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TIME Tech Video Games The 8 Most Impressive Video Game Reveals You Missed This Weekend Hello Games Check out the weekend's most amazing game announcements and trailers, collated and annotated

Whatever you thought of this weekends debut Game Awards, it lured a sufficient number of respectable game studios, who brought with them more than a few intriguing announcements and never-before-seen trailers. Multiply by all the new material Sony trotted out at its first ever PlayStation Experience (also this weekend), and the ordinarily news-lethargic first weekend of December turned out to be full of surprises.

Heres a look at the most impressive announcements and trailers from both shows:

Everyones comparing 505 Games Adr1ft to Alfonso Cuarons Gravity, because both involve someone in orbit floating through the wreckage of who-knows-what. Best case scenario? Well get to play a video game that one-ups Cuarons Gravity (which needlessly mangled basic scientific principles) by making rigorous physics per the hostile extremes of orbital space the games unremitting antagonist.

Drawn to Death is a hand-drawn arena shooter. Thats how The Bartlet Jones Supernatural Detective Agency studio lead David Jaffe describes it, anyway. Its impossible to tell how (or whether) the games going to set its gameplay off from other arena shooters, but it certainly looks unique.

Alpha versions of The Forest have been playable since May on Steam, but the open-world survival games surprise confirmation for PlayStation 4 could signal a 2015 final release. In the game, youve survived a plane crash only to find yourself stranded in the wilderness who-knows-where, and observed by strange, debatably hostile, behaviorally nuanced (in unprecedented ways) humanoid creatures.

Hazelightis it the name of the game and the studio?was a monumental tease that offered no indication whatsoever about the sort of game two guys sitting on a boxcar having a smoke and moon-gazing amounts to. But its by one of the lead developers of Brothers A Tale of Two Sons, and that alone makes the clip worth including here.

No Mans Sky may turn out to be a gorgeously vast patina of a cosmic exploration game, given its claims of procedurally generated galactic play-space times infinity. No ones yet come close to grappling with fundamental design paradoxes whereby escalating randomness correlates negatively with player interest (imponderable haphazardness = boundless blah). But were still in imagine what if mode, and this latest trailer offers new wrinkles for consideration: a planet with purplish protuberances and another with undulating topography, a two-legged Star Wars-ian robot/vehicle and walk-in warp points.

If you watch Tacomas trailer and think Hey, Bioshock! some of the games developers actually worked on BioShock 2. But given what they pulled off with Gone Home last year, I presume were in for something mind-bending. A lunar transfer station run/built by Virgin-Tesla? As in Richard Branson plus Elon Musk? Could we be in for another futurism-skewering interactive narrative?

So Uncharted 4 looks nuts, and I say that as someone who doesnt give a hoot about graphics in games nowadays. Sony wanted to make an impression, and boy did it: theres over 15 minutes of yes, youre really seeing what you think youre seeing impressing going on in this actual-gameplay-rendered-using-a-PS4 video. And check out the creepy prehistoric-looking jungle. All thats missing: a cameo by King Kong.

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Since Macys sparked the Christmas window tradition in the early 1870s, New York Citys most iconicdepartment stores have unveiled bigger and better window displays each holiday season.

This year, the themes are wide-ranging and every aesthetic from minimalist art deco to over-the-top futurism is represented. During peak hours, more than 10,000 people pass the windows, according to Macys. With our handy guide of every holiday hot spot from Macys to Bloomies, you can be the best-informed of the crowd.

1. Macys, 151 W. 34th St., at Seventh Avenue

Going down in history as the store where the real, live Kris Kringle first served as Santa in AMiracle on 34th Street in 1947 and the first department store to transform its window displays for the month of December, Macys has to be the first stop on any Christmas window tour.

The theme at Macys Herald Square this year is Santas Journey to the Stars. While passing by the stores sixwindows, youll see the tale of Alex, a young boy with a magic telescope, who experiences Christmas on other planets with his dog, Bella. The story is told in animated form with the assistance of high-definition video monitors.

Designed by Roya Sullivan, the display is made from 85 percent foam, with sculptures specially created to resemble the surfaces of the moon and stars. Ms. Sullivan hopes thisyears windows will symbolize the power of magical thinking and the tradition of storytelling We have combined our homage to todays tech-savvy child with a nostalgic dream to travel through space with Santa.

If space travel isnt your thing, the store will also be recreating Yes, Virginia on the 34th Street block. Thewindows are on display from Nov. 20 through Dec. 26.

2. Lord & Taylor, 424 Fifth Ave., at 39th Street

Head east and turn left on Fifth Avenue and youll hit Lord & Taylor, where the windows explore the interiors of an enchanted mansion, to mark the 100th anniversary of Lord & Taylors Fifth Avenue building.

While looking at the displays, you will see the mythical mansions paintings come to life and its furnishings start to stir. Video technology will give the traditional sets a contemporary twist.

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