Ubisoft E3 2019 conference live report Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Ubisoft E3 2019 conference live report Dogs were watched. One even came onstage. All the news as it happened. Blog by Martin Robinson Editor-in-chief Updated on 11 Jun 2019 439 comments 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. Our live coverage of this event has finished. Coverage 19:15 pm UTC Yooooooooo! (Hello). – Martin Robinson 19:15 pm UTC I'm so tired and today's E3 action hasn't even really begun... – Martin Robinson 19:16 pm UTC Anyway, 45 minutes to Ubisoft! – Martin Robinson 19:16 pm UTC Kami: Hey Martin, s'up? *waves* – Martin Robinson 19:46 pm UTC The return of Mr. Caffeine is all I've ever really wanted. – Martin Robinson 19:47 pm UTC I think he's still for hire? – Martin Robinson 19:48 pm UTC It's my birthday next month and if anyone can get him over for it it really would be the best. – Martin Robinson 19:53 pm UTC scottgourlay: This is gonna be the shortest one no? all there gonna says is here is your single player 20 hours long splinter cell voiced by Micheal Ironside enjoy 10 minutes of gameplay see you next year. Plz. – Martin Robinson 19:55 pm UTC I was just eating dinner - I still am, so my keyboard is proper greasy right now - and missed Ice T telling everyone not to be toxic shits. – Martin Robinson 19:57 pm UTC I'm curious as to what we'll see. – Martin Robinson 19:58 pm UTC We know about Watch Dogs, about Ghost Recon, there's no new Assassin's this year. – Martin Robinson 19:58 pm UTC No Beyond Good and Evil 2 either. – Martin Robinson 19:58 pm UTC So what can we expect in terms of surprises? – Martin Robinson 19:58 pm UTC A new Rainbow Six? Seems likely. – Martin Robinson 19:58 pm UTC A new Prince of Persia? Less likely, but that'd be lovely. – Martin Robinson 20:00 pm UTC Aye, Rainbow Six has leaked! I just forgot because I don't even know what day it is at the moment. – Martin Robinson 20:01 pm UTC And here we go. – Martin Robinson 20:01 pm UTC Kicking off with Assassin's Creed Symphony. No, it's not a new game - it's a live performance of the soundtrack. – Martin Robinson 20:01 pm UTC Or it will be once they get started. – Martin Robinson 20:03 pm UTC It's a slightly more downbeat intro than the usual Just Dance madness, but that's okay. – Martin Robinson 20:03 pm UTC TBH it's just giving me more time to wolf down this burger before it all properly starts, so thanks Yves. – Martin Robinson 20:06 pm UTC I just went to wash my hands and came back and the music is still playing. Did I miss much else? – Martin Robinson 20:06 pm UTC It's a reminder that hoo boy there have been a lot of Assassin's Creed games over the past 10 years. – Martin Robinson 20:07 pm UTC Anyway that's on tour if you want to go and listen to some of your favourite Assassin's Creed tunes, such as... – Martin Robinson 20:07 pm UTC Er, no, I've no idea. – Martin Robinson 20:08 pm UTC And. – Martin Robinson 20:08 pm UTC Away. – Martin Robinson 20:08 pm UTC We. – Martin Robinson 20:08 pm UTC Go. – Martin Robinson 20:09 pm UTC Straight into Watch Dogs Legion. – Martin Robinson 20:09 pm UTC Set in London, as we all knew. – Martin Robinson 20:09 pm UTC This is a non-political game, remember, set *checks notes* after Brexit? – Martin Robinson 20:09 pm UTC Danny Wallace is back. – Martin Robinson 20:10 pm UTC And there's a character named Bagley - a reference, no doubt, to classic garage nightspot Bagleys. – Martin Robinson 20:10 pm UTC We're in Piccadilly Circus, with some guy whose cockney accent is horribly over the top. – Martin Robinson 20:10 pm UTC Farkin 'ell this writin' is atrocious. – Martin Robinson 20:11 pm UTC XP-diddly-ocious, as Poppins would probably say. – Martin Robinson 20:12 pm UTC We're in Trafalgar Square, now - a shootout outside Nelson's Column. – Martin Robinson 20:12 pm UTC Oh, as Donlan has pointed out - this is basically Zombi U? – Martin Robinson 20:13 pm UTC You can switch between characters, there's an element of permadeath to some characters. – Martin Robinson 20:13 pm UTC And you can play as an elderly lady so I'm in for this. – Martin Robinson 20:14 pm UTC We're watching a compilation of a granny merk