It’s been almost a year since I last wrote something here. I miss writing. I’ll probably do more of it this year.

I won’t be posting all the trailers this time because, frankly, I am too old and tired to try and care about FIFA, Forza and all that jazz. Instead, here are my highlights from the first two conferences: EA Play and Microsoft’s Xbox

Life Is Strange: Before The Storm.

I love Life is Strange. The atmosphere, the art style, the characters. It’s all good. Even though it didn’t turn out to be as sci-fi as I was hoping from the start, it was a fantastic story with plenty more world to explore.

Before The Storm is a three-episode prequel covering the story of Rachel and Chloe’s relationship in the three years before the original is set. The story won’t cover Rachel’s part in the original series. “We want to take the player on a new journey and not tell a story that players already know the ending of,” said Community Manager Toby Palm in a Reddit FAQ. Instead, expect to see Chloe and Rachel develop their friendship at Blackwell Academy, as well as learning more about Frank Bowers and maybe even Chloe’s father.

Metro Exodus

The Metro games are… interesting. Flawed – their stealth detection has so far been abysmal – but enjoyable shooters nonetheless, with complex characters and an engaging world. The Metro Exodus gameplay video showed staple items of the series like the gas mask and watch, yet our protagonist could survive in the outside world without a mask. What is going on here?

Deep Rock Galactic

Look, I know this isn’t everyone’s cup of tea but I like exploring and I like having friends alongside to kill stuff with me. It’s one to four-player co-op in which you tunnel through procedurally-generated cave systems for… reasons. Being made by new developers Ghost Ship Games and coming to Xbox One and PC.

Shadow of War

Look, it’s a sequel to Shadow of Mordor. That game was fun and didn’t outstay its welcome. More, please.

Wolfenstein: The New Colossus

Basically the same as the above. The story for Wolfenstein: The New Order was much better than Mordor’s though. I really need to go finish The Old Blood.

Honourable mentions

• Assassin’s Creed Origins – AssCreed with bigger, badder gods?
• State of Decay 2 – actual colony building and survival in a zombie land? Yeah, I can get on board with that.
• Anthem – looks like Destiny with cooler weapons? The only reason I am cautiously optimistic is because it’s coming from BioWare. I sincerely hope it wont be just another wrapper around a bunch of loot grind.<

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I never thought I’d be playing new Shadow of the Beast game 27 years after the original release, never mind finishing it without cheating. The graphics and sound may look tons better thanks to the massively more powerful hardware but one thing has stayed resolutely the same; it’s a game all about timing.

The 1989 Commodore Amiga original looked and sounded incredible, far better than anything else at the time but at the expense of any decent gameplay. You needed the reflexes of a ninja to get further than the first couple of levels. Each and every punch had to be timed perfectly to preserve your minuscule amount of health and every enemy attack committed to memory. With so many enemies crammed into each level, death was fast and frequent and final as the only option was to start from the very beginning. It was brutal and unforgiving but you did get a t-shirt with the game.

In the 2016 reboot you are tasked with much more than just punching enemies and it’s much easier to play. Spanning 7 beautiful levels, starting with the classic grass plains of Karamoon, you seek to uncover the story of your true past by fighting your way through packs of enemies all handily packaged up in a series of encounters dotted throughout every level. Within each encounter two portals appear either side of your character and proceed to spew out a set number of enemies. The crux of Beast’s gameplay lies within these encounters as you punch, shoot and claw each and every enemy in the most gruesome and bloody way possible while trying to remain unharmed.

A tactical mix of block and attack moves is essential to survival and racking up the points as you do get overwhelmed just by attacking. Special attack moves generate huge scores but deplete your special blood store, which can be replenished by killing more enemies or uncovering semi-hidden blood pools in each level.

Your performance during every encounter is rated from platinum to lead so the onus is on fighting with style without taking damage. During the later levels this gets to be very tough as like the original you have to time your attacks almost perfectly against lots of enemies, but with more complex button combinations, it takes significant practice to kill with style. High ratings generate lots of points (mana) to unlock combat upgrades, hidden items and encounters.

If you die during an encounter you can resurrect yourself at the exact point of death by consuming one of an infinite supply of innocent souls or an elixir potion. You receive these potions either from other players (friends) or every time you platinum an encounter. This simple resurrection feature means you can actually finish a Beast game!

