Yesterday, EA revealed that BioWare’s next game is called Anthem, and showed us a brief teaser. We also learned that it would be out Fall 2018, at least according to its official YouTube channel. Now we have the full gameplay reveal, which you can watch above, from Microsoft’s press conference today. Today we learned that we’ll be ‘Freelancers’ who fight in jetpacking exo-suits—that can fly Iron Man-style, even underwater—in mutliplayer co-op missions. As we suspected, this looks very much like

At the Microsoft E3 conference today, the first trailer for Ori and the Will of the Wisps was revealed—watch it above! The sequel to one of my favorite recent games, Ori and the Blind Forest, looks as beautiful and sad as expected. No release date was announced, but we’ll update with more information as it comes in.

Minecraft is getting an update this fall, which will include a 4K graphics upgrade and cross-platform play. Complete cross-platform play, in fact: players on any console, mobile device, or PC will be able to play Mojang’s famous sandbox game together. There’s a trailer above to check out how the blocks look in 4K (they still look like blocks, but very pretty ones). Other features that will come a little later include a community marketplace, where players will be able to buy and sell items they’

It’s been a long time since we’ve seen Crackdown 3, but it’s come back in the best possible faction: with Terry Crews yelling in our faces. The trailer that played at Microsoft’s E3 press conference today starred Terry Crews as a character named Commander Jaxon. It also starred a whole lot of guns and explosions. The one thing conspicuously absent: environmental destruction, which was the major selling point for Crackdown 3 back in 2015. We’ll undoubtedly see more of Crackdown 3, and scrutinize

A trailer for Life is Strange: Before the Storm debuted at Microsoft’s E3 presser, and it showed plenty of strange things. We got to see a major supporting character from the last game, Chloe Price, before the events of the first game, in a montage of bummer events presumably leading up the events of season one. It’s a three-part series, with the first episode debuting August 31 of this year. It’s unclear whether or not this is the rumored Life is Strange 2 or something else to tide us over unti

The new gameplay trailer for Rare’s first-person multiplayer pirate game Sea of Thieves shows players diving for sunken treasure, dodging sharks, and firing themselves out of cannons—which as it turns out is a pretty slick (if silly) way of getting around quickly. There’s also a hunt for buried treasure following clues that lead across an island and through a cave, followed by a cooperative escape from the treasure’s skeletal guardians. The video culminates in a battle at sea with another group

We got our first look at the 2D open-world platformer The Last Night back in February, and it’s fair to say that I was quite taken by the whole thing. At the Microsoft press event ahead of E3 today, a very pretty new trailer revealed even more of the game, and in a word, it is stunning. It also shows off the flying cars we were promised, which you can apparently ride in or on, at the mood strikes. It’s admittedly only trailers so far, but The Last Night looks great, it sounds great, and it’s one

Bandai Namco unveiled the first trailer for the upcoming Dragon Ball FighterZ during the Micosoft E3 show. Developed by Arc System Works, the team behind Guilty Gear fighting games, FighterZ is a classic 2D fighting game that features three-versus-three brawls. As that big ‘Z’ at the end of FighterZ might indicate, this game is set in the Dragon Ball Z universe and features many of the characters our 12-year-old selves adored like Goku, Trunks, and Vegeta, along with some classic villains like F

Here’s the lowdown on how powerful Scorpio is, and how it compares to a gaming PC. The Xbox One X will supersample existing Xbox One games, which is useful if you don’t have a 4K TV. Gaming PC vs. Xbox One XAll of the money in the Xbox One X is focused on graphics, though its CPU has gotten a boost over the standard Xbox One. In terms of desktops, at $500 the Xbox One X competes with our cheap gaming PC build guide. It would be hard to build a gaming PC this compact at the same price, but as alw

The open-world survival game State of Decay 2 was announced at last year’s E3, with a very loose arrival target set for sometime in 2017. At today’s pre-E3 press event, that date was pushed back to Spring 2018, but at least the delay was accompanied by a new gameplay trailer showcasing the four-player co-op zombie survival action. Developer Undead Labs said earlier this year that State of Decay 2 will launch with three separate maps instead of a single open world, each of them roughly the size o

