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- How a Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game – The New York Times (2026)
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Entwined, Digital Devil Saga 2, Enemy Front, more added to PS Store
Sony’s surprise E3 announcement, Entwined, is now available to download from the PlayStation Store. The gorgeous tube flyer (seriously, check out that trailer above) will be joined by a variety of PS3 and Vita titles including Enemy Front (a WWII shooter for the PS3), Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 (the PS2 Classic RPG, now available on the PS3), and Soul Sacrifice Delta (the ultimate edition of Keiji Inafune’s Vita monster hunter).
More details on all of these games can be found after the break. And a complete rundown of this week’s new game add-ons can be found at the PlayStation Blog. (more…)
Mortal Kombat X: Ed Boon reveals new characters and story, gameplay details
Ed Boon, the Creative Director at NetherRealm Studios, stopped by the PlayStation Blog Stage yesterday to talk about Mortal Kombat X. Secrets were revealed as Boon was finally ready to reveal the future of Mortal Kombat.
Those who enjoyed 2011’s Mortal Kombat will be right at home with Mortal Kombat X. The game uses a very similar fighting engine and retains the three-tiered Super Meter. Boon says the Meter has been “refined,” but it still offers the same progression of Enhanced Attack to Breaker to X-Ray Move. And for those that played NetherRealm’s Injustice: Gods Among Us, Boon confirmed that the interactive stages first seen in that game will also appear in MKX.
Boon also revealed some new stuff, including four brand new characters. Currently, the Character Selection screen has 24 slots. This may change in the future, but as it stands today, we’re looking at 18 additional characters yet to be discovered. D’Vorah is the half-insect/half-human character that we saw in the debut trailer as she did battle with Torr and Ferra, “the big hulk and the little lady on his shoulders,” according to Boon. We also got a quick glimpse of Kotal Kahn and Cassie Cage, who is the daughter of Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade. Boon said that her attacks will be patterned after both of her parents.
Before a fight, players will be able to select a Variation for each character. Similar to Fighting Styles from the Deadly Alliance trilogy, Variations will open up different attacks and strategic choices for each character.
Finally, the developer opened up about where the story will go after Mortal Kombat’s wild ending. According to Boon, “The story [begins] right after Mortal Kombat (2011) ended and goes as far as 25 years in the future.” That means that descendents of some of the original characters (like Cassie Cage) will show up along with aged versions of the more familiar characters. And the final boss is said to be “surprise returning character” that “not a lot of people will see coming.”
Is it Goro? I bet it’s Goro. Mortal Kombat X will be released for the PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One sometime in 2015.
E3 2014 Trailer: Battle Cthulhu in Evolve
The four-eyed space squid at the center of Evolve‘s E3 2014 trailer might not be known as Cthulhu in the game, but it was clearly inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s most famous creation.
Evolve will be released for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One on October 21. Before that, Xbox One owners will be able to join an open beta in the Fall to test the game’s online multiplayer and all downloadable content will be made available on the Xbox One first.
UPDATE: 2K has confirmed that the Cthulhu-like Monster will be known as a Kraken.
DICE plays with Star Wars toys to help bring us an early look at Star Wars: Battlefront
“Do or do not. There is no try.”
Niklas Fegraeus is a Design Director at DICE and he has taken Yoda’s understanding of The Force to heart in developing Star Wars: Battlefront. He has encouraged his team to live and breath Star Wars in a way that most of us haven’t done since we were 12. In the course of developing the next Star Wars game, DICE visited the Lucasfilms archives to get an up-close look at the original models used to film the Star Wars trilogy and recreated the ice planet Hoth in their Swedish backyards.
All of this hard work has produced some very cool looking early footage of the game, which DICE has shared with us in this behind-the-scenes video. Star Wars: Battlefront is still a year away (a Spring 2015 launch is planned), but your E3 Expo won’t be complete until you watch this video.
Bethesda teases Doom 4 at E3 ahead of QuakeCon 2014 full reveal
Doom! Doooooom! Doooooooooooooooooom!
Bethesda Softworks has unveiled a teaser trailer for Doom 4 (which, like all reboots, will just be known by the singular Doom) at their E3 Press Conference. The minute-long teaser gives us our first look at the squishy skin and high-tech armaments of a Cyberdemon, but is otherwise short on gameplay.
That’s because this E3 announcement is actually just an appetizer ahead of Bethesda’s full reveal of the game, which will take place at QuakeCon 2014. This year’s QuakeCon will run from July 17 through July 20.
Doom 4 (sorry, not calling it Doom just yet) is the first Doom game in development at id Software without co-founder John Carmack, who left last year to join OculusVR. It’s in development for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One and is currently without a release date.
LittleBigPlanet 3 E3 2014 trailer has all of Sackboy’s new friends
When the screens went dark at Sony’s E3 Press Conference, then lit back up again with LittleBigPlanet 3 plastered all over the screens, I made some kind of inhuman choked noise and lost my senses for a moment. Then, when the Media Molecule team up on stage started playing, I curled up into a ball in my chair and just kept saying things like “This is so cute I could die!” and “No!!” and “Joy puke! Joy puuuuke!!” By the end I was crying because I just couldn’t take it. Luckily, the trailer I cried through is now online, and you can watch it above.
Sackboy is joined by Oddsock, Toggle, and Swoop, three unique characters who all add a little something to the experience. Oddsock can wall jump and move faster than Sackboy, meaning he can run on little treadmills to open up areas and let Sackboy get through. Toggle is oversized and can move heavy things as well as stand on pressure plates to open up other areas; he can also shrink down to super tiny and get through little areas inaccessible to anyone else. And Swoop can fly, and can help Sackboy and their buddies out of jams. As they showed each character, I fell apart more and more, because the cuteness was just too much.
LittleBigPlanet is slated to be out sometime in November of this year (!!!) for PlayStation 4. Oh, and did you know you’ll be able to play all those millions of levels that have already been created in the previous games? Just take a few days off in November – you’ll thank me later.
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Grand Theft Auto V officially coming to PC, PS4, Xbox One this Fall
While Sony had the honor of announcing it during their E3 Press Conference last night, Rockstar Games has confirmed that Grand Theft Auto V will be released for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One this Fall. The new-generation remake will include “across-the-board graphical and technical improvements” which Rockstar believes will deliver “a stunning new level of detail.” Some of these tweaks and improvements include “increased draw distances, finer texture details, denser traffic, and enhanced resolutions.”
What does this mean for gamers? Prettier graphics, mostly. And you can see just how pretty they are in the game’s latest trailer, According to Rockstar, the trailer was created using in-game footage captured on a PS4.
“Grand Theft Auto V looks and feels stunning enhanced by the power of these new platforms,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games. “We can’t wait for players to experience a new level of detail to this massive world.”
The PC version of Grand Theft Auto V will also feature a video editor designed for “advanced movie-making.”