E3 2013 provided some phenomenal sights, sounds and experiences thanks to the upcoming launch of the PS4 and Xbox One. Yet identifying the best games of E3 can’t really be done on the last day of the show or the following week. With all the big screens and bigger marketing campaigns, it’s too tempting to […]
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Activision’s Skylanders series came out of nowhere to create a “toys to life” genre that took the video game world by storm, invigorated nascent toy collectors everywhere and inspired Disney to create a Disney Infinity game that feels quite similar but uses Disney franchises rather than original characters. It just so happens that at the
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Forza Motorsport 5 and The Crew got a lot of attention at E3, but I couldn’t resist the all-out arcade fun of Need for Speed Rivals. I’ve been a fan of the NFS series for years now, and Rivals looks to put the NFS series on steroids. For 15 minutes of behind-closed-doors time at E3,
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Battlefield 4 needs no introduction – unless you’re talking to gamers who are more enamored with single-player games than multiplayer ones. In that case, BF4 — if not the entire Battlefield franchise — may very well be foreign ground. Much like the Call of Duty series, the Battlefield games have a massive multiplayer following and
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One of the most impressive games we saw at E3 was Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. This next chapter in Ubisoft’s popular Assassin’s Creed franchise follows a completely new character who, as you might guess from the game’s title, assumes the role of a pirate. The E3 demo we saw behind closed doors was
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Outside of its DRM strategy and price, the Xbox One had a good showing at E3 — it just wasn’t able to power through the goodwill for Sony’s PS4. That post-E3 momentum has continued for Sony, to the point that PS4 pre-orders sold at such a rapid pace that getting a PS4 launch-day bundle at
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Sony may have gotten a ton of goodwill from gamers for pricing the PS4 at $399, a full $100 less than Microsoft priced the Xbox One, but when it comes to PS4 games, the two console manufacturers and game publishers are exactly aligned, as Sony has confirmed that first-party PS4 games will cost $59.99. That
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Lionhead Studios’ action RPG Fable 3, which first released in 2010, is now a free download on Xbox 360 for all Xbox Live Gold members. Fable 3 is only a free download until June 30, though, so get it while you can. Xbox Live Gold requires a monthly or annual subscription, whereas the Silver level
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In the days following E3, we’ve been discussing the newest toys-to-life craze in the videogame world: Disney Infinity. Borrowing a page from Activision’s Skylanders games, the latest of which (Skylanders Swap Force) we’ll be previewing extensively soon, Disney Infinity uses real-life toys that can be placed on a portal so that figure appears in the
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One of the busiest booths at E3 2013 was Disney Interactive, largely because of their t-shirt press but also because of Disney Infinity, a new game a la Skylanders where real-life toys can be placed on a portal to have that figure/character appear in the on-screen game. I’ve long been a fan of the Disney
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