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The biggest PC gaming stories from E3

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All the release dates, game announcements, trailers, interviews, and surprises.

That's another E3 in the bag, and as always there were lots of new games revealed, new release dates announced, and new trailers shown. All told, our list of every PC game at E3 2019 contains almost 100 games! Head over there to watch all the new trailers.

Below, we've plucked out the biggest news stories of E3 2019, and when you're done with those you can also check out the most awkward and wholesome moments from the show.

Biggest new game announcements

Watch Dogs Legion: It was leaked before E3, but we got came away very impressed. As rumored, you really can play as anyone in the city. It's out March 6, 2020.

Elden Ring: The collaboration between FromSoftware and George R.R. Martin is real, and everything we know about Elden Ring so far.

Gods & Monsters: A very weird, cool cinematic trailer. It's spooky.

Bleeding Edge: A third-person brawler from Hellblade developer Ninja Theory, which our E3 crew called "chaotic" and "messy." Read not quite superheroic.

Microsoft Flight Simulator: The classic series is back, and sign up for the alpha and beta.

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga: Coming next year, all three trilogies will be reenacted in one Lego game. Check out the trailer here.

New release dates

Marvel's Avengers: May 15, 2020

Keanu Reeves is a Cyberpunk 2077 character

Keanu Reeves appeared at the Microsoft conference to announce that Reeves is perfect for the role.

Meanwhile, James got a look at 50 minutes of new gameplay (which hasn't yet released to the public). Here's what he thought.

One of the other things we learned this year is that its meant to reflect corporate exploitation. 

Elden Ring details

While all we got to see was the dramatic, gorgeous cinematic trailer above, the Elden Ring announcement has us excited. We've learned a few details since the big debut at the Microsoft conference:

AMD announces new graphics cards: Radeon RX 5700 XT for $449 and RX 5700 for $379

The biggest hardware news comes from AMD, which announced the  RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 graphics cards, which are built to challenge Nvidia's RTX 2070 and RTX 2060 cards. Jarred's got breakdown of the announcement here. 

Xbox Game is now available on PC, a Ubisoft subscription arrives soon

The Xbox Game PC subscription service is now available, and it's currently $1 for the first month. After that, it's $5 a month for access to the game library, which includes Metro: Exodus, Forza Horizon 4, Sea of Thieves, Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, and a bunch more (sort by PC here to see the whole collection).

If you want in, you'll have to the new Xbox app, which looks a lot better than the old one and seems to by the awful Microsoft Store. We also talked with Phil Spencer about it.

Meanwhile, Ubisoft has also launched their own subscription service called Uplay+ which gives you access to its entire library of Ubisoft games (around 100) for $15/month. 

If you're having trouble figuring out which subscription service you should get, we have a handy guide.

Terraria unveils its massive Journey's End update

The PC Gaming Show brought us some major news about Terraria: the fourth major update is on its way. It's called Journey's End and it's packed full of exciting stuff, like new enemies and challenges, special events, new mini-biomes and a new world-generation system. All told, there are over 800 new items being added.

There's also a new difficulty level that's even harder than before, called Master Mode. If that's too hardcore for you, there's something more relaxing being added as well: you'll be able to play golf.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 gameplay revealed

Teased during the PC Gaming Show, we finally got a chance to see some long, uncut footage of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 (the longest name ever, whew). It's actually kind of surreal how much this looks like a more polished version of the original Bloodlines but still retains some of that charming jank.

We'll have more Bloodlines 2 info soon. 

Watch Dogs Legion is crazy ambitious and we like that

Though leaked just before E3, Watch Dogs Legion has blown us away with its ambitious simulation of life in London, where every NPC has relationships, schedules, and can be recruited to your resistance movement. with the backstories and traits of NPCs.

Oddly, there are no actual dogs in Watch Dogs Legion, but mark my words, by the time it launches it will have them, and you'll be able to pet them.

Check out everything we know here.

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