Some of you may be aware that a film called R.I.P.D. is out in cinemas this summer, whilst others may be aware of movie tie in games. Slam these two concepts together and what do you get? The 2 player online co-op R.I.P.D. The Game coming to XBLA, PSN and PC on July 16th.
E3 2013 officially kicked off today which means the show floor was open for all to see. The West Hall was jam packed with the "Big 3" taking up the majority of the space there. Sony's booth was an absolute monster. The South Hall was also crowded, anchored by EA and Activision, and then a lot of the smaller pubs filling in the gaps.
IndieCade had a pretty large establishment at this year's E3 2013 with one of the bigger booths in the South Hall. The event is actually held in Culver City later this year, but the folks from IndieCade wanted to showcase some of the more popular and polished submissions to E3 attendees. While digging through the troves of indie games we found a little couch co-op gem called Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime.
Well, this just happened. While checking out the IndieCade showcase at E3, we got to have a little hands-on time with WiiU indie title Spin The Bottle. Unlike the game I remember from my childhood, this one barely involves being rejected by girls who really don't want to kiss you, although I nearly made out with the lovely gentleman pictured above. *sigh* Someday.
With the success of Super Mario 3D Land on the 3DS, Nintendo saw it fit to release a sequel for the title called: Super Mario 3D World. Among the wide variety of games shown off at Nintendo’s E3 press conference this morning, including Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros. Wii U, we know for sure that Super Mario 3D World will boast a 4-player co-op mode.
E3 has officially kicked off, and video game news has been showered upon the the world in torrents of information. One of the games that was revealed yesterday during Ubisoft's E3 2013 press conference was a game set in the Tom Clancy universe by the name of The Division. The Division takes a unique spin on the Tom Clancy mythos, asking the question of what happens when the big disaster strikes. The game world of The Division assumes a form of a dysotopian and anarchistic homeland. Cue "the division," a group of highly trained operatives tasked with rebuilding what was once lost.
We now know that Diablo 3 will be hitting consoles on Sept. 3, and that the game will support local, online, and combo co-op. While we've heard some mention of the latter, we have yet to see it in action... until now. From their command console at E3 [Ed. Note: I'm assuming they have a command console], Blizzard has released a slew of screens of the game running on the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3. They've also released a video that shows off friends playing together, whether they're local, online, or both!
The one bad thing about Locke, Mike, and Andrew all being at E3 is that any news regarding Dark Souls 2 will be strongly muted from the rest of the staff. I mean, if you've listened to any episode of the Co-Opticast in the past few months, you know just how much they love the original. Nick and I? We're rather "meh" about the whole thing. However, this new trailer for the game, showed off during Microsoft's press conference yesterday, certainly seems to make the new title seem... I dunno... exciting? There's still a lot of death to be had, though.
We're in the official Day 1 of E3 right now. Day 0 consisted of press conferences from Microsoft, Sony, Ubisoft and EA - you can find those impressions on the site already. We took bunch of pictures from the events we attended as well as some behind the scenes stuff and some of the scenery along the way.
Prior to Sony's open hand slap to the face of Microsoft, developer Bungie took the stage at Sony's press conference to show off some gameplay from their upcoming title, Destiny. I was, in a word, excited. In case you missed it, Bungie has released a brief glimpse of what they showed off last night, along with a little more story/setup to the events that will unfold in the game. The trailer doesn't give too much time on any one aspect (there's a lot of action jump shots crammed into nearly 3 minutes). So watch it and then I'll break down a few things based off what they showed yesterday.
There is nothing more attractive in this world than watching a hardcore gamer dance around a tiny room vaguely in time to some music game emanating from their flat screen TV. Prepare yourselves for more beauty as Just Dance 4 is coming to every motion control platform. The game has modes that will allow up to 6 players to dance at once - imagine in your mind's eye such a wondrous image.
The proverbial mic was dropped, picked back up and then dropped again. Sony came out swinging at Microsoft in what can only be described as a return to the console wars of old. Their E3 2013 press conference focused a lot on the games coming to the platform, but also on things like price, DRM, and lending games for the PlayStation 4.
