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Call of Duty Black Ops II Demo (VIDEO)

By Aaron Boulding | June 4, 2012 @ 7:10 pm
L.A. Traffic is Worse with Guns

You’re guiding and protecting the president though a section of Los Angeles that’s little more than blown up freeways and smoking vehicles. .. This is the evolution of Call of Duty: Black Ops II.  Whomever you’re fighting in this war seems to be winning because LA is thrashed as far as the eye can see. The somewhat on-rails segment we saw has you using an installed missile turret to take down a handful of jets with one pull of the trigger. Six missiles fired but you had to use skill to track and then lock before  pulling that trigger.

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Get Ready, Fat Ass! South Park ‘Stick of Truth’ Video Game Previews at E3 (VIDEO)

By Bill Swift | June 4, 2012 @ 6:28 pm
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Respect His Authority, Or Else!

Do you happen to love South Park? Of course you do, you faded blazed wryly cynical and disaffected Occupier with the super secret home theater den and blown out gaming hideaway.

Now, it's time to done get your stick put into a vat of South Park town destruction with Cartman and Kenny and Kyle looking all bits of bloody vampire and zombie and destructive in Stick of Truth, the new THQ game for X-Box previewed today live in pre-E3 modality. The game won't be out until next spring, so this is kind of like a girl promising you the kinkiest throw in the sheets for your 25th birthday, when you happen to just be turning 19, still, that's a something right? An IOU of optimistic proportions.

Check out South Park Stick of Truth and see if you think it'll be worth the wait.

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Far Cry 3 Eyes-on Preview (VIDEO)

By Aaron Boulding | June 4, 2012 @ 6:20 pm
Get It, Island Style

The demo for Far Cry 3 shown at the Ubisoft press briefing starts with, ahem, fireworks and ends the same. For reasons we’ll likely learn later, you’re the leader of a group of natives who hang on your every word. So much so that you get to have the high priestess and lead your followers in a haka ritual.

Your character isn’t a native but with tribal tattoos you’re ready to assault an island village.

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Tomb Raider Xbox 360 Demo (VIDEO)

By Aaron Boulding | June 4, 2012 @ 4:16 pm
Arrows to the Head!

Tomb Raider is continuing what seems to be the trend in 2012 action games: bow and arrow combat. Lara Croft's particular bow weapon is extremely powerful and even comes with an intimidating clanging sound when she lands a headshot. Not sure what is clanging with what when her arrows hit but it's consistent and the bad guys really seem to have a problem with it.

The involved story line in the new Tomb Raider is probably going to be where this particular story hangs its hat. If the old PSX games were strong enough to generate two movies, then a successfully re-imagined Tomb Raider franchise has a chance to do even more. Check this video from the Xbox 360 Press Briefing and you'll see what we mean.

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Splinter Cell Blacklist E3 Xbox 360 Demo (VIDEO)

By Aaron Boulding | June 4, 2012 @ 3:30 pm
Sneak Some Stealth Action

There's big trouble afoot in Splinter Cell Blacklist with the revelation that there is no more Third Echelon (the super secret espionage organization that hatched Splinter Cell). As Sam Fisher, you're surely going to get to the bottom of everything just like you always do and plenty of enemies will die along the way.

The exciting part is you'll get new weapons, gadgets and espionage mechanics to do all of that enemy eliminating. And don't worry about the future of Splinter Cell either because Sam Fisher himself spills the beans that it's now time for Fourth Echelon!

Check the clip and keep it locked here for more on Splinter Cell  because this is truly one of my favorite franchises.

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PowerA’s Remarkable MOGA Gaming System to be Shown at E3

By Chris Littlechild | June 4, 2012 @ 2:27 pm
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There’s a tempestuous tumult surrounding the latest crop of major console titles at E3, and rightly so. Nevertheless, this often causes sheer balls-out weirdness like the MOGA to be overlooked. For your delectation, then, PowerA has promised detail-divulgence regarding their latest device at the event.

The unassailable advancement of mobile gaming in recent years have been extraordinary indeed. (In my view, this aspect of the industry is akin to the army ant. Alone, they’re diminutive and harmless enough. Just an innocuous viscera-splatter under whatever mighty footwear you happen to have donned at the time. When there’s thousands of the little bastards rampaging over your picnic/sweaty 'nads/wherever, you’re powerless to resist.) While often the subject of derision among console or PC gamers, tablet titles and such have become a formidable force. Even so, they are lacking in one pertinent area: the control system. This is why PowerA’s MOGA (or Ballsack-Biting Army Ant, if you will) warrants your attention too.

MOGA ImageAs this image from PowerA's official website makes plain, the device is a curious little confection indeed. It is not a console itself, rather a further attempt to make the likes of smart phone games more viable for dedicated players. The feel of a controller is a primary component of the experience, for myself and many others. (Kinect remains, largely, lodged somewhere in the boil-addled recesses of Satan’s ass. “I must unleash this thing fully on the unsuspecting mortals above! Somebody fetch me a laxative, post haste!” Strained the Dark Lord. A testament to this fact.) MOGA, in the main, intends to replace the oft-awkward 'touch button' nature of mobile gaming with a dedicated interface. Businesswire reports that a full complement of ‘dual analog sticks, two shoulder buttons, four action buttons and standard home, start and select buttons’ will be offered by the device. At this juncture, Android 2.3+ support is initially promised when MOGA becomes available later in 2012.

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Los Angeles May Not Host E3 2013

By Travis Shuman | June 4, 2012 @ 2:26 pm

For the most part, since 1996, the world's biggest gaming convention has been held in the great city of Los Angeles, California. The Los Angeles convention center has been the building of choice for the ever-growing event but it looks as though LA may lose E3 in 2013.

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