Microsoft is betting pretty solidly on the end of not just the current console generation, but console generations in general.
With its new 4K-ready "monster" Project Scorpio console, Microsoft hopes to usher in a new era of iterative hardware to the gaming world. Redmond has a vision where consoles are upgrade-able not unlike PCs, where the past, present, and future merge to form one continuous solid line of inter-compatibility.
"I think [this is the last console generation] ... For us, we think the future is without console generations, we think that the ability to build a library, a community, to be able to iterate with the hardware, we're making a pretty big bet on that with Project Scorpio. We're basically saying 'this isn't a new generation, everything you have continues forward and it works.' We think of this as a family of devices," Xbox exec Aaron Greenberg said in an interview with Engadget.
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Gamescom 2016 - If there's something I wanted to see from Gamescom 2016, it was anything on Battlefield 1, and well - we've got it. EA and DICE teased a 64-player match of Battlefield 1, with two teams of 32 duking it out in the World War 1 era first-person shooter.
The footage was pulled, but VG247 Turkey managed to get it back up for your viewing pleasure. In the footage, we can see that there are two teams of 32 playing on the Sinai Desert map, and a greater look at horseback riding and how the horse will handle throughout the environment, and in the battles. The horses actually have a higher health gauge than the player, so if you die or are shot off of the horse, another player can jump onto the horse and keep riding.
Battlefield 1's weapons get detailed in the video, as well as some pretty crazy action in the Conquest mode. The Battlefield 1 beta starts on August 31 on the PC, Xbox One and PS4 while the full game will be released on October 21.
Ford has announced plans to have a fully autonomous car on the road by 2021, which will be used in a ride sharing service. Ford CEO Mark Fields said that autonomous cars will be just as important to Ford as the assembly line. The company says there will be no steering wheel, no gas or brake pedals will be found in the fully autonomous car.
Fields said: "We're designing the first generation of autonomous vehicles specifically for ride sharing and ride hailing", and elaborated during the event "today we're no longer just an auto company, we're also a mobility company." Ford isn't putting all of its focus into autonomous cars, with its regular vehicles still being manufactured and sold, instead the company is seeing the value in the future of autonomous cars and is deciding to put large resources into it.
Ford CTO Raj Nair said that instead of the company overthinking the smaller steps into autonomous technology and instead head first, "We abandoned the stepping stones of driver assist technologies and decided to take the full leap to fully autonomous," explains Nair. He added that Ford will have three times its development fleet by the end of the year, from 10 to 30 vehicles, to 90 vehicles in the next year.
Nair said that it will be a few years before Ford's autonomous ride sharing service goes live, and a few years after that the fully autonomous vehicles will go up for sale. Ford has a five-year plan that sees fully autonomous cars on the road, something the company started work on four years ago. Ford's Vice President of Research adn Advanced Engeering, Ken Washington, said: "We've been at this for a long time and it gradually became apparent to us that the stepping stone approach was not going to work". Will Ford work with other companies on its ride sharing service? Fields added: "We may do things on our own. We may partner with others".
Battlefield 1 design director, grandfather of the Battlefield franchise, and all around nice guy Lars Gustavsson answered fan questions about his next game at Gamescom today.
One of the more interesting answers pertains to Conquest mode: this go round, he says, the game will just have a singular, large-scale Conquest mode, since the team is no longer limited by the hardware in the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Gamescom 2016 - Capcom have come out showing a new gameplay trailer for Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, which uses a found-footage style to set the atmosphere up for the creepy as hell world.
The new trailer also has some gameplay footage from Resident Evil 7 itself, and not like the Beginning Hour teaser which was more of a proof of concept. If you think the footage looks too fuzzy, Capcom reassures that it's for the effect they were going for, to emulate the tapes that players find when exploring throughout the game. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard will not look like this when you're playing, but this really does feel like some odd Blair Witch style video game footage, and I'm loving it.
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard will be released for the PC, Xbox One and PS4 as well as the PlayStation VR in January 2017.
Twitch is all set to acquire Curse, the company behind the Curse client, which offers streaming tools, text and voice chat, an in-game overlay, and various other functions. As Twitch is itself owned by Amazon, this will make Curse a subsidiary of a subsidiary.
Logic says Twitch will likely use the acquisition to offer its own client to streamers, as opposed to now where users are required to use external programs like Xsplit, OBS, and so on in order to stream. I'd expect integrated live chat and other functionality as well.
"We've long been fans of Curse, which is an innovator in the games industry with a strong culture built around its offerings-from Curse Voice and Curse Client to Gamepedia," said Emmett Shear, CEO of Twitch. "While it's still early days for Twitch and Curse, we're kindred spirits in many ways and are looking forward to working together to enhance our users' gaming experience."
Gamescom 2016 - Ubisoft debuted some Watch Dogs 2 footage during Gamescom 2016, with the first look at the multiplayer side of the successor to the lukewarm, original Watch Dogs. It seems as though Watch Dogs 2 is a much more complete, and better thought out game than its predecessor.
The trailer above shows the dynamic drop-in/drop-out cooperative and competitive multiplayer setting of Watch Dogs 2 where you can verse rival hackers to invade worlds in the new Bounty Hunt game mode. Bounty seekers can be seen while they're on the hunt, with bounty hunters able to track them down easier for a showdown.
Watch Dogs 2 drops on November 16, 2016 on PS4, Xbox One and PC. Check here for everything you need to know about the fresh new sequel.
Gamescom 2016 - The United Kingdom face off against the Ottoman Empire in Battlefield 1's new 64-player desert-based Sinai map.
DICE has made it clear that Battlefield 1 is all about all-out war, and the latest bit of footage from Gamescom exemplifies this perfectly. We've already seen some pretty insane 64-player battles at E3 2016, and now we get a glimpse of what the game's new Sinai map has to offer.
Sadly the gameplay is a bit fuzzy, but it's still a nice sampling of epic-scale world-shattering chaos. We see Ottomans charging into battle on horseback with sabers raised high, biplanes raining down bullets from the skies, and just general explosive havoc. Soon you'll be able to get in on the action when Battlefield 1's open beta launches on August 30, but the beta test is only limited to 24-players max with two modes: Conquest and Rush.
A developer uses Microsoft's HoloLens to play 3D hologrammatic versions of legendary NES games like Super Mario Bros., Legend of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, and Tetris.
Technology is pretty amazing. And by that I mean humanity has finally found a way to use holograms to play old-school NES games. Andrew Peterson has ported his amazing N3S emulator, which transforms 2D NES games into amazing 3D creations, over to Microsoft's HoloLens to show us a new dimension of retro magic: playing 3D Nintendo games in augmented reality spaces via fancy holograms.
The result is just amazing, and I hope to see AR tech take take off and become more consumer accessible in the near future. I mean, who wouldn't want to play these games as 3D holograms? Sure you won't have AR robots flying at you, but you'll be able to use any space as your personal NES nerd cave.
