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The 21 best game trailers of E3 2017

2017-06-16T12:00:39-04:00

Rejoice, for E3 is over for another year, and we can all take a breath. The world's biggest video games trade show brings such a flurry of news that it's hard to stop and take it in before you're whisked to the next keynote, the next conference, or the next big reveal.

It's only now, with E3 over, that we can really take time to look back at some of the most impressive, intriguing, or downright bizarre games to get announced or outlined further at the show. Below you'll find some of the trailers that are worth rewatching - or that you might have missed - from the last week.

Super Mario Odyssey

Nintendo closed its E3 presentation - a prese …

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Playing Fallout 4 and Skyrim in VR is probably a bad idea

2017-06-16T10:41:02-04:00

Earlier this week, Bethesda Softworks gave fans two big virtual reality announcements: VR versions of beloved RPGs Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. You could argue that these kinds of big, open-world titles are the perfect application for VR - the medium needs games that can keep players entertained for more than a few hours, and people want to feel like they're really living in their favorite world.

I think, however, that you'd be wrong. Because so far, the little I've seen of both titles suggests that most of the great parts of present-day open-world games don't translate well into a headset, and that the perfect VR open world w …

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Bethesda’s new DLC marketplace won’t sell existing Skyrim and Fallout mods

2017-06-12T05:16:33-04:00

Bethesda has clarified its new Creation Club system - the program that will sell additional content to both The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim and Fallout 4 - specifying that the service will not be used to sell existing mods. Creation Club, which was announced during the publisher's E3 keynote last night, will instead allow players to buy officially sanctioned characters, weapons, and other add-ons created by Bethesda's own studios and selected third-party developers.

Also available via Creation Club will be new clothes, areas, and even game modes. All of the above sound like the kinds of things mods have been bringing to the two games since their …

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Bethesda at E3 2017: the 4 most important announcements

2017-06-12T01:43:28-04:00

Bethesda made a series of questionable choices at its E3 press conference, like holding the event at 9PM local time (midnight, for those of you on the East Coast), constructing an entire miniature theme park called "Bethesdaland," and featuring the Chainsmokers. And it didn't deliver a few of the most anticipated announcements, like the rumored sci-fi game Starfield.

That said, some exciting stuff came out of Bethesda's various studios. We've got the most important parts of it collected here.

A new standalone chapter in Dishonored

The first Dishonored game had excellent expansions, putting players in the shoes of antagonist Daud and his pro …

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The Evil Within 2 trailer is like a remix of the weirdest horror films

2017-06-12T00:40:10-04:00

A sequel to The Evil Within, a horror game from Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, will launch October 13 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, Bethesda announced today during its E3 press conference. The announcement for The Evil Within 2 was accompanied with an absolutely bonkers trailer.

Tango Gameworks and Bethesda released The Evil Within in 2014. The game followed a police detective, Sebastian Castellanos, who is mysteriously transported to a bizarre and terrifying new realm while investigating a murder case. In the sequel, Sebastian returns to a nightmare world while searching for his daughter.

Rumors about a sequel have been circ …

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Dishonored’s first standalone story has you hunting the all-powerful Outsider

2017-06-12T00:40:04-04:00

Dishonored, Bethesda's excellent steam punk-meets-occult stealth series, is getting a new expansion on September 15th, the developer announced this evening at its E3 press conference. As many fans suspected, the expansion puts players in the shoes of Dreadful Whale Captain Meagan Foster, who in a previous life was an assassin who went by the name Billy Lurk. But in a satisfying twist, Bethesda has you hunting the Outsider, the mysterious and seemingly immortal entity who imbues select citizens of Dunwall with magic powers.

This expansion, called "Death of the Outsider," is billed as the Dishonored universe's first "standalone story," meanin …

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Watch the new trailers for Doom and Fallout 4 in VR

2017-06-12T00:32:30-04:00

We saw some very early experiments with Doom in virtual reality last year at E3. But now, Bethesda's promising a new, discrete experience called Doom VFR, and it looks pretty fun. The game puts you into fights with Doom's familiar demons, but per the trailer, you'll get some pretty wild teleportation options - think jumping and pivoting in the air to blast a cacodemon. There's no launch date, but it's being released for PlayStation VR and HTC Vive.

Bethesda also reminded us that Fallout 4's VR edition is still coming - and now we know it'll be released in October for HTC Vive. Unlike Doom VFR, this looks a lot like a direct port of the non- …

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