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Thursday, June 1, 2017

Project Scorpio: Road to E3 2017

It's that time of year again: E3 2017 is just on the horizon. From June 10-15, we'll be covering the biggest games and hardware announcements of 2017 and beyond. While you can check out our continually-updated Games of E3 List, we're now going to start diving deeper.

Every day leading up to the show, we'll be highlight the stuff we want to see and play at E3 2017. Today's game...well, it isn't a game. It's: Project Scorpio.

Technically, we've never seen it. We don't have its official name and we don't yet know what the box looks like (though we do know what the dev kit looks like). But we do know its specs, and we know that it's part of the Xbox One family -- not a generational successor. That means every Xbox One game will work on Scorpio.

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Square Enix Partners With Bulletstorm Dev for AAA Game

Bulletstorm developer People Can Fly is working on a new, AAA game that will be published by Square Enix, the companies announced today.

The project will be an original title for consoles and PC, according to the announcement. No further details were revealed at this time, though Square Enix noted the game won't be part of the company's E3 2017 lineup. But for more on what is at the convention this year, check out IGN's list of E3 2017 games.

"We're massively excited to be working with the talented team at PCF in Warsaw, a studio filled with people who really know their craft," said Lee Singleton, head of Square Enix's London Studios. "We're building a game we all want to play which will be the perfect addition to our portfolio."

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Middle-earth: Shadow of War Release Date Delayed

Middle-earth: Shadow of War has been delayed from its originally planned August release date, developer Monolith Productions has announced.

According to a post from developer Monolith Productions' community manager on behalf of the game's development team, Shadow of War will now be released worldwide on October 10. A different release date will be announced for certain territories, including Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, according to the post.

When Warner Bros. first unveiled the Shadow of Mordor sequel earlier this year, the game had an August 22 release date for North America and August 25 in Europe.

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Madden NFL 18 Preorder Guide

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August is approaching, which can only mean one thing: a new Madden game is heading our way. Like clockwork, this series has been churning out yearly installments since the 1980s, each one with refreshed rosters, tweaked gameplay, and a few new ideas thrown into the fold.

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady will grace the cover of Madden NFL 18. And in a first for the series, the game will run on the Frostbite engine, which is known for powering graphical powerhouses like Battlefield 1 and Fifa 17. Reportedly, Frostbite will provide a significant visual jump over previous installments. We'll find out for sure when the game launches for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on August 25, 2017.

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Legendary Pokemon, PvP Coming to Pokemon Go

Player-versus-player (PvP) and Legendary Pokemon are coming to Pokemon Go later this year.

In an interview with Brazilian newspaper O Globo (thanks, Go Nintendo), Niantic's VP of strategic partnerships, Mathieu de Fayet, announced that competitive play was just one of the things developer Niantic has planned to keep its 65 million active players hooked to the augmented reality game.

"Pokémon Go has been downloaded 650 million times, but now it has 65 million active players. How do you keep players interested in the game?" said de Fayet.

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Skullgirls Dev's New RPG Indivisible Coming to Nintendo Switch

Indivisible, the side-scrolling action RPG from developer Lab Zero Games, is making its way onto Nintendo Switch.

Already announced for PS4, Xbox One, and Steam, bringing Indivisible to Switch was "an easy decision," according to Lab Zero Games CEO Peter Bartholow.

"Platformers and RPGs are great on the couch or on the go, making our game a great fit" for the Switch, Bartholow said.

Indivisible hit its crowdfunding goal at the end of 2015, reaching $1.6 million USD and making it the highest grossing gaming project on Indiegogo at the time.

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Project CARS 2’s Porsche Lineup Revealed

Developer Slightly Mad Studios has published a new video featuring Porsche factory driver Patrick Long explaining his role in helping the team hone the handling of the Porsche models included in the game.

"My involvement with Project CARS came from a very pure driver-engineer relationship, working with them on tuning Porsche's products to relate back to the user in the crispest and most authentic way," says Long in the video, which showcases the Porsches players can expect to see in Project CARS 2 when the game launches later this year.

The cars include the Porsche 936 (which won the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times), the incredibly dominant Porsche 935, the latest Porsche 911 GT3 RS, and several more.

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