Each of the side-scrolling levels look spectacular with wonderful use of depth and bring a new lease of life to many of the original’s monsters. Although I wish they’d not brought back the evil floating eyeballs and they are still a bloody a pain to fight even being almost entirely stationary. With some impressive lighting effects you get to explore some very atmospheric and grand locations which is huge amounts of fun. There’s even some old school platforming within the later levels with one mistake sending you right back to the beginning of the puzzle to try again, which oddly now feels out of place in the game.

There are social elements too in which you compete against your friends for the highest score or completion time. The sharing of your death location is the most interesting and useful feature as it gives your friends the option of devouring your dead body for points in a brutal button-bashing mini game or gifting a bottle of elixir to use in a future game. It’s a nice touch which tests which of your friends are nice and helpful.

Unless you’ve played any of the original Beast games, the story behind your character will make no sense at all each enemy speaks in their own indecipherable dialect. Only through the purchase of language tomes for millions of mana points can you finally understand what they and your own Beast character is saying. The replaying of levels to unlock hidden items and tomes is the main incentive to keep playing once you’ve finished the main story.

You can also find a perfectly emulated original Amiga Shadow of the Beast game amongst a lovely dedicated history section. This emulation allows you to change the screen size, smooth out jaggy pixels and even change the refresh rate. There’s also a video of an expert completing the game, the original soundtrack composed by David Whittaker, box art, an article about the Beast trilogy of games and invincibility mode so you can see those previously unreachable end levels. This entire section transported me instantly back to 1989 and playing Beast on my Amiga A500. It is wonderful to see the amount of effort the developers have put into recreating the game’s history.

Overall this is the best Shadow of the Beast game ever made, if purely on the basis that you can finish it. It is still a game that is all about its visuals and with core gameplay hugely improved from the originals but is ultimately one dimensional centered around fixed encounters. It’s only outside these encounters do you get enjoy and explore what is a beautiful looking game and one that is worth experiencing for yourself.

Shadow of the Beast is out now on PS4

Broadcasting from a studio in the Nintendo booth on the E3 show floor, Reggie Fils-Aime introduced the new open-world Zelda game, The Legend of Zelda: Breathe of the Wild.

Hyrule is a seamless world now and absolutely filled with wildlife. We saw ducks, deer, giant rock monsters, and Link riding his pony across the world. He floated down from a kit, climbed trees, buildings, cliffs and swam through the sea. Also burning the grass for some reason. Here’s the trailer.

After a segment on Pokémon Sun and Moon, Fils-Aime told us that the rest of Nintendo’s Treehouse coverage from E3 will be dedicated to learning more about the Hyrule of Breath of the Wild. You can watch it here:

Watch live video from Nintendo on www.twitch.tv

God of War

Sony opened their conference with a full orchestra conducted by composer Bear McCreary and then went straight into a gameplay demo of a new God of War on PS4. We saw an older, bearded Kratos teaching a child how to track creatures through the woods and fighting troll-like monsters, with a live score performed by the orchestra.

Days Gone

Based on the opening trailer, it’s a game about a post-apocalyptic biker man nostalgic for his dead/missing/divorced wife. It’s from Bend Studio, the team behind the Syphon Filter series, Resistance: Retribution, and Uncharted: Golden Abyss.

They followed this up with a gameplay demo showing biker guy break into a camp and rootling through people’s belongings in search of someone. He took part of a van engine for a makeshift silencer and then there were zombies. More like World War Z (the film version) swarming over and through things. Biker man is very wasteful of bullets, seeing as they don’t actually slow down swarms of zombies and he doesn’t have a chain gun.

The Last Guardian

It’s coming 25th October 2016.

Horizon: Zero Dawn

Open world game where you can hunt robot dinosaurs, crafting traps and fighting corrupted robots. Butt-sliding into cover confirmed.

She grappled down a water buffalo-like dinosaur known as a Broadhead to hold it down and jammed a stick into its interface to “reprogamme” it for riding. I need this game.

Coming 28th February 2017

Detroit: Become Human

Connor, an android sent by a company called Cyberlife, argues with a rogue android to save a child. Looks like a game of choices – lie to the android or tell the truth? Live with the consequences. It’s a brilliant video.

This is a David Cage game. I fully expect intriguing story followed by batshit insanity. Hopefully it won’t turn out to be ghosts or aliens.

Resident Evil VII: Biohazard

Looks like it’s going back to being spooky instead of actiony. Of course, that could be completely wrong but it’s an intriguing trailer nonetheless.

