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VGX 2013 Trailer: Quantum Break
Remedy’s Creative Director, Sam Lake, showed up at the 2013 VGX Awards to talk about Quantum Break. Quantum Break is your typical “science gone awry” story, but Lake promises that the time powers granted to heroes Jack Joyce and Beth Wilder and “main bad guy” Paul Serene thanks to the accident at Riverport University will provide a new way to experience a third-person action game.
Quantum Break (or its live-action television show counterpart) still doesn’t have a release date, but PS4 owners should know that it is an Xbox One exclusive.
Posted in News, Xbox One
Tagged Quantum Break, VGX 2013
GTA5 is “Game of the Year” at the 2013 VGX Awards
The first ever VGX Awards (formerly known as the Spike TV Video Game Awards) were held last night and the best games of 2013 were once again crowned by GameTrailers.com’s Geoff Keighley (with an assist from Community‘s Joel McHale). The general consensus among the Internetatti is that the show still doesn’t know what it wants to be and that the “intimate studio setting” (and McHale) made the whole thing feel a bit bizarre. But what about the award winners?
In what is sure to be the first of many, Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V was named “Game of the Year” by the VGX Advisory Council. Rockstar’s crime saga also took home “Best Soundtrack.” But, the developer missed out on “Studio of the Year” honors. That award went to Naughty Dog for their work on The Last of Us. Their apocalyptic story was also awarded “Best PlayStation Game.” “Best Voice Actor” (Troy Baker), and “Best Voice Actress” (Ashley Johnson). Other multiple award winners include indie sensation Gone Home (“Best PC Game” and “Best Independent Game”) and BioShock Infinite (“Best Shooter” and “Best Song in a Game”).
A complete list of this year’s winners, including the remaining genre awards, “Best Xbox Game” (the surprising Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons), and “Best Nintendo Game” (Super Mario 3D World), can be found after the break. (more…)
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Tagged Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, BioShock Infinite, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Forza Motorsport 5, Gone Home, Grand Theft Auto V, Injustice: Gods Among Us, NBA 2K14, Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, Super Mario 3D World, The Last of Us, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, VGX 2013
VGX 2013 Trailer: Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
Here it is, your first look at the next-generation version of Tomb Raider. As we all expected, the “Definitive Edition” will include upgraded graphics and all of the previously released multiplayer DLC. Be sure to check out the trailer above, as I think Lara Croft kills something like 50 people. But classily. Because she has a British accent.
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition is being developed by Crystal Dynamics, Nixxes, and United Front Games and will be released for the PS4 and Xbox One on January 28.
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Tagged Tomb Raider, VGX 2013
VGX 2013 will include new trailers for TitanFall, Quantum Break, The Division, more
Spike TV’s revamped VGX Awards are set to begin in just a few hours (6:00 PM Eastern Time to be exact) and this year’s show is sure to pack plenty of surprises. In addition to our first look at Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition on the PS4 and Xbox One and a new trailer for Bungie’s Destiny, the 2013 VGX Awards will include…
- A gameplay trailer for CD Projekt RED’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
- The first gameplay trailer of Remedy’s Xbox One-exclusive Quantum Break.
- New footage from everyone’s favorite mech game, TitanFall.
- A new gameplay trailer for Tom Clancy’s The Division.
- Yet another trailer for South Park: The Stick of Truth. But this time, it will include a few words from Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
- A big announcement about Double Fine’s Broken Age. And it’s something bigger than the fact that Wil Wheaton has joined the voice cast.
A “Live Schedule” of tonight’s festivities can be found at the VGX Awards site. Be sure to cycle through it for more VGX events including an appearance by Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime, a Grand Theft Auto V-themed concert, and a lot more.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Tagged Broken Age, Quantum Break, South Park: The Stick of Truth, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, TitanFall, Tom Clancy's The Division, VGX 2013
Peggle 2 will ricochet onto Xbox One Game Store on Monday
PopCap’s Jared Neuss has confirmed that Peggle 2 will be available to download through the Xbox One Game Store on Monday, December 9:
Hey, folks! I’m Jared Neuss, the Producer for Peggle 2 here at PopCap Games. We’re incredibly excited to announce that Peggle 2 will be coming to Xbox One next Monday, December 9th! The team and I can’t wait for you to meet the brand new Peggle Masters, learn their magical powers and, well, just have a great time. We’ve got tons of new levels, hundreds of objectives to complete and a whole bunch of ridiculous surprises lined up for you. We think you’ll love it.
Unless you hate joy and happiness. In that case, you’re on your own.
To get gamers in a peg-popping mood for Monday, Neuss sat down with Microsoft’s Jeff Rubenstein and answered a few Peggle 2-related questions at Major Nelson’s blog.
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition will launch on PS4, Xbox One in January
A banner advertisement that randomly appears on Spike TV’s VGX Awards site has confirmed that Tomb Raider will be coming to the PS4 and Xbox One early next year in a “Definitive Edition.”
The contents of the Definitive Edition are currently unknown, but its a good bet that the game’s three multiplayer DLC packs (“Caves & Cliffs,” “1939,” and “Shipwrecked”) will be included on the disc. A graphical bump to take advantage of the additional horsepower available in the next-generation systems is also highly likely.
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition will be released on January 28 and the re-release’s first trailer will make its debut during tonight’s VGX Awards show broadcast at VGXLive.com.
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Tagged Tomb Raider, VGX 2013
Bungie will embrace its Destiny on September 9, 2014
In 2001, after the launch of Halo: Combat Evolved, Bungie co-founder Jason Jones dropped the following bit of wisdom during a postmortem Q&A:
There should be a stage in every product where the ludicrous is thought possible, where the team blazes trails right to the edge of the abyss in a hundred directions. Only through great risks are great things truly achieved.
Today, Jones’ team is ready to take their next step into the future with the announcement that Destiny will be released for the PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One on September 9, 2014. This is a bit beyond the game’s originally projected “Spring 2014” launch, but its in keeping with Bungie’s desire to only ship a game they can be proud of.
To that end, Community Manager David Dague has revealed that the game’s multiplayer beta is currently set for a Summer 2013 start date on the PS3 and PS4. In the more immediate future, Dague has also confirmed that Destiny will appear that Destiny will make an appearance during this weekend’s VGX Awards show and that “a new detail or two” will be announced.
Super Time Force coming to Xbox 360 and Xbox One in 2014
Capybara Games previously revealed that their Xbox 360 shooter, Super Time Force, would be released in 2013. Today, the developer has some good news for us as well as some bad news.
The good news is that Super Time Force is also in development for the Xbox One. The team at Capy hopes to the release the game on next-generation consoles at the same time as the Xbox 360 edition. What this means is that the bad news is that Super Time Force won’t be released in 2013. In order to build both versions of the game, Capy had to move Super Time Force’s launch to “a few months into 2014.”
You can check out the new Super Time Force trailer above and consider the quick look at Capy’s other in-development project, Below, as a bonus.
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Tagged Super Time Force