'Alien: Isolation': Buried in a press release announcing that former THQ president Jason Rubin had joined Oculus VR as the head of worldwide studios Tuesday was the shocker that 'Alien: Isolation,' the upcoming survival game based on the original 'Alien' film, would also be playable with the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. 'Splatoon': Nintendo unveiling 'Skylanders'-like figures or a 'Legend of Zelda' installment for the Wii U on Tuesday didn't catch gamers off-guard, but no one guessed that the 'Mario Bros.' maker was working on a zany online multiplayer shooter featuring an original crew of shape-shifting squids battling each other with paint guns. That made the revelation of 'LBP 3' coming to PlayStation 4 later this year with playable sidekicks a bombshell. 'LittleBigPlanet 3': It was assumed ahead of E3 that sequels to franchises like 'Tomb Raider,' ''Crackdown' and 'Uncharted' would be teased, while the prospect of a new 'LittleBigPlanet' was a long shot.

However, it was rival Sony who used its E3 press conference to tout a show set for its online service: a live-action adaptation of the graphic novel by Brian Michael Bendis. 'Powers': Since the Xbox One's debut, Microsoft has touted the console's entertainment prowess and invested heavily in a slate of original programming. It's coming to the Xbox One as part of Microsoft's indie initiative. 'Cuphead': Despite receiving only a few seconds of screen time during Microsoft's briefing on Monday, the old-school 1930s animated art style of this run-and-gun game from indie developer Studio MDHR captured attendees' imaginations.

'There's still so many places you can take people where they never imagined they could go before.'Ī sampling of some big surprises at this year's E3: 'I still think it's possible to surprise people,' said Matt Nava, the former 'Journey' art director who wowed the crowd at Sony's press conference Tuesday with footage of 'Abzu,' his undersea fantasy coming in 2016.

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