Category: Games

Fallout: New Vegas developer Obsidian’s new RPG, The Outer Worlds, seems like it’ll have something new to show at E3 2019. The game’s Twitter account today posted a cryptic message that suggests some kind of E3 announcement/showing is coming up.

“The Board wants to let you know to pay attention to broadcasts from Los Angeles, California, Earth, in the coming weeks for [REDACTED],” reads the message.

It seems that The Outer Worlds is one of the 14 Xbox Game Studios projects that Microsoft will show off at E3 2019. Microsoft acquired Obsidian in 2018.

The Outer Worlds is being published by Grand Theft Auto parent company Take-Two Interactive’s new indie games label, Private Division, and it’ll be released on Xbox One, as well as PS4 and PC.

The 14 Xbox Game Studios games that Microsoft is bringing to E3 2019 is more first-party titles than the company has ever had at E3.

The PC edition of The Outer Worlds will be released on the Epic Store and Windows Store first, before coming to Steam a year later. Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky, who worked on the original Fallout, are heading up the team making The Outer Worlds. The game is showing a lot of promise, and as mentioned, it’s set for release sometime in 2019.

The first trailer for Pixar’s newest movie, Onward, has arrived. The film takes place in a fantasy world and stars two teenage brothers who are elves.

Together, they “embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there.” Here’s the magical first trailer:

The brothers, Ian and Barney, are voiced by Spider-Man actor Tom Holland and Star-Lord actor Chris Pratt, respectively. Octavia Spencer and Julia Louis-Dreyfus also voice characters.

The movie is directed by Dan Scanlon and produced by Kori Rae; they worked together on Monsters University. Onward releases in theatres in March 2020.

Pixar’s next movie is the much-anticipated Toy Story 4, which debuts in June.

Destiny 2‘s Season of Opulence kicks off on Tuesday, June 4, marking the final new content under its current annual pass subscription. What happens in Destiny 2 after that? There’s been a lot of speculation from players, but it looks like we’re about to find out.

On Twitter, Bungie teased what is seemingly a livestream set to take place at 10 AM PT on Thursday, June 6, to discuss “the next chapter of Destiny 2.” Let the speculation begin, since we have no idea what that next chapter might be.

It’s been clear to Destiny 2 players keeping up with the annual pass–the second since the release of Destiny 2–that Bungie is building its story in a particular direction. The endgame content that came with the Forsaken expansion, concerning the besieged Dreaming City, has slowly unfolded over the last two seasons, hinting that secret enemies are executing plans of which we’ve only seen the edges and margins. That conflict might come to a head in the Season of Opulence, but that seems unlikely since the next content drop returns players to the Leviathan, the scene of Destiny 2’s first raid, and concerns a different group of characters.

The Dreaming City situation doesn’t seem primed to wrap up anytime soon, and that suggests there’s more content coming for Destiny 2 before the release of the seemingly inevitable Destiny 3. A third year of Destiny 2 content is in line with what a lot of players have been expecting, and it would make sense for Bungie to hold back a new Destiny title to correspond with the start of a new console generation.

The timing of the announcement also seems remarkable. Breaking with the usual pattern, Bungie is releasing Destiny 2’s new raid, Crown of Sorrows, with the start of the Season of Opulence, rather than waiting a few days for players to gear up for it. Bungie’s announcement about Destiny 2’s future takes place two days later, which would give the game’s top raid teams all the time they’ll need to finish Crown of Sorrows–and discover whatever story implications it presents. Fans on Reddit are already expecting that whatever happens on the Crown of Sorrows will point players back to the Dreadnaught, a Destiny 1 location that leaks and speculation have suggested would be the setting for the game’s next expansion.

It’s also worth remembering that the Season of Opulence marks the last of the announced Destiny 2 content from before Bungie’s split with publisher Activision. Whatever comes next, it’ll be the first Destiny content Bungie creates purely on its own. With the way Destiny’s story has been going of late, suggesting the approach of more evil aliens and the possibility that some heroes could fall to darkness, there’s a lot the developer could explore.

Ahead of its E3 2019 showcase, additional details about Marvel’s Avengers have leaked via the E3 Coliseum website. Those details have since been removed from the site, but they revealed Square Enix’s upcoming Marvel superhero game will feature both solo and co-op play.

The description for the Marvel’s Avengers Showcase once read, according to PC Gamer, “Embrace your powers and join key members of the development team at Crystal Dynamics and the creative team at Marvel Games as they talk exclusively about the upcoming Marvel’s Avengers. This is the defining Avengers gaming experience: an epic action-adventure that combines cinematic storytelling with continuous single-player and co-operative gameplay. Moderated by Andrea Rene, assemble in teams up to four players, master extraordinary abilities, customize your heroes to fit your playstyle, and combine powers to defend an ever-expanding world under constant threat.”

Now, the showcase’s description has been trimmed down to read, “Join Crystal Dynamics and Marvel Games for a Panel about Marvel’s The Avengers.”

Announced via a January 2017 teaser trailer (seen above) as The Avengers Project, Marvel’s Avengers will finally have an official reveal during Square Enix’s E3 2019 press conference, scheduled for June 10 at 6 PM PT / 9 PM ET / 2 AM BST. There’s very little information about the game currently available, although we do know Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics and Deus Ex studio Eidos Montreal are behind it. The original teaser seemed to imply the game’s story would focus on the Avengers reassembling after the “time of heroes” has long since passed.

In the teaser trailer, we see Captain America’s vibranium shield, Iron Man’s repulsor gauntlet, Thor’s Mjolnir hammer, and Bruce Banner’s cracked glasses–suggesting the game could focus on the first team of Avengers (though nothing pointing to the other two original Avengers, Ant-Man/Giant-Man and Wasp is shown). Because of how damaged the shield, gauntlet, hammer, and glasses in the trailer are, the video could also be hinting that Marvel’s Avengers takes place in the aftermath of the original team’s defeat and see the rise of a new generation of heroes.