E3

Stopping by the nVIDIA booth at E3, we played around with the Shield, nVIDIA’s upcoming handheld Android system. Attached to a console-grade controller, the 5″ 720 retinal quality multi-touch display is quite stunning, and makes browsing through the system fluid alongside the powerful performance provided by the Tegra 4 – the custom 72-core NVIDIA GeForce GPU Quad-core ARM A15 CPU. …

Donkey Kong finally returns, but this time for the Nintendo WiiU, alongside long-time partner Diddy Kong in the new Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. We played a quick demo of the game versus one of the bosses – the Big Top Bop Seal Boss. Out of the four stages of the demo, this is the only one dedicated to a boss …

Overkill Software and publisher 505 Studios have been hard at work getting Payday 2 ready for its Steam debut, and we got the chance to play the demo copy featuring the first map. Much like in Payday: The Heist’s first map, Payday 2 follows suit with an equally simple intro level to help new players get started. The first heist …

With the huge success of Battlefield 3, DICE developers decided to reveal the upcoming Battlefield 4 soon after. At E3 2013 we got the chance to play the alpha version of BF4’s multiplayer, with a full 32 versus 32 PC setup. The US and Chinese forces clash in the Siege of Shanghai map in ‘conquest’ mode. Even in alpha, Battlefield …

The Call of Duty franchise has become so big, at this point it would be surprising if Activision-Blizzard failed to annually release a new game in the series. Of course this isn’t the case, but wouldn’t it be harder and harder to excite the crowd year-in and year-out? Apparently not. A brilliant ten-minute video of the new Call of Duty: …

Even before the show began, Sony went straight for the jugular, one-by-one listing every negative of Microsoft’s XBOX One and promising the PS4 will not follow the same route. It is perhaps one of the rare moments where a console “wins” over all other competitors prior to any of them entering the market. Daily activation, dropped support for used games, …