E3 2014: Microsoft Press Conference - Sunset Overdrive, Scalebound, Crackdown, Phantom Dust, it's all about the games

Microsoft starts E3 2014 and they're message was clear this time around - There will be games on Xbox One. They didn't waste a single minute on anything else. The Xbox team behind Phil Spencer just went up there and showed all the titles we can expect from Xbox One. What was presented? Here's a summary of what went down.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare gameplay demo

Forza Horizon 2 on 1080p. Out September 30

Dragon Age Inquisition trailer

Assassin's Creed: Unity Gameplay Demo. 4 player co-op campaign revealed

Sunset Overdrive trailer and Sunset Overdrive gameplay demo. Game out on October 28

New Dead Rising 3 DLC - Super Ultra Dead Rising 3 Arcade Remix

Fable Legends gameplay reveal - 4 player co-op, with one player as the villain/dungeon master

Project Spark, Conker joins the project

Ori and the Blind Forest announced

Halo: Master Chief Collection announced for Xbox One - Out November 11

Makers of Limbo reveal their new game - Inside, coming first on Xbox One

New Tomb Raider announced - Rise of the Tomb Raider, out 2015

Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt Open-World gameplay demo

Phantom Dust revealed for Xbox One

Tom Clancy's The Division gameplay demo. Xbox One players will receive exclusive DLC content

Platinum Games announce Xbox One Exclusive - Scalebound

New Crackdown announced for Xbox One to close the show

Quick mentions

-ID @ Xbox, Microsoft's indie side strengthened.

- Halo: Night fall TV Series currently shooting.

- Halo: Master Chief Collections comes with access to Halo 5: Guardians beta that's coming this holiday.

- The Halo: Master Chief Collection is quite different from other collections. You have all 4 games remastered in one disc, with the ability to create playlists mixing missions from other Halo games (Example - Do the last mission of Halo 1, then next mission on the playlist can be Halo 4's 4th mission)

- Dance Central: Spotlight and Fantasia: Music Evolved announced. Digital only distribution, out this fall

-Xbox One players to get premiere content for Dragon Age Inquisition

-DLC for Evolve comes first on Xbox One

- Forza 5 users get a free course - the Nürburgring

That's Microsoft's press conference in a nutshell. What do you think? We consider this the best conference from them in years. More of our impressions on a future post as well as our E3 coverage episode on the TMG Podcast.

Xbox One controller can now be used on PC

The ability to use Xbox One's controller on your gaming PC is here. Microsoft just announced that Windows drivers for the new controller are now available for download.  The windows update to include the driver is coming in the near future, but if you want to make use of the new controller right now you can download the driver at Major Nelson's website.

For us, it's about time since the Xbox One controller is a great improvement from the Xbox 360 controller. The price for a new controller is quite a hefty amount, but it's good to know we can now make the switch.

[Source: Major Nelson]

Watch_Dogs Week

As most of you know, one of the most anticipated games of the year, Watch_Dogs, just came out earlier this week and most of us here on TMG pre-ordered the game and already have it. Which means We've got a bunch of Watch_Dogs content in store for you this week.

Migoy captured and streamed his first hour of the game for a quick look as well as some clips from said stream. Arlie's been streaming a lot of his playthrough of the PS4 version of the game on our twitch channel and has made some clips of his own. We are also going to talk about our impressions of Watch_Dogs this weekend for episode 34 of the TMG Podcast. Watch_Dogs is currently available for all platforms (except for the WiiU at the moment) at Datablitz, so if you haven't already, go check it out.

Here's our Watch_Dogs quick look

Here are some clips taken from our Watch_Dogs livestreams

Steam In-Home Streaming now available to all users

Steam got an update today, giving  all users the ability to play any of their games in any computer at home, leaving your high-end computer to do all the work. All you need is a Windows PC, a good connection, and another computer connected to your Steam account that's also on the same network. 

I've tried this feature and it actually works. I simply leave my main gaming PC on and online, then I installed Steam on a 5 year old laptop that isn't built for gaming. When I log in using the laptop, instead of the usual "Install option on each game, I see the button "Stream". I click it and bam, the game turns on in my gaming PC, and I see the game on my laptop. All processing is done by the hosting computer, it simply feeds the output to the laptop. Any input I do on my old laptop will be transferred to the host computer for execution. You can now play.

Currently, Windows PC is the only system that can be the hosting computer. SteamOS, Linux, and Mac OS X will be able to host in the future. No date was given though. But you can stream any game to any system.

I'm sure you have guessed it by now - The performance of this In-Home Streaming is all based on your internet connection. It sounds all neat, but it won't be worth it if we are seeing input lag during a session. I was experiencing input lag making it hard to even play on the first 30 minutes. I checked who might be using the internet this early in the morning and noticed my nephew was watching a YouTube video on 1080p. Once he was done with his video, I saw improvements with my input, but it can still be a pain, especially when your trying to dodge a huge sword in Dark Souls 2.

The update is free for all Steam users. Simply update your client to get it.

Have you tried the new in-home streaming? Let us know your experiences below. If you have any more questions, check out this link to get all the additional information you might need about this new update.

Darksiders Lives! New publisher says series isn't dead

Praise the sun!  The publisher who picked up the Darksiders franchise from the THQ auction sale has confirmed that the series isn't dead! There's nothing to show, but it's good to know that we'll be seeing a Darksiders 3 in the future.

In a Facebook post from former series Creative Director Joe Madureira, he answers a series of question and confirms that the Darksider franchise lives on.

Nordic Games(New owners of the franchise) later gave a statement regarding the future of Darksiders to RPS:

“With regards to Darksiders 3: of course we’ve always been busy in the background, talking to a lot of former team members about a continuation of the series, but we are not ready to announce anything officially. Joe Madureira is spot on in saying that DS is not dead and we are committed, though.”

“Before we can say something about the ‘how’ and ‘when’ of publishing/financing the sequel is concerned, we are still busy in properly figuring out the ‘who’ part of this large-scale project. All I can say is that we can and will not settle for second-best solutions in the case of Darksiders.”

Great news considering the Darksiders franchise was in a "wait and see" position for months after it was acquired by Nordic Games.

Last year, THQ declared bankruptcy and had to auction off all their properties to the highest bidder. Darksiders was among the franchises for sale but was not picked up on the first auction event. It was during the second auction sale that Darksiders got a bid from a company, making Nordic Games it's new home.

Since the acquisition, this is the first big news to come out regarding the future of Darksiders.