E3

E3 headlines

• Of course The Witcher 3 looks blurrier on Switch - but it's still brilliant

  I’ve seen it, it’s real, and it’s a little bit like magic. The Witcher 3 runs on the Nintendo Switch – and sure it looks worse, but who cares? It fits in your pocket.

  3 months ago

• I can’t stop thinking about The Outer Worlds’ tumour pigs

  During E3 we got a chance to watch someone from Obsidian play through a section of The Outer Worlds, a new RPG from the original Fallout creators.

  5 months ago

• More corporate grins, fewer games: what I want from E3 2020

  It’s been an exciting year for video games is a phrase these articles are supposed to start with.

  5 months ago

• Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 has all the subtlety of Thor's hammer, but it's better for it

  Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 isn’t interested in being subtle, or like the movies. It just wants to be dumb comic book fun – and that’s brilliant.

  5 months ago

• Luigi's Mansion 3 brings Nintendo's ghost hunting back to the big screen - and it feels right at home there

  5 months ago

• Final Fantasy 7 Remake preview - they actually went and did it, the mad lads

  Final Fantasy 7 means so much to me.

  5 months ago

• An extremely bad interview with Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi

  I’ve had a few bad interviews, but this particular encounter at E3 2019 made me want to crawl inside my own shoe and die.

  5 months ago

• Wolfenstein: Youngblood is bigger than previous games, but the budget price reflects shorter development time

  MachineGames says Wolfenstein: Youngblood is much more content rich than previous games, yet it’s releasing at a much cheaper price point. During an interview at E3, I asked why that was the case.

  5 months ago

• Hitler is already dead in Wolfenstein: Youngblood and Mecha Hitler won’t feature, but he might in future games

  Now we’ve got the serious Wolfenstein: Youngblood stuff out the way, it’s time to talk about RoboHitler (or Mecha Hitler as he’s officially called).

  5 months ago

• Wolfenstein: Youngblood - inspired by The Goonies, and yep, Nazis are bad

  5 months ago

• Bethesda still wants to support Fallout 76 mods, but the server switch has complicated things

  When Fallout 76 launched Bethesda said it wanted to support mods, but it wasn’t a priority at launch. Fast forward a year and we’re no closer to full mod support.

  5 months ago

• Some of Fallout 76’s earliest issues haven’t been fixed because “we also have to prioritise delivering new content”

  Before sitting down with Bethesda’s Chris Mayer to talk about the state of Fallout 76 and its exciting Wastelanders update, I took to Reddit to see where the community was at.

  5 months ago

• Conversations with NPCs in Fallout 76 are "tailored towards a single-player experience"

  One of the big reveals at Bethesda’s E3 2019 conference was the addition of NPCs in Fallout 76.

  5 months ago

• “On [Destiny 2] Forsaken we were really frustrated that you had to play all the other content to even buy it” - Bungie

  Destiny 2 developer Bungie recently split from publisher Activision and is now free to do as it pleases. One of its first moves as an independent company was to tear down some barriers, making the base game completely free.

  5 months ago

• Bungie is trying to deliver Destiny 2 content at a faster pace, but not at the expense of a healthy work culture

  It sounds like Destiny 2 updates will be coming at a much quicker pace in future.

  5 months ago

• Destiny 2 is coming off Battle.net because “it made the most sense at this point in time”

  Recently Activision and Bungie announced that they were parting ways, ending a partnership that was supposed to span four games two games early.

  5 months ago

• Doom Eternal’s Souls-style invasions are seen as an “endgame” activity for masterful players

  One of Doom Eternal’s biggest new features is an invasion mechanic that lets you play as a demon and disrupt a single-player game.

  5 months ago

• Heaven in Doom Eternal is “interwoven into every single thing; the past, the future, the present”

  Doomslayer isn’t only taking on the hordes of hell in Doom Eternal, he’s going to make angels weep.

  5 months ago

• Doom Eternal has third-person cutscenes because it’s “more efficient”

  When people think back to Doom 2016, outside of all the ripping and tearing, one thing that comes to mind is when Doomslayer pulls a terminal apart rather than listen to exposition.

  5 months ago