a load of bad guys and I'm instantly sold. – Martin Robinson 20:14 pm UTC Camden Lock, now - and Camden looks as outrageously outdated as it does in real life. – Martin Robinson 20:15 pm UTC Camden High Street - where it's eternally 1996. – Martin Robinson 20:15 pm UTC You can fly your drones in this one. – Martin Robinson 20:15 pm UTC As in stand on a drone and fly around on it. – Martin Robinson 20:17 pm UTC It looks very much like a Ubisoft game, and London itself feels a bit lost beneath all the neon - but yes, this does look good. – Martin Robinson 20:18 pm UTC Also I'm still so delighted to just see gameplay in a conference. And an extended look, too - well done, Ubisoft. – Martin Robinson 20:19 pm UTC I'm also not convinced by this boozer we're looking at. – Martin Robinson 20:19 pm UTC But it condirms that you can play as pretty much any NPC. And that Brixton is in it too. How about Lewisham though? Please? PLEASE. – Martin Robinson 20:20 pm UTC They just mentioned Brexit, so this definitely isn't political in any shape or form. Just so you know. – Martin Robinson 20:21 pm UTC You build a resistance through the course of the game, so you can indeed recruit and play as anyone. – Martin Robinson 20:22 pm UTC Every NPC that you can recruit is indepently voiced and animated. This is quite the ambitious game. – Martin Robinson 20:23 pm UTC You can be the women of Bletchley Park okay Ubisoft you've smashed this one out of the park. – Martin Robinson 20:24 pm UTC 'London - it's gone a bit shit'. Ain't that the truth. – Martin Robinson 20:25 pm UTC Helen, a retired assassin and the elderly hero of Watch Dogs Legion, is the star of this year's E3. – Martin Robinson 20:26 pm UTC Also I swear the pig's head shown there is the one David Cameron dipped his wick in. – Martin Robinson 20:26 pm UTC Anyway, Watch Dogs Legion - a very good looking video game that's coming out next March. – Martin Robinson 20:27 pm UTC Here's some lad from a TV show I've never seen - sorry! I actually thought it was a hench Haley Joel Osment. – Martin Robinson 20:27 pm UTC But this is about an Always Sunny in Philadelphia video game. – Martin Robinson 20:27 pm UTC I think. – Martin Robinson 20:27 pm UTC minky-kong: Why is everyone at Eurogamer obsessed with Lewisham? It's a fucking hole. You're a hole. (I live there). – Martin Robinson 20:28 pm UTC Oh Mythic Quest is another TV show I've never seen. – Martin Robinson 20:29 pm UTC I haven't seen it because it's not aired yet. It turns out this whole section is pimping a new TV show. – Martin Robinson 20:29 pm UTC minky-kong: My commiserations Martin, ask for a raise so you can move to Blackheath Haha, okay! – Martin Robinson 20:30 pm UTC What's an Apple TV? – Martin Robinson 20:31 pm UTC This is a very strange thing to have at an E3 conference - a plug for a TV show. That's coming to Apple TV. Or something. – Martin Robinson 20:31 pm UTC How odd. – Martin Robinson 20:31 pm UTC Well here's Rainbow Six Siege. Thank heavens, a video game. – Martin Robinson 20:31 pm UTC Tom Nook is coming to Rainbow Six Siege? Is that he was saying? – Martin Robinson 20:32 pm UTC That doesn't look like Tom Nook. – Martin Robinson 20:32 pm UTC It looks like an Aldi James Bond. – Martin Robinson 20:33 pm UTC Operation Phantom Sight, the new season for Rainbow Six Siege, launches tomorrow. – Martin Robinson 20:34 pm UTC Adventure Time, er time now. – Martin Robinson 20:34 pm UTC It's another TV show I haven't seen. Do I have to start watching TV now to understand E3 press conferences? – Martin Robinson 20:35 pm UTC Adventure Time is coming to Brawlhalla, anyway. That's the news. – Martin Robinson 20:36 pm UTC Tom Ker-lancey's Ghost Recon now. – Martin Robinson 20:36 pm UTC Can we just see more of Watch Dogs please? Beyond that, this hasn't been a great conference. – Martin Robinson 20:37 pm UTC A cinematic trailer for Breakpoint. – Martin Robinson 20:38 pm UTC Most importantly, though, a real live dog is on-stage. – Martin Robinson 20:38 pm UTC Oh and some actor dude I don't know. – Martin Robinson 20:38 pm UTC Is this the first animal live on a Ubi stage, you ask? – Martin Robinson 20:38 pm UTC Well, no. There's also some