Video Blips: Q.U.B.E., Twisted Metal, I Am Alive, and more

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A bright white color scheme, a facility that's falling apart, and physics-based puzzles? I wonder where Toxic Games gets its inspiration.

Video Blips:

If Q.U.B.E. didn't look so fascinating, I'd call it a blatant rip-off of Portal. Still, I doubt it has the personality that made everyone love Valve's series of first-person puzzlers.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x7cQ2Tcukk]

Continue on to see the upcoming Twisted Metal, the rules of survival in I Am Alive, and more.

 

Sweet baby Jesus! I had no idea that a Twisted Metal game was coming out in February. It's kind of sick to think about how badly I want to play this.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjp55M37ysc]


I'm just going to say it: The whole "I'm going to film myself in this apocalyptic scenario" thing has gotten old. With that said, this trailer for I Am Alive makes me want to jump into the world and find out what's going on.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgrTbVF7Xw8]


I might be alone in missing campy live-action cinematics in video games, but at least I've been getting commercials in their place. Like with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 before it, these Crusader Kings 2 trailers have done a good job of bringing humor to games we don't normally consider to be funny.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1BVW14qXNE]