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E3 2016: the latest news from the biggest gaming event of the year

It’s a very, very, very, very busy week for gaming. Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, and all the big publishers will take the first half of the week announcing their latest and greatest, and then the second half we’ll be playing everything. Here are the highlights from E3 2016.

Yo-kai Watch is making another push to take over America

How virtual reality gaming is blowing its big chance in 2016

Why The Witcher 3’s best diversion ​is getting its own spinoff

Only 3 percent of games shown at E3 keynotes featured female protagonists

Mysterious ancient civilizations are the hot new thing in gaming

Mafia 3 looks like a beautiful, smart video game betrayed by generic gunplay

In 2016, E3 is an amusement park

Final Fantasy XV’s flying car looks absolutely ridiculous

Telltale’s Batman game puts the focus on Bruce Wayne

Wilson’s Heart shows how VR could make adventure games for everyone

OSVR’s virtual reality headset is for making the weird VR of the future

South Park: The Fractured but Whole reminds a lapsed fan why he loved the series

The new real-world Pip-Boy looks like an atompunk smartwatch

Arkham VR isn’t the Batman game PlayStation VR needs

The Legend of Zelda is the biggest game at E3 because it finally changed

Fallout 4 in virtual reality is fun, ambitious, and extremely incomplete

God of War’s new head dad on Kratos’ daddy issues

Microsoft’s Shannon Loftis on E3 leaks, the status of Kinect, and the future of controllers

The Final Fantasy XV VR experience isn’t very Final Fantasy

I played The Last Guardian, and now I’m in love with a big friendly cat-dog-bird

Can you still make an indie VR headset?

Yes, of course I want to be a bird in virtual reality

New PlayStation VR gun peripheral looks nothing like a gun

The new Legend of Zelda trailer shows a huge, mysterious open world

Why Sony continues to win E3, year after year

This USB adapter is Microsoft’s final admission that Kinect failed

Resident Evil 7 brings back the horror

Sony’s E3 2016 press conference in five minutes

God of War’s grumpy old Kratos is learning how to be a good dad

The 7 best game trailers from Sony’s E3 2016 press event

This Gravity Rush 2 trailer is the best thing that wasn’t shown at Sony’s E3 event

Watch a trailer for Sony’s Spider-Man from the creators of Ratchet & Clank and Resistance

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is like no Call of Duty you’ve ever seen

Sony announces Crash Bandicoot remasters and a Skylander cameo

Watch an intense new trailer for Quantic Dream’s Detroit: Become Human

Watch eight minutes of Horizon Zero Dawn gameplay, including robot dinosaur hunting

The Last Guardian is coming to PlayStation 4 on October 25th

Sony just showed off a new God of War game

The 7 best game trailers from Ubisoft’s E3 2016 press event

Oculus’ game trailers are now basically The 13th Floor

Steep is Ubisoft’s new extreme sports game, complete with ‘GoPro view’

Watch 11 minutes of Watch Dogs 2 featuring drones, hacking, and Mr. Robot vibes

Microsoft’s E3 2016 press conference in 8 minutes

Watch LeVar Burton and other Star Trek alumni play Ubisoft’s VR Star Trek game

Watch 10 minutes of For Honor’s brutal single-player campaign

Watch this cheeky trailer for South Park: The Fractured But Whole

Killing Floor: Incursion updates the light gun game for virtual reality

Oculus Touch still has no release date, but promises over 30 games at launch

The 5 best game trailers from Microsoft’s E3 2016 press event

Ubisoft’s E3 2016 press conference: time, live stream, and schedule

Microsoft at E3 2016: the 7 biggest announcements

Xbox: Start to Continue

Project Scorpio is a 4K-capable, VR-ready Xbox One launching next fall

Watch the trailer for State of Decay 2, a bigger, flashier, multiplayer sequel

Tekken 7 is coming in early 2017, features Street Fighter’s Akuma

The Witcher 3’s Gwent card game is getting a standalone release

Inside, the twisted follow-up to Limbo, launches June 29th

Xbox Design Lab lets you build your own colorful Xbox One controller

Xbox Live’s new ‘clubs’ feature gives you a persistent place to hang with friends

Forza Horizon 3 is coming this September with off-road driving across colorful Australia

Gears of War 4 is getting a ridiculously awesome Xbox Elite controller

Xbox Play Anywhere lets you play select games across Xbox One and Windows 10

Microsoft announces the Xbox One S, its smallest Xbox yet

E3 2016’s unexpected trend: video game preorder masks

Microsoft’s E3 2016 Xbox event: live stream, start time, and schedule

Sony’s E3 2016 press conference: time, live stream, and schedule

New Fallout Pip-Boy replica is a $350 ‘smartwatch’ for phone calls and text messages

The 5 best game trailers from Bethesda’s E3 2016 press event

Fallout Shelter quests are coming in July along with a PC version

Virtual reality Fallout 4 is coming to HTC Vive in 2017

Fallout 4 will get Nuka World, Contraptions, and Vaultec Workshops DLC this summer

Skyrim remastered is launching in October for Xbox One, PC, and PlayStation 4

Titanfall 2’s grappling hook fixes my biggest problem with the original

The 6 best game trailers from EA’s E3 2016 press event

How do you sell violent games after a tragedy? Pretend like it didn’t happen

New Battlefield 1 gameplay trailer: horses, biplanes, airships, tanks, and motorcycles

EA’s Star Wars hype video teases X-Wing game for PlayStation VR

Microsoft’s new Xbox One S revealed in leaked images

Titanfall 2 trailer provides first look at single-player story

Bethesda’s E3 2016 press event: time, live stream, and schedule

E3 2016 schedule: your guide to the biggest event live streams

Xbox at E3 2016: Microsoft’s new console(s), HoloLens, games, and what else to expect

Sony at E3 2016: PS4K, PlayStation VR, exclusive games, and what else to expect

Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans

Apple’s weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

Amazon employees say they’re facing termination for backing data center limits

This Ghost in the Shell keyboard makes me want to activate the hundred spidery robot fingers inside my regular fingers

This robotic self-driving toilet comes to you

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