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Let me say up front that I didn't follow the Game Developers Conference as it went on this last week and I haven't had time to extensively look at what was there, but I did read about some cool stuff on USGamer. Most exciting for me was the big reveal of details on the third and final Zero Escape game. Now subtitled Zero Time Dilemma, looks like it's moving away from a straight visual novel with puzzles to something more akin to the Telltale style of adventure game, but without sacrificing the narrative focus of the series. It looks good! Most surprising, though, was that it's coming out June 28! The first game in the series, 999, was my favorite game I played last year but I haven't played the second game, Virtue's Last Reward, yet. I gotta get on that!

Another cool game was Perception, a first person narrative horror game (some call them walking simulators). What's intriguing about this game is that your player character is blind but can "see" the world with a limited sort of sonar, kind of similar to Daredevil. You explore a creepy old house by tapping your cane of the ground to see, trying to solve a mystery of some sort. But the house is haunted, of course, by a malevolent entity...that is attracted to sound. It looks really cool, kind of like a scary version of Gone Home. The only problem for me is that it has only been announced, near as I can tell, for PC and Xbox One at this point. Hoping for a PS4 port eventually too.

Insomniac's new Metroidvania, Song of the Deep, looks pretty good too. I'll be keeping an eye on that one when it comes out.