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Welcome to The Know It All for the week of June 12th, this week we've got Halo 5 details,
Assassin's Creed Syndicate is playable early for a select few at least.
And there's apparantly a scorpion loose in the office so I've been twitching and swatting at my legs pretty much the whole damn day
Anyway, let's start with video game news.
E3 is just around the corner and companies have already started having pre-E3 press conferences.
Now one such event was held yesterday by Oculus.
They unveiled the consumer model, the Oculus Rift, that'll hit shelves early next year but, sadly still no drill-down specs or a solid price point
There was however the announcement that Oculus will be partnering with Microsoft and shipping their headsets
with an Xbox One controller at launch which pissed off a lot of people apparently.
Now oculus will branch out on its own controller which they also showcased. It'll feature a half-moon hand grip tape thing and
and be able to utilize gesture controls as well as traditional triggers, buttons, and a joystick.
I have no faith that it'll work well, but maybe I'll be wrong.
Also I got Ryan to do this...
Ryan: Mmm! I'm all that is man!
It's good to work at Rooster Teeth. Moving on to more pre-E3 news of the less-planned variety
various leaks spoiled the release of two "new consoles". And by new I mean slight
re-designs of the existing PS4 and Xbox One.
Very slight. The slightly different PS4 will feature a one terabyte hard drive
And use "just" a little less power. The not really new XBox one will also have a one terabyte hard drive which
actually has already been available as part of the special edition Call of Duty Advanced Warfare bundle,
but now it'll be available without that. And it'll have a new controller.
The controller will feature a 35-millimeter headphone jack
right on the controller which should have been there for launch, not being salty.
And the redesign was leaked by Microsoft themselves who updated their schematic on their website
before its official announcement. Good job, guys.
Speaking of Microsoft there was lots of Halo 5 news this week thanks to Game Informer and the FunHaus guys broke it all down.
Now the biggest bullet points included the return of Fred, Linda, and Kelly as part of Chief's blue team.
Nathan Fillion will also make his return as Edward Buck as part of Locke's Fire Team Osiris.
Which sounds like a really bad cartoon.
And the news that 343 plans to release all of the DLC multiplayer maps
for free to avoid dividing the player base now that is very cool.
There was also the revelation that Agent Locke will be able to show players
alternate route through levels using his Artemis tracking system. And sadly that Halo 5 will not featuring local split-screen.
Lè boo.
There are a lot more details like I said in the full update plus the guys give Adam a hard time for loving Halo and it makes me feel for him.
Now to segue into people giving other people a hard time to say the very least,
legendary video game movie director Uwe Boll released a series of YouTube videos this week
in which he had this to say to everyone Uwe Boll: fuck yourself
Meg: What a nice guy. Boll was angry that his KickStarter for Rampage 3: No Mercy wasn't going
well with just three days left and apparently decided the best way to tell
everyone to give him money was to say Uwe Boll: fuck yourself Meg: He also shared wise words like
Uwe Boll: You're easier giving $600,000 if you make a movie about some retarded wizard in the forest.
Meg: Just amazing. Now that I'm sure your day is totally ruined by some hack director yelling at you,
how about a little something to cheer you up. Ubisoft announced this week that gamers in the Los Angeles
area would have a chance to play Assassin's Creed syndicate months ahead of its October release,
and would have the chance to discuss their feedback directly with the developers, provided
you're at least 17 and can actually be physically present at the event.
You'll also need to write a short essay that hopefully includes the phrase
"Blankety blankety blank" because it makes me happy. And finally a quick tidbit
Dice also announced this week that the next Mirror's Edge game will be called Mirror's Edge: Catalyst.
And rather than continue where Mirror's Edge 1 left off, Catalyst will dive into the back story of the game's protagonist, Faith.
In an attempt to fully realize the vision they set out with the last game that
basically was a case of we-think-we-had-a-good-idea-last-time,-
we-didn't-nail-the-execution,-we're-trying it-again. That's all the news for this week
but for more video game news and discussion check out this week's episode of
The Patch where Gus, Ryan, and I give our predictions for what we'll see at E3
and we drink some really discussing rum. It was horrible.
We'll be broadcasting live episodes of The Patch on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday live from E3 next week so
please pray for my liver and don't tell them anything about HearthStone. On this week's
episode of The Patch: Video Game Book Club we played Long Live the Queen and
surprisingly, everybody loved it; even Ryan. Now since we're out of the office next week we'll be back in two weeks with Shovel Knight.
That's all for this episode of The Know It All. Don't forget like I've said already we'll be
E3 next week so be sure to check out youtube.com/E3 for
all the awesomeness. We'll have live demos, exclusive interviews, live podcast
and lots of us making fools of ourselves. It's gonna be great I'm really excited. So
we'll see you there and have a great weekend guys.
<3 you!
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