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E3 2019 delivered its biggest gaming reveals without Sony even bothering to show up.

gameranx’s “20 Best NEW Games of E3 2019” countdown ran through the reveals and gameplay demos that mattered most from the show floor at the Los Angeles Convention Center, where Microsoft, Bethesda, Ubisoft, Square Enix and Nintendo held their briefings between June 11 and 13. The channel’s hosts walked viewers trailer by trailer through the announcements that defined the week, weighing release dates, genre pivots and the tech on display against each other. What made the list notable wasn’t just the games themselves — it was who wasn’t in the building to compete for attention.

• Sony skipped E3 2019 entirely, meaning PlayStation first-party titles had no official briefing or show-floor presence that week.
• CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 headlined Microsoft’s Xbox briefing with the reveal that Keanu Reeves plays Johnny Silverhand, alongside a confirmed release date of April 16, 2020.
• Nintendo used its Direct to surprise-reveal the untitled sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and gave stage time to Luigi’s Mansion 3.

Microsoft’s Briefing Carries the Week

With Sony absent, Microsoft’s Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase effectively became the marquee event of the expo, and gameranx’s countdown treats it that way. The biggest moment belonged to CD Projekt Red, which brought Keanu Reeves onstage to confirm he’d voice and physically model Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077, paired with the news that the game would launch April 16, 2020. id Software also used the slot to push Doom Eternal further, doubling down on the brutal, fast-traversal combat that had already separated it from the 2016 reboot.

“You’re breathtaking.”

That line — Keanu Reeves’ now-famous ad-lib to the Xbox briefing crowd — became the single most repeated soundbite of E3 2019, and gameranx’s countdown leans on it as the moment the show shifted gears. Ninja Theory’s multiplayer project Bleeding Edge also got a spot on the list, a notable pivot for a studio best known for the narrative-driven Hellblade.

Square Enix and the RPG Blowout

Square Enix’s briefing gave gameranx one of its clearest highlights: a full gameplay walkthrough of Final Fantasy VII Remake, showing off combat, environments and pacing well beyond the teaser footage fans had seen up to that point. The demo answered a lot of the lingering questions about how a turn-based classic would translate into real-time action, and it was enough to land the game high on the countdown.

Nintendo’s Surprise and the Rest of the Field

Nintendo closed the week with a Direct that buried its biggest news at the very end: the untitled sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, revealed with a short teaser and zero release window. Luigi’s Mansion 3 also got real stage time, its haunted-hotel setting and gooey new abilities standing out against Nintendo’s usual E3 pacing. Elsewhere on the list, FromSoftware and George R.R. Martin’s collaboration Elden Ring made the cut on atmosphere and pedigree alone, while Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs: Legion earned its spot for the recruit-anyone mechanic set in a post-Brexit London.

What ties the list together is less a genre or a platform than a sense of scale — publishers leaning on their biggest, longest-in-development projects to fill the vacuum Sony left behind. gameranx’s countdown treats that vacuum as the real story of the week, not an afterthought.

Cyberpunk 2077’s April 16, 2020 date gives CD Projekt Red roughly ten months to turn Keanu Reeves’ one-liner into the game E3 2019 promised — and with Sony sitting out the next E3 conversation entirely, Microsoft’s briefing room is shaping up as the place these franchises keep making their case.