e3 2012

Moscow Sees Rain For The First Time In This Gameplay Demo Of Metro: Last Light

Take a look at the E3 gameplay demonstration that I checked out last month. Moscow is changing, and so is Artyom.


Watch Five Hits And One Kidnapping In 17 Minutes Of Hitman: Absolution

Enjoy a developer-guided playthrough of one level — called “The Streets of Hope” — in Hitman: Absolution, shown at this year’s E3.


Watch Stealthy Vs Not-So-Stealthy Assassinations In Dishonored

These two gameplay videos of Arkane Studios/Bethesda’s stealth-action game, Dishonored, give you a look at what Jason saw at E3.


You Will Be Excited About PlanetSide 2, Even If It Takes An Seven Minutes To Explain

Why do I want more PC gamers to get excited upcoming massively-multiplayer first-person shooter PlanetSide 2? Am I a masochist? Am I in the pocket of Sony Online Entertainment, bribed by all of that cash they made on The Agency? No, the answer is much simpler than that: I want to kill you all.

After my hands-on time with the game at E3 2012, I want to play it, and in order for me to play it, other people will be needed to run in front of my rifle sights at regular intervals. Just pop into the game, find me in one of the sprawling battlefields, and just, I don’t know… run in circles or something.

So, in order to help generate cannon fodder interest in PlanetSide 2, I offer you the entire E3 2012 video presentation, released earlier this week by the people that ruined EverQuest 2 by not including a real Bard class. It covers all the bases I may have missed during my hands-on, including the mobile app that’ll keep players hovering over the battlefields all day long, watching my kill count rise as our beloved minions‘ conga line passes through my flame thrower’s emissions.


Now, A Positive Take On Women In Gaming

This E3, I gathered with friends and former colleagues around a high top at Hooters, swapping small talk and tales of cosplay catastrophe at Video Games Live. You could smell the nerd (and hot sauce) for miles.


The Man Who Runs Paradox On The End Of Chivalry, Cheesy Action Movies

The first morning of E3, I sat down to talk with Fredrik Wester, CEO of Paradox Interactive. Paradox has, in the past, generally specialised in careful, strategic games with historical settings. But their upcoming titles all deviate from that scheme in some way.


Divinity: Original Sin Turns Singleplayer Killfest Into Group Combat

Larian Studios’ Divinity franchise has had an uneven past. The first game, Divine Divinity, was very good, but others have been more mixed.


E3′s Cutest Booth Babe?

I was going through the final unused pieces of my E3 reporting and realise I never posted this video. It’s nothing big, but it was one of my favourite fight at E3. Just a person in a giant LittleBigPlanet Sackboy costume.


Persona 4 Arena Plays As Good As It Looks, But I Don’t

These sweet new screens of the Arcade Mode in Atlus’ upcoming Persona fighter jogged my memory of the time two weeks ago I would have beat the publisher’s PR master had he not surely cheated terribly.


Hopefully Video Gaming’s Apocalypse Now Fixation Isn’t Just An Excuse For Arty Violence

It’s starting to look as though game developers have moved their cinematic ambitions beyond the story of Charles Foster Kane and on to something a good deal more violent and possibly more attainable. To put it glibly: Apocalypse Now is the new Citizen Kane.


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