The first teaser for the next ‘The Walking Dead’ game has just arrived

Telltale’s video game series based on The Walking Dead is one of the studio’s most popular and acclaimed offerings, but it’s been a long time a new game has been released. We just found out that the game’s third “season” would arrive this fall, and today a new trailer has dropped just as E3 is getting underway. The minute-long teaser shows off the requisite post-apocalyptic setting, complete with gruesome zombies, that The Walking Dead is known for — but we also see the Clementine character all grown up (relatively speaking) for the first time. The video is otherwise light on details, but it still is getting us excited for the game’s launch later this year.

‘Quake’ is coming back to the PC with a modern twist or two

Bethesda kicked off its big E3 2016 showcase with a old favorite: Quake. Big guns, team battles, gore. Quake Champions is coming — at the moment to PCs and will be arena-style shooter “designed for people at all skill levels”. The most impressive technical part? The team is promising 120Hz with unlocked framerates. That’s seriously smooth — and sounds so very ready for VR. Of course, it’s also perfectly timed in a current = boom in competitive shooters, especially with the mention of “characters with unique abilities” — like this thing. Gaze at the trailer below, but be warned it’s a bit graphic in that Quake kinda way.

‘Skyrim Special Edition’ is the remaster you asked for

The rumors are true: We’re getting a prettier version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Developer Bethesda ported the original game to this round of modern consoles as part of the development process for last year’s wildly popular Fallout 4, so it was just a matter of time before we actually saw it. And guess what? Mods are coming with it, thanks to Bethesda’s framework that allows players to use fan-made customizations on consoles. This new version of the game looks really well-improved in the visual department too and you can check it out in the trailer embedded below.

Does mod support mean that we’ll see the game’s dragons replaced with My Little Ponies? It certainly sounds like it. Let’s hope that Bethesda has that pesky piracy situation under control soon. Time to get those vocal cords ready for all the shouting (FUS RO DAH) you’ll be doing come October 28th when it launches for new-gen consoles.

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‘Fallout Shelter’ heads to PC in July, ‘Fallout 4’ gets new DLC

Fallout Shelter has evolved past its mobile confines and it’s set to hit PC in July, Bethesda announced today at E3. Plus, Fallout Shelter will get an update in July that introduces quests and adds a new combat system, characters, foes and locations. Hey, we told you Fallout Shelter was getting more like Fallout 4.

Fallout 4 is also getting bigger and badder with three new pieces of DLC: the Contraptions Workshop, Vault-Tec Workshop and a Nuka-World theme park experience. The game has already received three bits of downloadable content with the Automatron, Wasteland Workshop and Far Harbor expansions, all of which were included in the game’s $30 Season Pass. The add-ons announced at E3 aren’t included in the original Season Pass.

Fallout 4 introduced mods on PC — and console. Mod functionality hit Xbox One earlier this year and the it’ll hit PlayStation 4 later this month. A few unscrupulous players on Xbox One ended up stealing some Fallout 4 PC mods and hosting them on the console as original work. Bethesda has provided instructions for content creators who want to issue DMCA takedown notices for intellectual property infringement.

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Try the first level of ‘Doom’ for free this week

The new Doom has launched to rave reviews, but today at E3 Bethesda announced it was looking to get even more people into the game. To that end, the first level of Doom will be available for free on Steam, Xbox One and PS4 this week only. The company said it was meant to be in the spirit of shareware demos that were so popular on the PC way back when the first Doom was popular, but this teaser is a bit more restrictive, since it’ll only last for a week. Still, it’s a better demo than most games offer these days.
For those already playing Doom, Bethesda also said that more DLC was coming soon, including new maps and multiplayer modes, including classic deathmatch. But if you need more friends to play the game with, just point them to the free demo this week and see if you can get them hooked — it should be available starting as of tonight.

‘Dishonored 2’ gameplay teaser reveals new powers, casual time-travel

Finally, Bethesda gave us a real look at how Dishonored 2 will play. With a now grown-up Emily Kaldwin, players will get a chance to play as both her and the last game’s protagonist, Corvo. Aside from gameplay changes, it will also offer different shades of the story depending on who you play with. But that’s just the start. The game has really cranked up the detail of the world, aiming to better convey the backstory and fiction that also embodied the first game. To that end, it’s got a new game engine as well: The Void engine. (It’s a Dishonored thing.) And then there’s the new power set.

While the “domino” power looks like it could create some fun permutations with other powers, it’s the introduction of a time-traveling component to both solve puzzles and get past enemies that looks the most intriguing. It’ll be interesting to see how Bethesda handles time-travel quirks in a game when there’s so much mischief to wrought.

Players will be able to pick and choose between two warring factions (or even neither of them), while the game also seems to have a bit more pace to it compared to its predecessor. We hope to have more details later this week here at E3. And yes, there will be limited edition versions of Dishonored 2 — and preordering the game will get you the remastered version of the original.