Wow, looks like Tomb Raider, but with weird bandy legs. Nothing new, nothing particularly exciting, just some pretties. And quite why video games still insist on copying cinematic cliche in every advertising games is beyond me. About time we outgrew our cousins in Hollywood isn't it?

Rage, silly name, amazing pedigree. If anyone is allowed to reinvent the FPS, then I'm pretty sure it's id. After all, they invented it in the first place. Set phasers to excited.

Looks like Skate, and Skate was awesome fun, so that's not really a bad thing. If sequels to games in the past are anything to go by, then expect this game to have more of some things, less of others and some tweaks. The end.

To finish off this triumvirate of PC news titbits, it's been announced that Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will be released in North America, Europe and Oceania on September the 18th. A move that will set it in direct competition with the latest expansion pack for the all conquering beast that is commonly known as WoW. Brave choice or foolhardy waste?

Only time will tell. Time and whether or not people buy it. The game certainly looks like the biggest threat to WoW's soon to be ice covered throne, but looks are often deceiving in the cut throat world of MMORPGs. Subscription prices are set around the $13 mark, with other territories not yet knowing how much they'll have to fork out a month for some of that sweet dwarf bashing action.

Source gamesindusty.biz

That'll be the trailer for the new LoTR online expansion the mines of Moria then. I believe the phrase is "we're going deeper underground".

Of course, by shock I mean not shock. GTA 4, heralded, lauded console God is heading straight towards the PC. This isn't really news, but then, we're in the post E3 lull and there isn't really any news at all. Expect GTA 4 to be landing on the 18th of November in the US and the 21st of the same month in Europe. Presumably so they can translate it.

Source gamershell.com

You know those companies that sell TV Games, the ones you plug directly into your goggle box and have 7 old arcade "classics" like Space Invaders and Worm, well, they've now released a Portable Mega Drive, with 20 games already loaded onto it. It'll retail for about thirty quid and takes batteries of some description. So far so meh, what I take odds with is the fact they're claiming it's the world's first hand held mega drive. What about the Nomad? I'm pretty sure that was a hand held Megadrive/Genesis/whatever.

If you're interested in reliving the olden days when Sega ruled the world and everything was much better than it is now, you can find more information on the Hand Held Megadrive by clicking right here. Or you could just get an Xbox Live account, most of the good games are on there anyway.

It's not the first trailer again, this one has sexified in game footage of 3d but not really 3d kicking and punching. And electrocution. The game certainly has a visual style all of it's own, and if it plays as well as it looks then we're all in for a massively violent flashy fighting renaissance. My excitement does not wane, and I shall remain excited until I am disappointed.

It's a teaser, it teases I suppose. No hint at gameplay, story, anything really. Just a backwards explosion. I suppose if you get excited about backwards explosions you're going to get excited over this. If you don't, then it's just another Tomb Raider game really. And to that I must say, yawn.

Source maxconsole.net

That'll be Quake 3 Arena, late nineties classic shooter, being played through a browser then. For nowt. Maybe it's not as good as UT, but for free, through Firefox or one of those other web browsers, you can't really complain now can you? Start chasing rockets... now.

Source maxconsole.net

Prepare for more brain shredding ninja action. N+, legendary freeware and Xbox Live Arcade classic is heading to the DS, and it looks goooood.

Source pocketgamer.co.uk

EA's president John Riccitiello has announced that the most anticipated, hyped up, expected, rumoured, argued about game of recent years, the Bioware Knights of the Old Republic MMO is a reality. Rejoice. Dance in the streets.

Anyone unfamiliar with the abbreviations, this means that Bioware are making a massively multiplayer online RPG based around the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic universe. This is big news indeed. KotoR was a brilliant game, so brilliant I finished it twice, and I'm a bitter cynic.

Hopefully Bioware will be able to once and for all rid the world of the memory of Star Wars Galaxies and give us all the online Star Wars experience we deserve. Dibs on the evil robot.

Source CVG.com

As mentioned below, Portal: Still Alive is coming to a 360 near you in the future, exclusively. Above is the moment it was announced at E3. Not really that exciting, but when I hear robot voices I like to share.

Source thatvideogameblog.com

Is it me, or is everything at this years E3 Microsoft based? Even the things that they haven't announced are getting more news space than the other manufacturers put together. I don't want you to think that we're being biased, but, well, Sony and Nintendo haven't really done anything that interesting.

The voice explaining the new 360 front end is Steve Willet, so you'll have to excuse the embarrassingly "hip" way he's trying to sell the new product, but I think we get the gist of it.

My personal opinion; dashboard redesign YAY! avatars, BOO!

Source Xboxer.tv

Certainly the highlight of E3 thus far.



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