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Xbox One

Caffeine gets new 4K screenshots

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Back in March I wrote about how during GDC 2015 it was announced Caffeine was coming to Xbox One. Now during the chaos that is E3 it seems Dylan Browne, the one man team behind this first person psychological horror, is ready to share some new 4K screenshots with us all.

Check out all the new 4K screenshots over on the games website here.

“Caffeine is a quirky horror adventure game with environmental puzzles. Set in the near future, the entire population of Earth is vigorously addicted to coffee. Massive space stations built by the biggest corporations roam the stars mining minerals to create a synthetic caffeine. You awaken aboard one of these caffeine mining stations alone. Before long you realize that you are a young boy with no memory of what has transpired on this seemingly empty space station. Naturally you set out to explore the depths of the huge structure to figure out what exactly is going on.”

Caffeine is currently in development using Unreal Engine 4 and has been set for a 2015 release.

And just in case you missed it here is the latest trailer promising to keep you awake at night…

 

Events, Media, News, Trailers, Xbox One

Watch Phil Spencer’s GDC presentation

Yesterday there was a huge amount of exciting news coming out of GDC, with the announcement of Elite Dangerous getting the TiX team giddy with excitement. If you’ve yet to digest the mountain of ID@Xbox content that Phil reported on, then take a look at Phil Spencer’s full GDC presentation below – the only dampener on yesterday’s news is the rumour that Phil Harrison might be leaving Microsoft.

Media, Xbox One

GDC Awards nominations announced

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2015 marks the 15th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards. The ceremony will take place on March 4 during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco with thirteen awards that include an ‘Audience Award’ that is conducted by an online poll – the winners of the Lifetime Achievement, Pioneer and Ambassador awards will be announced prior to the event.

The nominees for the other nine categories have been announced, with Monolith Production’s Shadow of Mordor receiving five nominations. Alien has had a rocky history with gamers so it’s great to see Alien Isolation pick up three nominations although I’m a bit gutted to see my GOTY contender (Titanfall) slip into ‘Honorable Mentions’ especially as I found Destiny to be a lukewarm experience in regards to story and PvP. Far Cry 4 manages to sneak in a nomination to technology, which given Ubisoft’s difficult 2014 with game launches, it’s great to see the visually spectacular open-world shooter getting a nomination.

Here’s the full list of nominations:

GAME OF THE YEAR
  • Bayonetta 2 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)
  • Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
  • Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)
  • Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard)
  • Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)

Honorable Mentions: Titanfall (Respawn/Electronic Arts), Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft), Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts), Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (Sora Ltd. and BANDAI NAMCO/Nintendo)

INNOVATION AWARD
  • Bounden (Game Oven)
  • Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
  • This War of Mine (11 bit studios)
  • Monument Valley (Ustwo)
  • The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)

Honorable Mentions: Crypt of the Necrodancer (Brace Yourself Games), Extrasolar (Lazy 8 Studios), Elite: Dangerous (Frontier Developments), Elegy For A Dead World (Dejobaan Games), 80 Days (Inkle Studios)

BEST DEBUT
  • Yacht Club Games (Shovel Knight)
  • Respawn Entertainment (Titanfall)
  • The Astronauts (The Vanishing of Ethan Carter)
  • Stoic Studio (The Banner Saga)
  • Upper One Games (Never Alone)

Honorable Mentions: Dynamighty (CounterSpy), Hinterland Games (The Long Dark), 1337 & Senri (Leo’s Fortune), MachineGames (Wolfenstein: The New Order), Hipster Whale (Crossy Road)

BEST DESIGN
  • Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
  • Shovel Knight (Yacht Club Games)
  • Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts)
  • Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo EAD Tokyo and 1-Up Studio/Nintendo)
  • Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard)

Honorable Mentions: Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo EAD Tokyo/Nintendo), Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega), Destiny (Bungie/Activision), Monument Valley (Ustwo), Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)

BEST HANDHELD/MOBILE GAME
  • Threes! (Sirvo)
  • Super Smash Bros. 3DS (Sora Ltd. and BANDAI NAMCO/Nintendo)
  • Hearthstone (Blizzard)
  • 80 Days (Inkle Studios)
  • Monument Valley (Ustwo)

Honorable Mentions: Bounden (Game Oven), Bravely Default (Silicon Studio and Square Enix/Nintendo and Square Enix), Desert Golfing (Blinkbat Games), Velocity 2X (FuturLab), Fantasy Life (Level-5/Nintendo)

BEST VISUAL ART
  • Monument Valley (Ustwo)
  • Hohokum (Honeyslug and Sony Santa Monica/Sony)
  • Child of Light (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
  • Bayonetta 2 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)
  • Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)

Honorable Mentions: Never Alone (Upper One Games/E-Line Media), The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts), Transistor (Supergiant Games), Broken Age: Act 1 (Double Fine Productions), Destiny (Bungie/Activision)

BEST NARRATIVE
  • 80 Days (Inkle Studios)
  • This War of Mine (11 bit studios)
  • Kentucky Route Zero: Episode 3 (Cardboard Computer)
  • Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
  • The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)

Honorable Mentions: Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts), Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft), Tales From The Borderlands: Episode 1 (Gearbox Software/Telltale Games), D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die (Access Games/Microsoft), Hatoful Boyfriend (Mediatonic/Devolver Digital)

BEST AUDIO
  • Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)
  • Hohokum (Honeyslug/Sony)
  • Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
  • Transistor (Supergiant Games)
  • The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)

Honorable Mentions: Child of Light (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die (Access Games/Microsoft), Bayonetta 2 (Platinum Games/Nintendo), Crypt of the Necrodancer (Brace Yourself Games)

BEST TECHNOLOGY
  • Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
  • Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
  • Wolfenstein: The New Order (MachineGames/Bethesda)
  • Elite: Dangerous (Frontier Developments)
  • Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)

Honorable Mentions: Assassin’s Creed Unity (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), The Last of Us: Remastered (Naughty Dog/Sony), Sunset Overdrive (Insomniac Games/Microsoft), Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega), Infamous: Second Son (Sucker Punch Productions/Sony)

Events, Xbox 360

Battlefield 4 Reveal Soon?

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IGN who might actually know more than they are letting on anyway, has taken their invitation to an EA event during the Games Developers Conference 2013 to report this as a potential Battlefield 4 reveal.

At last year’s Games Developers Conference, EA revealed Medal of Honor Warfighter and Battlefield 3’s Close Quarters content – so a full blown next-gen reveal of Battlefield 4 does seem very likely. Unless the next Xbox is revealed by March 26th when the event takes place (which is unlikely) at least there’ll be a PS4 to gawp at which has already been announced, unless of course you live under a rock!

It is already known that Battlefield 4 has been shown to retailers behind closed doors, and that a Beta is on the cards this year.

We’ll keep you posted when we know more ourselves.

Via IGN