Of course, it wouldn’t be Sony at E3 without some rumors about “The Last Guardian“.
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“Xbox One backward capability allows you to play the games you have already invested in”, Spencer said, eliciting raucous cheers from an audience of gamers, partners and the press. DualShockers reports that Sony Computer Entertainment has previously announced the addition of non-Sony devices that will receive the service.
If that wasn’t enough, Sony revealed a lot of other cool things. Not an exact figure at all but provides a clue that it won’t come cheap and be available within the first half of 2016, so you all need to wait a while. Hopefully it will keep players occupied until the next iteration, which shouldn’t be too long – this is Street Fighter, after all. That hype permeated the room nearly the entire time, and my colleagues, as well as everyone else, could not stop talking about them after the show (you should have seen the initial look of denial on Charles’ face).
From publishers outside of Sony, Level-5 has said they will be bringing a new RPG to PS4 which may merit a spot in the show.
Jordan Saleh tries Sony’s Project Morpheus virtual reality headset at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
In an announcement that received thunderous applause from the crowd, Square Enix is remaking one of the most influential and loved games in history, role-playing classic Final Fantasy VII, and will release the title for the PlayStation 4 before it arrives on other platforms. Just kidding. I hope.
Virtual reality “experiences” will be built on top of Windows and that Xbox games will be playable on Rift, according to Microsoft. They give a brief demo, followed up by the most surreal video ever shown at E3. He spoke for a minute on the power of PlayStation and then went straight into introducing the first game.
But it was EA’s upcoming Star Wars Battlefront that really got fans clambering for more as epic fights in the famous movie universe impressed first-person shooter fans.
A gameplay trailer showing wave-based combat. He may be working for Sony as a freelancer now – his new company, Gen Design, is listed as a collaborator – but it looks as though he’s still guiding this troubled project through to the bitter end. There’s even some Shadow of the Colossus-style monster scaling (though unlike Wander, he’s not trying to kill it).
Developer Naughty Dog is the best in the business and the way this game is shaping up its going to be the one to beat in 2016.
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