Every year, a pile of nearly 40 media outlets selects their winners of the Game Critics Awards for E3. The roster of award recipients for E3 2017 has been unveiled, and Mario and his Mushroom Kingdom cohort are the big winners. The "Best of Show" winner is Super Mario Odyssey. The "Best Original Game" is Mario + Rabbids Battle Kingdom. The best console game is Super Mario Odyssey. As...
The idea behind Undead Labs’ State of Decay was a really good one. Instead of putting a twist and a contrived story on top of the zombie apocalypse, it simply dropped us into that world and asked us to survive. There’s no president’s daughter to protect, no virus to cure, nothing like that. The biggest challenge is surviving another day. For all the love Telltale’s Walking Dead games...
It looks like Tron mashed up with American Gladiators and dodgeball. Six characters – three blue, three yellow, are facing off. The two teams are working to capture points on the map that sprout holographic fields once captured. One of the yellow players captures a point, and a yellow windmill-like design pops out. A blue player that was about to capture it gets toasted, and it’s now...
There’s nothing quite like a vast, expansive RPG. Exploration, discovery, combat, puzzles, and traps. You get all of it and come away with a good story. But what if you could squeeze all of that into just a few minutes? That’s the idea behind onebitbeyond’s The Swords of Ditto. I sat down last week at E3 and played a round of the game with director Jonathan “Bidds” Biddle, who...
Have you ever felt like the universe was trying to keep you from something? That game you’re trying to find always sells out just before you get there. That person you want to talk to just left. That’s how I’ve felt with Monster Hunter. For years, I’ve been curious about this long-lived Capcom series, but it’s either been on a console I just put away or a handheld I didn’t own, because...
Remember that scene in the first Star Wars movie where the Stormtrooper knocks his head on the door as it raises? It’s a silly, fun thing to look back on, but it’s a reminder that you’re watching a movie, that it’s real, and something someone made. It might break the illusion for a quick second, but I think for most fans, little mistakes like these endear us to the experience. Watching...
As expected, Square Enix didn’t bring Dragon Quest XI to E3 2017, but that didn’t stop it from showing off a hilarious new trailer during the show’s duration. *HINTHINT!* Now, Puff Puff is a code word that only Dragon Quest fans will understand. Nobody is quite sure what Puff Puff is exactly since the games always fade to black before the actual act occurs, but in the world of Dragon...
Odin Sphere developer VanillaWare confirmed that its latest game 13 Sentinel: Aegis Rim will be getting a worldwide release on the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita. I have seen the game advertised around Japan, but I haven't yet jumped in to see what it is actually about. This E3 2017 trailer is my first look at the game, and it's pretty rad if you're into giant robot anime. Thirteen...
While the Nintendo fanbase continues to babble and drool over Metroid Prime 4 and Super Mario Odyssey, another tight little puzzle action game continues to go unloved and underappreciated on the floor of E3 2017. Sushi Striker: Way of the Sushidou combines my passions for colorful fast-paced puzzle games, think Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes and Meteos, and scarfing down unhealthy...
Ask any God of War fan to describe Kratos, and you'll get the same response: angry, vengeful, violent. Which is to say, he's not a very good role model. He tears creatures limb from limb, likes shouting, and pretty much has two emotions: mad and livid. But Santa Monica Studios is hoping to change that in God of War (a sequel to God of War 3), by breaking Kratos down and building him...