Missed the E3 coverage? Never fear, Ross Everett is here to take you on a whistle-stop tour of the event while cracking funnies, hassling attendees and generally being a giant doofus. Enjoy!
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E3 Video Roundup
Posted on Jun 11, 2012 10:01:54 AM
Sleeping Dogs: Infernal Affairs By Way of GTA
Posted on Jun 8, 2012 11:04:20 AM
This scrappy Activision reject comes out fighting. Take Hong Kong-set thriller Infernal Affairs. Throw away the half of the plot about an undercover gangster posing as a cop (you’ll only need the half about an undercover cop posing as a gangster). Stir in a blend of skull-cracking martial arts and gunplay from bloodier, shootier Hong Kong action flicks. Pour it into the Grand Theft Auto mould for a free-roaming urban crime adventure. And there you have Sleeping Dogs, the game formerly–more prosaically–known as True Crime: Hong Kong.
SMASH! Criterion Making Need For Speed Most Wanted
Posted on Jun 8, 2012 10:00:45 AM
“Do you have what it takes to become Most Wanted?” asks EA’s press release for Need For Speed: Most Wanted, as they begin their recruitment drive for murderers. Oh! No, wait. This is nonsense marketing speak for “Would you like to play our game?” The very splendid news that Criterion – developers of one of the best games ever, Burnout: Paradise – are remaking the 2005 racer greets us this E3morn, which they promise will embrace the developer’s best skills. And that means… SMASHING THROUGH BARRIERS! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
South Park: The Stick Of Truth: The Trailer Of Footage
Posted on Jun 7, 2012 10:00:52 AM
Obsidian’s South Park RPG is now known as South Park: The Stick Of Truth. It has a trailer, and it sure does look and sound a hell of a lot like South Park. As in, it looks almost exactly like an episode of South Park, which is a fantastically ringing endorsement for the ongoing power and versatility of 2D art as opposed to its theoretically more high-tech 3D cousin.
Warface? Warface!
Posted on Jun 6, 2012 01:43:38 PM
Warface, Warface Warface Warface. Warface? War…face. Warface Warface Warface. Warface! Warface, War, Face, War, Face. Warface. Warface. WARFACE.
Battlefield 3: Armored Kill
Posted on Jun 5, 2012 10:24:08 AM
Battlefield 3 Armored Kill is a new downloadable content pack for Battlefield 3 on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. Armored Kill will be released in the Summer of 2012, and will focus on armored warfare, with large, open maps, new vehicles, including new main battle tanks.
Fight In The Shade: Skyrim’s Dawnguard Trailer
Posted on Jun 1, 2012 02:59:00 PM
When Skyrim’s Dawnguard DLC was announced, we were worried it might end up just being a pair of equippable contact lenses. A new prE3 trailer shows that it’s actually some manner of major expansion with attempts to blot out the sun being made and all sorts. What seems clear is that players will be faced with a choice; do you wish to live in a graveyard and eat people, all supernatural-like, or would you rather have a pair of equippable contact lenses? See for yourself.
CryEngine 3 / Beam Physics: Soft Body, Hard Metal
Posted on May 30, 2012 10:00:25 AM
In response to our various sightings of Crysis 3, the RPS stronghold is currently flying these flags: blue with green braiding, taupe with a cyan crucifix and burple with vibrant lavender thistle emblems. And we all know what that says about our opinions on Crytek’s next shooter. Even as we debate the openy worlidiness or lack thereof of Prophet’s latest alien-hectoring rampage, it’s worth keeping in mind that Crytek have, by and large, been good for game technology.
Dragon’s Lair Review
Posted on May 29, 2012 10:01:13 AM
Dragon’s Lair was a colossal hit back in the days when visuals in video games were first evolving from wads of pixels to recognizable and iconic sprites such as Mario. Its appeal lay in its novelty. Harnessing the talents of celebrated animator Don Bluth, Dragon’s Lair marked an ambitious attempt to jump over 10 years into the future, chucking the standard digital conventions of the day and being based entirely on animation.
Planetside 2′s Fire In The Sky
Posted on May 28, 2012 07:13:02 PM
If there’s any justice in this dark, terrible world, PlanetSide 2 will be the last action videogame we ever need. If it can do what the first game did, fix the problems and escalate it to new places… then ooh. Ooh. I do fear what the post-COD ubiquity of ranking systems and unlocks might do to it, mind. This peek at ‘massive air combat’ certainly allays worries it’ll be a small-scale territory war at least, and demonstrates that PS2 intends to use the skies far more than its proud predecessor did.