Sony is holding the final E3 2018 press briefing — or at least, the last one that’s a traditional live event at a Los Angeles theater — on Monday, June 11. The show is set to begin at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT, and it will focus on four upcoming PlayStation 4 exclusives: Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding, Insomniac Games’ Marvel’s Spider-Man, Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part 2 and Sucker Punch Productions’ Ghost of Tsushima. But what else will Sony have for us? Keep up with our coverage of the news, trailers and everything else in the StoryStream below.<doc-sep>Everything Sony Showed At E3 2018 Today at Sony’s PlayStation E3 press conference, they showed off a handful of games including The Last of Us Part 2, some more Spider-Man, and the gorgeous-looking Ghost of Tsushima. They also announced Nioh 2. Good day for samurai games! The show was logistically odd, as attendees were herded through a couple of different locations while the hosts on the stream vamped for time. It was also light on major announcements, but they did show some nice-looking games and took breaks for a couple of lovely musical interludes. First up, they showed a bunch more The Last of Us Part 2. The whole thing was introduced by composer Gustavo Santaolalla playing his Last of Us theme on a six-string banjo. It was neat. We got to see teenage/20-something Ellie hanging out at a friendly gathering and kissing her girlfriend, before a dramatic cut to her killing the shit out of some dudes in a darkened wood. What followed was a pretty standard video game stealth sequence, albeit one with the absurd, probably unhealthy level of polish we’ve all come to expect from Naughty Dog games. (Also, side note, Ellie went prone while sneaking, indicating this will be a crouch/run/prone stealth game instead of a crouch/run game. I’m sure you were wondering.) So basically this demo went: Sweet dancing scene, nice kiss, extremely gnarly murder fest, end on some nice kissing. This game is going to be a lot. Next came Ghost of Tsushima, an open-world samurai game. This demo started with a dude on stage absolutely shredding on the shakuhachi, which was fantastic and not something I was expecting to see at E3. As for the game: The Witcher vibes were strong with this one, which is being developed by Infamous studio Sucker Punch. The demo depicted a character making his way through war-torn feudal Japan, with the kind of sword fighting and sneaking you would expect. Damn, though. It was really nice-looking. Like, wow. Leaves. Control is a third-person game from Remedy. It looked pretty wild, and given that it’s made by the folks behind Max Payne, Alan Wake and most recently Quantum Break, I will play it. We got a look at the Resident Evil 2 remaster. It looks nice, though I’ll admit I didn’t even play the remaster of the first one. It’s coming out on 25 January 2019. We got another look at Kingdom Hearts 3‘s Pirates of the Caribbean world. I feel like I’ve seen so many minimal-context snippets of this game at various press conferences over the last two days that I have no idea what it even is any more. Does anyone? Does anyone know what Kingdom Hearts 3 is? I’m not sure anyone does. Anyway! Here’s CGI Jack Sparrow! Death Stranding: It’s still weird! Hideo Kojima’s weird-arse sci-fi/horror/I-don’t-know-what game still looks wild, and like the sort of thing that will continue to be weird right up to and probably well after it finally comes out and I finally play it. Makes sense, since this game seems as though it’s gonna involve a lot of time-shifting fuckery. Nioh 2! Fuck yeah! I’m psyched about this. Super psyched! I need to finish the first game. But I don’t care! I will still play this. OK, I think I worked through my excitement just then. Thank you for sharing this experience with me. Spider-Man looks great and I want to play it, too. That’s the point of these press conferences, right? To make us want to play a certain video game? If so, mission accomplished re: Spider-Man. Sony’s big stage show ended with Insomniac’s Spider-Man, which is coming out in September. The sequence they showed had a prison break featuring a whole bunch of Spidey’s most famous enemies, as well as some outrageously expensive-looking setpieces and action sequences. Last but not least, FromSoftware is making… a PSVR game! Filed under “things I was not expecting From to announce at Sony’s E3 press conference” is Déraciné, a PSVR game that is apparently a big departure from their other games. A Few Other Things: People who pre-order Black Ops 4 will get some free maps for Black Ops 3, and if you have a PlayStation Plus subscription you get Black Ops 3 as a free download today; we saw a short Destiny 2: Forsaken trailer indicating Cayde-6 is gonna get shot, or killed, or “killed” and then you spend the campaign bringing him back from the dead. They also showed a platformer called Trover Saves the Universe from Rick and Morty‘s Jostin Roiland for PS4 and PSVR. And that’s that! No big surprises at Sony’s show, but it sure has been a good E3 for samurai stuff. Only one more E3 conference until we can all go walk around outside and not think about video games for a week… wait, no, I mean one more press conference until the expo floor opens and we can go play these games, talk to the people making them, and chase news until we catch it and train it to fetch us our slippers in the morning. Stick around, because E3 is just getting started.