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Ubisoft came, we saw, and everyone just about conquered the mind-numbing fatigue as the shows lurch on. Watch Dogs Legion looks fantastic, there's an all-new Breath of the Wild-inspired RPG in the form of Gods and Monsters and Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia also featured. Yup, the old games are playable if you subsrcibe to UPlay+. Here's all the news as it happened.

UPDATE 10/6/19: Less than 24 hours after it was unveiled in a cloud of abrasive whoops, Fallout 76's Nuclear Winter mode - that's the battle royale one, if you're starting to lose track - is now live on Xbox One, PS4, and PC.

Epic has ruffled feathers by announcing that the Untitled Goose Game will be an Epic Store exclusive when it launches on PC.

Ubisoft has now officially announced Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Quarantine, details of which first leaked online last week.

During Ubisoft's E3 press conference, Always Sunny in Philadelphia co-creator Rob McElhenney took to the stage to unveil his new game dev TV comedy, Mythic Quest.

Rare is celebrating E3 week with a free gift to all Sea of Thieves players, and it comes in the form of the extremely sexy, Halo-inspired Spartan Ship Set.

AMD is bullish on the prospects of its Ryzen 3000 line of products coming early next month, telling press and analysts that the firm expects to maintain and extend its lead in productivity workloads while delivering IPC and single-core speed advantages that it says will nullify Intel's historical lead in gaming performance. On top of the stack of CPUs revealed last month at the Computex trade show, AMD has also debuted the existence of a 16-core, 32-thread monster processor - a first for the consumer space.

Here's one Switch port you might not have been begging for - The Last Remnant is coming to Nintendo Switch. And it's coming out today.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles is also coming to smartphones, Square Enix announced during its E3 2019 press conference.

Square Enix has just announced a new Collective game - and it looks like a delight. Circuit Superstars is set to launch in 2020 and it combines arcade-style racing with a realistic driving model. Just look at it!

Final Fantasy 8 is finally being remastered for modern platforms, Square Enix has confirmed.

Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics has finally unveiled its own take on Marvel's Avengers.

The thing about the Doom Guy, right, is that he travels to Hell and reduces everyone he meets there to gibs. The thing about Mario, right, is that he travels to a world that looks like a cupcake and then he collects a bunch of golden coins and hoots with happiness. No matter. I was stirred out of my Bethesda stupor about two thirds of the way through the publisher's E3 conference last night when Doom Eternal had its moment. I had a moment at the same time, and the moment involved realising this: I know this is weird, but Doom Eternal really reminds me of Mario.

E3, allegedly all about what's new, is so often about what's old. E3 looks to the future but it's careful to invoke the past. The older you get, the less time you have for games, they say, but the more the time you do have for games is wrapped and coddled in memory.

It's fitting that a game about cooperation is itself the result of two studios collaborating. MachineGames have brought in the lauded Arkane Studios to assist on this new entry in the Wolfenstein series and their fingerprints are all over it. For better and for worse.

Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, arguably one of the best JRPGs of recent years, has been confirmed for the Switch, with a port coming to Nintendo's console on September 20th.

They really did save the best until last. Nintendo rounded off the conference part of this year's E3 by showing off Animal Crossing - which gets a slight delay - Luigi's Mansion 3 and so much else besides. Oh yeah, we got our first look at the Breath of the Wild sequel too...

There's still no release date for the promising-looking Luigi's Mansion 3, which Nintendo has just shown a lot more of in its E3 Nintendo Direct.

The rumours were true - Geralt of Rivia is headed to Nintendo Switch.

No More Heroes fans are finally getting a proper third numbered entry in the cult classic Grasshopper Manufacture series.

Empire of Sin is the next project from John Romero, and it's headed to Nintendo Switch.

Nintendo Switch ports of survival horror classic Alien Isolation, plus Resident Evil 5 and 6, are on the way.

Nintendo's flurry of news this morning continues, with a release date for the Link and Zelda-starring indie rhythm roguelike Cadence of Hyrule (this week, on 13th June).

Here's the bad news: Nintendo's long-awaited Switch version of Animal Crossing will now launch in 2020. On the upside, the newly-titled Animal Crossing: New Horizons looks like a significant step forward for the series.

Nintendo ended its E3 Direct with a surprise tease: a full sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is now in development for Nintendo Switch.

Microsoft has announced its next-gen console, nicknamed Project Scarlett. It'll launch "holiday 2020", Xbox chief Phil Spencer just announced here in LA at the Xbox E3 2019 press conference.

Microsoft kicked off E3 in style today, with a memorable press conference that had Keanu Reeves and a car made out of Lego. Oh, and we finally got a few morsels of information on the next Xbox, codenamed Project Scarlett.

Microsoft has discussed Project Scarlett's backwards compatibility - and said it will be able to play the 3000-strong Xbox One library, as well as all 360 and OG Xbox games currently in the Xbox One's backwards compatible catalogue.

Rare's lovable retro duo Banjo and Kazooie are joining the cast of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a playable character.

The past week has been a bit of a whirlwind for Pokémon Sword and Shield news, with the substantial reveal in the Pokémon Direct followed up by a look at another Gym battle, this one Water-focused, and then some more gameplay of the open-world Wild Area in the Nintendo Treehouse straight after.