Welcome everyone to our first ever live blog for E3. I'm
as most will know me by, and I will be keeping you up-to-date with all the news, announcements and surprises from the EA Press Conference as they happen. You can join in the conversation in the comments sections below, our
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So when's this getting started? Sunday, June 12th at 1pm PST (4pm EST, 8pm UTC). See you there!
Hello everyone! The conference will begin in less than six hours. Feel free to join the discussion in the comments and talk about what you want to see from EA!
Before we even get underway with EA, we have already got confirmation that
Titanfall 2 will have a single-player campaign this time around! They have also released a trailer to give a tease of it.
Another trailer released ahead of the conference, this time a
FIFA 17 one showing off a new game mode - 'The Journey'.
Only 30 minutes to go now, it's getting exciting!
EA seem to have gotten a little lost...
And here. We. Go! E3 2016 is now underway!
Andrew Wilson kicks things off with a brief intro about EA Play, their new way of hosting events. Also joined by Peter Moore in London. 2 Venues, 1 Show.
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Battlefield 1 matches will be streamed an hour from now!
Vince Zampella is on stage now talking about
Titanfall 2. Showing off some multi-player footage.
Here is that Titanfall 2 MP trailer
Re-confirming that leak earlier about Titanfall 2 single player mode. The trailer is the same one we saw earlier.
Madden NFL 17 trailer up now.
Three new ways to play Madden competitively: Challenger, Premier, and EA Major.
Madden 16 championship competitors on stage now. Mass Effect Andromeda up next!
Aaron Flynn from Bioware introducing Mass Effect Andromeda now
Bigger adventure, new cast, more freedom. All powered by Frostbite. A look behind-the-scenes video now.
Speaking about content updates now. Also, EA Access, so nothing for us here...
EA Play to Give. Several EA games have some in-game challenges for you to beat and raise money for charity. EA are donating over $1,000,000 at the end of EA Play. Details available here -
http://www.ea.com/play2016/play-to-give
FIFA 17 now, and the real life Alex Hunter is on stage now. See below video for more details.
The FIFA 17 'The Journey' game mode trailer from earlier is now showing. Looks very interesting. Almost like a campaign mode.
Here is that trailer again -
Premier League managers are now in the game including Pep Guardiola, Arsene Wenger, and the legendary LFC manager Jurgen Klopp....and Jose Mourihno has appeared out of nowhere and seems to question Peter Moore's choice of names. He is very upset.
Peter, a lifelong LFC fan, starts the smack talk with Jose, the current Man Utd manager, regarding the upcoming derby matches.
New video shows the improvements and additions to the game, including new attacking techniques, re-written set-pieces, and more.
Talking about Unravel, and discussing the other small developers create similar games. EA Originals will support smaller devs and help them from creation to release.
EA will help fund, and let the devs keep 100% of the profits
A new IP from Zoink called 'Fe', an EA Original.
Star Wars time. A new Star wars Battlefront is coming from Dice and Motive. Listening to fans feedback and including content from the new films.
New original action adventure title from Visceral.
And Respawn are making a 3rd person RPG.
Three new Star Wars games!
A behind-the-scenes video for the games is now playing.
The next and final game up is Battlefield 1
And we are getting a trailer for it now
Or rather just a clip from the trailer. We will get that after more talking
New dynamic battles, no two battles will ever be the same. We will see some gameplay footage later...with Zac Effron?
Destruction is more intuitive than ever.
Dynamic Weather, play style will need to be adapted accordingly
Controllable Behemoths/ Airhsips
And that is that! The conference is now over.
An hour of Battlefield 1 gameplay stream will be following on EA Play, with Zac Effron and Jamie Foxx.
Thanks for joining us. We will be back in a little while with the 3AM Bethesda conference, so we will be drinking our body weights in the strongest coffee we can get our hands on.