E3 Aftermath

Damnation is a third-person action title whose focus is equally distributed among various type of gameplay, including shooting, platforming, and vehicular combat. While still very much a shooter, Damnation extends its massive streaming environments vertically as well as horizontally. Characters in the game will perform death-defying acrobatics over 1,000 feet above ground in order to shake down an unstoppable arms dealer in a post-industrial conflict to save humanity. Damnation is yet another promising title set for release this fall on PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 from developer Blue Omega Entertainment.

This year's E3 conference, as usual, has been saturated with multi-platform games. So I actually had to do some digging to uncover some titles that hardcore PC gamers can call their own. And I'm happy to report the discovery of three more PC-exclusive gems that you can look forward to this year.

First up, we have Black Prophecy, a futuristic MMO set in the realm of outer space. Choosing to join forces with one of two dominant human races, the Tyi and the Genides, your key to survival in the game is to infiltrate an alien stronghold who has taken over a third human race called the Restorers, whose fate marks rise or fall of mankind. Take a look.

This next teaser trailer is for Empire: Total War, a real-time strategy game published by Sega. Set in the 18th century, this latest installment in the Total War series introduces global conflict with the implementation of 3D naval combat. Excited about the new offering in the RTS genre, developer Creative Assembly's Lead Designer James Russell states, "The scale is a lot greater than previous Total War titles. The campaign map now encompasses not only the whole of Europe and the Middle East, but also North America and the Caribbean, and the Indian subcontinent. It's a truly epic canvas for the gamer to play out their strategies for world domination."

Now let's take a look at what BioWare has been up to. While the development team has been dropping hints left and right about their work on a third KOTOR game, it wasn't until E3 that gamers got a whiff of Dragon Age: Origins, an upcoming PC exclusive "dark heroic fantasy" RPG of epic proportions. Check out the teaser to see what the creators of Mass Effect have in store.