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E3 2016 - Although the hugely anticipated next chapter of the Elder Scrolls series was absent at E3, Bethesda confirms they're working on TESVI...but you're going to have to wait quite some time to play it.

Given Fallout 4 is still being wrapped up and the new Skyrim Special Edition remaster is bringing mod support to PS4 and Xbox One, I knew that Bethesda wouldn't unveil The Elder Scrolls VI at E3. It's just way too soon for a huge new epic open-world adventure--Fallout 4 released just last year, for Pete's sake!--but Bethesda's Todd Howard has confirmed that development for TESVI is underway--along with two other massively ambitious projects that are unlike anything Bethesda's ever done before.

"Elder Scrolls VI is kind of like the elephant in the room, always, when we talk about anything. You know, I think it's good in these moments to tell our fans yes, of course we are making it. The series is something we love - but it is... you know, I have to be careful what I say, it's a very long way off," Bethsoft exec Todd Howard told Geoff Keighley during the YouTube LIVE at E3 showcase.

E3 2016 - Microsoft's update to their gaming console known as Xbox Scorpio is packing some serious horsepower, with 6TFlops of GPU performance, an 8-core CPU and more. But what about the VR side of things?

According to Xbox General Manager of Game Publishing, Shannon Loftis, Project Scorpio will allow developers that are working on VR games to hit at least 90FPS. During an interview with Geoff Keighley for the YouTube Live E3 coverage, Loftis explained: "The more power you can put behind your VR rendering, the more you can ensure that 90 frames per second synchronicity, the better experience a game developer can create. We're super excited about it".

Oculus and HTC require 90FPS for fluid VR gaming, and even the PS4 will be pushing 120FPS on the PlayStation VR headset, while hitting 60FPS on the PS4 itself. Microsoft will have to be pushing some serious numbers on the Xbox Scorpio console, but with the help of AMD and their next-gen Polaris architecture, I have no doubt that Microsoft will hit a homerun with their Xbox Scorpio console... and that's saying a lot, from me at least.

E3 2016 - Microsoft confirmed the new Xbox One S console, as well as the next-gen Xbox Scorpio console which is 4K-capable, and is ready for VR gaming, too. There were some new Xbox controllers teased, but now we have a deeper look at them with some high-res shots.

The new Xbox wireless controller that sits with the impressive Xbox One S console.

The new Xbox Scorpio should be powered by a 14nm design, while it packs 6 TFlops of performance, ready for 4K/VR gaming - and aimed at a 2017 release. AMD has confirmed that it has its semi-custom SoC in the new Xbox, but we don't know what exactly powers Xbox Scorpio, but I'd say it's a Zen/Polaris-based design.

E3 2016 - The Division's next update is called Underground, which will take players through the sewers and gritty tunnels of new York City.

Underground is the first of three new expansions, with the second one called Survival. Ubisoft teased the new The Division v1.3 update during their E3 2016 press conference, saying that Underground will include new features and loot. Underground will also let gamers go into the subways, tunnels and sewers of New York City, each with random layouts.

The new v1.3 update to The Division also includes a new Incursion called Dragon's Nest, which will be bigger than those that were in previous updates. Set in Hell's Kitchen, it will feature the Cleaners as the main enemy, as they continue their "haphazard and dangerous attempts" to burn the virus out of the area.

E3 2016 - Crackdown 3 was missing at Microsoft's E3 press conference, and the devs have announced that the sequel will miss its original 2016 release for a launch next year.

Crackdown 3's absence at E3 didn't go unnoticed--millions of fans were asking themselves where the open-world multiplayer exclusive went. Reagent Games today announced Crackdown 3 will hit in 2017 with full Play Anywhere cross-buy support on Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs. The devs explained the delay by saying that they need the extra time to "redefine what it feels like to play games."

"Crackdown 3 is a game built for the future with a multiplayer experience that will redefine what it feels like to play games, and as we continue to work on this, it has become clear that our original timeline of delivering multiplayer to fans this summer, while maintaining the size, scope and quality of the game, would be challenging. Our top priority is to give gamers an experience they have never seen before at a scale never thought possible, and sticking to our original timeline would have compromised that goal."

