
I got to watch a slightly extended version of the Jedi: Fallen Order demo while attending EA Play in LA today. This demo began shortly before the one EA live-streamed and saw main character Cal infiltrate an imperial base on Kashyyyk by blowing the hell out of it. To begin, he scaled a vine-covered AT-AT, took…

The “E3 press conference” as an industry institution has been fading ever since Nintendo brilliantly broadcast their…
Electronic Arts won’t hold an E3 conference this year. The publisher said in a press release today that it will again hold EA Play in Los Angeles during the weekend before E3, but that the focus of the event will be livestreams and hands-on for players. No more soccer memes and disappointing mobile reveals, sadly.
Sony is skipping next year’s E3, ditching its traditional booth and press conference in a move that will have a…

E3, a show in which the future of gaming pretends to be in the present, is in the past. Those demos that may or may…
Dying Light 2 takes parkour zombie slaying to a new city, and there’s a reason for that. Where the first game,…

As with most games shown at E3 a couple of weeks ago, it’s too soon to say if Concrete Genie will be what its demo…
Which games had the best E3? The data folks over at Thinknum (a site, full disclosure, run by my friend Josh Fruhlinger) have some charts showing how game companies and their games did. The biggest trailers were for Cyberpunk, Fallout and The Last Of Us; the worst backlash was to Command & Conquer.

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is pretty long name for a game with a straightforward pitch: what if XCOM but with…