From the Capcom blog:

Resident Evil 7 is set after the events of Resident Evil 6, taking place in modern day and revolving around a foreboding, derelict plantation mansion in rural America. Players must explore and survive the horrors within the mysterious, sprawling estate.

Fully compatible with PlayStation VR. 24th January 2017

PlayStation VR

13th October 2016 US release at $399. There are at least 50 PS VR-compatible games in development. They showed trailers for.

• FarPoint
• Star Wars: Battlefront X-Wing VR Mission
• Batman Arkham VR developed by Rocksteady
• Final Fantasy XV VR

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

Space combat dogfighting going smoothly into FPS on a space station and in space. I really like the look of the space section but COD campaigns are usually too short for me to justify the price.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare Remastered

It’s the campaign mode and 10 multiplayer maps. Pre-purchase the legacy edition of Infinite Warfare and you get the campaign mode of Modern Warfare Remastered 30 day earlier than other platforms.

Crash Bandicoot

The first three games are being remastered and Crash Bandicoot will be in Skylanders Imaginators. No footage on the remasters yet.

Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Yup, still has that trademark TT Games humour.

Death Stranding

Norman Reedus is naked on a desert island, possibly with a baby unless he is going crazy. He’s wearing a handcuff that flickers with blue light. It’s from Hideo Kojima

Another really interesting trailer that I can’t find online yet. Here it is.

Spiderman

It’s by Insomniac Games.

They opened with a ridiculous dance number. Of course they did! Just Dance 2017 is a thing.

Ghost Recon: Wildlands

There is shooting and MEN and cars and MEN and a helicopter. You’re going after the corrupt cartel because you’re the good guys, goddamnit. It’s a military shooter that can be played both solo and co-op.

El Pozolero is the target for a mission. He makes the cartel enemy’s bodies disappear, hence the elbow-length gloves and rubber apron. Here’s the gameplay video.

South Park: The Fractured But Whole

The kids of South Park are playing superheroes but have reached the point where they are fighting amongst themselves.

Also, they’re apparently selling figurines.

Pre-purchase the game today and you can get The Stick of Truth for free.

The Division: Underground

Fighting against a threat under the city. Every time you play the challenge will be unique, though they didn’t tell us how they actually switch things up each session for “infinite replayability”

If you have Ubisoft Club, you get a new outfit for Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell and Rainbow Six

The Division: Survival

I don’t know why I should care.

Eagle Flight VR

They showed a multiplayer “capture the flag” game where you play as eagles bringing a rabbit to their base. Don’t let a rival eagle touch you or you’ll explode.

Star Trek: Bridge Crew

Control the USS Aegis in VR. Be with your friends while not actually seeing your friends.

For Honor

Nice CG and stuff.

Here’s the gameplay walkthrough trailer. It looks like Ryse: Son of Rome but it’s not.

Out 14th February 2017.

Grow Up

It’s the sequel to Grow Home

Trials of the Blood Dragon

Trials gets the Blood Dragon treatment. Yes, the bike game and the Far Cry standalone weird game.

It’s out today on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.

Assassin’s Creed The Movie

Frank Marshall talked about the film without really saying much. Apparently they have good parkour people for the stunts.

Watch Dogs 2

It looks like Watch Dogs only with a different protagonist and set in San Francisco. Lots of sneaking around, getting weird info on people and hacking stuff.

PlayStation owners will get access to all DLCs 30 days before they are available on any other platform.

Pre-purchase from the Ubi Store and you get a little RC robot to annoy your co-workers with.

Steep

Snowboard and ski your way down mountains. Zoom out into Mountain View to check out the surrounding landscape. The game records your route down the mountain, allows you to replay it and send your routes as a challenge to your friends.

Dawn of War

Philippe Boulle and Brent Disbrow from Relic Entertainment showed new gameplay footage, including the end-game orbital bombardment controlled by a squad that gets bigger the more damage it does.

Oxygen Not Included

New game from Klei, creators of Don’t Starve.

It’s listed for release on 10th May, 2017 according to Steam. Could be an Early Access launch date.

ARK

Jesse Rapczak talked about the upcoming Redwood biome, the platforms you can build in the giant trees and that the grappling hook will be useful. Titanosaurs are also coming at the end of the month. These giant dinosaurs are immune to narcotics so you need to knock them out by whacking them in the head with artillery.

The Primitive+ mod is cool. Or at least, it would be if it wasn’t broken to shit on the Center map right now.

