E3 2012

Preview: The Elder Scrolls Online turns Skyrim into a social affair

Preview: The Elder Scrolls Online turns Skyrim into a social affair

The Elder Scrolls Online has a 2013 release date, but here’s an early peek: We saw a demonstration by the game’s creative director Paul Sage this week at the E3 video game industry conference in Los Angeles, and with it a much more detailed picture of what the Skyrim and Oblivion-inspired MMO (massively multiplayer online games with thousands of simultaneous [...]

Hands-on with Rayman Legends for Wii U and its new take on multiplayer

Hands-on with Rayman Legends for Wii U and its new take on multiplayer

Ubisoft’s Rayman Legends for Wii U comes up with so many new ways for friends to play together in the same room, we can’t even list them all. We played the game with one of its designers at E3 in Los Angeles this week and we can safely say that if local multiplayer with friends is your thing, this is [...]

Preview: Assassin’s Creed 3 is literally a revolution

Preview: Assassin’s Creed 3 is literally a revolution

As we saw in the trailer, Assassin’s Creed III takes the popular video game franchise from Ubisoft into a fresh direction with a completely different setting and hero, naval battles, frontier exploration, and an arsenal of visceral new combat tools. Even though it’s called Assassin’s Creed III, it’s really the fifth game in the series — but it’s the first to [...]

SimCity is reborn with intricate multiplayer and a deeper simulation

SimCity is reborn with intricate multiplayer and a deeper simulation

A new SimCity game will hit Windows PCs this coming February, and it takes the franchise in a new direction you might not have expected: multiplayer. That’s the tip of the veritable iceberg of enhancements (but no, we’re pretty sure icebergs are not among the disasters with which you can strike your city) so we sat down in a behind-closed-doors [...]

Star Wars 1313 is darker, prettier than other Star Wars games

Star Wars 1313 is darker, prettier than other Star Wars games

We saw the new Star Wars video game Star Wars 1313 demonstrated behind closed doors at E3 2012, and it’s a thematic departure from previous games in the franchise. Star Wars 1313 is billed as the first “mature” Star Wars game to be released. Rather than focusing on Jedi, the Force, good and evil, or hilarious dancing games, it places [...]