It also said it planned to release its highly anticipated post-apocalyptic adventure game, Fallout 76, in November. Ultimate fighting game would go on sale in December and that the highly anticipated Pokemon Let's Go games will go on sale in November.īethesda surprised gamers with new titles ranging from Doom Eternal, the latest sequel for the industry-defining shooting sequel, to a new Nazi-shooting game Wolfenstein Youngblood. Nintendo, for its part, announced Fortnite was coming to the Nintendo Switch Tuesday, that its upcoming Super Smash Bros. Sony meanwhile focused on showing just what it believed to be its upcoming top-tier games, including The Last of Us Part 2, a brutal-looking sequel to the hit post-apocalyptic zombie game, a visually beautiful samurai game Ghost of Tsushima, an intriguing game called Death Stranding and the company's upcoming Spider-Man action game coming out in September. It also announced Cyberpunk 2077, a sequel to a popular dystopian future game from two decades ago. So Microsoft showed a new installment in its Forza Horizon driving series, and follow-ups to its hit Ori and the Blind Forest and Cuphead action games.
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It also showed a series of new games to answer criticism that it hasn't been able to attract enough popular new titles. The company didn't say much, other than that it was the main character Master Chief's "greatest adventure" yet. Meanwhile, Microsoft announced its own take on the service, also without a release date, in addition to Halo Infinite, the latest in its hit space adventure series. And EA showed off its efforts to build a cloud gaming service, which it's testing with an eye toward a release "soon." The company also announced a new Star Wars game coming late next year and that its Anthem online epic, from storied developer BioWare, will be released Feb. "That's why you'll see Activision and us and others try to come up with our formula for what this means," he said. Some people criticized the company for quickly following its competitors to offer the game mode, but Patrick Söderlund, EA's head of design, said many fans had been asking for it. This genre of games refers to dropping about 100 players into an arena where they battle against one another, Hunger Games-style, until the last player is standing. Bethesda Softworks, meanwhile, already teased Fallout 76, the latest in its postapocalyptic role-playing series.Įlectronic Arts used its press conference kicking off E3 on Saturday to announce that its next big war game, Battlefield 5, will have a "battle royale" mode, taking on the hit online game Fortnite from Epic Games. Another crowd-pleaser will likely be Sony's The Last of Us: Part 2, a sequel to the hit 2013 postapocalyptic zombie survival game. Meanwhile, Sony said it's holding off on a new PlayStation console for a few more years to " prepare the next step." And Nintendo's hit Switch console just came out last year.įans are especially looking forward to details on Kingdom Hearts 3, the latest in the Disney character adventure series starring beloved characters such as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse. On the console front, Microsoft said it's working on a new Xbox but didn't share any other details. Microsoft said it's working on a new Xbox, but no other details. This year, everything started Saturday, as Electronic Arts kicked off three days of nonstop announcements, with news from game makers Bethesda and Ubisoft, and console makers Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. The real action happens before the "expo" floor opens, during the press-only media days. And while having so many fans in the Los Angeles Convention Center means there will probably be plenty of long lines to play new game demos - and lots of people dressing up as their favorite game characters - that's far from the main event. It's the second year in a row E3 is open to the public (before then, only industry insiders and press could attend). Many of the 2.6 billion gamers around the world will be watching, as will the 15,000 excited fans who paid $249 each to attend the show. Over 60,000 people are signed up to attend the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles this week, a convention that plays host to the biggest announcements coming out of the $108 billion-a-year video game industry. But the companies at E3 did their best to showcase enough new video games and gadgets arriving in the next year to keep avid gamers, including me, excited about what's coming next. We didn't get to see any new Xboxes or PlayStations.