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Chris and Sheva mow down an entire village, meet Baghead!

By Jeremy Azevedo

If you are reading this, you probably already know that Resident Evil 5 is looking like it’s going to be one of the best games of the year, or ever. Having played the game myself, I can tell you that these images are no joke, the game really looks like this in action.

In fact, RE5 almost looks better in action than it does in the cut scenes, which is a weird reversal of roles if ever there was one. Check out these new screens from the playable demo at E3 to see for yourself…

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My picks for the top 5 games of E3!

By Jeremy Azevedo

Of all the great games that were at E3, there were a select few that just a certain special something…

These games might not be the most buzzworthy games of the show (actually most of them are), but they were the most fun to play as well as having represented the most exciting developments in gaming culture. Check out our picks for the top five games of E3 2008!

Lips

Everybody knows that the third most awesome thing to do whilst drinking copious amounts of alcohol, after fucking and fighting, is karaoke! So imagine my delight to hear that the newest contender in the karaoke game will reportedly allow you to use your own goddamn music collection! I don’t know how this is expected to work, or what the legal ramifications are, and I don’t care. My copy of Singstar only came with like 30 songs on it, only about 1/3rd of which were actually fun to sing. I own like 30 bajillion CDs, so if Lips delivers on it’s promise, it’s destined to become the number one party game in my household without cluttering up my living room with plastic drum sets and other such bullcrap.

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Sega and Capcom face off for best of show

By Jeremy Azevedo

If Sega was still in the console game today, I’d consider it safe to say that they would rule 2009 on the strength of their upcoming game catalogue alone. They had no fewer than 8 games on the floor (and behind closed doors) that are sure to be monster hits, some of which were even totally brand new IPs!

We’ll start with Bayonetta, an action game with a sense of theatrics so extreme that it makes Devil May Cry look like Connect Four. You play as a witch in 7-inch stilettos (that also double as machine pistols) with magic hair that can conjure up torture devices to destroy invading angels. Sounds crazy, is crazy, and looks all the more rad for it. Next up was Mad World, a black and white (and red) action game that looks kind of like Sin City but plays out more like “The Running Man”, only with 100 times more violence than any anything, ever. Surprisingly, Mad World is a Wii exclusive, much like the similarly violent but totally unrelated No More Heroes that quenched Wii gamers bloodlust this year.

Also showing at Sega was Sonic Unleashed, which features both a night and day play environment, one that has you running around as Sonic at speeds that made me want to take Dramamine, and one that has you playing more of a combat/exploration type game as “Sonic the Were-Hog”. Stormrise brings large scale tactical RTS combat to consoles, and Alpha Protocol looks like the spy version of Mass Effect. This last one in particular was one of the best of the whole show, a cool idea executed very nicely. James Bond can suck it!

Lastly we had Samba De Amigo for the Wii, Valkyria Chronlcles, a tactical RPG with a very unique looking cel-shaded graphical style, and Golden Axe: Beast Riders. I had heard that Golden Axe was cancelled a couple of months back so I was surprised to see it here in playable form, but it was a fun action title nevertheless, despite having nothing on Bayonetta. In total, an awesome showing from a veteran company in their finest form.

Square Enix was showing a new RPG called Infinite Indiscovery that looks to be the next big thing for the company (if it doesn’t fall too deep into the shadow of Final Fantasy XII), but it’s Nintendo DS gamers who are in for a real treat this fall season. In addition to the soon to be released Final Fantasy IV remake, there’s also Dragon Quest IV and the ever so long awaited Chrono Trigger port on the way as well.
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