We asked our contributors what they thought the best trends of E3 were. The oddities and absurdities stuck out the most within our crew, like battleship golf games, WWI without gunpowder and indie exploration games. Quixotic may be the next big thing for our gamers, and here's why. 

Here's what we thought of both our hands-on experience of the single and multiplayer demos. 
 

For the first time, we got to get a look at what the new entry in BioWare’s fantasy series through their huge decisions, giant worlds rendered in the Frostbite engine, and a solution to the cross-generational save file problem.

Nintendo is finally beginning to embrace the love of competitive gamers, despite their resistance in previous years. Does this mean that Smash Bros 4 can keep their elite gamers interested? 

After Kickstarting the game with almost 74,000 backers, it looks like the Infinity Engine subgenre of RPG looks to be making a revival. Even Obsidian Entertainment's Josh Sawyer knows you won't come close to choosing every option in their new Pillars of Eternity.

Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed: Unity finally joins the ranks of Deus Ex and Splinter Cell in the cover-based stealth genre.

From what we've seen so far, Alien: Isolation may prove to be the game that diehard fans of the Alien franchise have been waiting for: a survival horror Alien game. It's about damn time...

It was only labeled "working title," but the new Kirby game was definitely playable at E3 this year, requiring only a stylus and a WiiU controller to play. 

Rocksteady Studios made one thing clear at E3 - prepare your minds for the unimaginable Batmobile.

With Disney putting a daydreaming-worthy song into video game form, Final Fantasy capitalizing on their epic music soundtracks, and Hatsune Miku making her U.S. video game debut, there's a fair amount to talk about.

You're not the only character that gets experience points and quests now. Your enemies get them, too. 

Monolith Productions spent a fantastic amount of time on their nemesis system, which is an entirely diverse organized network of enemies that you are destined to disrupt.  

After playing Destiny's multiplayer, called Crucible, players can tell that despite Destiny's beautiful and exciting originality, it still has a classic Halo feel to it. 

With the jump to Advanced Warfare, veteran studio Sledgehammer Games has taken the task to take the series to brand new heights -- so at this point in development, how’s it going?

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’s presentation began with a trailer ‘directed and edited by Hideo Kojima’---presumably in a grand effort to show off the latest footage from the Fox Engine. In an part of the Konami booth on the E3 floor, we saw Snake, Ocelet, and other familiar faces dramatically...

Sometimes our writers lose their minds.  Here's what happens when they are stuck sitting in line for what can seem like eons.

In May 2013 when Brave New World was announced as the final expansion pack for Civilization V in 2010, the announcement was unexpected, yet somewhat disappointing. After all, while the game was three years old, the features that Brave New World included "radically altered" and "redefined" the game’s...

Battlecry, the new Free-to-play title from Bethesda softworks, starts both its narrative premise and mechanical design with one question: What if WWI was fought without gunpowder?

The loot-obsessed shooter returns to Pandora for a jaunt to the moon set between the first two Borelands games. Core gameplay similar to previous Borderlands enemies, get loot, laugh at inappropriate jokes and weird accented ...

Fans who were primarily interested in the 2014 E3 Microsoft press conference craving for Halo news were not disappointed.  The content Microsoft included was a little bit new, a lot renewed and most importantly, a pretty clear vision for what fans can expect going forward.