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Most Recent: Xbox One
Get a closer look at Exo Zombies: Carrier before tomorrow’s CoD Advanced Warfare Supremacy Pack launch on Xbox Live
John Malkovich’s Oz is not long for this world in the opening moments of the latest Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – Exo Zombies trailer. But don’t panic! Bruce Campbell is ready to take charge in the third episode, which will be available to download for the Xbox One and Xbox 360 tomorrow as part of the game’s Supremacy Pack.
Campbell plays Captain Lennox, a member of the Sentinel Task Force. He takes captures Kahn (Bill Paxton), Lilith (Rose McGowan), and Jim (Jon Bernthal) and takes them to the Atlas “Carrier” that serves as the inspiration for the episode’s title. Once there, they meet more of the Exo Zombies and suddenly it doesn’t matter if Lennox is good or bad… he’s just a guy with a gun.
PC, PS3, and PS4 owners will be able to download the Supremacy Pack, and Exo Zombies: Carrier, at a later date.
MK4’s Tanya returns in new Mortal Kombat X gameplay trailer
If you’re a Kombat Pass owner, you’ll be able to download a new character for Mortal Kombat X this week. Tanya, an Outworld warrior who made her franchise debut in 1997’s Mortal Kombat 4, will be available to download beginning tomorrow.
NetherRealm Studios released a new gameplay trailer featuring the character to ready their fans for her appearance, and it includes one of the most ridiculous Fatalities the series has ever seen.
Beginning June 9, everyone will be able to download Tanya by herself (for $4.99) or as part of the Tanya Bundle (for $7.99), which also includes new “Klassic” costumes for Liu Kang, Sonya Blade, and Kano. If you’re only interested in “Klassic Pack 1,” it will also be sold separately for $3.99.
Seriously, check out that Fatality, it is absolutely insane.
Xbox Store Today: Massive Chalice
Microsoft has announced that Double Fine’s Massive Chalice is now available to download for the Xbox One through the Xbox Games Store. If you’re wondering why Massive Chalice would be released on a Monday, it’s because the game will also be available as a free download all this month through Microsoft’s Games With Gold promotion. If you’re not an Xbox Live Gold subscriber, Massive Chalice can be purchased for $19.99.
A war lasting multiple centuries hangs over Massive Chalice like a shroud. As the “Immortal Ruler of the Nation,” players will arrange marriages to create heirs who will have to fight an enemy known only as “The Cadence.”
More details about this rather insane-sounding tactical strategy RPG can be found after the break. (more…)
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Tagged Massive Chalice
“Aim Greater” with this new cinematic trailer for Rise of the Tomb Raider
“For some, discovering the secrets of the world is the only way to live.”
Rise of the Tomb Raider is still a ridiculously awful title, but this cinematic new trailer does an amazing job of showing Lara Croft’s transformation from an inexperienced graduate student to the globe-trotting adventurer we all know her to be.
Microsoft will unveil the first gameplay footage from Rise of the Tomb Raider during a special “World Premiere” presentation as part of their E3 2015 Press Conference, which will take place two weeks from today on June 15. Fans will be able to view the show through Xbox.com, their Xbox system, or through a variety of online video providers.
Rise of the Tomb Raider is in development at Crystal Dynamics and will be released this Fall for the Xbox One and Xbox 360.
Posted in News, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Tagged E3 2015, Rise of the Tomb Raider
Halo 3: ODST and “Remnant” map now available for Halo: Master Chief Collection
Halo: The Master Chief Collection got a little bigger yesterday when Microsoft added the Halo 3: ODST single-player campaign and the Halo 2 Anniversary “Remnant” map as downloadable options.
Halo 3: ODST is set between Halo 2 and Halo 3 and follows a team of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (ODST) in the aftermath of the New Mombasa invasion. Featuring upgraded graphics, the Halo 3: ODST campaign is available as a free download if you played Halo: The Master Chief Collection between November 11, 2014 and December 19, 2014. However, if you’re new to the compilation, the campaign can be download for $4.99. Max Szlagor, a Senior Game Designer at 343 Industries, and Joseph Staten, a developer on the original Xbox 360 version of Halo 3: ODST, discuss the game in the video above.
Meanwhile, the “Remnant” map is based on Halo 2’s “Relic” map, and is available as a free content update for everyone. According to Microsoft, the “Remnant” maps features “a towering and iconic Forerunner megalith, weathered over untold millennia. The map’s asymmetric layout and the artifact’s elevated, yet embedded, position, make it perfect for classic Slayer, Assault, and 1-Flag CTF game types.” A detailed look at the “Remnant” map, part of The Halo Channel’s “Breaking Down the Map” series, can be found after the break. (more…)
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Tagged Halo 3: ODST, Halo: The Master Chief Collection
Bloodstained coming to Wii U with Vita version now in sight
As expected, backers have pushed the Kickstarter campaign for Koji Igarashi’s Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night past the $3 million mark, reaching a huge stretch goal and opening up a few more.
First things first, this new monetary benchmark means a Wii U version of the game will officially go into development at Armature. The porting house plans to make full use of the GamePad’s second screen and will feature a map that can be fully annotated. Though if you prefer Off-Screen Play, that will also be included. Miiverse integration, and Wii U Pro Controller support will be included as well.
A pair of additional stretch goals have also opened up including Asynchronous Online Multiplayer at $3.25 million and a Vita version of the game at $3.5 million. And actually, the Asynchronous Online Multiplayer features that “Iga” would like to include sound very cool:
- “Borrow” a friend’s character stats for a certain amount of time (your friend will get a bonus)
- Ghost Data (See friend’s saved character movements while fighting a boss)
- Friend’s playthroughs affect your game in some way (e.g. a gravestone and an offering might mark the spot where your friend died)
Bloodstained’s campaign still has 12 days to go, so both of these stretch goals (and surely a few others) seem well within reach.
Lords of the Fallen 2 will be released in 2017
Eurogamer has learned that Lords of the Fallen 2 will be released sometime in 2017. Marek Tyminski, the CEO of CI Games, also shared the news that 900,000 copies of Lords of the Fallen have been sold since the game’s Fall 2014 launch.
However, Tyminski also had some bad news for the European news site. He confirmed that Lords of the Fallen’s main developer, Deck 13, will not be involved with the sequel. From the sound of it, the split appears to be mutual:
“We have spoken about certain things we could probably do after the release of Lords of the Fallen but at the end of the day we came to the conclusion, both sides, that it won’t happen, and as far as I know they have another project, and I wish them luck. We have very clear thinking on how we want to make Lords of the Fallen 2 and we have a very good idea.”
That said, Tyminski also told Eurogamer that his goal with Lords of the Fallen 2 is to “make a much better game.”
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Tagged Lords of the Fallen, Lords of the Fallen 2
Xbox Store Today: Badland, Beach Buggy Racing
Two new Xbox One games are now available to download on the Xbox Games Store.
Badland: Game of the Year Edition brings Frogmind’s popular mobile side-scroller to consoles for the first time. The Game of the Year Edition will include the same physics-based flying as the mobile version while adding stick controls, high definition graphics, and local multiplayer.
Also available this week is Beach Buggy Racing, a colorful kart racer that includes a field of rival drivers, each with unique personalities and special abilities. Yup, definitely sounds like a kart racer alright.
More information on both games can be found after the break. (more…)