Sony wraps up this 2016’s E3 conferences with a presentation distinct in tone from the others. There weren’t any dancing clowns, comedy bits, or ten minute speeches. Heck, the in-game dialogue outweighed the presenters by a significant margin, I’d wager. Sony put its full focus on the latest blockbuster experiences…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. In an otherwise deeply unenjoyable Ubisoft conference (seriously, give it a rest with the completely arbitrary open worlds, guys), Just Dance got to be a highlight. Related reading: Miku comes to Just Dance 2016 (last year’s game). No, I’m not joking. I genuinely enjoy Just Dance,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It would take a lot to drag me away from Overwatch at this stage. I’ve never been so intensely involved in a multiplayer combat game before. But the existence of Overwatch isn’t going to stop the absolute flood of other multiplayer combat games from washing over…
Read MoreSay what you will about Ubisoft’s presentation at E3 this year, but it was certainly…unique. The show opened with a distinctly bananas dance performance featuring monocle-wearing giraffes, crabs, and angel-clowns prancing to Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now. Yes, really. This eventually led into Just Dance 2017. The game will be…
Read MoreAs usual, Microsoft is the first of the “big three” game console manufacturers to hold its E3 presentation. While a large number of would-be “reveals” were regrettably (or intentionally) leaked days beforehand, the company still managed to put on a reasonably newsworthy show choc full of trailers and two hardware…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Frankly, a name like “Vampyr” is so cliched horror by now that if it wasn’t for the developers I probably wouldn’t have looked at it twice. But this game is by Dontnod, and I devoured every second of this E3 trailer as a result. Related reading:…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Koei Tecmo has been teasing a brand new Warriors title in the lead up to E3. We had been thinking it might have been based on a western franchise, which naturally led us to stuff like Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, but as it…
Read MoreWe have come to expect a lot from Bethesda, having delivered several of the best games of the last year (in this writer’s opinion) with Fallout 4, Fallout Shelter, Elder Scrolls Online and Doom. So the bar was set pretty high leading up to the company’s second annual Showcase event at…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. For the second E3 in a row, EA has opted to simply tease us with Mass Effect Andromeda. We know it’s in development. We know it’s meant to be coming in 2017 (in theory, anyway), but, as you’ll see from this trailer below, we still only…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The most exciting thing about EA’s rather disappointing showing at E3 this year (in which it promised an awful lot but showed off very little) was its Originals initiative. EA Originals comes on the back of the massive success that Unravel was for the publisher, and…
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