I wish we lived in a world where crystals reacted to someone's vaguely interpretive hand gestures. Why? Just something to do during your morning commute, I suppose.
Video Blips:
• Learn how Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning's crafting and skill professions intertwine with your character's chosen destiny. And if said destiny involves fashioning 12 "frayed tweed boots" to achieve any kind of progress, I'm going into the wilderness and smashing everything I see in a blind fury.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaW0INDTYsg?rel=0&hd=1]
Continue after the break for lots of yelling in the demo for Asura's Wrath, a rundown to the upcoming content for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, and the plots-within-plots plot of Crusader Kings 2.
• Nab the demo for Asura's Wrath for a chance to fight your very own space Buddha. Fun falsity: Well over 100 motion capture actors sought medical attention after constantly freezing their faces in grimaces during the game's development.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brM9xH2_36w?rel=0&hd=1]
• Deconstruct New York some more and disrupt a sleepy Italian hamlet in a couple of new multiplayer maps for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Old-fashioned me still pines for a retread of Counter-Strike's iconic Italy map soundtrack.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neAZSPcb3l8?rel=0&hd=1]
• This live-action trailer for Crusader Kings 2 apparently fell right out of a Monty Python script book. Some rulers just never learn to not trust a man who looks like he shoved his eyeballs in a bucket of eye shadow.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3e2D8foYMM?rel=0&hd=1]