Podcast: The best and worst of E3 2018
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The festival of dumb explosions known as E3 is over, but that won’t stop us. The RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show, goes deep into the show, picking out our favourite games, the oddest moments, and best rats (spoiler: it was the one crushed by a shelf in the Resident Evil 2 trailer). We’re also introducing two new voices this week. Who are these strange people?
It’s Alice and Noa, obviously. We’ll get to know them a bit (and their darkest fears) but mostly it’s straight to work dissecting the viscera of E3. Alice is more excited for Ashen than Anthem, and highly rates Andrew WK’s performance at Bethesda’s press conference. Noa is looking forward to Beyond Good and Evil 2, but also the smiling root vegetables of Ooblets. And Brendan tells the story of how Hideo Kojima mildly inconvenienced him while visiting the show. Oh, and of course everyone is intrigued by Cyberpunk 2077.
There’s a lot to talk about but we've got a veritable nuclear blast of links below, so be sure to check out anything we mention that you haven’t caught up on.
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Link blast:
Noa Smith is our new video person!
Alice Bell is our new deputy editor!
E3 was last week – here’s the best stuff we saw
And here’s the 9 best PC games you might have missed
Bethesda’s E3 conference, featuring Andrew WK
Beyond Good and Evil 2 brings back Pey’j and Jade
But Ubi’s crowdsourcing of art and music is a bit cheeky
Cyberpunk 2077 had a cool trailer
But Cyberpunk’s demo was shown in secret
Sony’s press conference was a bit silly
Maneater is Jaws: The Game (and we’re Jaws)
Resident Evil 2 remake, starring a rat
A Plague Tale: Innocence also has many many rats
Ooblets has ditched fighting for dance battles
Neo Cab wants you to embrace the Pain Worm
Devil May Cry features Dante and Virgil and Nero and… Trish?
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has romances!
But Anthem by BioWare doesn’t (whoops)
EA’s press conference, featuring Vince Zampella
Respawn’s Star Wars game is Jedi: Fallen Order
Ubisoft’s conference, featuring a wonderful dancing panda
Dead or Alive 6 says it’s going to ‘tone it down’
But Soul Calibur VI really isn’t
Control is the new weird shooter from Remedy
The Division 2 is set in Washington
For Honor’s Breach mode is pretty fun
The Elder Scrolls VI is set in Elsweyr and here’s the proof