E3 2016 - Star Trek: Bridge Crew was a huge surprise when we wrote the news on the game a few days ago, with Bridge Crew being a VR-ready game set in the Star Trek universe.

Star Trek: Bridge Crew was demonstrated during E3 2016 by Star Trek actors Jeri Ryan, Levar Burton and Karl Urban. You can team up with friends and control the bridge of a starship, and so much more. Let us know what you think of the trailer in the comments below, or on FB!

E3 2016 - Hideo Kojima took the stage at Sony's E3 presser to unveil his latest game, Death Stranding, and it completely blew me away.

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima's new "big and edgy" PS4 exclusive is called Death Stranding (what a name, right?), it stars Norman Reedus (take that, Konami!) and is deliciously weird. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that Death Stranding isn't like anything I've really seen before. It has a truly haunting overtone that seeps into your soul, not like the black oil on Norman's hands once his newborn baby disappears into thin air. And what were those things hanging overhead? Some sort of horrible alien-demons? They looked like monoliths from No Man's Sky...

Although the trailer didn't really reveal much about the game, we have a nice breakdown of info in a bullet list below. Kojima is always shrouded in mystery, and I honestly didn't expect his game to make an appearance. Based on his recently revealed studio mascot, Ludens, a lot of gamers thought his PS4 exclusive would be set in a strange sci-fi universe. And maybe it is--we just don't know enough about Death Stranding. But I do know how it made me feel, and it's almost indescribable. It's short, sweet, and just mesmerizing and hypnotic kind of way. Death Sranding looks like a grey, lifeless world full of macabre mystery, and I can't wait to plumb its depths--we can only imagine what it looks like in Kojima's head.

E3 2016 - Ubisoft revealed a new trailer to Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands during their E3 2016 press conference, with new details on the game released.

Lead Game Designer on Ghost Recon Wildlands, Dominic Butler, confirmed the new details for Wildlands, teasing that the game is the largest action adventure game from Ubisoft, ever. He added that players will be capable of playing Ghost Recon Wildlands by themselves, or with three other people. It's also been confirmed that players will have total freedom in Wildlands, with that ecosystem influencing gameplay considerably.

Ghost Recon Wildlands drops on the Xbox One, PS4 and PC on March 7, 2017.

E3 2016 - Sony has announced that Crash Bandicoot is back--well...he's coming to PS4 at least.

Sony has worked with Activision to bring the original Crash Bandicoot trilogy to PS4: Crash Bandicoot 1, 2, and Warped are all getting high-def remasters on the PlayStation 4 in 2017. Crash will also appear in the new Skylanders Imaginators game with his very own "Crash Edition" starter set. Pre-ordering the set includes an Crash figurine as well as levels from the iconic PlayStation classic.

"Next year, we plan to launch a remastered collection of the first three Crash Bandicoot games-Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, and Crash Bandicoot: Warped -for PlayStation 4," Activision said in a press release.

E3 2016 - From the makers of Heavy Rain, developer Quantic Dream has just teased a beautiful new trailer to Detroit: Become Human. Detroit is a game similar to Heavy Rain with an emphasis on storyline and gorgeous graphics. Developer Quantic Dream explains Detroit as a "neo-noir thriller set in a close future. Features multiple characters".

You play as a PL600 robot that is able to tell the truth or lie during a conversation with an NPC, you can obey/ignore them, convince/or shoot someone in a situation, and so much more. You have the technology to recreate crime scenes by using your finger to touch something like boood, and completing scans from the technology inside of your robotic character. There are multiple ways to handle situations, which drives the story in different directions - just like Heavy Rain.

It looks insanely beautiful, and will be exclusive to the PlayStation 4. It looks positively amazing, and seems to have a much higher, more stable frame rate compared to the performance which suffered in Heavy Rain on the PS3 at the time.

E3 2016 - Sony announced the new God of War game at their E3 presser, confirming past rumors of a Norse-based adventure.

The new God of War game looks absolutely incredible, and encapsulates generations of Nordic myth and legend. Kratos is positively radiant with ancient mastery, and his long bearded axe is infused with ice powers, with frozen wastes, runestones, cairns, and all kinds of amazing fantastic creatures.

