The Top Announcements We Want and Don’t Want at E3 2012

The Top Announcements of E3 2012

What We Want and Don’t Want

by exterminat

©2012 Nicholas Laborde

Ah, E3. The Electronic Entertainment Expo, gaming’s biggest event and easily the largest concentration of information throughout the year.

It’s in the air. Can you smell it? Feel it? Sense it? It’s right around the corner – in fact, from the time of this post, only thirty-seven days away – and this is when anticipation truly sets in and begins to build.

  • Will that hinted-at project be unveiled?
  • Will that sequel get announced?
  • Will that exclusive title go multiplatform?
  • Will Valve finally speak of Half-Life 2: Episode Three/Half-Life 3?
  • Will Star Wars: Battlefront III see the light of day?
  • Will Peter Molyneux claim his next title will cure cancer?
  • Will the new consoles be unveiled?
  • Will I have to sell my firstborn child to purchase said consoles?

It’s quite simply the most wonderful time of the year in the gaming scene, and everyone is ecstatic. But with every E3, there always comes the great anticipations, excitements and – of course – the disappointments and let downs. It’s a given with any E3.

OXCGN is proudly returning to the show floor to provide coverage like none other.

Until then, here are the top announcements we do and don’t want at E3 2012, in no particular order.

Is this the year that all our dreams come true? Read on to see!

OXCGN’s Battlefield 3 Massive Review: Multiplayer Masterpiece?

OXCGN’s Battlefield 3 Massive Review

Multiplayer Masterpiece on PC?

by AXiDER

©2011 Alex Baldwin

For what’s already a sub-genre of action games, first-person shooters come in a lot of different flavours.

We have the sci-fi Halos, Resistances, Killzones and Half-Lifes; the run-n-gun Serious Sams; the tactical Rainbow Sixes and Ghost Recons; the RPG-like Bioshocks, Chronicles of Riddicks and Deus Exes; and the booming popularity of the war shooter with Medal of Honor and Call of Duty.

Battlefield 3 belongs to this last group, but goes a bit further to the point where it can be classified as a massively-multiplayer shooter (at least on PC) with numerous smaller gunfights taking place across a massive battlefield indoors, outdoors, on land and in the air all initiated by the social Battlelog system.

Battle you way here

OXCGN’s DICE Interview: With Battlefield 3 “We’re creating a piece of art”

OXCGN’s DICE Interview: 

With Battlefield 3 “We’re creating a piece of art”

Lars Gustavsson and Daniel Matros talked to us on their Aussie visit

by AXiDER, formerly AXIS of Reality

©2011 Alex Baldwin

OXCGN recently had the pleasure of interviewing key members of DICE about their upcoming mega-blockbuster game Battlefield 3.

We caught up with Lars Gustavsson and Daniel Matros on the Gold Coast at the recent EB Expo.

Here’s what they had to say to us:

Battlefield 3: the interview here

EA’s Battlefield 3 Main Theme Song Revealed

EA’s Battlefield 3 News

Main theme song revealed

by exterminat

©2011 Nicholas Laborde

Battlefield 3 is undoubtedly one of the primary shooters this holiday season, and with just over a week to go, details are still seeping out.

Whether it be texture nonsense on a second disc, to simply more multiplayer maps, Battlefield 3 not only keeps looking better and better, but is ensuring that old fans are happy with the official third iteration.

And pleasing old fans they have.

The main theme song for Battlefield 3 has been revealed, and you may just fall in love. (more…)

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