Black Nerd at E3 2016: Long Time Viewer, First Time Attendee

***This is a running diary of my experiences at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. It will be updated for each of the three days I’m in L.A. at the expo, taking in as much gaming goodness as I can manage and report back on.***

If you nerd hard in these gaming streets, you know what E3 is and its impact on the video game industry. Though the pervasiveness of the internet and various social media have provided adequate platforms for video game news to reach the people, E3 is still the king of big release news for games and hardware. Even with big publishers and developers pulling out of E3 this year such as Activision and EA (who is running an offsite event as EA Play), there is still so much to take in. Just some random musings and observations from my time on the floor. Day Three (Thursday) What I Watched: Gears of War 4 – Ok, this is how you Gears. From this point on, this is how you Gears. If you have been skiddish on the the last few Gears of War games, such as Gears 3 or Gears of War: Judgment Day, then you’ll be happy to hear that this feels like the original version of Gears of War and that’s a very, very good thing. You step into the role of Marcus Fenix’s son, fighting a new enemy with new comrades in arms. The campaign we saw looked spectacular, but all the perks such as crossplay and play anywhere features from XBOX, in addition to getting the digital copies of the previous Gears games on the 360 (all backwards compatible with the XBOX ONE. Kind of crazy not to gr…