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...
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...
In my mind, Sony’s best E3 presentation in recent years came two years ago when it barraged us with a host of ambitious titles and promised us the world. The Last Guardian, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Shemue III, this list goes on and on with gargantuan announcements made at that show. Well, how many of those gargantuan games are we playing right now? How many of them look like they’re...
It’s up in the air for who won E3 2017 given that there really wasn’t a single standout this year. Super Mario Odyssey can’t win the show on its own (although it’s arguable that Breath of the Wild did), and the game announcements we got from Microsoft and Sony were mostly indie games or stuff we saw last year. However, if we are to gauge the victor based on social media relevancy, then...
When a developer releases a game on a fixed schedule, it’s easy to just iterate on the existing game and release a tweaked and improved version of what we’ve seen before. Assassin’s Creed, Madden and, to some degree Forza Motorsport has done this. But Forza Motorsport 7 marks a big jump forward for the series, and that means some big changes under the hood. I talked to Turn 10 executive...