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The Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, one of the biggest gaming events of the year, is now over.
The staff at GamesBeat is recuperating, but you don’t have to rest! You can read about all of the news and impressions from the show (and a few non-E3 things that happened during the week) below.
The big summary
- E3 2016: Every trailer, announcement from Sony PlayStation, Microsoft Xbox, and Nintendo
- The DeanBeat: The best moments of E3 2016
E3 impressions, interviews, and quirks from the show floor
- E3 2016: The best days of Day 3
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild proves Nintendo is so over dual-screen gaming
- Here’s E3 2016, one of the biggest gaming events of the year (photos)
- E3 reels in 70,300 to gaming’s biggest tradeshow in North America
- Why David Cage thinks Quantic Dream’s android angst game, Detroit: Become Human, will be original
- Jay Ong describes Marvel’s return to blockbuster games with Spider-Man
- Nintendo’s Zelda booth at E3 has a 24-minute day-night cycle
- Disney’s Lucasfilm announces strategic relationship with mixed reality firm Magic Leap
- E3 2016: The best games of Day 1
- E3 2016: The best game of Day 2
- That canceled Star Wars live-action show inspired the new God of War
- Xbox’s We Happy Few scores big at E3 in terms of new Internet searches
- Facebook says that Sony won the E3 conference war
- Nintendo announces a new RPG for the 3DS: Ever Oasis
- PlayStation VR’s Batman, Star Wars, and Final Fantasy games are all deeply disappointing
- Publishing chief Laura Miele tells why EA pulled its E3 booth and put ‘players first’
- How Microsoft decided to play its poker hand at its E3 press event
- Inside the Zelda theme park at Nintendo’s E3 booth
- Sea of Thieves lets you captain your pirate ship solo — but at a cost
- This Horizon: Zero Dawn cosplay is wreaking havoc at E3
- Hands-on with Microsoft’s new Xbox One controller: Bluetooth, better grip, and improved thumbsticks
- Final Fantasy XV’s memorable first chapter hints at a wondrous world
- How Cliff Bleszinski redeemed himself with his latest shooter, Lawbreakers
- Lawbreakers is the fast, furious shooter with an homage to Emperor Palpatine
- Titanfall 2 hands-on: How grappling hooks let you close in on a Titan
Announcements and news from the publisher events
- Sony stole the show in the battle of the E3 press events
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has Link cooking, wielding an axe, and more
- Pokémon Sun and Moon at E3: Battle Royal multiplayer, three new Pokémon
- Breath of the Wild is Zelda’s Wii U and NX adventure
- Spider-Man is coming to PlayStation 4
- Hideo Kojima showed off his new Death Stranding game at Sony’s E3 event
- Crash Bandicoot is finally back on PlayStation — via remasters and Skylanders
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare shows infantry combat in space
- Batman Arkham VR allows you to be the Dark Knight
- Star Wars: Battlefront is getting an X-wing VR mission for PlayStation 4
- Resident Evil VII demo is live on your PlayStation 4 tonight — getting VR version as well
- PSVR launches with 50 games on October 13 — and Final Fantasy XV is getting a VR experience
- Quantic Dream shows intense hostage scene from Detroit: Become Human
- Horizon: Zero Dawn shows off a robot mount and more epic battles
- Days Gone puts you into the saddle of a postapocalyptic biker bounty hunter
- The Last Guardian is coming October 25
- The new God of War takes Kratos to Norse mythology
- Xbox’s Major Nelson says that announcing a console without showing it ‘worked for’ PS4
- Grow Up is all about helping a cute robot go to the moon
- Watch Dogs is going to become a movie
- Watch Dogs 2 turns San Francisco into your hacking playground
- Assassin’s Creed film is all about remaining true to its fans
- Ubisoft’s Steep is a daredevil sim for winter sports
- Ubisoft’s Just Dance 2017 will be a Nintendo NX title
- Trials of the Blood Dragon combines motorcycles and ’80s kitsch and is out now
- For Honor shows off its groin-chopping single-player
