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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s an assassin. That and more at Ubisoft’s E3 Press Conference!
It’s bound to be a great event, full to the brim of awesome games. Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, Watch Dogs and likely some other hidden gems will all be on show, and we’ll be covering every minute of it. Check out the live blog right here.
And there it is. Tom Clancy’s The Division.
Ubisoft said they were entering a new genre and apparently that genre is third-person shooter.
I assume these voices are players rather than AI characters?
Ghost Recon, maybe?
This is an online MMO RPG as well, apparently. I’m so confused.
It would make sense to be a Tom Clancy game.
Dark Winter and Black Friday would have been better names but oh well.
Apparently this ties into Tom Clancy.
This looks really cool. It’s called The Division, apparently.
What series is this part of????
This has to be related to Watch Dogs.
It’s a bioterror attack, Shaxster. Put the influenza virus on a single banknote on Black Friday and you destroy the world. Apparently.
This is depressing. Stop telling me how we’re all going to die, Ubisoft.
Ah. It’s a plague game.
What’s this about then? A virus? Capitalism?
Massive have recently been working on Far Cry 3 and Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, apparently. News to me.
Money money money.
This looks a lot like the Watch Dogs reveal.
We’re vulnerable, apparently.
Massive Games, behind the Ground Control series, apparently showing off a new IP here. Interesting.
One last thing. Made by Ubisoft Massive.
The games complement each other. 2013: The Year of the Second Screen.
At least if I don’t manage to rob enough banks to afford an Xbox One I can still play it.
Trials Fusion will be on 360, nice.
Ah, two new Trials games! A mobile one and a next gen one. Cool.
New Trials game!
Oh, I’m daft. All that talk of next-gen got me confused. Trials is better, though. Much better.
Beyond Good and Evil? Sounds like it from that introduction.
Hnggg. I want.
The song is “Full Circle” by Half Moon Run in case you were wondering. Awesome track, fitting for this.
This is really beautiful.
Here comes in-game footage of Black Flag.
I really, really hope this is better than 3 was. We’re seeing gameplay now.
This has been in development for two years. That’s good.
The combat looks much better. I hope the controls are improved.
This looks suitably epic.
Naval battles, obviously.
Beer bottle SMASH.
So much badassery.
This game will either be great or terrible.
New AC4 trailer.
Assassin’s Creed time.
It ruins the pacing of a TV show.
I’m not the target audience for this, obviously, kids are. This is a great game for kids.
This looks stupidddd.
Haha, of course this is partnered with Xbox One.
Because that was a trailer. Not the real thing.
Not seeing how that was in any way interactive, to be honest.
I’m surprised a Rabbids TV show didn’t happen sooner, to be honest.
You can play the TV show. Because logicccc.
Rayman Rabbids TV show. Good business move.
I do prefer Dance Central. But there’s no Dance Central this year so this will do.
I am so hyped for this.
I’m more of a Dance Central guy.
I will play this at Eurogamer. It will be filmed. You will laugh.
Oh god, we’re about to find out what dance Shaxster will be doing at Eurogamer this year.
Yay Just Dance 2014.
Was that it? Please give me more.
Don’t tell me what to do.
This is CGI fo sho.
You can’t put hyphens in a hashtag. Learn to internet.
I don’t think this is gameplay but I like it.
Oh look a strip club. #18-35yearoldmales
This game’s become oddly relevant now that Prism’s leaked.
Gameplay? Please be gameplay.
It is there. But I dislike it. I hate things like that.
I don’t care if the underscore isn’t really there. I choose to pretend that it is.
Don’t underscore it. Please don’t underscore it.
And here comes Watch_Dogs.
Watch Dogs time.
2013: The year of the fifth player.
To be fair that is awesome. Making a car on my iPad and then playing it on my TV.
OH GREAT. MOBILE INTEGRATION.
And now we’re seeing the social/rival crews aspect. That’s pretty great.
I am enjoying this so much that I keep forgetting to liveblog how much I’m enjoying this.
This game looks really great.
THAT’S WHAT THEY PROMISED ME, ANTONY.
I’m expecting there to be roads where you warp to a different area. You will not have the whole of America in a game.
The whole of America in a game? Impossiblez.
This game seems overly ambitious. It’s GOT to have a catch.
You can strip the car. Sexy.
