Can’t wait for E3 2019? Neither can we. Here’s everything we know so far about this year’s show.
E3 2019 began today with official news about the latest EA games, plus we’ve also seen some high-profile E3 leaks in the last 24 hours.
Don’t worry. There’s a lot more E3 news to come, and we’re updating this page in real-time with a full digest of what the Electronic Entertainment Expo has to offer. This includes an E3 2019 games list that we’ll be amassing right here, as we report live from the press conferences.
In the last two weeks, we’ve heard rumors about a dozen games with one game – Watch Dogs 3: Legion – getting leaked to the public. And in the last day, we’ve heard word of a game from George R. Martin and From Software.
While leaks have spoiled some of the big E3 surprises, we’ll still see plenty of new titles this weekend: There’s rumors of a new Fable, the first details of Square Enix’s ambitious Avengers game and, if we’re lucky, we’ll get our first look at Microsoft’s next-gen console. By the time the Nintendo Direct hits on Tuesday morning, we could be up to our eyes in new games coming later this year.
That’s because, no matter how it changes over the years, E3 is still the biggest event in gaming. Whether it’s held at a hotel, a convention center or somewhere out in Hollywood, it is the definitive industry event of the year, where gamers from around the world get together to see what comes next for consoles, handhelds, PCs, mobile phones and everything in between.
E3 stands for the Electronic Entertainment Expo, and while that hasn’t changed from year to year, the press conference has gotten shuffled. So we’ll explain it quickly.
The official E3 2019 dates are Tuesday, June 11 to Thursday, June 13. However, that’s just for the portion of the show held inside the Los Angeles Convention Center.
In reality, the first big event of E3 2019 was EA Play, which kicked-off off on Saturday, June 8 at the Hollywood Palladium. It wasn’t a short-and-sweet E3 keynote, but a full day of deep dive trailers into EA’s biggest titles.
Between EA Play on Saturday and the opening of the show floor on Tuesday morning you can also expect a press event for Microsoft on Sunday afternoon with Bethesda, Square Enix, Ubisoft and Nintendo’s keynotes sandwiched in between. The PC Gaming Show, Ubisoft and Square-Enix all have E3 press conferences on Monday.
We expect to be in Los Angeles from Friday until Thursday, and gamers with an entry pass should try to do the same.
Keynote time: It’s over, but we have the EA Play re-cap. It started on Saturday, June 8 at 9:15am PT for fans with tickets at the Hollywood Palladium.
EA had an early lead going into 2019 with its plans already detailed on its official site. So more than breaking news, this E3 press conference has been about going deep into the gameplay of each title.
Here’s the news from during the EA Play press conference:
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was the highlight from Respawn Entertainment looking a bit like Uncharted with a lightsaber and The Force powers (that’s not a bad thing). There was no Titanfall 3, from the developer, but we did see Apex Legends Season 2: Battle Cry get a start date of July 2.
EA Sports gave us deep looks into both FIFA 20 and Madden 20, while Battlefield 5 Chapter 4 and The Sims 4: Island Living expanded their respective (and very different universes).
We didn’t get many surprises – at least not from EA’s official E3 press conference. It could still wow us with BioWare’s Dragon Age 4(it debuted a teaser trailer at last year’s The Game Awards and we’re primed for an E3 2019 trailer follow-up). Likewise, we didn’t see anything from PopCap (famous for Plants vs Zombies) and Ghost Games, the new stakeholders of the Need for Speed franchise. Not yet at least.
Keynote time: Monday, June 10, at 6 PM PT / 9 PM ET
After the long-awaited release of Kingdom Hearts 3 in early January, Square Enix has been fairly quiet. But that looks like that’s going to change at E3.
Thanks to a tweet posted to the Marvel’s Avengers twitter in late May, we know we’re going to see Crystal Dynamic’s game at the show, as well as Final Fantasy VII Remake which recently had a key spot during Sony’s last State of Play event.
