Anyone who’s ever screwed around in the world of flash games knows there are a LOT of ‘defence’ games out there; from the venerable ‘Desktop Turret Defence’ to ‘Gemcraft’ and their hundreds of illegitimate spawn.

The basic premise is that waves of monsters/soldiers/aliens/generic enemy or geometric shapes will try to kill you in some nefarious way, and you have to construct a defensive path for them to walk down whilst being shot. The trick is to find the right combo of towers to form the longest ‘maze’ for the enemies, whilst dealing the most damage.

E3 2010 Media Digest

Final Fantasy XIV
TRON: Evolution
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
Knights Contract

More media from E3 2010

Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millenium Online
Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine
Black Prophecy
Dead Rising 2
The First Templar
Vanquish

Various screenshots and trailers from announced E3 titles 2010.

DRIVER San Francisco
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
Halo: Reach
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam

Microsoft has revealed final details of its Xbox 360 hands-free motion control system, which it has rebranded Kinect.

The device, which was originally codenamed Project Natal, was showcased ahead of the opening of the E3 games expo, which starts on 15 June in LA.

Microsoft has said Kinect will hit shelves before the end of the year.

E3 is almost upon us and here the first of what’s sure to be a huge number of trailers.
Eidos Montreal’s Deus Ex Human Revolution is due in early 2011 on PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

Trailer inside..

Call Of Duty – Black Ops

Treyarch’s next title in the Call of Duty series is due in early November on PC, 360 and PS3.

FEAR 3

Day 1 Studios’ shooter sequel is coming in the Autumn for PC, 360 and PS3.

More trailers here

“If you’ve been around since the 80’s it may be hard for you to envision the interactive landscape without some sort of cumbersome console laying under your television waiting for you to put a cartridge or DVD into. Fortunately for you this won’t soon be the case as our ability to stream vast amounts of content has increased substantially over the past decade or so.”

more inside.

With news that the two lead developers at Infinity Ward’s MW2 headquarters have been fired for apparent “attempted corporate espionage” the mood in the office at IW is “terrible” according to an inside source – speaking to Kotaku.

Things have now taken a turn for the worse with Activision, IW’s parent company withholding payments to the less than 100 strong team, which has caused many key devolpers at the studio to defect to former lead developer Jason West and Vince Zampella’s new company Respawn Entertainment – Recently signed by Electronic Arts, Activision’s arch rivals in the games publishing industry.

more inside..