A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Category: E3
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Metroid Dread! Advance Wars! Guardians of the Galaxy! Metal Slug Tactics! Take a look at my picks of the show.
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What do Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have in store?
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Animal Crossing, Watch Dogs Legion and Link’s Awakening are just some of our stand-outs.
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The crazy thing is that this beautiful game is being made in a garden shed by two completely self-taught developers.
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Amid all the ultraviolence and samey sequels, a few genuine delights peeked out from behind the curtain at E3 2018. WARNING: THIS LIST DOES NOT INCLUDE CYBERPUNK 2077.
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All of the E3 press conferences are now over, and I have to say I’m a little underwhelmed. For the most part I saw parades of samey sequels to games I still haven’t yet played, with nothing really leaping out to grab my attention. The most interesting game announcements tended to be indie titles, but…
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I need this right now. Metroid fans, rejoice!
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I wrote down my thoughts on the acquisition of Ninja Theory by Microsoft in an article for Kotaku UK. Will the British developer thrive or wither under its new master?
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As Lucius mentioned, I sort of already went over the games I was happiest to see at this year’s E3, so I thought instead for my end of E3 post I would put together a short list of my favorite E3 bits instead. In no particular order: Dr. Mario, I need my pills! Too much…
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E3 is finally over, after a seemingly endless stream of barely watchable conferences, Earth-shattering game announcements, utterly desirable plastic figurines, tepidly received hardware, surprisingly sweary trailers, zombies, androids, gods and superheroes, visions of the post-apocalypse (and zombies), more visions of the post-apocalypse (and Nazis), and visions of Mario *being* a dinosaur (no Nazis or zombies).…
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Well, Nintendo certainly went all out on the amiibo announcements at this year’s E3. Here’s a look at what delightful plastic figures we can expect over the next few months, starting off with the ones that everyone’s getting most excited about… Metroid amiibo Oh yeah, now we’re talking. Nintendo announced two amiibos to tie in…
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Well, the first day of Nintendo Christmas has come and gone, and as usual there were some disappointments, but overall this has been a solid E3 for Nintendo fans so far. First off, the cheers: There have been two big 180s for me in the past two days. The first was Super Mario Odyssey, which…
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At a svelte 30 minutes, Nintendo’s E3 presentation was far shorter than its rivals – but it packed a few truly stunning reveals into its relatively slim running time. The low points were undoubtedly Reggie Fils-Aime’s interminable ramblings, where he stirred in metaphor after metaphor and ended up producing a truly inedible word soup. “The…
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I’ve been aware of Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite for some time now, but have never really given it much consideration. Marvel vs. Capcom 3 was pretty enough, but the almost complete absence of single player content resulted in me losing interest pretty quickly. Even seeing the latest E3 footage, I thought “that looks nice” and then just…
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I… I don’t even have the words… First there was this little bombshell, dropped in Nintendo’s Spotlight presentation: No release date, no gameplay footage, just a title. IT’S HAPPENING. METROID PRIME 4 IS HAPPENING. And if that wasn’t exciting enough, this stunning news was revealed shortly after the Spotlight ended: Yep, there’s a new 2D…
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There were surprisingly few new games revealed at Sony’s conference, with the majority of trailers being new footage of games that were already revealed at last year’s E3, and very little revealed about the few new VR games they displayed, but even so, there were some pretty nice things to see here. Part of me is…
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So, apparently the director of Beyond Good & Evil 2 was…not entirely truthful when he claimed that the game would not be present at E3 2017, as a cinematic trailer was revealed today: Wow. That…is certainly some amazing CGI, but is it just me or is this one of the cringiest videos ever? I suppose…
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Project Scorpio has a new name: Xbox One X, aka Kiss Hug Kiss (XOX). The new machine is the tiniest Xbox ever, and although many have been praising the updated design as “sleek“, it just looks like a boring black box to me. Sure, it will nestle in nicely among the other various black boxes…
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Oh geez. I didn’t even realize Bethesda was doing their show ahead of the actual start of E3 too! Guess I’ll be staying up late just to show you fine readers another 5 exciting upcoming new titles! (Just kidding, I’m always up this late) #5: Dishonored 2: Death of the Outsider (Xbox, PlayStation, PC) I’m a…
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Wow. Well, E3 hasn’t even actually started yet and there have already been some pretty impressive reveals. There are already far too many for me to even keep track of alone, so for now I’ll just stick to some personal highlights of today’s Microsoft Briefing. #5: State of Decay 2 (Xbox and PC) 2013’s State of Decay put…
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I tried watching EA’s presentation last night. Two times. The first time I tuned in, it happened to be at a point when some slick, corporate, man facsimile was beaming scarily down the camera and unblinkingly informing me how wonderful something was. I couldn’t even stay watching long enough to find out what that thing…
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EA will kick off E3 2017 with their pre-show presentation tomorrow, so we thought we’d put our heads together and come up with a list of the announcements we’d like to see over the next week or so. Maybe this is finally the year of Half-Life 3… Hey, what do you mean it will never…
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