The E3 energy definitely crackles in the air this Friday. Or maybe it's the baby bawling its lungs out next door. I can't tell. I poured concrete into my ears two hours ago.

Video Blips:

• Dishonored's dystopia of slit throats and mental madness apparently involves an ancient sea shanty. What will Dishonored 2 bring? A river dance?

Continue after the break for a badass band of brides of Christ in Hitman: Absolution and a space colonist's life in Defiance.

• Hitman: Absolution anti-hero Agent 47 dispatches a heat-packing group of nuns straight out of a Kill Bill homage. This trailer also breaks the gaming paradigm by showing how someone stores all those weapons picked up from the ground.

• Human colonists claim land and make space Earth-style with lots of guns and explosions in Defiance. Another 100 years will pass before they realize the aliens' writhing motions mean "What's up?"