By now, it’s no secret what Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo wanted to say at E3. In some cases it was never a secret, even if it was supposed to be. But what about how they said it? What can we glean from the the words they used? Unfortunately – and surprisingly – no-one on the …
Peter Molyneux has been talking about his upcoming PC/mobile game Curiosity – the first from new studio 22Cans – and as the name suggest, it’s a curious one. It’s not a ‘proper’ game as such, more of an experiment to explore the psychology of social media users. The idea is to chisel away at a …
You’d think publishers would be too busy showing off new software at E3 to release titles people can go out and buy right now. This isn’t the case, however – there are a few new games out this week. Game of Thrones is a hard one to recommend to anybody apart from fans of the …
Brilliantly timed to coincide with E3, Disney has released a new trailer for their winter movie Wreck-It Ralph. As you’d expect from a movie which has been described as a gaming version of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, cameos of videogame characters are in abundance. The trailer shows Ralph – a videogame villain who wants to …
One of the more amusing things from Microsoft to be spotted at E3 was this Halo-influenced bar menu: Apparently the food menu consisted of just two types of onion ring – battered or bread-crumbed.
Creating the illusion that you’re playing with a human player rather than an AI controlled character is quite the task, but one that Capcom has managed to pull off here spectacularly. The AI of your three fellow adventurers is in fact good enough to instantly forgive that there’s no ‘proper’ multi-player. Instead, in this RPG …
Nintendo’s conference left fans a little perplexed. No less than 23 games were on show, which is a figure none too shabby, but most had already been announced while the rest felt distinctly casual. At least things got off on the right foot with a demonstration of Pikmin 3 on Wii U. The visuals are …
Sony’s E3 2012 press conference came and went, much as expected, and a little light on dramatic unveilings. Whilst the big hitters such as The Last of Us and God of War: Ascension oozed quality, the biggest surprise of the night was arguably Wonderbook, an augmented reality… book. In its favour, the first Wonderbook title, …
There have been so many leaks over the past few days that the only new games to be shown during Microsoft’s E3 conference were a handful of Xbox Live Arcade titles along with some Nike fitness software. Even Ubisoft’s reasonably impressive looking Splinter Cell: Blacklist was ousted a few hours before the show. Things kicked …
We didn’t expect the UK charts to be released today with it being a bank holiday and all. We certainly aren’t complaining though – we wouldn’t want it to get swamped under tomorrow’s E3 news. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Solider remains #1 for a second week running, followed by Max Payne 3, FIFA 12, …
E3 is now go. Are you excited? We are excited. Let’s speculate, with some very improbable predictions, shall we? Ubisoft hands out free rabbits in order to promote 3DS title Rabbids Rumble. By the end of the week the price of carrots inflates to an all-time high. Out of force of habit, 2K Games puts …
Nintendo’s decision to release a special pre-E3 edition of their news show Nintendo Direct has a slight knee-jerk feel to it. Most have assumed it’s because EA and Ubisoft are planning to show their Wii U titles at E3 on Monday, which is something they wouldn’t be able to do without showing off the new …
We had a brief look at the GameGadget – the self-proclaimed “iPod for retro games” – back in January, a couple of months before launch. Since then it’s certainly been eventful, so it’s time for a catch up. The hardware’s the easy part It launched pretty much on time, on 4th April 2012. What’s more, …
When it was announced that Nihilistic were working on Resistance: Burning Skies we were sceptical. This is the studio that gave us the dire Marvel Nemises: Rise of the Imperfects and the mediocre PlayStation Move Heroes, after all. That scepticism appears to have been well placed – reviews of this PS Vita-exclusive haven’t been great, …
How do you choose a game from the baffling variety on offer on the App Store? When it’s only 69p at stake, the name is as good a reason as any to splash the pennies. Let’s Eat Sweets! – that’s Temporal Games’ exclamation mark, but I like it – definitely falls into the ‘good name, …