Glixel Podcast

We've seen SO many games this week – so in the space of just one hour, we each try and narrow things down to a small handful of games that really stayed with us. Everything from big blockbusters like God of War to indies like Donut County and The Artful Escape or Miguel's favorite – Sea of Thieves. We're joined by our writers Luke Winkie and Steven T. Wright for this episode, so there are six of us to listen to.

John enthuses about Call of Duty: WWII, Miguel recounts his experiences as a pirate in Skull & Bones, Simon realizes he actually really likes Shadow of War – in part thanks to the accents – and Luke describes his time with the new Monster Hunter. Also some updates on Assassin's Creed Origins, That's You, Ashen, Destiny 2, The Artful Escape and a bunch of other stuff.

Luke enthuses about Mario + Rabbids, John and Miguel give their impressions of Super Mario Odyssey and Rachel fills us in on Doom VFR, Fallout 4 VR and her playthrough of the Wolfenstein 2 demo.

There's a lot to go over since last night's podcast, and tonight the usual crew is joined by our writer Luke Winkie. In a little over an hour we tackle Bethesda's quick 40 minute showcase that included VR versions of Doom and Fallout 4 as well as a glimpse of Link in Skyrim and a brand new Wolfenstein game. Then we hit Ubisoft's phenomenal lineup, with everything from the surprising Mario + Rabbids game, the beautiful Assassin's Creed Origins, climaxing with the (new) reveal of Beyond Good & Evil 2. Then we work our way through Sony's lineup, which included DLC for Horizon Zero Dawn, a new look at God of War, and a lengthy look at Insomniac's stunning Spider-Man game.

42 Xbox games at E3 – 22 of them are some flavor of "exclusive" for Xbox One (although Microsoft's interpretation of that word might be different than yours) – we go through the whole list on the second of our daily podcasts from E3 2017.

We got to play Star Wars Battlefront 2, Need for Speed Payback, A Way Out and more at Electronic Arts' big pre-E3 shindig in Los Angeles today. We talk about our impressions of each, and particularly how impressed we were with the co-op only A Way Out.

Following last week's E3 predictions show, this week we dig into the challenges faced by Microsoft this year. If the big stories are going to be PlayStation's dominance and the quality of Nintendo's Switch lineup – how can the Xbox stand out? What games does it need to reveal? What could it possibly do? Absent a new Halo, what would it take to completely reinvigorate the way we all look at the Xbox?

In the first of two episodes ahead of E3, we ponder the biggest, most exciting announcements that will happen at the show. Will Electronic Arts show anything unexpected? Will the next Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer show up at the Sony media event? What will Microsoft show to wow us on the Scorpio? For that matter...what will Scorpio end up being called? Will Nintendo repeat their performance last year, and end up "winning" E3 by just showing a small number of superb games that stand out from the dour, post-apocalyptic, war-obsessed shooters being peddled by everyone else?

This week we're joined by special guest Ryan O'Donnell from Area 5 to talk about the biggest announcement of the week: Destiny 2. Bungie showed a huge amount of the game this week, and Miguel was in Los Angeles at the showcase to see it live and get his hands on the game. He shares his impressions of the single player, PvP and strikes, plus we dig into whether the PC version is potentially held back by the console-based roots of the series.

As promised, we've all been playing a lot of Prey over the past week and we have plenty to talk about. Also this week, Simon talks about his discussion with Sony R&D guru Richard Marks about PlayStation VR, we give our impressions of new VR "lightgun" style shooter Farpoint, and John enthuses wildly about how much he loves the new Forza Horizon 3 expansion pack, Hot Wheels. John and Rachel have a bit of a Crosswords with Friends rivalry developing also.