
Gamers starting getting hyped for the holiday season right around mid-June. It isn’t so much that we miss the sweetest feel-good vibes of spending the month of December with our families. Chalk it up to a yearly spectacle and showcase of triple-A video game previews that set us salivating and speculating for 12 months to come after it. We couldn’t be talking about anything else but E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
We’ll be glued to ever gaming-centric media outlet under the sun from June 14-16, soaking up every juicy hype-filled morsel tossed our way by the industry’s biggest publishers. We take it all in every year knowing that at least half the real fun spreads out over the ensuing year as we take stock of which products lived up to their infamously splashy previews and hands-on demonstrations.
If we’re being honest, it’s a mixed bag from one iteration to the next. Take E3 2015…please. It bordered on surreal. In addition to fleeting glimpses of “Mass Effect: Andromeda” and “Kingdom Hearts III”, it was a year when so many long-awaited titles – some of them, the stuff of video game urban legends – seemed poised to come to life. It will go down as a year when we reached maximum inflated hopes.
Nintendo finally officially announced “Starfox Zero” (it was an over-designed mess). Square Enix gave in and introduced the current-gen “Final Fantasy VII” remake that JRPG fans have howled like castrated hound dogs for (it will be an episodic release with a completely new battle system, but we still don’t know when it’s actually coming out). “The Last Guardian” exists after all (and still has no release date). “Shenmue 3” opened its Kickstarter campaign to fund a long-clamored-for completion of the franchise and received full funding in under 24 hours (but still has no release date).
Bright side: “Fallout 4” was announced and shown at E3 and hit store shelves as scheduled the following November.
So, what will descend upon the Los Angeles Convention Center this year? Judging from this sampling of early trailers, a whole mess of continuations to annual or at least highly established franchises, including EA’s newest licensed FIFA and Madden iterations and a fresh World War I-focused departure for “Battlefield 1” (to be shown off mostly at their own separate event), “Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare” promising us Mountain Dew wishes and Dorito-dust dreams, “Gears Of War 4” coming exclusively to the Xbox One, the requisite spiky-haired adventures awaiting us with “Final Fantasy XV”, and many more.
OK, so that’s not fair. There’s also “Deus Ex: Mankind Divided” to look forward to, as well as the long-awaited “No Man’s Sky”, Bethesda’s “Dishonored 2”, and Sid Meier’s “Civilization VI” to get the “core gaming” set riled up.
Pass the coffee, gang. It’s going to be a wild month.
Source – Pocket-Lint
Resident Evil: Umbrella Corps
Release date: June 21, 2016
Formats: PS4, PC
Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE
Release date: June, 24 2016
Formats: Wii U
Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Release date: June, 28 2016
Formats: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Wii U, Xbox 360, PS3, PS Vita, 3DS
No Man’s Sky
Release date: August 9, 2016
Formats: PS4, PC
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Release date: August 23, 2016
Formats: PS4, Xbox One, PC
Madden NFL 17
Release date: August 23, 2016
Formats: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Xbox 360, PS3
Destiny: Rise of Iron
Release date: September 27, 2016
Formats: PS4, Xbox One
FIFA 17
Release date: September 27, 2016
Formats: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Xbox 360, PS3
Final Fantasy 15
Release date: September 30, 2016
Formats: PS4, Xbox One
NBA 2K17
Release date: September
Formats: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Xbox 360, PS3
Lego Dimensions (2016)
Release date: Fall
Formats: PS4, Xbox One, Wii U, PS3, Xbox 360
Mafia III
Release date: October 7, 2016
Formats: PS4, Xbox One, PC
Gears of War 4
Release date: October 11 2016
Formats: Xbox One
Skylanders Imaginators
Release date: October 14, 2016
Formats: PS4, Xbox One, Wii U, PS3, Xbox 360
Battlefield 1
Release date: October 21, 2016
Formats: PS4, Xbox One, PC
Civilization VI
Formats: PC
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
Release date: November 4, 2016
Formats: PS4, Xbox One, PC
Dishonored 2
Release date: November, 2016
Formats: PS4, Xbox One, PC
Watch Dogs 2
Release date: November 15, 2016
Formats: PS4, Xbox One, PC
Gran Turismo Sport
Release date: November 15, 2016
Formats: PS4