At E3 2018, I got the chance to briefly grill game designer Matt Scronce and senior producer Yale Miller for some answers regarding Blackout, and what exactly Treyarch is aiming for with this ambitious entry into a highly competitive genre with this year's edition of Call of Duty Black Ops IIII.

Cyberpunk 2077 is a proper first-person experience, complete with all the action and hacktivism that you’d expect it to have. Why the change in perspectives though? What does it add to Cyberpunk 2077? A lot more in terms of storytelling and immersion according to Cyberpunk’s father.

Hitman 2 may not be changing its formula, but it doesn’t need to. Running with the momentum that 2016’s Hitman provided, IO Interactive’s return to a world of assassination is pretty much the game you remember…but better. Agent 47’s got a new bag of tricks, and there’s a ton of quality of life improvements present that makes the entire experience feel smoother, more refined and even more confident in its sandbox approach to mucking things up.

A darker story, an emphasis on fun over balance and an honest effort to get players reinvested in the hobby of Destiny, Bungie is going for broke with its most ambitious slice of content yet in Destiny 2:Forsaken. While there’s still a lot that needs t be revealed and explored once it launches, design lead Lars Bakken still had plenty to tell me at E3 last week about the massive changes on the horizon.

Everybody wants some space of their own and with Fallout 76 offering a map that happens to be quadruple the size of Fallout 4’s uninhabitable radioactive wasteland, there’ll be room to spare. What will there be to see and do however? Nobody knows, besides some of the most rabid vault dwelling fans who actually went to great lengths to piece together a map of their own.

While Anthem actually hews closer to Lost Planet and Iron Man in its construction, its story still has that Destiny influence, focusing on mystery and exploration to flesh out its narrative. A narrative that players will find more concrete answers to, the deeper they go.

Everyone was expecting a tight samurai game in Sucker Punch's gameplay reveal of Ghost of Tsushima, but the developer delivered even more with a demo that smacked of influences from legendary director Akira Kurosawa and looked simply sublime in action.

Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass really really wants to break the bank on just how many opponents you’ll face off against as you fight an army whose soldiers are biblical in their numbers.