E3 2013 News

It's a black box!

Adam West Batman is coming exclusively to PS3.

Sony surprised Vita owners by announcing the first season of The Walking Dead would come to the handheld, along with the 400 Days bonus episode

Vita is getting a number of new ports from PS3. The HD versions of God of War and God of War 2 will be making its way to Sony's handheld. In...

Look, I've written for Shacknews for four years so I'm familiar with the demographic. I know that you, dear reader, are probably not hugely excited about Ubisoft annualising the Just Dance series, even if Just Dance 2014's announcement today does confirm another next-gen lau...

Paper money really is quite filthy, but it takes a special type of hypochondriac or apocalypse fetishist to imagine a virus spread of notes bringing about the downfall of society. That's the premise of Tom Clancy's The Division, an online RPG Ubisoft announced for Xbox One a...

Sony's E3 press conference will be broadcast live from Los Angeles this evening at 6 p.m. PT (9 p.m. ET). We know you can't all be in LA to watch it live, so just watch it here instead.

Assassin's Creed 3 ended Desmond's story, letting go of narrative baggage that was holding the franchise down. "It was a barrier to entry for people that want to pick it up," Darby McDevitt, lead writer of Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, admitted.

"We're not going to waste any time," the lead writer of Assassin's Creed 4 promised. "He's going to be a pirate when you press Start."

Assassin's Creed 4 will launch with a free companion app for tablets, enabling "second screen gameplay" that's so trendy nowadays.

Today at its E3 press conference, Ubisoft introduced not one but two new Trials games: the futuristic, next-gen Trials Fusion, and the rustic, dirty mobile game Trials Frontier.

Ubisoft debuted The Crew today, a racing game with social hooks and online persistence akin to MMOs.

Ubisoft kicked off its pre-E3 press conference with a little rocking from Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell, which is certainly always welcome. Oh, but you see, it wasn't all for fun: he was there to unveil a new version of guitar tutorial game Rocksmith, which adds a...

We expect E3 trailers not to show the actual game. We forgive pre-rendered CGI and look the other way when it's clearly scripted, but the new Dark Souls II trailer simply takes the biscuit. It's 93 seconds long and mostly gameplay footage yet the player only dies perhaps thr...

Fewer indie developers were featured in Microsoft's pre-E3 press conference than one might hope for, but one of the few present certainly piqued our interest. Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP co-creator Capybara Games revealed Below, a mysterious rouguelike-like exclusive ...