Video Games

E3 2013′s Most Mind Blowing and Anticipated Games: ‘Quantum Break’

By Paul | May 31, 2013 @ 9:18 am

TV and Games Together!? Crazy.

When Microsoft made its huge Xbox One announcement last week, everyone bitched and moaned about the fact that the new console would not be as game-centric as its predecessors or the other systems of its generation. Only a handful of people had that, "Woah, wait a minute, what about all the things they could do combining TV and games?" Enter Quantum Break.

Quantum Break looks like a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure hopped up on biker-crank and Phillip K. Dick. The Xbox One exclusive title will do what a next-generation console is supposed to do: radically different shit like combining TV and games. And no, not like that one game back in the 80s that gave all those kids seizures or any other half-assed game/show hybrid we've ever seen. Game developer Remedy Entertainment, has said that the game and show are in simultaneous production and that, "how you play the game impacts the show, and the show informs how you play the game." We're beyond flashing screens and boilerplate scripts, aren't we? E3 will hopefully give us a bit more than the trailer.

E3 2013′s Most Mind Blowing and Anticipated Games: ‘Grand Theft Auto V’

By Paul | May 30, 2013 @ 11:16 am

Now With 300% More Hookers!

Grand Theft Auto V will be in full-force at E3. And that's good. Seriously, how long have we been waiting for this thing? They announced it in October 2011 and since then, we've seen trailers, posters, characters, rendered surfaces and every other nugget Rockstar can throw our way but the actual game to play for ourselves...which the general public won't get to do until September.

We're entirely stoked on this one for more than mere anticipation. For one, it has three main protagonists, which is a great addition to a huge persistent-world game like GTA. There's that whole argument that multiple main characters will be the wave of the future and all that. Sure, fine.

Most importantly, GTA 5 will be the last big franchise entry on the PS3 and Xbox 360 platforms. While everyone is clobbering over each other for look-see's at the next generation, will GTA V be quietly murdering hookers in the corner? Here's hoping it's front and center. By all accounts, it will be the perfect pedestrian-flattening swan song for two great systems.

Destiny and its ‘Law of the Jungle’ Trailer Continues the Pre-E3 Squee (VIDEO)

By Chris Littlechild | May 30, 2013 @ 9:15 am

Spacetastic shooting, coming to a console near you.

Because ‘squee’ is totally a thing. Just ask the misguided teen legions stalking whining wiener of pop Justin Bieber, waiting for him to inadvertently post images of his shriveled mini-wang onto the internet.

Since its appearance at the PlayStation 4 reveal in February, the science fiction-y, open world-y shooter Destiny has been among the most hypetacular games of the upcoming ‘next generation.’ After all, at this very moment, it is being fed through the Badass-Game-o-Matic by the wizards at Bungie; last seen busting their nuts to create the original Halo trilogy. Which surely means that, as today’s young people like to say, shit is about to get real. Real awesome.
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E3 2013′s Most Mind Blowing and Anticipated Games: ‘Killzone: Shadow Fall’

By Paul | May 29, 2013 @ 2:24 pm

Kilzone: Shadow Fall at E3?

Set to be the sixth installment in the Playstation-exclusive Killzone series, this one looks pretty boss. Sony showed everyone a sneak peak at their PS4 event back in February and plot details have trickled out since then. While its E3 appearance remains unconfirmed, anyone who know anything is pretty sure this is going to make a showing.

Shadow Fall had us stoked at the sheer quality of its visuals. Then, it turns out that the demo footage we saw was using only half of Ps4's 8GB graphic capabilities. If that's truly the case, we're in for something special. Since Killzone will be part of PS4's vanguard, our anticipation level is reaching heights previously unseen. Don't let us down Sony.

SHADOW FALL SCREENSHOTS!

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‘Wolfenstein The New Order’: An Upcoming Nazi-Killing Game We’ll Probably Love

By Paul | May 29, 2013 @ 12:46 pm

New and Different Ways to Shoot Nazis in the Face

Fact: Everyone loves killing Nazi's. It's what 60% of the gaming industry is based on (our wildly speculative overestimate). How's about killing cyborg Nazi's? Even better. Those are the kinda things the Wolfenstein franchise has banked on since it basically invented first-person shooters with Wolfenstein 3-D in 1992. Back then, parental freak-outs about excessive violence and pixilated blood were mitigated with the old, 'Relax mom, I'm just shooting a robotic Hitler in the face,' or 'No worries, that's just Nazi blood,' routines. And they worked every time.

Developers and studios have tried re-boots and spinoffs over the years with middling success. But now, developers from MachineGames under publisher Bethesda Softworks have put together a radical first-person shooter reboot that will probably be effing amazing. This one, called Wolfenstein: The New Order, is set in the 1960s and it brings back protagonist, B.J. Blazkowicz, from a 14 year coma. He awakens to find that the Nazis won WWII and now control the whole planet with superweapons and giant robots and whatnot. He (obviously) has to wage a one-man war against their entire war machine. Do you need to know anything beyond that? We certainly don't.

When the game comes out later this year, we hope that it will spawn a new era of different and awesome ways to shoot Nazis in the face.

Xbox One Brings Us a Little Pre-E3 Closeness

By Chris Littlechild | May 29, 2013 @ 9:20 am

Close enough to lick... if you're so inclined. Which we aren't.

As Jason Derulo once whined, can I get closer, can I get closer, closer to you? So can I get closer? Ohh can I get close to you baby? Can I get closer, closer to you (closer to you)? Arguably, there’s a subliminal message here, and it isn’t that the man yearns for people to get their shit together and damn well stop invading his personal space.

In summation, does he want us to be far away from him? He does not.
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Countdown to E3 2013 Has Begun

By Paul | May 28, 2013 @ 9:16 am

Actually, we've been sort of counting down since the last one, but now we're really counting down because it's less than three weeks away.

On June 11, gamenerds will flock to the Los Angeles Convention Center like Tatooine sand-flies to a Hutt's butthole. We have it on good authority that announcements will be made and people will be excited about digital entertainment. Mark these words: Games. Will. Happen. No really though, what's the buzz?

PlayStation 4: After Microsofts's big reveal last week, everyone and their n00b-slaying grandma is holding their breath for anything better than Microsoft's game-light Xbox One. Sure it looks badass and all, and we're sure the perks outweigh the bummers, but it just doesn't seem as gametastic as we want it to be. PS4,on the other hand, no one's even seen that thing. It could be a brain-implant with Dual Shock controller for all we know. Playstation will show us the goods on June 10th...on the eve of E3.

Nintendo: Is the fact that they don't seem to have any big news the big news in and of itself? We're psyched for Super Smash Brothers and all, but this might not be Nintendo's year. Wii U will have more new games and stuff, but everything will probably overshadowed by the other two systems.

Batman: Arkham Origins: An Arkham universe prequel!? Yeah. We've seen the trailer and hopefully we'll get to see in a few weeks how utterly amazing gameplay will be . Given how addicted we were to Arkham City and Asylum, we can only assume we won't see the light of day for weeks after it comes out.