I have returned properly now from my week at PC Zone. It was an intersting but fun week with the guys, so thanks to Ed, Steve and Log for putting up with my copy. Hopefully my stuff will appear in the next issue and maybe the issue after, just wait and see how much they have changed it. I will continue my bloggings and stuff and see what happens once Uni is done with next year.
Anywho E3 has been and gone and I heard there was a lot of good shit going down. Well I had an interview with Marc Duffy and Miles Jacobson appearing during the last week, that is my contribution to keeping on top of the E3 news. I’m sure that you all can find the E3 focused news on almost every other games site out there, let normal service resume here next week.
I am a big fan of the Football Manager games and it was a pleasure to recently do a little Q&A with two of the biggest figures in the series, Marc Duffy (MD) and Miles Jacobson (MJ). With chatter about topics as varied as Football Manager Live, E3 and piracy this is a must read for anyone interested in the Football Manager series and in the anti-piracy debate. Check it all out after the jump!
Tomorow sees the first day of my internship at PC Zone. This is my first foray into magazine journalism and I am quite looking forward to it. Thanks go out to Will Porter for setting it all up for me and thanks in advance to all the guys at the mag for letting me do stuff there for a week.
Word reaches me from Kotaku that a NeoGAF forumite has gleaned the first information of the new Wolfenstein game from the newest issue of Game Informer.
As should be expected you take control of BJ Blaskowitz who has some new fangled super-natural powers while fighting the Nazi’s in World War Two. The game will be based in a city which opens up as you complete various missions and there will be an AI resistance force that will help you as you fight. Finally the Nazi’s have created ‘The Shroud’ which is an alternate dimension they are drawing power from.
Watch and wait, I think we can expect to see more of this game during E3! I love how the TV is still working, just seems so right for a Fallout trailer.
This new Pre-E3 trailer for Dawn of War 2 does something great, and something just average. The great thing is the combat it shows off, vicious and brutal this game is looking damn good. The average thing? The revelation of the new race to go alongside the Space Marines and Orks (or Orcs…I’m not sure which!) is distinctly average. We want Tyranids damn it!
Being a student of politics I take an interest in any game that claims to be a ‘Geo-political Simulator’. What do you know, Command in Chief is a game which does just that! Commander in Chief tasks you with taking control of a nation, you can take charge of around 170 real-world nations. You will have to manage your nation and its relationship with other nations around the world while dealing with natural disasters and various international organisations. Spiffing!
Two new videos for DICE’s Mirror’s Edge, the first one in an interview whereby we learn some more about the game mechanics, though see little new gameplay footage. The second is a story-based trailer. This is really shaping up to be an exciting and innovative game.
That is the first piece of concept art that has emerged for Half-Life 2: Episode 3 and it will be part of the Into The Pixel exhibit for the E for All Expo later this year. The piece appears to show a Combine Advisor floating above a figure which is most likely Gordon Freeman in the possible ruins of the Citadel from City 17.
Valve have already stated that Episode 3 won’t be present at E3, will we see more of it at the E for All Expo in September though, who knows?
