You never know what you’ll get
from one E3 to the next. Some
years it’s all about the consoles
and their first-party offerings.
Other years—2019 is one—we
get an avalanche of exciting
new games.There’s Cyberpunk 2077, CD
Projekt Red’s impressive new
RPG. There’s Baldur’s Gate III,
the surprise next game from
Larian Studios. And there’s
Doom Eternal, id’s clever
continuation of everything that made 2016’s
Doom reboot one of the best shooters of recent
years. It’s a great year to be a PC gamer.TALK TO
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