I was way behind. The day started with a 12:00 PM appointment, the same time as when the doors open on the first day of E3. The unwashed masses descend upon the South and West halls and inexplicably form orderly queues despite the rampant disorganization that soon follows the opening bell. This is how E3 [...]
There’s a little over a dozen of us, and we’re all seated on plush purple cubes. The room is dimly lit with purple mood lighting and the producer next to me is wearing a purple Saints Row shirt. In the room adjacent is a Saintsified interpretation of “Washington Crossing the Delaware” and a couple of [...]
Blizzard, it seems, is really into drinking and gaming. Hanging around outside of one of the Diablo III demo rooms in the private Activision area at E3, one of the game’s marketing team members tells me that this is his favorite way to play the game. He describes it as Gauntlet (Legends, probably) and perfect [...]
The lights go down, and the room visibly changes. Granted, flipping off the light switch will do that, but it’s also probably because it’s the Bethesda E3 demo theatre and the entire thing is full of journalists trying to write things down on a notepad. The point, however, remains. Shinji Mikami had just finished introducing [...]
Bleak. Beautiful. Oppressive. That’s the situation in Metro: Last Light, the latest (read: second) in the Metro series by 4A Games. It is also poignant, resonant, and haunting. It follows the genesis set forth in Metro 2033, allowing the player to once again control Artyom as he sets out to the hostile surface to kill [...]
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