"At a certain point, we are going to have to wind down.".
Titanfall will receive another DLC map pack, IMC Rising, later this autumn, and Respawn plans to add more new modes and "cool stuff" to the game as free Xbox Live updates. The developer won't support the game indefinitely, however - past a "certain point", it'll need to reallocate resources to unannounced projects.
Fallout, Skyrim, Spec Ops & Watch Dogs up to 85% off.
Well, looks like that's our summer done and dusted, then. London's two month-long heatwave has descended into torrential downpours of biblical proportions, so surely there's no better time to escape the rain and stock up on a few games that have thus far escaped your attention.
Almost completely separate to the campaign, doesn't affect the ending.
Dragon Age: Inquisition will, indeed, have a multiplayer mode, created over two years by "a special team with veterans from the Dragon Age and Mass Effect franchises". To be specific, it'll offer a four-player co-op component in which you undertake quests against AI foes as an Inquisition agent, after the example of allied forces in the Galaxy at War mode in Mass Effect 3.
Play as assassins through the ages in a new time-based mode addition.
The Internet: where the average development secret lasts for, oh, about five minutes before it gets leaked all over every site going. The latest reported rumbling comes courtesy of Assassin's Creed: Unity, which will apparently feature a time-based platforming challenge mode called Rifts.
For a cool US$970 million.
In a surprise move, streaming service Twitch has been bought by Amazon for $US970 million. The last you may have heard was that YouTube was going to buy Twitch for a similar amount.
Come on, Ed, just say it.
New characters are the spice in the fighting game recipe. Add too few and it's bland, add too many and you overpower what made the thing worthwhile in the first place. Which makes Mortal Kombat X, which its creator Ed Boon has told us is "introducing more new characters than probably any Mortal Kombat game has", a bit of an odd one. The answer? Set the game over 25 years of MK history, from the direct results of the last game up until a quarter-century later. I guess that's, er, slow cooking?
Caution, genius within.
A functional version of Mojang's Minecraft has been made using the Trials Fusion level editor by a person called PneumaticBog484. That much is confirmed. It's also reasonable to suggest PneumaticBog484 is a wizard.
Warlocks, Hunters, Titans - please rev up your FTL drives.
Like a city-sized asteroid, Bungie and Activision's Destiny is about to smack into the surface of the Earth. The consequence can only be the complete depopulation of our planet's surface, as millions of people disappear in-doors to take up the mantle of a Guardian, explore a make-believe solar system and shoot spider tanks in the face.
"Leaked" screens reveal cross-over with choices in DA2 and Origins.
Dragon Age: Inquisition doesn't support save imports from Dragon Age 2 and Origins, but you'll still get to customise the new game's world to suit choices in prior games using the Dragon Age: Keep app. Will this boil down to answering simple questions like "Did I complete it?" and "Was I a complete heel to literally everybody I met, regardless of race, sex and hat size"? Seemingly, it's a bit more profound than that.
"Let's instead try and reach for something that's like genuine affection".
BioWare's Mike Laidlaw recently spoke to IGN about the games that influenced the studio on what kind of relationships players could form with NPCs in Dragon Age: Inquisition, and confirmed that the 'end-goal' of these relationships will no longer be sex, necessarily.
Gold Membership to allow you to play certain titles for free for 24 hours?.
Xbox One is introducing new ways for Xbox Live Gold Subscribers to get more for their money, if the latest rumblings on Reddit are legit. It seems Microsoft may soon be launching a new program that will allow Gold Members to play a wider variety of free titles for a limited amount of time.
Manufacturer described 900p as "unacceptable", says production director.
Diablo 3 runs at 1080p on Xbox One (with a day-one patch) because Microsoft deemed the planned 900p resolution "unacceptable", Blizzard's production director John Hight has told Eurogamer.
Get the evening going with five rounds of Team Slayer.
There was an awful lot of Halo 2 Anniversary multiplayer to be had at Gamescom last week - and an awful lot of that multiplayer has wound up in the below video, in which Mason "Neighbor" Cobb, Eric "GH057ayame" Hewitt, Sean "DeRsKy" Swidersky and Vartan "Killer V" Karakashyan play Team Slayer on the newly Xbox One-ified Ascension and Sanctuary maps. It's an hour-long session, encompassing five hard-fought matches, so if you need to visit the bathroom or have your legs waxed or whatever, please do so before hitting "play".
Developer is "putting all of our eggs in one basket".
Activision, you might recall, was obliged to publish a version of its contract with Bungie to develop the Destiny franchise back in May 2012, as part of a legal clash with former Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella.
Sequel to ocean-going horror spin-off is seemingly set in prison.
Would you have enjoyed Resident Evil: Revelations more if it were set in a prison rather than on a boat, a prison equipped with at least one wheelbarrow? Then I bring glad tidings. A sequel appears to be on the way, as revealed by the uploading of two artworks to Xbox.com that pong very strongly of the jailhouse. There's no sign of an Xbox One version for the moment.
You'll be spellbound.
This has to be one of the longest videos we've ever posted to the site. CD Projekt Red has released 35 minutes of footage showing off its upcoming fantasy RPG The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and it's the behind-closed-doors demo from this year's E3. It even includes insightful developer commentary.
"There's always room for it.".
Lulled by the siren-song of Dragon Age's fantasy universe, only to be rudely rebuffed by the knowledge that it's a role-playing game, with stats and classes and everything? Be at peace, O customisation-averse one. BioWare Edmonton's producer Cameron Lee feels there's plenty of scope for a Dragon Age game that isn't a role-player.
"When we see an opportunity we'll be the first to jump on it.".
Ubisoft has a Grand Plan all pegged out for Assassin's Creed, but according to Unity's senior producer Vincent Pontbriand, the publisher is willing and able to change should the right creative and commercial opportunities arise.
Big games, low prices, high expectations.
The world's biggest franchise. The world's most illustrious publisher. Truly, this week's Deals with Gold discounts are a win for the mainstream. With every Call of Duty game since Modern Warfare 2 included, and no less than eight Rockstar games - along with assorted expansions - on offer, here's your chance to catch up on the games literally everyone else has already played. Here we go...
But only in the US and Canada for now.
Reddit has evolved in recent years from catch-all single interest forum into the world's premier space for up-the-minute community engagement, occasional breaking news and inappropriate use of the word "porn" as a suffix. It should come as no surprise then that Xbox One has jumped at the chance to release the first exclusively-created Reddit app on console.
