Rock, Paper, Shotgun

As much as E3 can generate that sad feeling in your socks, it’s important to remember that our world of gaming is FAR bigger and more interesting than that awful corporate circlejerk. And what better example to land before my eyes than Sarah Crossman’s Master Reboot. From concept to art style to the wonderful trailer, it’s a breath of fresh, creepy air. Created with the desire to explore the concept of life after death in the form of saved, explorable memories, this is a first-person “psychological puzzle adventure”, and it looks splendid.

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They said it would happen in the ancient texts of May 2013, and lo, it has come to pass. RIFT, the previously not free MMO is now a free MMO. And they promise “no trials, no tricks and no traps.”

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In open beta AS WE SPEAK, Company Of Heroes 2 doesn’t miss out on the Having A New Trailer That Doesn’t Show Much That’s New E3 Party. Even though it comes out in only 13 days.

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VG247 seem to be saying they have the “world’s first look at the standalone version of DayZ”. Perhaps they mean from this year’s E3? Of course creator Dean Hall has been showing footage for ages, not least twenty minutes of it back in March. However, what VG do have is ten minutes of the very latest build that’s being shown at E3, featuring new animations, weapons and features, and is well worth a look.

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Jane “Gabriel Knight” Jensen’s Moebius has a trailer that’s worth a watch for jonesing point-n-clickers. Looking pleasingly modern, yet obviously still a traditional adventure, it’s partly the work of Phoenix Studios – they who as a group of amateurs from around the world brought the King’s Quest series back to life. Now pro and working with Jensen’s Pinkerton Studios, there’s good reason to have hope for this one.

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As people should be aware by now, I’m in charge of things. I mean, I write The Rules, after all. And come next update, you can be sure they’ll feature an entry about whether your F2P game is launched or not. Neverwinter, which I’ve played to what I’d consider near-completion, has just announced its launch date. No. Its launch date was the 30th April, when it launched, feature complete, and started accepting money for in-game purchases. 20th June is not its launch date, no matter how fast and loose they play with “beta” – it’s its first major update.

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There’s a fun new trailer for Knights Of Pen & Paper’s +1 Edition. Sadly it’s an attempt to get you to pointlessly pre-order the game, that’s due out on the 19th. Don’t do that. Wait until you’ve heard if it’s worth buying or not. But do enjoy the enjoyable trailer, to help you decide if you’re interested.

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Continuing the legacy of all trailers being called stupid things, here’s Saint’s Row IV’s E3 trailer. E3 is next week. The trailer, meanwhile, is absolutely brills.

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I’m not particularly good at popular culture. What’s hip with the young cool-daddies on the streetwalks? I don’t seem to keep up. I’m too busy watching 1980s episodes of Spider-Man on Netflix. Turns out I’m closer than I thought, but unfortunately not old Teenage Mutant Ninja Heroes cartoons, however. Which means I’ve once again missed the zeitgeist. Activision haven’t, although their timing for the release of the latest attempt (the 37th, incredibly, but the first in four years) to make the anthropomorphised reptiles into a game could be better. With the first season having ended, and the second not starting until September, presumably they’re aiming to plug the Summer gap? Who knows – what I have noticed is that we’ve not posted anything about it, so why not enjoy some nostalgia-inducing trailers?

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This whole industry is bonkers. Launch trailers are released days ahead of launches, there are trailers for trailers to announce release dates, and pre-order packages for games that are barely off the whiteboard. So perhaps I’m becoming inured to it all when I barely bat a beautiful eyelid at an “announcement trailer” for Square’s Murdered: Soul Suspect, for which there was a teaser trailer in February.

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Teslagrad is an eye-catching side-scroller. Rain Games’ puzzle platformer that Nathan first spotted in January now has a couple of lengthy, detailed videos of in-game footage. Most impressive, for lack of being able to play the puzzles ourselves at this point, are the animations – take a glance at them.

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