The Primal Survival mod that allows you to play as dinosaurs will also be made official soon.

Giant Cop

SO weird.

Mount & Blade II

There are ballistae and destructible environments now. Each castle has multiple lanes of attack so you can choose how to approach.

The Surge

God knows what this is. Mechs though.

Law Breakers

New trailer of the game from BossKey Studios. First-person team shooter with low-gravity and zero-gravity sections of the map to play around with your movement.

eSports

It’s a thing. People get hyped.

AMD

It’s the hardware bit. They have three cards coming out that use the Polaris architecture Radeon RX480, RX470 and RX460.

Also, the PC hardware company are developing new CPUs. Yup.

Serious Sam VR

The future is disembodied guns.

Vampyr

Vampyr guy angsted over his lack of emotions when looking at a dead body. Seems like he can dash sideways very fast and exude a cloud of blood that develops hands and breaks people’s spines.

Killing Floor 2 and Incursion

Here’s a trailer for the Bullseye content pack. It’s out now.

Oculus Rift

Killing Floor Incursion is an entirely new Killing Floor game for VR.

SuperHot is coming to Oculus Touch.

Tyranny

Developed by Obsidian, this game asks “What if evil won?”

Observer

Developed by Bloober Team, there are factions out there trying to hack people’s dreams and memories. It’s an Eastern European cyberpunk setting. It’s a horror game where you play as a detective and must hack people’s minds to learn their fears.

Arma III Apex

It has new weapons and vehicles and they are supporting the modding community. Just like all the other shooty PC games. Help me, I am losing the will to live and there are three more conferences to go.

Turing Test

It’s a first-person puzzler set on Europa. Pick up objects, rotate them, explore, figure out if there is intelligence on Europa. Can we call these games Portal-likes yet?

Overland

Survival Strategy cross-country road trip. Procedurally-generated areas where you need to survive.

Dual Universe

It’s a sci-fi MMO with a seamless fully-editable single-shard universe. Rebuild civilization, build political systems, economies, organisations and more.

They’re emphasising player-created content and hoping that players provide compelling emergent gameplay with the systems they introduce.

Razer

They made a video that’s basically a love letter to the mouse and keyboard. I mean, I like a mouse and keyboard. I spent way too much money on my Ducky Shine 3. Oh god, am I the target audience for this video?

Day of Infamy

Gears of War 4

Rod Ferguson announced that every co-op mode in Gears of War 4 will support cross-play across Xbox One and Windows 10. Yup, horde, co-op campaign and co-op multiplayer. Laura Bailey, voice actress co-star of the game played through a gameplay demo featuring the tradition Gears gameplay of hiding behind cover before popping out with a chainsaw bayonet to rip the enemy apart. It looks pretty much like more Gears.

The buzzkill appears to be a new weapon that fires buzzsaw blades that ricochet off walls occasionally for extra hazards. At least, I think it’s new. I stopped playing Gears after 3 and this doesn’t really make me want to play more.

Also, there’s a Gears 4 edition controller.

Killer Instinct

Rukari Austin, Community Manager for Killer Instinct came on stage to tell us how great the KI community is. He announced that General Raam will be coming to Killer Instinct exclusively on Xbox One and Windows 10.

Forza Horizon 3

Cars and Australia. There’s a racing buggy and a trophy truck and a lamborghini and some other cars and stuff. Idk, cars and racing games aren’t my thing. Watch the video.

https://youtu.be/fTSUgXkfooA

It’s coming 27th September to Xbox One and Windows 10

Recore

I think it’s a platformer? This trailer has loads of style and not a vast amount of great reasons to buy the game. Looks like a nice enough action-platformer though.

https://youtu.be/WnKT9ZCGgBE

Final Fantasy XV

Hajime Tabata and Matthew Kishimoto showed a gameplay demo of The Trial of Titan. I can’t find a decent video of it yet.

FFXV is coming out 30th September 2016.

The Division: Underground

It exists for Xbox One. More at the Ubisoft conference, I presume.

Battlefield 1

They didn’t say anything that we didn’t already hear at the EA conference yesterday, to be honest.

It’s out 21st October 2016.

