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These newly released Hitman Absolution screens, show off some very nice visuals, especially for the Hitman series, though 47 being on a small ledge in the sky is slightly troubling given that he’s not supposed to be an acrobat like that Creed guy, but we can assume there’s a hatch above that ledge or something that he dropped down from.

What’s truly troubling is that, while Hitman will be appearing at E3, it will only be behind closed doors to the press.

Now of course this could simply be what they think is the best way to build the hype, it could also mean they don’t have full confidence in their game, and need to limit any public scrutiny, and god forbid take notes from the biggest dumbest members of the press, IGN employees for example.

If they screw up this series I say we dig up Aeris and kill her again.

BioWare released this E3 preview trailer for The Old Republic, shows off a little bit of everything, even the vehicles, and some cute little space battles. SWTOR looks OK I suppose, but it doesn’t look much better than Star Wars Galaxies, which was novel fun at the time, but not worth any real investment, and this looks to be more of the same, just another DC Universe Online.

Prototype 2 is coming, and it looks a whole lot like Prototype 1, except for the main character being dumped because some of the more vocal members of the games press didn’t like him.

The first game was a pretty solid HD follow-up to The Incredible Hulk, though it got slagged for not having a more hipster vibe to it like Infamous, the only thing that was really lacking from the first were the number of set pieces that were so frequent in Hulk.

I look forward to running up buildings real fast with this new bald guy.

Konami released the E3 trailer for their latest attempt to resurrect their beloved, but poor selling, horror franchise, and it looks pretty damn good. It looks much better than the last HD game, and while it might not be quite as experimental as the Wii Silent Hill it definitely isn’t coming off as another bland rehash so far.

Murder is a mortal sin you go to hell for murder:

He must have liked the games, or Telltale scrounged up enough money to finally win him over because he will be starring as what I assume is one of his own relatives in another time.

During CD Projekt’s gloriously awkward pre-E3 live stream, they announced that there will be a special $10 off promotion on The Witcher 2 at retail locations, online, and on Steam through E3.

This is a game that is easily worth full price, don’t pass it up at $40.

CD Projekt is currently live streaming their pre-E3 summer conference, and announced their first week sales numbers. The Witcher 2 sold a spectacular 400,000 units in it’s first week alone. This is a huge success for CD Projekt, and for high quality PC gaming, unfortunate that they still have to waste any effort on the forthcoming Xbox 360 downgraded version.

Squeenix unloaded this new gameplay trailer for Deus Ex Human Revolution. It’s primarily to show off playing through the same area YOUR way, so it’s a bit repetitive. Honestly this game looks worse every time they show anything outside of a cutscene, all I see is Alpha Protocol with better combat and less dialog options.

Duke Nukem Forever sees it’s most recent delay, pushing the game back to June 14th, and since this was a trivial promotional delay they made this nice little video. This will never live up to Duke Nukem 3D, it can’t.

According to Deap Silver, developers of Dead Island, the ESRB was none too happy with their homage to lynching, and insisted they remove the strung up human shaped being from the palm tree. Deep Silver complied, and replaced it with a more logical shambling zombie. They say the in-game logo will remain unchanged.