E3 2013: Transistor

The indie line-up presented at their conference suggests Sony are working hard behind the scenes to position themselves as an ideological opposite to Microsoft and their restrictive publishing platform. How else to explain all the Xbox Live Summer of Arcade devs shoring up with (timed) Sony exclusives? Supergiant Games follow up Bastion with Transistor, a turn-based strategy game that likes to dwarf your sword kid with augmented Deco landscapes.