<doc-sep>Dark Souls and Bloodborne developer From Software is working on Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, but now we know the studio is working on another new game. Named Deracine, the title is exclusive to PSVR and PS4. It's not quite clear yet what sort of game Deracine is. The debut trailer, which you can watch above, shows a slow-paced, sepia-toned wander through an older world, before some life force brings a flower back to life as color returns. The game's official synopsis reads: "As a spirit summoned by a young girl in a secluded boarding school, the player must prove its existence and build a unique bond with the students through clever interactions. As the mystery of the story unfolds, the spirit must use its ability to manipulate the forces of life and time to change the fate of the pupils." The game was revealed at Sony's E3 2018 press conference, during which we also saw a new The Last of Us: Part II trailer. For everything else from the show, including the Resident Evil 2 remake's release date, check out all the news from Sony's E3 2018 press conference.<doc-sep>Josh Miller/CNET Editor's note: Are you looking for the latest on Microsoft's E3 2019 press conference? Of course you are. And if you need info on all out E3 2019 coverage, it's all here too. Flashy press conference? Check. Loads of video game reveals? Absolutely. At Microsoft's Xbox E3 2018 presser, it was almost enough to hide the truth: There's a dearth of top-tier, AAA-quality exclusive games for Xbox One you can actually play this year. Looking forward to a new Halo or Gears of War 5? They're coming sometime in 2019. Meanwhile, the long-awaited Crackdown 3 has been delayed yet again to February 2019. Battletoads? Ori: Will of the Wisps? 2019 as well. The new Tomb Raider looked great, as did Sekiro, a samurai-infused spiritual successor to Dark Souls, but both of those are coming to PS4 and PC too. When Microsoft says it had 50 game reveals at the show, 18 of them with "exclusivity," it's counting tiny indie games and mere updates to existing games like Sea of Thieves and the popular PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds toward that total. (PUBG players on PC, meanwhile, are already testing the update.) Found this while researching a story and... I know it's unfair, every website has dead URLs, but I can't help but laugh. pic.twitter.com/dElDirSQ5q — Sean Hollister (@StarFire2258) June 11, 2018 I might have missed one, but the only major exclusive I count coming to Xbox One before the end of the year is a new Forza Horizon 4 racing game. The lack of exclusives is a problem, because it tells Xbox One owners they might have been better off buying a PlayStation 4, which keeps getting beautiful, big-budget story driven exclusives like clockwork, including the incredible God of War, Detroit: Become Human, Horizon: Zero Dawn and Uncharted. Next up: Spider-Man, the intriguingly weird Death Stranding and The Last of Us Part 2. Meanwhile, the Xbox One's big exclusives this year were Sea of Thieves and State of Decay 2, both of which arrived to middling reviews. Our sister site GameSpot called the former "hard to wholeheartedly recommend" and the latter "aimless, wandering and just out of place." Now playing: Watch this: Cyberpunk 2077 paints Microsoft's E3 2018 event red It's little wonder PS4 is reportedly beating Xbox One two-to-one in sales. A Microsoft spokesman says the reports were inaccurate, but wouldn't say by how much; the company stopped reporting sales numbers in 2014. Admittedly, there's room for both PS4 and Xbox One to make some serious cash. "We recently announced a record start to the year with gaming revenue at Microsoft increasing 18 percent year over year, reaching $2.25 billion," writes a Microsoft spokesman. "Xbox Live monthly active users increased 13 percent year over year, reaching 59 million and in their first year, Mixer and Xbox Game Pass have been great contributors to growth in players and engagement." But after cancelling hugely-hyped exclusives like Scalebound and Fable Legends, and seeing mixed results from previous