on August 28.
Here’s the Gears of War: Judgment E3 2012 trailer
As promised, here’s the Gears of War: Judgment trailer that Microsoft debuted at their E3 2012 Press Conference. It’s being developed by People Can Fly and it’s full of all the explosions and big, muscular guys in power armor you could ask for.
Gears of War: Judgment will be available for the Xbox 360 next year, and judging by the tags applied by Microsoft to the YouTube video, it may arrive with Kinect support.
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Tagged E3 2012, Gears of War: Judgment
MS @ E3 12: Call of Duty: Black Ops II DLC coming to Xbox 360 first
Microsoft closed out their 2012 E3 Press Conference with some gameplay footage of Call of Duty: Black Ops II. As someone who doesn’t play Call of Duty games, I wasn’t entirely sure what I was looking at. But the graphics and sounds were certainly impressive from a technical standpoint.
But the big news is that the Xbox 360 will once again be the home for Call of Duty: Black Ops II downloadable content before any other platform in 2013. This also means another year of deciphering the DLC release schedule for six different audiences: CoD Elite subscribers on Xbox 360, regular people on Xbox 360, CoD Elite subscribers of PS3, regular people on PS3, CoD Elite subscribers on PC, and regular people on PC.
Way to go Microsoft.
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Tagged Call of Duty: Black Ops II, E3 2012
MS @ E3 12: Dance Central 3 stars Usher, coming this year
Usher is on stage at Microsoft’s E3 Press Conference showing the dance moves from his latest single, “Scream,” in Dance Central 3. According to Usher, he designed the choeography himself with Harmonix. The game will also include another Usher song, “OMG,” as well as hits from the 70s, when it launches later this year.
He actually performed “Scream” on stage in its entirety. I think. I may have dozed off because the excessive padding was so soft.
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Tagged Dance Central 3, E3 2012
MS @ E3 12: Ascend, LocoCycle, Matter coming in 2013
Microsoft just dropped three trailers for three new games with 2013 release dates in quick succession.
Ascend: New Gods looks to be Microsoft’s take on Shadow of the Colossus as bizarre-looking knights battle even more bizarre-looking giants. It’s coming from Signal Studios, the creators of Toy Soldiers.
LocoCycle is being developed by Twisted Pixel, and while we didn’t get any gameplay footage, it looks to be a spy game starring a sentient motorcycle. From any other developer, that’d be weird, but it’s more or less par for the course when it comes to the Twisted Pixel guys.
Finally, there’s Matter. It’s designed by Gore Verbinksi (director of the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies) and made for Kinect. It looks like a sleeker, more modern version of Marble Madness.