Xbox One

New features:

• Background music
• Language region independence – you can choose your own language no matter where you live
• Cortana
• Clubs on Xbox Live – create communities based around your interests
• Looking for Group – post a little ad to find friends with similar goals
• Arena – sign up for official online tournaments on your Xbox One

Minecraft

Sax Persson and Lydia Winters announced that Minecraft Realms – dedicated servers – now coming to Xbox One. Play cross platform with Xbox One, Windows, Android and iOS. Also, there are new texture packs for iOS and Android.

Inside

From PlayDead, the developers of Limbo, Inside is coming 29th June.

Limbo is now free to all Xbox One players.

id@Xbox montage

Also, if you bought ARK on Xbox One you get it on Windows 10 for free.

We Happy Few

Well, this is fucking creepy dystopia. They’ve not uploaded today’s E3 video yet so here’s last year’s announcement trailer.

Available from 26th June on Xbox Game Preview.

Gwent

It’s Gwent from The Witcher 3. There’s a single-player campaign. It has new mechanics. Coming to Xbox One and PC.

https://youtu.be/pEcso7yIIoM

Register for the beta at playgwent.com

Tekken 7

It exists and has a single-player campaign.

You get free Tekken Tag Tournament 2 if you have Xbox Live Gold.

Dead Rising 4

It’s set at Christmas and it’s coming out at Christmas this year. Frank West hell yeah!

Scalebound

Part of Xbox Play Anywhere, were you can buy a game once and then play it on Xbox One or Windows 10.

We saw a live co-op demo of four players teaming up against a giant monster.

https://youtu.be/D-ZVMU_KA-M

Sea of Thieves

Emotional music over a trailer of static models. Also a gameplay video of screaming people in 3-second snippets of gameplay. Climbing ladders, firing cannons and not being able to see where you’re going thanks to a massive sail blocking your vision.

State of Decay 2

It exists. There are cars and zombies.

Halo Wars 2

Made by 334 Industries with support from Creative Assembly. The game is out 21st February 2017.

There’s an Xbox One multiplayer beta available this week only.

Xbox One S

It’s 40% smaller than the original Xbox One. It also has a smaller wireless controller.

Xbox Design Lab

You can design your own colours for the Xbox One controller and the Xbox Design Lab will make it.

https://youtu.be/yGxxXkDqRS8

Project Scorpio

It’s a more powerful console. They said 8 CPU cores, 6 teraflops, 4k gaming and hi-fidlity VR a lot. All games and accessories for the Xbox One will be compatible with the Xbox One S and Project Scorpio.

Here’s a new trailer for Vampyr, an upcoming action-RPG from Dontnod Entertainment. Opening with mention of the London flu epidemic would suggest that the story takes place in 1918.

Dontnod are the studio behind two of my favourite games of the past few years – Life Is Strange and Remember Me. Both tell gripping stories set in detailed worlds and provide original, accessible game mechanics. This trailer, however, seems to tell the most generic vampire tale ever written. Oh poor me, my life was dedicating to healing and now I have to kill and drink blood. Noooo, I’m super-strong and practically immortal, woe is me because political factions exist among supernatural beings too.

Please. Chow down on some criminals and be glad you’re not going to die from the flu.

I’ll be keeping an eye on it because I have a thing for vampire stories and respect for Dontnod’s storytelling. It’ll be far more interesting once we learn what kind of vampire powers we’re dealing with.

Vampyr is coming to PC, Xbox One, PS4. Here’s the official Vampyr site.

2K have released a trailer and a 22-minute gameplay video for Mafia III. Expect blood, fire, strippers, torture and Klansmen.

https://youtu.be/eef0uWa_2Vk

New Bordeaux is the Mafia III version of New Orleans, covering the city and the bayou. Set in 1968, you play as Lincoln Clay, a war veteran and former member of the Black Mob who go to war against the Italian Mob of the region run by Sal Marcano. Throw in a Haitian gang run by Cassandra Burke Vito and you have plenty of opportunity for mayhem.

The video introduced the major players and districts in New Bordeaux and walks through a mission to cause expensive damage to the business of a kingpin named Lou. The initial job is to murder one of his enforcers but also notable in the mission list: Rob The Orgy.

The murder mission starts by calling in a weapons dealer to buy hand guns, rifles, shotguns, explosives and vehicle modifications. There’s something called a Screaming Zemi that will lure your targets either as a distraction or to blow them up.

Clay can use the environment as cover and choose to highlight enemies through obstacles. Also, he appears to be ambidextrous with a gun.

Later scenes cover stealth takedowns, less stealthy takedowns, a casino riverboat and a whole lot of shooting. I guess maybe that accounts for all the smoky haze that appears to be hanging over the whole game. Here’s the full gameplay video.