ones like Quantum Break and Sunset Overdrive, the company's reputation is still in jeopardy. So Microsoft's trying a time-honored technique: It's pulling out the "moneyhat." Screenshot by Sean Hollister/CNET At E3 2018, the company announced it's in the process of buying four entire game studios, including Ninja Theory (Hellblade), Undead Labs (State of Decay), Compulsion Games (We Happy Few) and Playground Games (Forza Horizon series), plus creating another internal studio known as The Initiative. Since those studios were already building games for Xbox, the unspoken message is pretty clear: Microsoft's buying more exclusivity here. (Never mind that We Happy Few is coming to PS4 and PC as well.) A Microsoft spokesman told CNET: "When we look at our full first-party portfolio, it's important we're investing in a long-term plan that will ensure we have a consistent pipeline of quality content for fans. These were investments we saw an opportunity to make this year." Another unspoken message: There's no guarantee the games that result from those deals will appear on Xbox One anytime soon. And Microsoft may have more exciting places to put those games than the Xbox One, anyhow. The next console war could well be a cloud gaming showdown. While the company's initiatives to merge Xbox and Windows PCs didn't pan out as originally promised, there's a good chance they'll set Microsoft up for a strong start when the next console generation begins. The same x86 processor architecture and Windows operating system that made it tough to bring Xbox 360 games to the Xbox One theoretically means the company can more easily stream Xbox games over the internet to phones, tablets and computers from the company's farms of servers. The next "console war" could well be a cloud gaming showdown. Ubisoft's CEO believes this next console generation could be the last one. Sony has a cloud gaming service (PlayStation Now), EA just showed us its cloud gaming service, and now Microsoft says it's building one too. That doesn't mean there won't be a next Xbox or PlayStation. At E3, Microsoft confirmed another Xbox is coming, but I wouldn't be surprised if streaming eventually takes over. But as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime have shown, streaming services need exclusive content just as badly as boxes like an Xbox or PlayStation. Maybe more so, since a fickle user can easily switch loyalties without buyer's remorse. If you switch from Sony to Microsoft today, you've gotta justify those hundreds you spent on a PlayStation. Me, I'm not convinced these particular studios will necessarily be the ones to create must-play exclusives. But they might allow Microsoft to make greater booms with big guns like Halo, instead of saving its press-conference-shattering, "One More Thing" final reveal for a game like Cyberpunk 2077 -- which, of course, is coming to PS4 and PC too. E3 2018 coverage at CNET: All of our E3 2018 coverage in one place. E3 2018 coverage at GameSpot: Wall-to-wall coverage of the show from our sister site, GameSpot.<doc-sep>
When it comes to E3 press conferences, Sony often makes it a point to focus primarily on games, never spending too long talking in between reveals. While some years have varied due to the quality of the announcements, Sony has generally performed well with a bevy of unexpected reveals. But this year's presentation offered a substantial change-of-pace. Instead of announcing a laundry list worth of games, Sony instead focused on four of its biggest upcoming games. But we did see more than four games during the event. As expected, famed developer Hideo Kojima intrigued audiences with the latest trailer for Death Stranding. We finally got debut gameplay footage of Ghost of Tsushima, the open-work samurai action game developed by Sucker Punch Productions--the studio behind Infamous and Sly Cooper. In addition, the new trailer for Spider-Man made us all the more excited for the game's release this September. Lastly, we finally got a closer look at the The Last of Us: Part II's story and tense gameplay. But there were plenty of other surprises too. Sony announced a sequel to Team Ninja's samurai-action game, Nioh. It even debuted the first trailer for the highly-anticipated Resident Evil 2 Remake, which in turn led to further reveals about the game (such as it adopting a third-person camera). We also saw footage for Control--the latest game by Remedy Entertainment. Sony's E3 presentation was packed with exciting new details for its biggest games, as well as a variety of new ones. Be sure to click ahead to see everything that was shown. And if you'd like to catch up on everything that came from the briefing, check out our news roundup. In the meantime, which PS4 games are you most excited about? Let us know in the comments below.