Final Fantasy XIV, remember that? Remember how Square Enix was supposed to make it all better? Well, according to Square Enix, the game’s latest trailer will “skip” E3. [Square Enix]
Time to check in again with the Outerra project, an engine that’s currently being developed that threatens to make video games more awesome. How dare it.
So much of what makes DayZ so enjoyable to play is in the intangibles. You can’t sum it up in bullet-points, or just say “it’s fun”, you need to experience a night in the dark with no food or water, on the run from both the living and the dead, to really get a handle on things.
As far as claims go, yes, I’m being bold and melodramatic. But then, so was Techland’s original Dead Island trailer, which I think set expectations for the co-op zombie shooter to unreachable levels and ultimately came back to haunt it. This time though, the situation is different. No zombies, dead kids or shattered families. Just ATVs. And funny. And trees.
Apparently this Metro: Last Light video appeared for a brief time on GameTrailers, but was quickly taken down. I’m not sure why it was removed, but whatever the reason it did little to stop one enterprising user from grabbing the clip and uploading it to YouTube. Inside we find almost four minutes for gameplay footage, along with a surprisingly solid interview with the developers.
If you’re not up to speed on what Bethesda’s Dishonored is all about, two things should fill you in nicely. One is Stephen Totilo’s “18 Things You Should Know About Dishonored”. And the other is that image at right, of a guy leaping off a rooftop and stabbing a dude in the neck.
Max Payne 3 does a lot of things right — from the relentless, blood-soaked gunplay to HEALTH’s astonishing soundtrack.