After last year’s E3, XCOM went completely dark. Between then and last week, no trailers, screens or information for the game were released. Rumors began to fester earlier this year that the FPS reboot was undergoing a major rethink. Returning to 2K’s booth a year later for a second look, I can report that that’s absolutely the case. Thematically it’s the same game, but mechanically, big changes – some worrying, some not – have been made to XCOM.
Here’s a transmission we just received from E3 that says there IS a real-life alien invasion happening, and we ARE all going to die! And it’s happening worldwide! The French are calling it an ‘attaque globale’! I don’t speak French, but I think that means a global attack! There’s a race of sentient spaceships come back to kill us all! Why did no-one tell us about this before!
The dead island of Dead Island’s open-world world is the fictional Banoi, and I totally would’ve booked a holiday to a place called Dead Island. Imagine how cool it’d sound at work? “How was your time on DEAD ISLAND, Rich?” “Pretty good: I had to work together with three friends to hold off a horde of shambling corpses, and we jury-rigged weapons out of machinery and tools left around the Palms Resort.” “Oh, cool! Can I see your photos?” “Sure, they’re IN THIS VERY POST.”
Rocksteady have released some more superb screenshots of Batman: Arkham City, showing the Dark Knight taking on a wide variety of uglified goons. it’s good to see Bats back in action after the recent rush of Catwoman information.
It’s easy for PC gamers to get disheartened at E3. As Tim mentioned to 
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