op 5 video games from the E3 Expo
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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Sound and fury are the hallmarks of the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, the biggest video gaming event of the year.

Amid the spectacle -- bubbly cheerleaders, businessmen and costumed cartoon characters jostle for photo ops with wide-eyed fans -- it's easy to lose sight of what people here really should be talking about during the trade show in Los Angeles this week: the games.

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E3 proves that rumors of blockbuster gaming's demise are greatly exaggerated. This is supposed to be the era of social games, free games, digital downloads and apps -- but the big games are all the rage. The following five titles promise to keep thumbs happily waggling well into 2012:

'Star Trek'

Coming in 2012 from Paramount Digital Entertainment, this attractively styled action game based on the upcoming JJ Abrams film reboot allows you to play co-operatively as Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock. A brand new adventure, it sees the dynamic duo teaming up to stop a "legendary enemy race bent on conquering the galaxy" (fingers crossed that's code for Klingons).

Set after the 2009 film and developed by Digital Extremes for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, the game also boasts a script featuring input from "God of War" writer Marianne Krawczyk. If the game halfway lives up to the hype, it's sure to live long and prosper.

'BioShock Infinite'

Latest in the series of hyperliterate undersea epics, this newest installment in the popular sci-fi role-playing franchise, which lets you hurl ice and fire or annihilate mutant adversaries with steampunk weapons, takes to the clouds instead. Viewing a richly detailed and dystopian world of floating blimps, balloons and ziplines through the eyes of Pinkerton agent Booker DeWitt, players will engage in visceral shootouts or melee combat with twisted DNA-splicing adversaries.