At is pre-E3 press conference today, Microsoft unveiled the debut Assassin’s Creed: Origins gameplay trailer, finally confirming that the new game will depict the origin of the Brotherhood in ancient Egypt. Origins depicts “the birthplace of the Assassins Brotherhood,” creative director Jean Guesdon said, and is “also the story of one man, Bayek,” the last Magi and the protector of his community—something of an “Egyptian sheriff,” he explained. Naturally, stealth is central to the experience, bu

E3 officially kicks off with Microsoft’s press conference, and we’ll be watching to see what they unveil, which might be a closer look at Sea of Thieves, maybe some State of Decay 2, and hopefully a few new games. There will be lots of Xbox and Scorpio talk, naturally, but just about every game that comes to Microsoft’s console winds up on Windows 10, so it’s definitely worth tuning in for. You can watch it on YouTube, Twitch, Mixer, and a few other platforms. You can check out the schedule for

Well, the bad news is that Pure Farming 17 no longer exists. Say hello to Pure Farming 2018, everybody, and then get a load of this new trailer:Publisher Techland has clearly been studying the trailers for Farming Simulator, as 90% of the preceding video involved lingering shots of shiny, high-end farming equipment. “Pure Farming is our first farming sim and a very ambitious project, bringing a deep level of simulation across four diverse locations, a diverse stable of state-of-the-art, licensed

An ad has appeared on Reddit before it was supposed to, announcing that The Evil Within 2 is now available for pre-order (it isn’t), while linking to the official Evil Within site, which doesn’t yet have anything on it about the action-horror follow-up. Here’s what the ad said while it was up:”Bethesda returns you to the nightmare in The Evil Within 2. Gematsu reports that it has seen a second ad, which contained the following text:”From survival horror mastermind Shinji Mikami comes The Evil Wi

When Star Wars: Battlefront came out, I could waltz around with the default laser rifle and take out enemies from across the map. During the EA Play event, I got some hands-on time with the multiplayer, specifically on the Theed map set on Naboo from the best Star Wars film, The Phantom Menace. But in place of aimless lone-wolfers, the new class system encourages and actively rewards coordinated team play. I used it to clean out a corridor of droids pressing into the Theed throne room and yelled

First of all, it’s not just a co-op game, but a co-op only game. Creator Josef Fares said the idea for A Way Out stemmed from looking for a co-op experience that wasn’t simply drop-in, drop-out. Despite the fact that you’ll be playing A Way Out with a friend, Vincent and Leo don’t appear to be friends at all. While playing a split-screen game while sitting on a couch with a buddy feels normal, I feel like split-screen even while online might be tough to get used to. From what little we’ve seen,

Update: The YouTube channel’s about page has now been updated with a ‘fall 2018’ release date. We recently heard that BioWare’s new IP, revealed today as Anthem, would release in FY2019, which means sometime between Spring 2018 and Spring 2019. It turns out, at least if the game’s YouTube channel is to be believed, that BioWare and EA are striving to hit the earliest end of that timeframe. “Welcome to the official YouTube channel for Anthem, a new game from EA’s BioWare studio,” reads the channe

During the EA Play event today, CEO Andre Wilson announced that EA is donating a million dollars to anti-bullying charities. According to Wilson, over 5 million players took part. As token of thanks, Origin Access can be tried out for free for 7 days. Sign up before June 19, and you’ll get 7 days to try out Origin Access for free. You do have to sign up for either a monthly or yearly subscription, but “Cancel anytime during your 7-day free trial and you won’t be charged,” the site says.

During the production of Mass Effect: Andromeda, BioWare was working on a semi-secret new game, which was finally revealed today at EA’s 2017 E3 show. Anthem will release in Fall 2018Earlier, I updated this story to say that Anthem would release in spring 2018, because that’s when the official YouTube channel’s about section said it would release. It’s not an RPGAnthem is described by EA as an “action adventure” game, not an RPG, as reported by Polygon. So clearly there is a multiplayer componen

In what looks a lot like FIFA 17 and 18’s career story mode The Journey, NBA Live 18 will also give players a chance to create a character and guide them through a basketball career, starting with street hoops (in real-world courts) and leading to the NBA. Above, watch the trailer for the new story mode, called The One, which was revealed during EA Play. Free demos have been announced for consoles in August, though none was announced for PC (hopefully, we’ll get one too).