Dying Light 2 takes parkour zombie slaying to a new city, and there's a reason for that. Where the first game, released in 2015, was about dealing with a viral outbreak in real time, the second will deal with the aftermath years later.

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is pretty long name for a game with a straightforward pitch: What if XCOM but with animorphs?

While it's based off of a pen and paper role-playing game popular in Sweden during the '80s, developer The Bearded Ladies have made it their own by injecting the inspiration's DNA into a turn-based tactical game. After close to an hour with Mutant Year Zero, I came away excited to play more, and not just because one of the characters I got to control was a duck in a top hat sporting a crossbow.

At first glance, the PC game Black Future '88 looks like too many other indie games, with its pixel art, synth music, and neon-infused cyberpunk aesthetic. But below the familiar surface is a well-defined roguelike with a surprisingly distinct identity forged in large part by the sheer force of creative will imposed by its maker, Don Bellenger.

Our train slowly chugged to a halt. Something was apparently blocking the road up ahead, possibly put there by a rival band of survivors. The captain sent my character out to investigate. Moments later, I was killed by a giant floating orb of static. Post-nuclear Russia is not a place to explore blindly.

I managed to survive E3 2018, my first one in fact, and I can even remember most of the games I saw and played. There's too many to name them all, but below are the most notable ones I got a chance to check out. I've written about some of them already on Kotaku, but there is also a handful of others I haven't yet had the chance to talk about.

This year's E3 looks were all about one thing: cool jackets.

Splatoon 2 is a game about squid-kids waging war with neon ink. It isn't an easy one to explain to grandma. And it takes place in a freaky world that raises a lot of questions. What did squid kids evolve from? How do they get so much ink in those little ink guns? Where are these kids' parents?

I've never been a Dark Souls fanatic, but I appreciate the vibrant new mini-genre of Souls-likes it's helped inspire. The Surge is one of those, and from what I saw at E3 2018, The Surge 2 looks like it will be a big improvement with some new ideas of its own.

Kingdom Hearts 3 was on display at E3, and our own Tim Rogers took a peek at it. He even had a chance to interview some diehard Kingdom Hearts fans about the game. The whole spectacle was enough to make you say "gawrsh!"

Jump Force has been a surprising hit at E3. Who knew? Our own Tim Rogers went and investigated the Bandai Namco booth at E3. What did he learn about Goku and friends?

There's a new Sonic racing game coming, one that ostensibly brings an element of teamwork to the action. So why did I feel like I was the only one pulling any weight, during my demo? There is no "I" in team, but there is one in "Team Sonic."

For Honor is getting a free new mode on October 16 as part of the game's Marching Fire update, and after getting a chance to try it at E3 it's the only For Honor mode I want play.

Inspired by games such as Dota 2 and League of Legends, Breach is an asymmetrical siege mode with a bunch of little wrinkles that completely changed how I approached For Honor.

When Resident Evil 2 released in 1998, it had to follow up on a game that defined a new genre of horror. Not only did it manage to improve the formula, it went on to be what many people consider the best game in the series. After a long stretch with no new information besides "it's coming", we've finally seen Resident Evil 2's remake in action, and it's very different from the original.

Bethesda Softworks is named after the city in Maryland. Tim Rogers has been to that city, so it only makes sense that we sent him to the Bethesda booth at E3 2018. There was demons, carnival games, and a lot of VR.

Hello again. E3 is drawing to a close, but we have more video reports filed from the guts of the convention from our own Tim Rogers. This time, he's taking a peek at the Ubisoft booth.

It's hard to talk about CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 without talking about the studio's last game, The Witcher 3. And so it came to be that a lot of our E3 interview with Cyberpunk's quest designer involved discussion of both games.

When Bandai Namco revealed Jump Force, a crossover fighting game pitting Dragon Ball villain Frieza against Naruto himself, manga fans went berserk.

Public speaking isn't easy. (I'm not good at it at all.) One of the hardest things to do when you're on stage in front of a lot of people is figure out what the hell to do with your hands. A lot of people at E3 don't seem to have figured this out.

Hello gamers. You may be asking yourself a lot of questions right now. "What's it like inside Sony's E3 booth?" and "How does Norman Reedus stay so perfectly still for photos?" Well, do we have some answers for you.