Sony officially unveiled their Playstation 4 console to the world tonight and it certainly has a new…slant on home consoles.
Yeah, I went there.
Not only was the look of the console a bit of a surprise, but so was the announced price: $399. Yep, a full $100 cheaper than the Xbox One. We will have much more thoughts on how Sony mopped the floor with their competition later on.
Damn you, Microsoft. Damn you, all of you. I went into the Microsoft press conference hard pressed that I was going to wait to get an Xbox One and you had to go and throw Killer Instinct in my face.
RIGHT IN MY FACE!
I have very few weak spots as a gamer in my hard heart, but Killer Instinct is definitely one of them. The 30 second video has KI stalwarts Jago, Glacius and Sabrewulf putting out the combos on each other with ferocity. I got goosebumps when I heard the ever familiar ULLTRAAA COMMMMBOOOO. And as we all know, goosebumps are akin to tears for a nerd.
Killer Instinct releases this fall only on Xbox One.
Capcom is revisiting the zombie genre once again, only this time (unlike Resident Evil), it looks like people are actually excited about more Dead Rising. The trailer shows the new open-world on the Xbox One exclusive as new hero, Nick, makes his way through the zombie hordes.
The game is true to Dead Rising with the ability to use almost anything as a weapon as well use your duct tape skills and create such mash-ups as a sledgehammer attached to an electric saw.
Yeah, that moment when Nick threw that bastard at a zombie and clean cut him in half? Sold.
Dead Rising will release this fall only on Xbox One.
http://youtu.be/Tn9QRIM4_Oo
You didn’t think Microsoft was going to have all of these next-gen games and leave out their most popular franchise did you?
The first trailer for Halo 5 shows a mysterious figure cloaked and making their way through a desert until an earthquake stops them in their tracks. A Forerunner ship makes its way out of the sand as Master Chief stands there, fearless, looking rather Master Chief-y.
Halo 5 will release in 2014 for Xbox One.
http://youtu.be/9fEKcOK8gno
Microsoft announced today at their E3 press conference that the Xbox One will release this November and will be priced at $499. The screen during the announcement was touting the “Day One Bundle” for reserve. No details were given on what this bundle will include.
Now we know one half of the next-gen equation. Will Sony have an earlier release date or, even better, a cheaper price point? We will find out tonight.
Zombie Studios free-to-play FPS, Blacklight Retribution, is making the jump from PC to PS4 this fall. A new trailer was released which you can see below. This is another good get for Sony’s new system when you add it to the already good free-to-play lineup of DC Universe Online and Planetside 2.
http://youtu.be/6Sbkv9yQ2V0
E3 hasn’t even officially started yet and already we have an E3 trailer. Ubisoft’s newest look at [amazon_link id=”B00BGHUS58″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Watch Dogs[/amazon_link] has main man Aiden Pearce taking on a human trafficking ring with only his cell phone, baton, guns and a boat load of kick ass.
Just imagine that in this part of the game you are Liam Neeson in Taken and play his phone clip over and over again.
Watch Dogs releases this November for 360, PS3, Wii U, PC, Xbox One and PS4.
What was supposed to be a ho-hum weekend at the box office turned into one of the biggest surprises of the year. The Ethan Hawke thriller The Purge, which was made for only $3 million, cashed in on the light release weekend to the tune of $36.3 million dollars making it the highest grossing weekend for an R-rated movie this year. This left Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn wanting as the Wedding Crashers could not recreate the same magic for The Internship which managed to bring in only $18.1 million for a fourth place finish.
1. The Purge- $36.3 million/ $36.3
2. Fast & Furious 6- $19.8/ $202.9
3. Now You See Me- $19.5/ $61.3
4. The Internship- $18.1/ $18.1
5. Epic- $12.1/ $84.1
6. Star Trek Into Darkness- $11.7/ $200.1
7. After Earth- $11.2/ $46.5
8. The Hangover Part III- $7.3/ $102.3
9. Iron Man 3- $5.7/ $394.3
10. The Great Gatsby- $4.2/ $136.1
The XBLA exclusive, open-world zombie killing fest, State of Decay, was downloaded more than 250,000 times in the first 48 hours. Undead Labs, developers of the game, touted the success on their blog. The game is the second fastest selling game on XBLA behind Minecraft.
I am currently playing through State of Decay for review and can already highly recommend it. It is only $20 and is easily the best zombie game on the market. Our review will be up next week to not get in the way of all of our E3 coverage this week.
Warner Bros. has released the first poster for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. The second film in Peter Jackson’s trilogy will also have a teaser trailer released this week to play in front of Man of Steel. This will be the film that shows us how Jackson will stretch one book into three movies. I liked The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and was forgiving of the changes. Now we will see how much more will change with two movies and six hours of film left.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug releases on December 13th.