Mafia III is coming this October to Windows, PS4 and Xbox One. Get more info from the official Mafia (game) website.

Quake Champions

Opening the show with a Quake Champions trailer, Tim Willits of id Software explained that the new game will be a competitive arena-style FPS for the PC. It will be “fast” with “amazing graphics” running at 120Hz and unlocked framerates.

They’re aiming for the eSports market at every level, supporting and expanding competitive tournaments and leagues. We’ll learn more about that at QuakeCon in August.

The Elder Scrolls Legends

Pete Hines told us that he is excited about this card game set in the Elder Scrolls universe. It’s coming to PC, iPad and iPhone.

Sign up for the beta at Bethesda.net

Fallout 4 and Shelter and Skyrim

I don’t know why these three were lumped under the same video but here you go.

They’re launching a Contraptions workshop for Fallout 4 with conveyor belts and other cool things. You’ll be able to build your own vault and experiment on dwellers in the Vault-Tec workshop coming July 2016. There’s a Nuka World DLC pack – August 2016

Fallout Shelter is coming to PC in July 2016. There will be quests and stuff.

Skyrim’s being remastered for PS4 and Xbox One and getting mods, wooo!

Prey

Raphael Colantonio announced a new game from Arkane Studios – Prey. Looks to be set in space following what happens after the people in Prey got kidnapped by space aliens. That said, the trailer blurb describes it as “a first-person sci-fi action game that reimagines the franchise from the ground up… with an added psychological twist”.

DOOM

You can download the first level of DOOM on PC, PS4 and Xbox One this week only so if you’ve been on the fence about buying it, give that a go.

SnapMaps will be updated with new features like Hell visual themes, new props, objects weapons and more. You’ll also get the option to create true single-player experiences.

2 new modes coming to DOOM multiplayer

• Exodus – 1 flag CTF
• Sector – a capture-and-hold mode.
• Three free-for-all modes including classic deathmatch

Unto The Evil will be a new premium DLC pack, providing three new MP maps, a new gun, equipment item, armour sets, taunts and more. There will also be a new playable demon – The Harvester.

The Elder Scrolls Online

Elder Scrolls Online is launching in Japan in 23rd June.

The Dark Brotherhood DLC is coming to Xbox One and PS4.

One Tamriel is a new initiative whereby all ESO characters will be automatically levelled to the content that you’re exploring. There will be no more restrictions on questing and you’ll be able to play with anyone.

Bethesda VR

You can wander around the Hell section of DOOM in VR as well as Fallout 4 on HTC Vive.

Dishonored 2

Harvey Smith, Co-Creative Director of Dishonored 2 introduced the game world trailer. It’s very pretty.

Karnaka, “The jewel of the South” is the new, main setting, with very similar architecture to Dunwall of the original game. Dunwall will also be featured in the game. There has been a lot of emphasis on world-building, designing Karnaka so it feels like a place that people live in. The streets are designed so normal people have routes to and from work.

Emily Kaldwin runs the Empire now. As announced last year, you’ll be able to play as both Emily and Corvo and each are fully voiced with their own emotional responses to events.

In the game segment shown for Emily, you can side with the Overseers or the Howlers or neither. Much like the first game, there’s a lot of emphasis on choice. The demo showed her “far-reach” being used to pull a whale-oil tank from a distance. This can be upgraded to pull enemies towards you as well.

Her mesmerise power puts enemies into a trance for a while, so they don’t even notice or remember when she walks past them. Her Domino power links NPC together so that when one person is affected by, e.g. a stun mine, so are all the others. Shadow Walk lets Emily creep along the ground as a shadow and execute people. While the demo mostly showed people being killed, you will still be able to finish the game without killing anyone.

A second demo showed a time-piece that allows The Outsider to view an “alternate timeline” and switch into it at will to avoid or execute enemies.

There will be a limited Collector’s Edition that comes with a replica of Corvo’s mask and Emily’s ring as well as a propaganda poster.

Pre-ordering any version of Dishonored 2 will get you a copy of Dishonored: The Definitive Edition, as long as you preorder in the limited (and unspecified) time window.

Wolfenstein?

Update: In the DOS-like video run at the beginning of the trailer, there was a listing for New_Colossus with no date next to it. Many are speculating that this refers to an upcoming Wolfenstein game. See Videogamer for more info.