If Deus Ex: Human Revolution teaches us anything, it's that the future brings rampant technological advances, corporate discord, and some foreign-sounding concept called "conversation." I'm scared now.

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• Cybernetic augmentations turn Deus Ex: Human Revolution protagonist Adam Jensen into a walking Cusinart, but a silver tongue and slick hacking skills pack just as much power. Let's hope someone remarks on the unnatural stiffness of Jensen's jacket collars.

Continue after the break for the importance of camaraderie in Dead Island, the satisfying sounds of fantasy combat in Guild Wars 2,and the destructive results of leashing gravity to your whim in Inversion.

• When island vacationers form roving zombie execution squads in Dead Island, survival doesn't seem so far-fetched. I call dibs on that bling-tastic "B"-chain guy for my team.

• Listen to the sweet suite of sounds in Guild Wars 2. This is probably the first (and last) time I'll accepted banjos as worthy fighting music.

• Inversion hands you a device with the power to bend gravity. You know the drill by now: Toss anything not bolted down at everything that moves.