Retcon-Nation's Top Ten Games of E3 2013

Another year, another e3, another recap. An important one too; Nintendo for the first time downsizing their presence with the ongoing failure that is the Wii U. Microsoft did everything humanly possible wrong with the up and coming Xbox One to the point that they had to backtrack on everything (thus making their press conference...wait for it...retconned).

And Sony played it safe and, for a week, looked like the clear winner of the next generation.

But consoles can only go so far, and unlike the big three who keep pushing gimmicks, whether it's touchscreen controllers that no one wants to develop for, a camera that offers an Orwellian nightmare or sharing every useless aspect of your playtime; it's games that gamers want and, as with every year, here is my top ten titles of the year.

Sigur Rós - Kveikur Review

A lot has changed over the year since Sigur Rós' comeback album Valtari and their latest offering Kveikur. You can put it down the band losing keyboardist Kjartan Sviensson, maybe Valtari's mixed to positive reception with main criticisms being the sense of over-familarity or maybe, just maybe, after over fifteen years since Von, it's time for a change.

Change that sees a Iceland's most famous musical export...after Björk, produce it's most radically different, yet traditional album yet.

Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork Review

If you were to tell me at the start of the year that Queens of the Stone Age could potentially craft the album of the year, I'd raise my eyebrow and look for a TARDIS as it'd be quite obvious you'd travelled from 2002 when QotSA had produced one of the albums of that year and the idea of them even getting close to Songs for the Deaf was, well, ludicrous.