history here - I think Ubi are being very bold by having an animal here after the history. – Martin Robinson 20:39 pm UTC Back at Ubidays - lord knows how long ago that was - they had a basketful of bunnies they unleashed on the stage. – Martin Robinson 20:39 pm UTC It was Rabbids-based, obviously. – Martin Robinson 20:39 pm UTC The rabbits were terrified, the whole thing was quite inhumane, but it was saved by the fact that a lot of them just shat on the stage. – Martin Robinson 20:40 pm UTC So the rest of the show carried on with presenters surrounded by rabbit shit. – Martin Robinson 20:40 pm UTC The rabbits were also very hard to get off the stage. They're not good at following orders, apparently. – Martin Robinson 20:40 pm UTC Is the Ghost Recon section still going? – Martin Robinson 20:41 pm UTC 'Ghosts never die' says the voiceover, and you've got to concede they do have a point. – Martin Robinson 20:41 pm UTC True, true. – Martin Robinson 20:42 pm UTC We're still on Ghost Recon, as they announce Delta Company. – Martin Robinson 20:43 pm UTC All about serving the Ghost Recon community. – Martin Robinson 20:43 pm UTC Though the big takeaway from that is that people do Ghost Recon cosplay? – Martin Robinson 20:43 pm UTC What is wrong with people. – Martin Robinson 20:44 pm UTC The beta for Ghost Recon is live on September 5th. – Martin Robinson 20:44 pm UTC I'd actually happily dress up as a panda and do a dance for you over Skype. – Martin Robinson 20:44 pm UTC I don't have a panda costume though. – Martin Robinson 20:45 pm UTC Terminator DLC - which was also in Gears - is coming to Ghost Recon. – Martin Robinson 20:45 pm UTC They're really trying to sell the awful-looking Terminator film that's coming later this year. – Martin Robinson 20:45 pm UTC Ain't it just. – Martin Robinson 20:45 pm UTC It's okay, though, becaues here's a mobile game. – Martin Robinson 20:46 pm UTC It's a Tom Clancy special RPG. – Martin Robinson 20:47 pm UTC Tom Clancy's Elite Squad. Which I won't say anything nasty about as one of the devs is in the comments (hullo yusep!). It looks alright! – Martin Robinson 20:48 pm UTC Here's Just Dance to bring a little life to proceedings. – Martin Robinson 20:49 pm UTC This, oddly enough, is what I come to the Ubisoft conference wanting. A nice big song and dance routine. – Martin Robinson 20:49 pm UTC And there's your panda. – Martin Robinson 20:49 pm UTC Ubisoft delivers. – Martin Robinson 20:49 pm UTC A very brief cameo from the panda, but it's enough to make me happy. – Martin Robinson 20:50 pm UTC No wait there he is again. – Martin Robinson 20:50 pm UTC I hope this dance number goes on for the next 45 minutes. – Martin Robinson 20:51 pm UTC adamasunder12: You can close the amazon tab now Martin for Panda costumes. Too late, already ordered. – Martin Robinson 20:51 pm UTC A new hero for For Honor, your honour. – Martin Robinson 20:53 pm UTC For Honor, Shadows of the Hitokiri, is available nooooooow. – Martin Robinson 20:54 pm UTC This could be the new Rainbow Six - basically a Left4Dead thing, I guess? – Martin Robinson 20:55 pm UTC Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Quarantine, being made in Ubisoft Montreal, and it's a co-op shooter. – Martin Robinson 20:55 pm UTC A PvE game, basically - what Siege is to PvP, Quarantine aims to be for PvE. – Martin Robinson 20:55 pm UTC If they can deliver on that it could be quite the thing. – Martin Robinson 20:56 pm UTC Doesn't look like we're going to see it in action. – Martin Robinson 20:56 pm UTC Division 2 update next plz. I'm going for a wazz. – Martin Robinson 20:58 pm UTC Division 2 is free for the next three days, and the first big update is out soooon. – Martin Robinson 20:58 pm UTC Bloodfont: A lot of political shooters for a company that doesn't like political statements. You said it not me. (But also yes so much this). – Martin Robinson 20:58 pm UTC yusep: The division 2 is actually a pretty good game. YOU WORK FOR UBISOFT YOU WOULD SAY THAT! – Martin Robinson 20:59 pm UTC I'll admit I haven't played The Division 2, but people who have played it make positive noises. – Martin Robinson 21:00 pm UTC Second raid is coming this autumn. – Martin