Daily Scoop: June 11, 2014 – E3 halfway done

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Nicole Kline

The news from E3 is still pouring in! There are so many amazing announcements being made. And I love seeing all of these photos of my friends having a great time in LA! One of these days, I’ll make it back there. One of these days!

In the meantime, I’ll probably buy some games on sale and wallow in them tonight. Actually, I finished my homework 24 hours early, so I’ve got a whole unplanned night to do whatever I want! I haven’t been this excited about nothing in a pretty long time. Maybe I’ll grab the Mixer Bundle over at Indie Royale, which has Doorways, Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages, Famaze, Restaurant Empire II, Knights and Merchants, Finding Teddy, Turba, and Spandex Force: Champion Rising. Or maybe I’ll snag the Humble Weekly Bundle, which features loads of German games, including Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians!

Of course, I could just go home and play Gone Home, which I already own and haven’t started yet. If you want to check it out, it’s the Daily Deal at Steam today for $6.79.

Or, if your backlog is massive enough, maybe just grab one of these t-shirts!

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Assassin’s Creed: Unity single-player and multiplayer gameplay walkthroughs show you the French Revolution up close

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Nicole Kline

Ubisoft has been anything but stingy with their gameplay videos of Assassin’s Creed: Unity. Above is the official E3 co-op gameplay trailer, which shows you the elaborate online system, and promises that you’ll have so many options that no experience will be the same twice. After the jump, you’ll see an equally awesome single-player gameplay trailer, which takes you through the chaotic streets of Paris during the French Revolution.

Assassin’s Creed: Unity will be out on October 28 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

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Final Fantasy Type-0 and Final Fantasy Agito announced for North America

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Nicole Kline

FFT0North American Final Fantasy fans can finally rejoice: Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy Type-0 and Final Fantasy Agito are finally coming to our shores. Final Fantasy Type-0 was only available on the PSP in Japan, but will be coming to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One remastered in HD. Final Fantasy Agito, meanwhile, will be coming to iOS and Android devices.

Hajime Tabata, Final Fantasy Type-0’s director, said, “The voice of our Western fans was instrumental in the development of Final Fantasy Type-0, and we’re very excited to release this title soon… The new PlayStation 4 system and Xbox One gaming and entertainment platform have really helped to re-envision this dynamic and turbulent world of Orience [the setting of both games].”

Neither game has a confirmed release date yet, though Square Enix did say that Final Fantasy Agito will be a free download with in-app purchases.

Hit the jump for the full press release.

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Watch out for the flaming battleship hazard in the PGA Tour 15 E3 trailer

Posted on June 11, 2014 by John Scalzo

It looks like EA Sports won’t be ditching their realistic golf simulator to focus on fantasy courses. Sure, the fantasy courses will be there too, but PGA Tour 15 will also feature a heavy sim component.

The game will be the first EA Sports title to utilize the power of the Frostbite 3 engine to render stunning courses and open up the golf experience like never before. With the ability to stream full environments, players will truly be able to play the ball as it lies no matter where it lands.

This newfound freedom will come in handy not just for PGA Tour courses fans know and love, but also in the new fantasy courses that will make their debut in EA Sports PGA Tour. Why take two shots to get a ball around a beached battleship in the Battlefield Paracel Storm course when you can fire a ball right at the bow, bounce it off the deck and land on the green in one?

“One of my favorite things about the game is discovering new shortcuts and alternate routes to the hole on fantasy courses,” stated Executive Producer Brent Nielsen. “Players are encouraged to wander off the beaten path and find new roads to success. Now that the entire course is open at all times you are as free to be as creative and imaginative as you want in your pursuit of a low score.”

PGA Tour 15 is in development at EA Tiburon and will be available for the PS4 and Xbox One in Spring 2015.

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N++ gameplay teaser trailer promises new levels, enemies, challenges

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Nicole Kline

Ninja platformer N++ looks gorgeous in this brand new gameplay teaser trailer, and the music just makes it all so much more epic. It will have new levels, colours (those Brits), and enemies, and there will be explosions. Maybe a lot of explosions.

N++ is a PlayStation 4 exclusive and, if the trailer can be believed, is coming “soonish” (AKA sometime in 2014).

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XBL Store Today: 1001 Spikes, Blood of the Werewolf

Posted on June 11, 2014 by John Scalzo

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Two retro-style platformers made their way to the Xbox Live Game Store today.

Nicalis’ 1001 Spikes is a punishing platformer for the Xbox One that gives players 1,001 lives right from the start. And players will need them all to traverse the spikes, pits, and enemies that will challenge adventurer Aban Hawkins behind the Golden Door of Poko-Mum.

Also available this week is Blood of the Werewolf, a “love letter to classic platformers” from Scientifically Proven and Midnight City. Blood of the Werewolf was released for the PC earlier this year and now it’s found it’s way to the Xbox 360.

More details about both games can be found after the break.

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BioWare updates us on Mass Effect 4 and a brand new game in E3 2014 trailer

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Andrew Rainnie

In what was more of a talking head, corporate sales pitch than the trailer many had hoped for, BioWare’s developers talked about how the story and characters of their beloved Mass Effect trilogy has shaped the next installment, the currently untitled Mass Effect 4. The most telling quote came from Project Director Casey Hudson:

We start by asking fans what they want, what Mass Effect means to them? One of the things that fans have told us most about what they want in the next Mass Effect game is to go somewhere new and move forward.

Given that Hudson and his team pretty much reworked the entire ending for Mass Effect 3, it would suggest that BioWare is on the level about building a game that the fans want to play. “We’re taking you to a whole new region of space,” he added later. But how new can it be? The jargony “conceptual prototype” featured a character dressed in the N7 Armor, which indicates the game will take place in roughly the same time period as what has come before.

One thing the video does confirm is that BioWare staff in Montreal like to stare into the darkness, and work in really dark rooms. Hudson also revealed that BioWare’s Edmonton studio is cooking up something brand new, but their words were chosen well so as not to reveal anything beyond that.

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Entwined, Digital Devil Saga 2, Enemy Front, more added to PS Store

Posted on June 11, 2014 by John Scalzo

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.

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