Sony Santa Monica's Corey Barlog had this to say about the game: "I knew I didn't want to simply reboot the franchise, starting over with a retelling of the origin story. I wanted to reimagine the gameplay, give players a fresh perspective and a new tactile experience while delving deeper into the emotional journey of Kratos to explore the compelling drama that unfolds when an immortal demigod makes a decision to change."

E3 2016 - Microsoft has announced their new "monster" high-end Xbox Scorpio console, and AMD has confirmed it'll be powered by a semi-custom SoC--which will likely be based on Polaris and Zen.

Microsoft has confirmed that its new 4K-ready Xbox Scorpio rocks 6TFLOPS of power, making it 1.5 times more powerful than the PS4K and 4 times as powerful as existing Xbox Ones. But what's under the hood? Redmond touts that the Xbox Scorpio will house the "most powerful console GPU ever," and there's a very good chance the console is powered by an SoC outfitted with AMD's new Zen CPU and Polaris GPU--especially since AMD just confirmed that the Scorpio is powered by a semi-custom SoC from AMD.

Apart from the obvious clues like 1080p 60FPS and 4K gaming and VR support, the Scorpio's confirmed specs also neatly match up with AMD's next-generation APUs. But given AMD's statements on the Scorpio's hardware, the console will use a SoC (and Microsoft has said the same). The Xbox Scorpio's custom SoC has an 8-core CPU, and AMD's Zen CPU sports 8-cores with 16 threads. Seems like a perfect match there. AMD is also suspected to release its next-generation APUs in 2017, fitting with the Scorpio's holiday 2017 launch, so there's a good chance the custom Zen/Polaris SoC would be ready.

E3 2016 - Microsoft announced their next-gen Xbox Scorpio console, which is capable of both 4K and VR gaming, and due out next year. But what powers Microsoft's new Xbox Scorpio? AMD tweeted earlier today that they are powering it, which is what we knew - but they tweeted some more details. We think it'll be powered by the new 14nm-based Zen APU with some Polaris GPU cores, which will make it quite the powerful console from Microsoft, which is great to see.

The official AMD Twitter account tweeted: "We're proud that @Microsoft has expanded their @Xbox One family with 2 new consoles featuring AMD's semi-custom SoCs". So now we have total 100% clarification that AMD has their technology inside of the Xbox once again, as the company powered the recent Xbox One console with its technology. With the Xbox Scorpio capable of 4K/VR gaming, I'd dare say this is a semi-custom design based on the Polaris architecture, on the 14nm FinFET process.

I personally asked AMD if they were going to have a console-based chip ready for next-gen consoles when they briefed the media on Polaris last year in Sonoma, but they were very quiet about the entire thing obviously. We've reached out to AMD for more clarification on the chip, as they've tweeted "SoC" which is a system-on-chip, not an APU which is a CPU with GPU cores. Very different things, and very different power envelopes, cooling, and more. We'll update this post when we know more.

E3 2016 - Dead Rising 4 took Microsoft's E3 stage over with some awesome homebrew zombie-slaying carnage.

Thanks to recent leaks we already knew Dead Rising 4 was on the way, but the Xbox reveal still surprised us with its raw tenacity and...well...Frank West-ian humor. Those wacky, crazy DIY-style zombie massacre machines are back in a big new way--in the trailer we saw a crossbow that shot deadly candy canes (only Frank West could make a candy cane lethal), a zombie-catapult truck with flamethrowers on the sides, a go-cart that blasts electricity, and a triceretops helmet that shoots fire out of its mouth.

Although Dead Rising 4 takes place in the same region as the first game, it isn't a prequel or a reboot. That crazy exo-suit made an appearance too, showing just how far Capcom's new entrant goes. As with almost every new Xbox game, Dead Rising 4 will support cross-buy on Xbox One consoles and Windows 10 PCs with the new Play Anywhere initiative.

E3 2016 - Ubisoft showed off a pair of new For Honor trailers at their press conference, reminding us exactly how impressive the upcoming Dynasty Warriors-esque fighter really is.

