As mentioned in our preview, Spin the Bottle: Bumpie’s Party can make two people get really close. Get ready to laugh at how much of an idiot I am with our gameplay footage above. Notice how I don’t look at him despite it being okay to do so, and that I raise my arms up immediately after passing the wiimote thinking we had to do another revolution.
Let me recount to you the ways in which I love this game. I would like to preface by saying that I was mostly unimpressed by E3 by the time I got to our Indiecade appointment. Annoyed that my foot was hurt, tired from walking so much with it, and bored by most presentations, I was ready to fall into a dark place. Enter Spin the Bottle: Bumpie’s Party. My fondest memories of growing up involve video games. But not [...]
One of my big secret shames as a decades-long video game enthusiast is that I’ve never really played a Sonic the Hedgehog game before. Naturally I’m familiar with them and have a basic understanding of how they work, but I never knew anyone with a Sega console so it was perpetually out of reach. There was no better place to experience Sonic than at E3, where I had some hands-on time with the upcoming Sonic Lost World on the Wii [...]
One of the most anticipated meetings of the entire E3 conference was with Telltale Games as they were showing off their new DLC for just about everybody’s favorite game of last year. The Walking Dead: 400 Days is a series of side stories taking place around a particular location at specific points between Day Zero and Day 400 of the zombie outbreak. The story follows five characters, each brought to that place by different circumstances and with stories that accentuate [...]
There’s nothing quite like an appointment with the president. We had the chance to visit Deep Silver’s booth at E3, get some hands-on time with the upcoming Saints Row IV, and even have a quick interview with one of the developers. All in all, it was a really nice time. Enough about that however; you all want to know about the game. The demo we got to try out was basically the opening mission of Saints Row IV. It picks [...]
Not that anyone’s keeping score, but CD Projekt Red might have had the coziest and friendliest meeting space in the entire convention center. Their presentation on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was outstanding, and they were cool enough to let us ask them a few awkward questions. I was a little starstruck — I’ll own that. Check out the video above, and enjoy.
Eidos Montreal is the studio that brought Deus Ex into the current generation of gaming with Human Revolution. As a follow up, their next big project is to do the same thing to the classic Thief series. This is the fourth game in the franchise (it was actually previously to be called Thief 4 but they dropped the number at some point), and it takes place in a medieval/steampunk world in which you play as master thief Garrett. The objectives [...]
We had the opportunity to watch a demo of Wolfenstein: The New Order and get some hands-on time with it as well. This is the newest upcoming title from MachineGames, which is made up of former members of Starbreeze Studios (Chronicles of Riddick, The Darkness). Wolfenstein: The New Order picks up in an alternate history 1960 in which Germany won World War II and have dominated the planet for nearly two decades. Series Protagonist B.J. Blazkowicz awakens from a coma [...]
Final Fantasy XIV, Square Enix’s ambitious MMO, had a 2010 launch that was, ahem, rocky. It was very poorly received by fans and critics alike, so the developer took it back to the drawing board. The revised version, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, was shown here at E3. The first part of our time with this game was being shown a trailer, mostly consisting of CG footage. It outlines a bit of the story, which seemed to me to [...]
Legendary video game developer Shinji Mikami has gone back to the genre that put him on the map in the first place. The Evil Within is his first horror game since the landmark Resident Evil 4, and we got to watch a demo of it at E3. In introducing this game, Mikami said that he wanted to get back to the original roots of the Survival Horror genre and provide a truly scary experience. The story of The Evil Within [...]
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