“Booker, are you afraid of God?
“No, I’m afraid of you.”
So begins BioShock Infinite.
The third installment in the revolutionary BioShock series is set – at last – for a March 26 release — until then, gamers will have to satiate themselves with footage of the first five minutes of gameplay.
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I’ve never had to wish I was a little bit taller, or a baller. I am those things. I’m no gaming expert, but I do have a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a ’64 Impala. So when I visited my esteemed gaming colleagues Darren and Adam yesterday at E3 and happened upon a steel cage containing a peaceful, lonely-looking man in generic workout gear who was earnestly practicing some basic dribbling skills with a real basketball in front of a colorful screen featuring confetti, I knew I had found “my people.” That guy would probably be good at recapping reality TV, I thought. We were practically the same person. I walked in. READ FULL STORY »
The Game: Videogame designer David Cage is either a visionary artist or a huckster philosopher. Either way, his follow-up to 2010′s Heavy Rain promises to be a unique cinematic adventure. Beyond follows a young girl named Jodie Holmes and a mysterious supernatural being named Aiden (pronounced like the first two syllable of “identity”) who follows her everywhere. According to Cage, the game will cover 15 years of Jodie’s life, from her adolescence through her 20s. Oh, and here’s a twist: Jodie is played by Juno star Ellen Page in what promises to be a showcase for performance-capture technology. (Available for the PS3, no release date pending) READ FULL STORY »
The Game: A survival adventure tale that follows two survivors — a man named Joel and a teenage girl named Ellie — through a post-apocalyptic America populated by dangerous plant people and even-more-dangerous regular people. The Last of Us is a darker evolutionary step for Uncharted, and it instantly became one of the most anticipated trailers at E3 after a thrilling trailer played at the Video Game Awards. (Available for the PS3, Release Date TBD) READ FULL STORY »
The Game: Ubisoft closed their press conference on Monday with an eye-popping first look at a game whose entire existence had been kept secret for two years. Here’s what we know about Watch Dogs: It’s an open-world game set in Chicago, where you can control anything and everything connected to the information grid: Cell phones, security cameras, traffic lights, you name it. You also have access to everyone’s Personal Data, meaning you can tell everything about someone just by looking at them, from their salary to their occupation to whether or not they’re a smoker. So if you’re the kind of person who worries about identity theft, this game is your worst nightmare. (No release date has been announced and the game is not slated for any console, leading to some theories that Watch Dogs will actually be a next-generation title.) READ FULL STORY »
The Game: A prequel to the gore-splattered Greek myth trilogy which follows a younger, thinner, less all-encompassingly destructive Kratos on a mission to un-sell his soul. In a first for the series, Ascension adds in a new multiplayer system. (Available exclusively on the PlayStation 3 on March 12, 2013.)
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The Game: Project P-100 is actually just the working title for an utterly curious (and curiously unheralded) Wii U title. Described by developer Platinum Games as a “Mass Hero Action Game,” Project P-100 lets you control a group of heroes who work together to protect humanity from attacking monsters. It plays a little bit like Pikmin crossed with the Neo-Geo semi-classic King of the Monsters. (No release date announced yet, although Nintendo claims it will hit stores within a few months of the Wii U.) READ FULL STORY »
The Game: You can pinpoint the exact moment when Zombi U became one of the biggest titles at E3. It came halfway through Ubisoft’s press conference on Monday, when host Aisha Tyler said, “This next Wii U exclusive is an M-rated survival horror first-person shooter that drops you right into the middle of a zombie apocalypse.” M-rated? Shooter? Zombie? On a Nintendo console? Even before the eye-popping trailer, Zombi U was already the great shining hope for anyone who wanted the new console to be more hardcore (and less cutesy) than the Wii. Also, who doesn’t love zombies? (No official release date, but Nintendo claims it will hit stores within a couple months of the Wii U launch.) READ FULL STORY »
The Game: Like Tomb Raider, this is an origin-story reboot that stars a considerably younger Dante. Once again, Dante — the child of a demon father and human mother — is out killing demons and other gruesome monstrosities. But this time he’s doing so in Limbo City, a distorted mirror image of our own world. The player’s objective, as has been the case throughout the 11-year-old Devil May Cry series, is to tally combo moves by alternating among a variety of weapons. (Available Jan. 15, 2013, for Xbox 360 and PS3)
What We Played: There were two single-player demos at Capcom’s booth. The first, called “Underwatch,” was a training tutorial set in Limbo City that took you through all of Dante’s primary moves. The second, called “The Secret Ingredient,” was a boss battle against Poison — a demon that can most accurately be described as, well, a giant intestine with a face and arms. READ FULL STORY »
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The Wii U may not have made as big an impact as Nintendo would have hoped, but the company remains the big kahuna in the videogame world, and there is no bigger name in the world of Nintendo than Shigeru Miyamoto, a.k.a. The Man Who Created Mario and Zelda. While Miyamoto was at E3 this year to show off the latest game from his other franchise, Pikmin 3, we could not help but ask him about the possibility of a new The Legend of Zelda title for this system, as well as what potential he sees in the Wii U for attracting hardcore gamers. Check out what he had to say (through a translator) below: READ FULL STORY »
