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E3 News Bytes

Tues 16 June 2015

Shenmue 3

A Kickstarter campaign was launched during the Sony E3 press conference, and has broken its target of 2 million dollars in less than 10 hours. There's still 31 days left, so if you want a piece of this sequel for a low price, head on over and take a look.
Shenmue 3 campaign here

Black Ops 3
Xbox loses it's exclusivity deal. More surprising, is that map dlc, will be exclusive to PS4 a whole month before the Xbox.

Arkham Knight
There will be exlusive dlc available for the PS4, in this grim looking Batman title.

Gears of War 4
It's happening, and shall be released later next year.

Dark Souls 3
Will be getting released in 2016, for PC, PS4, and XO. It will be the last one in the series.

SouthPark The Fractured and Whole
Will see the characters return in another RPG by Ubisoft. This time, Cartman and Co. will be appearing as Coon and friends.

Xbox Mods
Microsoft are to allow game mods on the Xbox. Games that will be mod enabled include Fallout 4. Also, Fallout 3 will be packaged with Fallout 4, on the Xbox One.

Xbox 360 Games on Xbox One
Xbox One is to get backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 games. Just put in a physical Xbox 360 disc, which then triggers a game download on the Xbox One. The feature will be available for everyone at the end of the year, and it will have no service fees or charges.

Xbox One Elite Controller
Aimed more towards pro gamers, it take's the idea of scuf pads, by placing paddles on the underside of the controller, as well as improving analogue precision.

EA Access for Gold
For the rest of the week, all titles on EA's Access, are free to play for all Gold subscribers.

EA Bits
NFS an appearance on the show. The graphics are scarily amazing. Is it a human placed in the game, or polygons.. it's too hard to call. The cars look very shiny and realistic too.

Mirror's Edge Catalyst will be openworld.

Starwars Battlefront looks graphically impressive too, the models look as if you could hold the items in real life, they're that close looking to the physical counterparts.

Unravalled is a new cute IP.

Mass Effect 4 was announced and showcased.

More E3 News Bytes will follow at just gone 2am BST.