“Well that looks a lot like Destiny.” Pretty much anyone seeing Anthem’s gameplay has said something along those lines. And really, they’re not wrong. Anthem smacks of ideas that are undeniably similar to Bungie’s sandbox-shooter. A team of distinct classes, a world under threat and a vague threat on the horizon as humanity’s chosen messiah turns out to be you. …

From the mighty melody of even Andrew WK failing to rouse the game journos in attendance into party mode to Todd Howard’s reveal of Skyrim finally coming to a smart fridge near you, Bethesda still had some surprises and even a rare look at the future.

One of Bethesda’s more high-profile mobile offerings that was actually really really good, was easily Fallout Shelter. Free, easy to learn and challenging to master, it was a microcosm of Fallout’s best features all rolled into one addictive tapping game of micro-management and survival. Having learnt some valuable lessons from the success of Fallout Shelter, Bethesda is looking to expand their mobile offerings with The Elder Scrolls: Blades.

What, you thought Bethesda was going to end their annual E3 press conference with a look at an Elder Scrolls mobile game? For those true believers watching, a dream was finally answered as the most tantalisingly short reveal was used to close the show off: The Elder Scrolls VI. With the briefest of teasers and a familiar stirring in the audio department as a powerful choir chanted versus of power, Bethesda ended their night on the highest of notes.

After two and a half decades of Fallout and The Elder Scrolls, Bethesda is finally ready to invest in a new franchise of their own. While not much was shown or even revealed, that new chapter was given a name: Starfield. It’s a bold new chapter for the company, that’ll take players to the furthest reaches of space and beyond in a new single-player story that happens to be sent in a bold new universe.

Fallout 76, a game that explores the early years of America’s survivors reclaiming a new irradiated frontier that happens to be infested with other vault dwellers and gigantic murderous sloths. Looks like my cup of tea. You know what else is also my cup of hot salad water? Collector’s editions. I’m a sucker for plastic and Fallout 76 has a particularly cool special edition that’ll launch with the game.

Man…f*** Nazis. Mankind’s cockroach, the so-called “Master Race” got a master arse-kicking last year in Wolfenstein: The New Colossus. Set in a horrific reality where the Nazi regime had used stolen technology to engineer a new army that conquered the world and ended World War Two with the Third Reich’s flag flying high, Wolfenstein: The New Colossus continued that tale …

2016’S DOOM is one of the greatest first-person shooters ever made. A rip-roaring masterpiece of blood, guts and bullets that was merciless in its execution of anything with a pulse. Fast, fluid and brutal, DOOM ended on one hell of a cliffhanger by the time its bloody end credits rolled around. Of course a sequel had to follow . Of course it had to.