To what extent can further technological innovation be delivered on the current generation of console hardware? Sony stood up to be counted at E3 2018 with a series of superb gameplay reveals - and taking centre-stage was Naughty Dog's The Last of Us Part 2. On the surface, it looks as great as you might expect. From its detailed characters to its lush environments, it's clear that the game is shaping up well - but if you look closer, there are some remarkable new technologies on display. From our perspective, animation and interaction are two key areas set to separate this game from its rivals.
What's immediately apparent is that there's a fluidity to the animation quite unlike anything on the market, to the point where some don't even believe that the demo is authentic in-game action. Of course, Naughty Dog has a rich history in pushing back the boundaries in this respect, with the expertly crafted blending and transitions seen in both the Uncharted titles and The Last of Us, but clearly, this latest E3 reveal is on a whole new level - and it's all down to a new animation technology known as motion matching.
"It's this crazy science fiction stuff where you take just hundreds and hundreds of animations of like walking forward and turning or whatever, and you put them in this huge bucket, and then based on what the player is trying to do or what an NPC is trying to do, it pulls from that bucket, sometimes two or three different animations, and blends them together to make this totally seamless thing," co-game director Anthony Newman .

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It's the penultimate day of E3, which means that the assembled exhibitors have got through everything they wanted to talk about and are now being unwillingly coerced into things they don't want to talk about. Chief among these is, as expected, Fortnite. The shadow of Epic's late-blooming hit looms large over the show: a vast, flossing colossus bestriding the Ozymandian remains of PlayerUnknown.
The chief surprise is that we are talking less about half-baked attempts at taking its crown and more about Sony's devastingly effective attempts to stop PS4 players using their accounts on Switch, which is being received . Microsoft is of course being .

It's all very well after seeing nearly an hour of the game at E3 2018, but we - everyone watching from afar - haven't seen it, have we? I mean we're not jealous but it's really unfair.
All we've seen is which, OK, yes, does do a rather magnificent job of selling us on the character and riches of the Night City playground we'll lose ourselves in - you could even argue it's the city which will be the main character in CD Projekt Red's new game.
But before there was a trailer - awaited with something approaching Grand Theft Auto-like anticipation - there was of course concept art, and now CD Projekt Red has shared a smattering of images of it.

Yesterday at E3, Aoife got to try out the Resident Evil 2 remake which had been unveiled with a at Monday night's PlayStation showcase. The trailer didn't lie - this is shaping up to be a fantastic and terrifying reimagining of the horror classic.
The game now employs a Resident Evil 4-style over-the-shoulder camera angle, and some puzzles and scares have been remixed to help it feel fresh. Aoife reports that it's still soaked in atmosphere, though, and it's fun to go back to a baby-faced Leon Kennedy before he became an all-action hero.
Anyway - let's let this game speak for itself. You can watch the 20 minutes of gameplay Aoife captured in the embed below.

At E3, , its upcoming sci-fi open world game. As it did, one major revelation emerged: Cyberpunk is a first-person role-playing game.
Not everyone, it seems, is thrilled at the news. The Witcher 3, CD Projekt's previous game, was of course a third-person adventure. The switch to first-person for Cyberpunk 2077 means the game is in part a first-person shooter, and it's this realisation that seems to have worried some fans of the studio's games.
So, why did CD Projekt go with first-person for Cyberpunk 2077? Quest designer Patrick Mills told me there were a few reasons for it. First up, the developers wanted the player to feel like they were in the body of the character they control.

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Overkills The Walking Dead was showcased at E3 and weve already seen a couple of trailers of the game. Recently weve been able to learn quite a lot of details about the game. In a recent Reddit AMA, OVERKILL revealed some new details about its upcoming The Walking Dead game.

Without a doubt, Bethesdas decision to reveal a teaser trailer for The Elder Scrolls 6 during E3 2018 not only generated a groundswell of excitement around the long-running fantasy-RPGs fan base, but also caused them to breath a sigh of relief to know that its still in production. This also means that we dont know where exactly in Tamriel the game might be set. Is it possible that the trailer just went with a generic fantasy landscape, and that the final location where the game is set might not have been decided yet?

Overkills The Walking Dead was showcased at E3 and weve already seen a couple of trailers of the game. Recently weve been able to learn quite a lot of details about the game. In a recent Reddit AMA, OVERKILL revealed some new details about its upcoming The Walking Dead game.

Without a doubt, Bethesdas decision to reveal a teaser trailer for The Elder Scrolls 6 during E3 2018 not only generated a groundswell of excitement around the long-running fantasy-RPGs fan base, but also caused them to breath a sigh of relief to know that its still in production. This also means that we dont know where exactly in Tamriel the game might be set. Is it possible that the trailer just went with a generic fantasy landscape, and that the final location where the game is set might not have been decided yet?