Gaming Hardware

neděle 10. června 2018

Microsoft acquires Ninja Theory and four more studios

Microsoft just announced that it’s acquiring Ninja Theory, the developers of Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. The studio is one of five that Phil Spencer just announced have been acquired by Microsoft at the company's E3 conference early today.

Microsoft also announced the founding of a new studio, The Initiative, based in Santa Monica, who are creating new game experiences.

They also bought Undead Labs, State of Decay developers Undead Labs. And have also acquired Forza and Forza Horizon developers PlayGround Games (who just announced UK-based Forza Horizon 4).

If that wasn’t all, Phil Spencer also announced that We Happy Few studio Compulsion Games would be joining their new lineup of studios.

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Forza Horizon 4 is set in the UK and is out this year

Forza Horizon 4 will release on October 2nd, and will be "set in beautiful, historic Britain," in the words of Playground Games' creative director Ralph Fulton. That's something of a big deal, as rumours had previously suggested the series was headed to Japan. There followed some typically stunning graphics, showing off our damp little island at its very best.

You'll race around in a shared open world with other players. Exciting new features include dynamic seasons, which will join with dynamic weather and time of day to "change everything." The demo showed two snippets of gameplay, one in autumn, one in winter - when thick snow makes for more challenging handling, and a lake has frozen over to open up a new gameplay area. A blimp indicates the opening of a new world event - a race over the lake.

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Sea of Thieves will get two new expansions this summer

Two new expansions for Sea of Thieves have just been announced at Microsoft's E3 conference. Cursed Sailes and The Forsaken Shore will both arrive in the game over the summer, with the first going live in June and the second in September.

The updates will add plenty of new content to Rare's seafaring adventure, including, it would seem, skeleton crews that will sail the sea taking on unfortunate sailors. It seems that that will herald the arrival of a new boss, a new skeleton captain for players to take on, much like the Kraken and the Magalodon.

It also suggests that there'll be new volcanic islands added, potentially, as a new area of the map.

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Where was Crackdown 3's awesome destruction tech at E3?

Crackdown 3 got a brief showing at Microsoft's E3 2018 presentation, with a lot of shouting from the irrepressible Terry Crews and a lot of things blowing up. That's fair, as being able to blow stuff up has been a key selling point of this game - indeed, the initial marketing suggested we'd be able to destroy literally every single building in the game.

But in a trailer that contained some pretty interesting new gameplay - such as driving cars up vertical surfaces and spontaneously turning them into tanks - the only environmental destruction we saw was a few silos blowing up at around 49 seconds in the trailer below. That's really nothing we haven't seen before, and there was no evidence of being able to destroy literally anything we wanted.

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The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit is a new game in the Life is Strange Universe

The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit has just been announced at the Micorosft E3 conference. The game, developed by Dontnod Studios, is set in the Life is Strange universe, following a new, male protagonist, a young boy named Chris.

Chris' story is based around his childlike imagination, and his story takes him to alien planets in his superhero alias Captain Spirit. The trailer suggests he struggles with popularity at school, and the story may cover the loss of his mother.

The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit will be available to download for free from the Xbox Store on June 26.

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FromSoftware’s new game is Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and it looks a lot like Nioh

The cryptic Shadows Die Twice has been officially unveiled at the Microsoft E3 2018 press conference as Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Set in a mythical twist on feudal Japan, Sekiro is an action-RPG in the same vein as Dark Souls, but with a lot more movement mechanics than the Souls series.

In the meantime, here's the trailer:

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Fallout 76 is four times the size of Fallout 4

Bethesda's Todd Howard stopped by Microsoft's E3 2018 presentation to give a little more info on Fallout 76. Confirming much of what has been theorised already, he says it will be a prequel to all the other games, and will be set in the hills of West Virginia. We will be one of the first to emerge into Fallout's post-apocalyptic wastelands.

More excitingly, we hear it will be the biggest Fallout yet, at more than four times the size of Fallout 4.

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