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Harrison Ford is crouched in a corner atop an incomplete high-rise building, clinging to life by the tips of his fingers as the heavy rain comes down. Standing across from him, bloodied and bruised, Rutger Hauer’s Batty gazes at nothing in particular. “I’ve seen things you people could never imagine,” he says, waxing philosophical on the nature of death, the idea of humanity and the scope of the universe. There is nothing comparable between an intergalactic war zone from Blade Runner and the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) save for the insanity of a neon-strewn city engorged with the seething masses, futuristic technology on display and otherwise taken for granted, and a thin line between reality and fiction. Which is to say that E3 is the closest one will ever come to time traveling without a flux capacitor.

E3, the annual gathering of all things video game by developers and industry professionals, began last week at the L.A. Convention Center. Decked out in massive banners and bizarre ornamentation, the venue saw 46,000 attendees over three days, all jonesing for games still months away from release. Most of what’s special about the show isn’t necessarily the gaudy displays by the big three developers, though.

Take for instance Telltale Games. Its booth, tucked away in a makeshift rectangular cubicle in an undecorated hall, housed new spins on some very familiar titles. Once inside, a zombie arm juts out at passers-by through double doors marked “DON’T OPEN / DEAD INSIDE,” a clear indication that Telltale is working on a game based on the insanely popular zombie drama Walking Dead.

Set in a time before the original story, the Walking Dead game introduces two characters never before seen in the comics or TV series: Lee Everett and a 7-year-old girl named Clementine. Rick Grimes, the original protagonist of the series, wakes up from a coma and enters Atlanta around the same time that Everett and Clementine are on their way out. Characters may cross paths, making way for a new expansion to the Walking Dead canon. Expect more action than previous Telltale titles (such as Back to the Future, for instance). The release date is yet to be announced.

In the massive Warner Bros.’ booth, next to Batman: Arkham City, was Bastion, an unassuming action RPG set in a world post-destruction — our goal is to rebuild it. Imagine a hand-painted model of the world, set not in grayscale but all the colors of the rainbow, and you have the beautiful renderings of the world of Bastion.

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"Falling Sand Game", also "World of Sand", (2005) is a Java applet first found on the Dofi Blog via Fark thread, later enlarged and rehosted by Chirag Mehta. The game has been popular on community link sites like Digg and Delicious and involves four main falling particles: sand, water, salt, and oil. Each of these particles have special properties that can be manipulated; among these include burning, desiccating, growing, eroding, and more. Along with these four, main particles are auxiliary environmental manipulators: Wall, Fire, Plant, Spout, Cera (or wax), ???, and Eraser. By putting these together, one can thoroughly enjoy the modeling and construction of very complex structures and systems. There is an additional special feature that can be turned on, off, or told to remain in place. This is called the namekuji. In japanese, "namekuji" means slug, naturally for the properties of a slug when salt is poured onto it. Several different versions exist, varying from applets with zombies, or human bodies, that have their own unique properties to applets where auxiliary environmental manipulators have additional properties.

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