For Honor's latest footage is absolutely spellbinding, showing us a world that's been entirely torn apart by an earth-shattering doom, plunging humanity into one thousand years of all-out war. In the game players can choose between three different factions--Samurai, Viking or Knight--each with their own unique campaigns and cultures.

The gameplay footage also showed us how the unique "Art of Battle" combat system works, a rather unique mechanic that somewhat mirrors NiOh. Players can switch their stances on-the-fly and string together combos, but overall the combat is more gritty and real rather than flashy--you'll feel every slam of your axe and every shield-bash from an enemy, making combat much more satisfying.

E3 2016 - There's a lot new and different about DICE's Battlefield 1, including its Operations mode, which does something no other Battlefield game has done before: split rounds up into multiple maps.

In Operations, you fight on an entire front of the war. When the round starts, attackers will push forward and attempt to conquer ground while defenders do their best to keep them at bay. If the attackers succeed, defenders will fall back and the battle will resume on a new map. Repeat until defenders can't fall back any farther, or presumably until attackers run out of tickets. Zeppelins will be apart of Operations.

We haven't seen it in action yet, but it sounds like Rush with a clever twist. Fingers crossed it's well-designed and proves a worthy successor.

E3 2016 - Three months ago, publisher Bandai Namco asked gamers for feedback on Tekken 7. Some of the questions in its survey strongly suggested they were considering a PC port of the game, and it looks like the feedback was strong enough because they decided to go ahead with it.

The port is an especially big deal because Tekken has never been natively available to PC gamers since its series debut in 1994, not counting the Street Fighter X Tekken game from a few years back.

Until Capcom took a chance on Street Fighter 4 in 2009, the PC fighting scene was effectively non-existent. Since then, many popular fighting series have made their way to the platform, including Mortal Kombat, BlazBlue, Guilty Gear, King of Fighters, Naruto, WWE, Dead or Alive, and Dragon Ball. Tekken will join those ranks when Tekken 7 launches early next year.

E3 2016 - Microsoft confirmed during its Xbox conference today that Gears of War 4 will be coming to PC and will require Windows 10.

A PC release is not unexpected given how many titles Microsoft has been bringing to the platform since launching its latest operating system, but given Halo 5 was confirmed as an Xbox exclusive, there was a bit of a question mark with the next Gears.

The game will feature cross-platform play for the co-op modes; achievements and progression will be shared as well.

E3 2016 - Microsoft has officially revealed Project Scorpio, the "monster" next-gen Xbox console with 4K gaming support, 6TFLOPs of performance, and full backward compatibility with all existing Xbox One consoles, peripherals and accessories.

Microsoft has confirmed all the Xbox Scorpio leaks as 100% correct: the new upgraded Xbox Scorpio is coming in holiday 2017 with full 4K gaming and VR support (likely with Oculus Rift). Microsoft promises that the Scorpio will deliver "the most powerful graphics processor that's ever been put into a games console, with confirmed specs like 6TFLOPs of performance, an 8-core CPU and sports 320GB/s memory bandwidth. Devs affirm the Scorpio will deliver "the highest res at the best frame rates without no compromises."

"So we gave the SoC 6TFLOPs of computing capability to be able to handle 4K resolutions. Gamers are going to get the most powerful graphics processor that's ever been put into a games console to date," said an Xbox engineer. "You get 4K gaming--true 4K resolution. The box we're creating is incredible. It's gonna have 8CPU cores, 320GB/s memory bandwith, 6TFLOPs of GPU power--it's a monster. We can render at 60Hz we can render fully and uncompressed pixels--the highest quality pixels that anybody has seen."

E3 2016 - A common issue with multiplayer shooters these days is a playerbase divided by paid DLC maps. That won't be the case for Titanfall 2, however, offering further incentive to pick up Respawn's game.

"One of our lessons [from Titanfall] is we're not gonna sell maps anymore," says lead programmer Jon Shiring. "All the modes and maps coming to Titanfall 2 after release will all be free."

As previously reported, leaks indicate Titanfall 2's maps will be more expansive than before, and the player count will be higher as a result.