‘Paul is wearing a hat so he’s not very good’. Brilliant.
You can drive to Las Vegas and Miami and oh my god this is awesome.
I’ll be driving a Vauxhall Corsa with obnoxious flame decals and a stupidly large spoiler. Keep an eye out.
And someone else is in the mountains near Chicago. This is so cool. Can I drive coast to coast? I want to be able to drive coast to coast.
Looks like a typical NFS race. Which is a good thing.
Showing us gameplay now. Starting off in NYC.
Just to advancely notify you: there’s going to be a Talkingship UK crew.
The entire game is an online persistent world. Very clever.
The world sounds huge. The whole of the USA, apparently. Not buying it.
Need for Speed meets MAG. Boom.
Woahhhhh. There are lots of different crews. Coming to next gen. in 2014.
Ah. It’s totally multiplayer. THAT’S why.
Not seeing anything spectacular about it though. Why buy this over NFS?
The Crew looks a lot like Need for Speed: Most Wanted. This is a very good thing to look like.
This could be fun, I guess.
Cars everywhere. Forza, The Crew, Need for Speed. CArrrr
2013: The Year of the Car
This is a really bad time for my stream to die.
I’ve actually kind of missed Yves Guillemot.
Next gen time. So fun.
I would type more here but I think I’m in some kind of coma.
I have never disliked anything Matt and Trey have done. So I’m sure I’ll love this. AND IT’S COMING THIS YEAR.
Oh god this looks brilliant.
I like South Park and I like video games so liking this makes sense.
YES SOUTH PARK.
*bleep* Ubisoft are *bleep* *bleep* trying too hard.
Well this got mature very quickly.
Is this supposed to be funny?
All in One. Input One. Xbox One.
This is like some weird Pixar movie trailer.
It’s some weird F2P game on the interwebs.
I am so confused about all of this right now.
Ah, he’s trying to get people to play his game that no one plays.
Soooo why are they talking about this here?
This isn’t a new game. This has been announced before, and is currently in beta.
The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot. What is this?
The musical map in the demo is one of the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had.
This looks like silly fun, which is what Rayman is all about. Can’t complain, I guess.
Ooh, competitive multiplayer. Looks great.
And the demo for Rayman Legends makes this seem even better.
You missed out: Rayman Origins is a superb game.
Nowwww we’re getting gameplay.
The last Rayman game I honestly played was back on the Game Boy Colour.
This trailer’s not as great as it should be. Why isn’t it gameplay?
This game looks so good. I hope it is good.
Yay Rayman!
This is really a bit tedious. I’m glad that’s over.
I hope the final game has 10 monitors on my screen at once.
BLACKLIST BLACKLIST BLACKLIST
That’s about a week before GTA V as well. Such a poor decision.
Bad move for Splinter Cell, methinks.
Splinter Cell releasing on the same day as Saints Row 4. Eep.
This game looks haxxor.
If you work for a game company, I can tell you that a good way to get me excited about video games is to have someone who isn’t Aisha Tyler talking about them.
#caffeinewood
Splinter Cell: Blacklist first. Guess they have to get that out the way.
There are no stupid questions. Just stupid people. And stupid hosting selections.
I kid, I just want to get some controversy going.
WATCH DOGS 2!
No one is laughing. No one is laughing at all.
Please bring out Mr Caffeine. Please bring our Mr Caffeine.
Aisha Tyler, hello. Please be better than he-who-shall-not-be-named.
The awkward jokes have begun.
I miss Rock Band, but now that’s gone I may end up grabbing Rocksmith.
So this game comes out this Fall. How great.
Don’t indulge her.
#girlwood
Oh look, it’s that woman from Archer.
Rocksmith 2014. Rhythm games live on, people!
Yup, all new 2014 edition of Rocksmith. How exciting.
If this even uses Kinect (it might not).
Can’t say I see what Kinect actually adds here.
This is Rocksmith, I think.
Nope, this is Rocksmith. Kinect-assisted, it seems. Pretty awesome.
Though I wouldn’t put it past Ubisoft for this to be a random throwaway thing.
Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains kicking off the conference? Well this is interesting. Something to do with Rocksmith, perhaps?
We’re gearing up, people. Conference #3. Let’s do a thing.
So that’s all fun. Thanks for joining us for our live blog, and stay tuned to Talkingship.com for all your E3 coverage!