The first of many E3 2017 press conferences has drawn to a tepid conclusion. Electronic Arts kicked off the year’s biggest week in gaming news with a handful of announcements on new games, as well as footage from the highly anticipated Star Wars: Battlefront II. Though it ended with a strange, lengthy multiplayer match and an ad for a mobile game.
The conference was light on announcements, but tried its best to make gameplay center stage. These are the five moments it really succeeded.
EA announces a splitscreen prison break game
EA will release a new game from Hazelight — the studio founded by Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons creator Josef Fares — called A Way Out. It’s a co-op prison break game that you can only play in cooperative split-screen.
Mass Effect creators tease their next project
BioWare Edmonton has been working on a new, secret project thought to rival the likes of Activision’s Destiny. Today, we got our first look at it — and learned that it will be called Anthem.