Category: Previews
Everyone had the opportunity to witness the first of Call of Duty: Black Ops II’s two E3 demos when it closed out Microsoft’s media briefing. Another US city, Los Angeles, is lit ablaze as David Mason tries desperately to protect… Read More »
SimCity is back. Powered by the new GlassBox engine, Maxis is doing new and impressive things with the next entry in the developer’s 23-year-old franchise, from the way players’ cities interact with one another, right down to the individual sims,… Read More »
Since its announcement, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale has been repeatedly compared to the Super Smash Bros. franchise, and at first glance those comparisons are warranted. This is a four-player, free-for-all brawler with action in every direction, just like Smash Bros…. Read More »
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe was a nightmare for fans of both franchises. Mortal Kombat fans lost the over-the-top violence they’d grown to love. DC fans, because of that limited violence factor, lost the ability to unleash bloody hell on… Read More »
Qualia are irreducible experiences, also known as instances for “the way things seem.” They are a key component to human consciousness, and integral to the concept of strong emergence. The sum of the parts is greater than the whole, in… Read More »
The original Company of Heroes is the most critically acclaimed real-time strategy game of all time. Why, then, would Relic Entertainment wait six years to develop a proper sequel? At E3, they had the answer to that question: they were… Read More »
I don’t know what The Unfinished Swan is about. While playing the game, I rarely knew exactly what the world around me looked like. What I do know, however, is that at no point during a hands-on demo at E3… Read More »
One of our Best of E3 award winners from 2011 was back in full force at Square Enix’s booth for this year’s show. Tomb Raider showed evidence in a behind-closed-doors, hands-off demonstration that her upcoming adventure will truly be one… Read More »
Zenimax Online Studios, a team comprised of MMO veterans, has been hard at work on The Elder Scrolls Online for the past five years. Operating in close contact with Bethesda Game Studios, the simple idea behind their game is to “play in… Read More »
Telltale Games’ second entry in The Walking Dead episodic game series makes the choice to track a players’ every word and action, using those decisions to branch along diverging narrative paths each time they play the story. Playing a story… Read More »