- Oculus promises 30 VR games for its Touch controllers
- Ubisoft unveils Survival expansion for Tom Clancy’s The Division
- South Park: The Fractured But Whole looks like a hilarious superhero parody
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on March 7
- Just Dance is coming to Nintendo NX and nearly everything else next year
- Dawn of War III is Relic’s long-awaited return to Warhammer 40,000
- State of Decay 2 is coming — here’s the first trailer
- Sea of Thieves hoists the sail on swashbuckling pirate adventures with your friends
- Project Scorpio is the next Xbox: 4K gaming, VR, and more for holiday 2017
- Halo Wars 2 hits February 21 as beta test launches for strategy game
- #Frankisback: Dead Rising 4 is coming this holiday
- Scalebound shows how you and your friends can shred a giant crab
- We Happy Few’s chilling art-deco world teems with creepy people
- Xbox One gets Tekken 7 early next year
- CD Projekt Red turns The Witcher III’s Gwent into its own game
- Minecraft gets Xbox Live: Console, PC, and mobile can play together
- Final Fantasy XV shows off new God of War-like Titan battle
- ReCore’s new trailer shows how robots are a girl’s best friend
- Forza Horizon 3 takes open-world racers to Australia with Xbox One and PC cross-play
- Gears of War’s General Raam joins Killer Instinct
- Xbox Play Anywhere lets you buy Xbox One games and play on Windows 10
- Gears of War 4 is the star attraction of Microsoft’s E3 press event
- Xbox One has a new controller with textured grip and extended range
- Xbox One S officially revealed, and it will cost $300
- Twitch’s E3 livestreams watched by a staggering 925K concurrent viewers
- Watch the Dishonored 2 gameplay trailer that throws off the action game’s cloak
- The Elder Scrolls Online has 7 million players and is removing level restrictions
- Bethesda to release Fallout 4 on HTC Vive VR headset in 2017
- Fallout 4 players will soon explore Nuka World, a postapocalyptic theme park
- The Elder Scrolls: Legends will have a story mode, and it’s coming to iPhone and iPad
- Fallout Shelter is getting an update and is coming to PC
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition is a remaster of Bethesda’s best-seller [update]
- Prey is back, but it looks nothing like the cancelled Prey 2
- Bethesda takes the wraps off Quake Champions
- Ubisoft’s Star Trek: Bridge Command is coming to VR this fall [updated]
- Telltale reveals a third season for The Walking Dead
- Visceral’s Star Wars game made a brief appearance at EA’s E3 event
- EA gives us a deeper look at its vision for Battlefield 1’s World War I
- How Electronic Arts is taking a big leap into esports for all players (interview)
- EA’s Peter Moore lays out tiered esports strategy to make everyone a star
- Star Wars: Battlefront 2 will feature content from Disney’s new movies
- EA Originals is publisher’s program to help and promote indie developers
- EA teases an elaborate future of Star Wars games in sizzle video
- Madden publisher EA launches esports ‘for everyone’ program
- Mass Effect: Andromeda promises more freedom than any BioWare game ever
- Titanfall 2 has 6 new Titans and a single-player mode
News and stories from outside E3
- Activision Blizzard’s first TV show Skylanders Academy to debut on Netflix
- Disney’s Lucasfilm announces strategic relationship with mixed reality firm Magic Leap
- Tencent reportedly nears deal to buy majority stake in Supercell
- Curse touts its platform as a next-level tool for Twitch streamers, gamers, and esports
- Overwatch’s new patch weakens McCree and Widowmaker
- Supergiant Games aims for story-driven originality in its third game, Pyre
- Overwatch swarms TV sets as Uncharted, Doom keep grinding along
- AMD unveils three low-cost Polaris graphics chips for VR
- Razer announces its second Open Source Virtual Reality headset
- Meta raises $50M for its next-generation augmented reality headset
- ‘Warcraft’ and ‘Angry Birds’ movies may finally be breaking the video game box office curse
- Final Fantasy XV director on keeping a flagship Japanese series relevant in 2016