In Wolfenstein II: New Colossus, our hero B.J. Blazkowicz has grown into far more than a couple of chunky pixels -- but he still kills a lot of Nazis. In Wolfenstein II: New Colossus, our hero B.J. Blazkowicz has grown into far more than a couple of chunky pixels -- but he still kills a lot of Nazis. For years now, some of the best, wildest, most moving or revealing stories we've been telling ourselves have come not from books, movies or TV, but from video games. So we're running an occasional series, Reading The Game, in which we take a look at some of these games from a literary perspective. In the beginning, B.J. Blazkowicz, hero of the Castle Wolfenstein series, was just a rough collection of pixels that excelled at exactly one thing: killing Nazis.

New'Wolfenstein: Youngblood' video game brings twin sisters to the forefront in the long-running alternative history battle against the Nazis. The storied video game "Wolfenstein 3D" is considered by many to have helped spark the first-person shooter genre, which spawned successors such as "Doom" and "Call of Duty." Ever since that first game, released in 1992, "B.J." Blazkowicz has been the hero of the series fighting Nazis in the game's alternate historical setting, in which Germany won World War II. But this latest game turns the action over to his twin daughters. Microsoft Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Sony PlayStation 4, and PCs, rated Mature for ages 17-up), the young adult sisters, Jessie ("Jess") and Zofia ("Soph"), must search for their father who has gone missing.

The times sure are a-changing. E3's always been known as a console-centric gaming show, and it definitely still is on the surface. Given the infiltration of AMD's APUs into the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, and the resurgence of PC gaming, plus Microsoft's ambitious Xbox Play Anywhere program, most of the blockbuster games announced for consoles at E3 actually wind up coming to PCs, too. We've sifted through all the new games at the E3 events from EA, Microsoft, Bethesda, Ubisoft, Sony, and The PC Gaming Show to find all the PC gems hidden among the console rubble. These are the E3 reveals that PC gamers need to know about. Wolfenstein: The New Order is one of the best single-player shooters of the past decade, and now B.J. Blazkowicz is back for more ludicrous-yet-heartfelt Nazi-stomping action.