Robinson 21:00 pm UTC Bloodfont: Fun fact, Clancy was a pretty hard republican, it's pretty funny to see these games in a pretty left wing company. Don't get me wrong, i'm left and like division 2 it's just an empty game outside "dungeons" I find that whole thing so strange too - there's a real clash there. – Martin Robinson 21:01 pm UTC Wyrm: I hope The Terminator is in this too Would be up for the Terminator in Just Dance too. – Martin Robinson 21:01 pm UTC yusep: Well, If I would work in EA I would lie or write some PR shit, but in ubisoft we are cool guys who always say thruth. We also have pandas. <3 – Martin Robinson 21:02 pm UTC Amidst all that - and the revelation that all Ubisoft studios have pandas - there's a teaser for season three for The Division 2. And an announcement that The Division movie is coming to Netflix. – Martin Robinson 21:03 pm UTC A new subscription service called Uplay+. – Martin Robinson 21:04 pm UTC $14.99 a month, giving you access to Ubi's back catalogue and god it's getting expensive keeping up with all these services. – Martin Robinson 21:04 pm UTC Prince of Persia and Splinter Cell both made an apperance at the conference, at least - they're both classic games available as part of this new service. – Martin Robinson 21:05 pm UTC adamasunder12: That's expensive. Are we sponsoring a panda too? I'm hoping they throw a panda outfit in for that amount. – Martin Robinson 21:05 pm UTC Uplay+ is also going to be a part of Stadia. – Martin Robinson 21:05 pm UTC Umer: $14.99 is quite steep, but all their titles are AAA and multiple of them come out annually. Alas, let's see. Not a bad idea to buy base games and sign up to service for a month once a year to get access to all the DLCs and shit. Or maybe just sub on it at new releases as long as they'll add their titles day one. It's quite steep, but you do get Steep. – Martin Robinson 21:06 pm UTC Sorry that was an awful joke. – Martin Robinson 21:06 pm UTC Roller Champions, which is Rocket League-esque and which also leaked, is next up on stage. – Martin Robinson 21:07 pm UTC Can we also take the time to mourn the brilliant Laser League, which deserved so much more. – Martin Robinson 21:08 pm UTC And you can play this game RIGHT NOW. – Martin Robinson 21:08 pm UTC A demo, anyway - it's available over the next four days on Uplay. – Martin Robinson 21:10 pm UTC It looks like they made a game based around Mario Kart's Baby Park, and I can get behind that. – Martin Robinson 21:10 pm UTC Yves arrives. – Martin Robinson 21:10 pm UTC I'm all about Yves. – Martin Robinson 21:10 pm UTC (I'm so sorry I'm really tired). – Martin Robinson 21:11 pm UTC He's got a lovely, all-encompassing message about how games can bring us together. – Martin Robinson 21:12 pm UTC This, after an hour of mostly guns and death. – Martin Robinson 21:12 pm UTC But still! Here's an all-new game from the Quebec studio. – Martin Robinson 21:13 pm UTC An all-new IP, and it looks lively and colourful - drawing on mythology. – Martin Robinson 21:14 pm UTC A nice unexpeced show-closer introducing us to an all-new IP that I presume will be next-gen. – Martin Robinson 21:14 pm UTC And it looks an awful lot like Breath of the Wild. This is Gods and Monsters, and it's coming out next February - so not next-gen after all. – Martin Robinson 21:14 pm UTC That was Ubisoft's E3 conference. – Martin Robinson 21:14 pm UTC Hmm. – Martin Robinson 21:15 pm UTC It's always such an odd year before next gen consoles release. – Martin Robinson 21:15 pm UTC And there's also the fact that everything leaked beforehand. – Martin Robinson 21:15 pm UTC But there's a very flat feeling to E3 this year. – Martin Robinson 21:16 pm UTC Watch Dogs looks great, as does Gods and Monsters and I'm excited to try Roller Champions. – Martin Robinson 21:16 pm UTC You can read a preview of Roller Champions right this very second. – Martin Robinson 21:17 pm UTC And that was Ubisoft's E3 2019 conference. God I wish it wasn't. – Martin Robinson 21:17 pm UTC (It wasn't actually that bad). – Martin Robinson 21:17 pm UTC Thanks for joining us - next up is Square Enix at 2am. 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