Say what you want, but I love EA’s press conferences that kick off the E3 festivities every year. Is it typically boring? Yes. Is it awkward? Almost always. And is there ever any real substantial news to be revealed about upcoming games? Not really. Objectively, most of the conferences that EA has held over the
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There were plenty of people who thought the purchase of developer Mojang by mega-publisher Microsoft was signaling the end of Minecraft’s appeal of universality. Speculation within the gaming community was rife with claims that Microsoft may entirely stop developing for anything outside of the Microsoft family of systems — or worse. With all of those fears trumped up at the
Koji Igarashi has been a notable name to fans of the Castlevania franchise for almost twenty years. From Symphony of the Night to Harmony of Dissonance, Igarashi served as one of the main creative minds behind the vampire-laden series until his departure from Konami in March of 2014. Of course, Igarashi couldn’t sit on the
Another year, another E3 — and as is tradition, DualShockers hands out awards to what we (and our readers collectively) think are the best games at the show. This year had some stiff competition, with three games nearly tying for Game of the Show. But, with plenty of arguing, debating, and compromising we have DualShockers’
E3 2017 has come and gone and hosted many great games: however, some of those titles might have been overshadowed by some of the bigger budget titles seen on stage. Despite the huge amount of games announced during the event, we here at DualShockers have put together a convenient list of great indie games that
42 energy drinks later: E3 2017 is done and in the rear-view mirror. And as it has the last few years, today, ICO Partners released its annual assessment that looks into which companies generated the most press coverage during the super-bowl like trade-show. For the first time since ICO Parnters began with this assessment in
In the year 2150, Laser League is the new big thing. It’s a fast-paced sport where players must dodge the opposing teams’ lasers and survive in order to be deemed champions, leading to some bright spots of happiness and excitement in a post-conflict world. That is the concept of Roll7’s Laser League in a nutshell,
Arc System Works and Bandai Namco Entertainment America released two new gameplay focused videos for Dragon Ball FighterZ, which was present at E3 this year after leaking early, and then being showcased during Microsoft’s press conference on Monday, where the Xbox One X was also unveiled. The first video showcases an entire 3-on-3 match taking
Phoenix Labs announced that Dauntless, an upcoming free-to-play co-op action RPG, will be getting its first publicly available build with the Dauntless Founder’s Alpha, which is currently set to begin on August 18. This alpha will be available to those who purchased the game’s Founder Edition-tier for $79.99, which was unveiled back in April. This
FuturLab revealed their new PS VR game Tiny Trax a couple weeks ago, and at E3 this year, they provided a live-demo with PlayStation of the upcoming VR slot-car racing game, resulting in around ten minutes of brand new gameplay footage. The video features James Marsden and Dave Gabriel, who pitch the game as giving
Late last night, Sony Interactive Entertainment released some new gameplay demo footage of Patapon Remastered that was captured during E3 2017, featuring President of Sony’s Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida. Announced back at PSX 2016, Patapon Remastered is a PS4 remastering of Patapon, a PSP rhythm/action/platformer game, that first released in 2007, and quickly became a
Nintendo’s signature third-person “shooter” Splatoon 2 is right around the corner, and the House of Mario isn’t shy showing off the additions that the sequel is bringing to the table. In Nintendo Treehouse’s E3 Livestream, the Nintendo staff and the Squid Research Lab development team on site demoed Splatoon 2‘s single player mode. The demo
Rogue Trooper Redux has a strange and long history. The series itself started out as a story in the British comic 2000 AD about a genetically enhanced super soldier who happens to be blue. From there these stories garnered a strong cult following and a number of video games were made because of this. In
The biggest gaming conference in the world is in full swing, and there is no better time to be a gamer. With tons of new games announced, brand new hardware gracing the show floor, and hundreds of new trailers revealed — and I literally mean hundreds — E3 2017 wasn’t short on flair. But of
While the last few days have been dominated by news from the top developers and console makers, some of the smaller studios have been making E3 announcements of their own.This included, surprisingly, physical copy distributor Limited Run Games as they released two game reels of their upcoming library (something they hinted at a few weeks
The dust has settled at E3 2017 after all of the press conferences and presentations have ended, and once again E3 brought out some of the biggest announcements, surprises, and reveals that gamers have to look forward to throughout this year, and the coming years. After EA, Bethesda, Microsoft, Ubisoft, Sony, and Nintendo all presented
Nintendo has finally confirmed the longstanding rumors about the remake of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. This updated version is coming to the 3DS on October 6 of this year and will feature a brand new mode and updated visuals. The game was shown on the Nintendo Treehouse stream today and it looks like its
I hope you love your classic 2D series news, because we’ve got a bunch more for you courtesy of Nintendo. MercurySteam’s return to form with Metroid: Samus Returns unveiled today with a bunch of information given to us during a Treehouse presentation. But with a recent press kit release, the Big N gave us some
Released alongside the debut of the Nintendo Switch in March, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has quickly drawn substantial critical acclaim and has kept new Switch owners occupied for hundreds of hours on end, with more of the game set to arrive later this year in our first look at its DLC
What a conference. From beginning (and I’m talking the Pre-Show) to the very end. So the question remains — is this just “a great Sony press conference” or “the greatest Sony press conference”? The Pre-Show was a wonder to behold, with game-after-game being announced. We saw an official date for Knack II, along with a
Call your bosses, call off work — PlayStation Experience is coming back in 2017 to Anaheim California. According to PlayStation’s E3 Press Conference Pre-Show, PlayStation Experience will be coming December 9-10. For those out of the loop, PlayStation Experience is Sony Interactive Entertainment’s home-grown conference for PlayStation superfans. PlayStation Experience is notorious breeding ground for
Today at Ubisoft’s E3 press conference in California, the company officially announced its new dancing game Just Dance 2018. The developer said that this year’s iteration will include 40 songs. The full tracklist has not been made available, however you check out the list of songs that were teased below: 24K Magic – Bruno Mars
Screw you guys, I’m going phone. Sorry, I couldn’t help myself — but you have to imagine Trey Parker and Matt Stone must be thinking along these lines with the recent announcement of South Park: Phone Destroyer. Debuting at Ubisoft’s E3 Press Conference, the newly announced game is a real-time strategy title bringing all the
During Microsoft’s E3 press conference, Mojang announced that they would be bringing cross-platform play to Minecraft for all consoles and devices. The trailer showed off new massive servers as well that will be able to host more players than Minecraft’s current console lobbies. Mojang also announced that Minecraft will be in 4K exclusively on Xbox
Back on June 5th — exactly five days ago — EA unveiled FIFA 18 and its cover star, recent Champions League winner, Christiano Ronaldo. Additionally, it revealed that the game will once again launch on September 29th, on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Xbox 360, PS3, and Switch. At the time, EA also revealed — though