Nuke the Strip!

It's E3 this week, so that means lots of video game ads! This latest shill for Fallout: New Vegas teases a second-chance city frothing with extermination arsenal. As a follow-up, it's more of a superplay tweaker than drastic overhaul - wasteland citizens are still traumatised lump folk, faces frozen in a damaged techno-mortis. It's a good job the franchise sells on post-apocalyptia, that way you can at least pretend the shuffling anti-animation is a result of a total human shellshock. Of course, precisely none of that matters when you're basement deep in a science outpost rooting around for laser-gun batteries; by then you're immersed and experiencing.

The Entertainment Capital of the Wasteland

Tease for Obsidian Entertainment's Fallout 3 follow-up, Fallout: New Vegas. Looks like Nevada's favourite night-out dodged a Chinese warhead. Due Autumn, New Vegas simply has to re-skin Fallout 3's morality muddles to get me on board. Vegas as a wasteland sin beacon has mileage; hopefully the developers have happened upon Pat Mills and Mike McMahon's pertinent portions of Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth. They imagined Vegas as a nihilistic total bet, run by mutated mobsters with a taste for tank battling. Some of that please.