E3 is also home to plenty of other companies who want to proudly show off their consumer goods. One of those companies? My Arcade, a producer of arcade cabinets with a twist: They’re adorably tiny six-inch replicas.

The Division 2 isn't trying to get new players into its established franchise, but it is doubling down on making sure existing players have a reason to continue playing.

Agent 47 was a MacGuyver of murder whose trip around the world saw numerous dodgy individuals murdered in increasingly bizarre and creative ways. It’s that creativity which has been the foundation of the entire Hitman franchise, a fact that Hitman 2 wastes no time in reminding you of when you step back into the Italian loafers of 47 as he starts a new contract.

Dontnod Entertainment’s Life is Strange found a considerable fan base despite its shortcomings. The drop in quality of Telltale’s work in the field of episodic adventure games left a nice niche for the prior’s hella (ulgh) mysterious millennial journey and cemented the title as a franchise. The studio’s latest work, however, is of a different nature.

Forza Horizon 4 is all about refinement, but its new seasons systems does a lot to push the series in a new interesting direction.

Activision and developer Treyarch are going all in on online services this year. If Call of Duty isn’t going to spend obscene amounts of cash on providing a narrative structure, then fans are well within their rights to expect a tighter and even more polished multiplayer offering.

We won’t be seeing a new “core” Pokémon coming to Nintendo’s Switch until next year at the earliest, but until then there’s a new game coming to satiate critter-catching Switch owners. Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee will be out this year. We’ve been told that it’s simplified take on the Pokémon Yellow, that’s made to appeal to the millions of people hooked to Pokémon Go, as a bit of a bridge game between the mobile phenomenon and the RPG games that kicked the whole thing off.

E3 is a juggernaut of an expo, an annual extravaganza that showcases the best games coming over the next year of three. Because we’re a small, underfunded site in the scheme of things, we usually take the time that we have here to get as many behind closed door appointments as possible, only stepping on to the actual showroom to take in its spectacle in brief flashes as we run from appointment to appointment in a flurry, trying to play as much as possible in the short time we have here.