You ever wonder if Nintendo paid the person who came up with “free-climbing” what they were worth considering it’s seemingly changing every AAA game?

After a year away from the spotlight, E3 is back and finally ready to bulldoze an entire dump-truck's worth of hype straight to your face. With just over a week to go, E3 2021 officially kicks off on Saturday with a beefy salvo from Ubisoft, and then continues through to Sunday with the likes of Microsoft, Bethesda, and Square Enix all delivering various showcases.

That’s a lot of time to spend showing off a new character who are being added to Smash, but who am I to judge?

“Let’s see Counter-Strike do that” shouted an executive at Riot, probably.

While the game looks like your typical Far Cry experience--huge world, lots of guns, a celebrity villain to murder--one of the better parts of the Far Cry template is back and ready to rock through the entire campaign: co-op.

God of War. God of War never changes. But the release dates for those games certainly do! The sequel to 2018's Dad of Boy has officially been delayed, and will now be released in 2022, but here's the surprise announcement: God of War Ragnarok will arrive on both PS4 and PS5, despite it originally being listed as an exclusive to Sony's latest gaming device.

Ghostwire: Tokyo, a game that was revealed by E3's best living highlight reel Ikumi Nakamura back in the ancient year of 2019, just received some updated details on the PlayStation Store.

Knockout City is both easy to pick up and deviously simple in its design, hiding a layer of complexity behind more casual gameplay that fans will discover the more they become invested in it. There's some standard launch-month polishing left to be done still, but Knockout City lands more hits than misses with its high-stakes gameplay and cunning combat, resulting in a multiplayer experience that's both fun and intense at any given moment.