Fly through a letterbox in space in the Elite: Dangerous E3 trailer
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It’s a relief to discover that despite their affair with the people’s publisher, Kickstarter, Frontier Developments aren’t too cool for E3. Braben and friends have made the transatlantic trip to LA - and then taken the mammoth walk from the hotel to the show floor - to demo the game in person.
And they’ve released a new trailer. We’ve seen plenty of astounding footage from the already-released Elite: Dangerous premium beta, but in this video a spaceship zooms directly into the heart of a gigantic cube, as if to upset Peter Molyneux. You can’t get that anywhere else.
Civilization: Beyond Earth E3 footage: "We're fans of science as much as science fiction"
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I’m trying to listen to the things Firaxis’ developers are saying about Beyond Earth, but really I can’t get over how young they look. They look like Carmack and Romero making Doom in the ‘90s. They look like the stars of the next Hollywood college comedy you’ll yawn through the trailer of.
But co-lead designers David McDonough and Will Miller are classic Firaxis designer-programmers who’ve been around long enough to form some very strong opinions about what Civ is - and apply them to Beyond Earth.
A Realm in Peril: villainy has an oddly-masked new face in Final Fantasy XIV
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This trailer for A Realm Reborn’s next big plot twist ticks off plenty of JRPG stereotypes - a stellar soundtrack; unparalleled boss fights; unbearable cuteness; dialogue so unnatural as to be irritating, if the voice acting weren’t so entertaining.
But MMOs are the sphere where Eastern genre conventions meet West - storytelling standards are low, all battles are real-time, and a game like Final Fantasy XIV can be the best place to quest on any continent.
So, er - go easy on it, yeah? It's actually very good.
Challenge accepted: Bohemia Interactive teases Take On Mars' upcoming update
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Bohemia Interactive has been teasing new content for its Early Access science and exploration game, Take On Mars at E3. It’s been on Steam Early Access for a while, giving players a taste of the scientific experiments and frontier exploration astronauts might get up to once humanity sets foot on the red planet.
The upcoming update will expand Expedition One. The first part of Expedition One was released in the latest update, letting astronauts fiddle around with a space buggy, added the Cydonia Mensae area and chucked in a 3D printer to help with habitat construction. Part two is due out later this year.
Take a gander below at some of what astronauts can expect from their expedition to Mars.
Dragon Age: Inquisition at E3 2014: stunning
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Let’s get it out of the way: the E3 demo of Dragon Age: Inquisition is absolutely stunning. It is rolling blunderbuss of highlights, a demonstration of the game’s massive open world, a chance to understand how Dragon Age’s pause based combat has been refined and improved, and a first glimpse of the weight of the game’s story choices.
The warm, rapturous applause the demo received was richly deserved.
Kerbal Space Program is getting close to "scope completion"
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Kerbal Space Program’s 0.24 update, which was pushed back so that the budgets and contracts update would be put in the game at the same time, is nearing completion.
“On the development side, we now have ahead of us what is unmistakably the last stretch for Contracts and Budgets on this update, so we shouldn’t be far now from a system which will obviously still need a lot of content added to it, sure, but should be able to handle just about any idea we can throw at it,” Squad said in a blog update.
H1Z1: a sandbox where you can build a fortress and then set fire to brawling wolves and zombies
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In the bowels of E3, we’re at the mercy of zombies. Not sleep-deprived, hungover journalists, but the rotting, walking cadavers that populate SOE’s new post-apocalyptic survival MMO, H1Z1.
It’s a single server, no resets and 64 square kilometres (at the moment) of forests, deserts, towns and zombies. And at first, it sounds a lot like DayZ. That was always going to be the hurdle for SOE, that immediate comparison that everyone leaps to.
But this isn’t DayZ, and ex-Counter Strike pro, now H1Z1 senior designer, Jimmy Whisenhunt offers plenty of reasons why the two games are different and can co-exist.
Guerrillas in the Mist: Homefront: The Revolution gets dirty at E3
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Crytek has shown off a slice of rebellious gameplay from Homefront: The Revolution at E3, which was streamed on Twitch yesterday. It’s the same demo Jules wrote about a week ago, following a resistance member as he meets up with other players to stage a jail break in a police station.
It’s enough to make you entirely forget about its predecessor.
Enemies at the Gates: Watch every man die in Sniper Elite 3's multiplayer
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Gosh, Enemy at the Gates was a bit rubbish, wasn’t it? If you haven’t watch it - you lucky bugger - but rather like the idea of tense stand-offs between opposing snipers across massive distances, then you might want to play some Sniper Elite 3’s multiplayer instead of watching Jude Law pretending to be Russian.
Anyway, Sniper Elite 3 looks like it might be a good time, as war goes, and the multiplayer might be one of the best bits. Large open environments where cheeky enemies could be hiding anyway, just waiting to introduce your skull to a bullet? Who wouldn’t love that. Take a gander at the multiplayer shenanigans below.
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