E3 2011 Fact Sheet for Gears of War 3
In Short: Coming out September 20th, Marcus Fenix continues to shoot, chainsaw, blow up, duck and cover through even more Locust and the new Lambent. Includes 4 player co-operative, female Gears, an expanded Horde mode, and the obligatory pushing the envelope on graphics.
Full Fact Sheet after the jump.
E3 2011 Fact Sheet for Forza Motorsport 4
In Short: An all new spangly engine to make things pretty, new cars, more Xbox Live connectivity and the possibility of holding an invisible steering wheel to drive using the Kinect.
Full fact sheet after the jump.
E3 2011 Fact Sheet for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
In Short: Dragons! Weapons! Spells! The Voice! New Graphical Stuff!
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Ever felt too tired to pick up the remote control in order to watch TV? The Kinect will have the ability to replace the zapper later this year with voice controlled search powered by Bing, including shows on Hulu Plus, ESPN, Netflix and other media types.
Thanks to a deal with Sky TV in the UK and other operators elsewhere in the world, you will also be able to get live TV, presumably with various PVR features.
Full press releases after the jump.
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OnLive is going to be heading to the UK. Britishers will be able to reserve their pseudonyms via onlive.co.uk before the official launch.
To those whom don’t know, OnLive is basically remote access gaming, where you play on a machine in the mythical cloud with all video and audio being streamed to you. No, I don’t quite believe it either. At least it’s coming to the UK now, instead of just being in the US.
BT customers can look towards possible bundles with their broadband.
Following on from the success (?!) of the new generation of Leisure Suit Larry games, the original game (Leisure Suit Larry In The Land Of The Lounge Lizards) will be rereleased. LSLITLOTLL will head towards mobile devices (I’m guessing iPad, iPhone, Android tablets and similar) where it can be re-enjoyed (…) by a new audience.
Full press release is available after the jump.
Announced at E3 are the PVP modes of Paradox Interactive and Arrowhead Game Studio’s Magicka. On June 21st, Classic Deathmatch, Brawl and Kreditor modes will become available and a new “Final Frontier” map pack buyable.
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It’s the Journey E3 2011 Fact Sheet.
Short Version: The people who made flOw and Flower do another game with flying, gliding and landscapes. Nothing to do with “Don’t Stop Believing”.
Full fact sheet after the jump.
Square Enix has announced that they are making dolls action figures of Master Chief from Halo. There’s also going to be a “limited edition” Spartan Mark V in Black. Anyone at E3 will be able to see them at booth 1649.
Full press release after the jump.
The Lego series of games have been going on for for the past few years now. Starting with the original Lego Star Wars and continuing on with Lego Pirates of the Caribbean, one constant trend to these games is just how consistent they have been in terms of quality: None of the games in this series are what I would consider AAA quality; at the same time none of the games really manage to fall in to the mediocre category as well. You have to hand it to Travelers Tales for being consistent over the years when it comes to the quality of this franchise.
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