Our E3 2018 news roundups will run every morning this week.
It’s E3 week, which means that E3 has already been happening for days now, and you would be forgiven for not having paid much attention. The traditional magic of staying up late to marvel at new games and laugh at men in chinos pretending to play pre-rendered trailers has faded since the rise of pre-E3 reveals and dominance of Games As Service: rather than ruminating on shock reveals of entirely new games, the chief sport of recent E3s was now seeing how rented celebrities can hype iterative updates to the games we’re playing already, with an additional 2018 twist of seeing what synonym they’ve come up with for “Battle Royale”.
It has been a considerable pleasure, then, to start the week with a barnstorming lineup of the new and exciting. It did not start so promisingly. EA kicked things off in its signature style, forcing everybody to endure an hour’s cab ride to see stuff that it already showed to its crack team of Instagram influencers several weeks ago.
Source: Eurogamer The E3 Bulletin: Monday