‘The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’ is getting a sequel

At the end of its E3 presentation, Nintendo made a surprise announcement. There will be a sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The developer showed off a teaser for the game, which you can see above. It shows the return of the Link and Zelda from the previous title exploring a cave. There they encounter what looks like the corpse of Ganondorf beneath Hyrule Castle. What we don’t know is when the game is coming out.

Ubisoft releases preview of new roller derby game, ‘Roller Champions’

One of Ubisoft’s new announcements at E3 2019 is a new roller derby game called Roller Champions. And there’s a PC-only pre-alpha preview that’s playable until June 14^th. The game will launch in early 2020 on a free-to-play model. The developers describe the game as a team-based, player-versus-player sports game where the players need to work their way up from street derby leagues to championships. The pre-alpha version of the game features two arenas and six playable characters that will be grouped in teams of three.

Source: The Verge

Ubisoft teases ‘Rainbow Six Quarantine’

Ubisoft has a new Rainbow Six game called Rainbow Six Quarantine. It’s a co-op PvE spinoff to Rainbow Six Siege. Lead game designer Bio Jade calls it “a squad-based tactical shooter for three players at a time.” You will see some familiar characters in the game, but you can consider Rainbow Six Quarantine as a jumping-on point for new players. PCGamer thinks the idea behind the game is taken from the popular Outbreak mode in Siege’s Year 3.

The game is being developed by a new team inside Ubisoft Montreal, who are the developers of Rainbow Six Siege. You don’t get to see gameplay in the teaser above, but the developers have high hopes for Quarantine. “What Siege is to the PvP shooter genre, we will be to PvE co-op,” it said. The game is coming out in early 2020, but you can sign up to receive updates and possibly play an early beta here.

Source: Variety

There will be an optical drive on the Project Scarlett Xbox console

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If the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition had you worried that Microsoft was dropping the optical drive for its next-generation console, then a couple of execs from the company are here to assure you that it won’t be going away for this version. Xbox chief Phil Spencer and Microsoft Game Studios head Matt Booty confirmed to different outlets that you will be able to use your disc collection with the Project Scarlett Xbox console. Spencer told GameIndustry.biz, “But we know that people still have discs. So even when we put out things like the Xbox One S All-Digital edition, we are very clear with the name because I am not trying to confuse anybody, that if you are somebody that has a library of discs, or that’s the way you want to acquire the content, then you should buy the Xbox One S, not the Xbox One S All-Digital... which is why we put it in the name. I want to give people choice, and right now physical is a choice that millions of people love.”

Booty echoed his sentiments in an interview with Eurogamer, “Scarlett will have an optical disc drive. I still have films at home on physical media—not many, but a few of my favorites. We know people have an attachment to buying games on disc, to building a collection.” This doesn’t necessarily mean that we won’t see a disc-less version of this console, though. Project Scarlett is the next-generation console from Microsoft. It’ll run on a custom-designed processor based on AMD’s Zen 2 and Radeon RDNA architecture, GDDR6 RAM, and will support 8K gaming, ray-tracing, variable refresh rate support, and framerates of up to 120 frames per second.

Source: The Verge