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Ubisoft turns the Orpheum Theatre into a two-hour trailer marathon for its 2020 lineup.

Ubisoft’s E3 2019 media briefing landed on June 10 at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, and the publisher used the stage to lay out exactly what it’s shipping over the next year. Rather than teasing vague concepts, the show opened with a full gameplay reveal, brought a Hollywood actor and his dog onstage, and closed the loop on a subscription service Ubisoft had been hinting at for months. It was a briefing built on specifics — release dates, price points, and a mechanic-first pitch for its biggest new title.

• Watch Dogs: Legion’s “play as anyone” system lets players recruit and control any NPC in post-Brexit London, with permadeath baked in, ahead of its March 6, 2020 release.
• Jon Bernthal joined the presentation with his dog Bam Bam to discuss playing Ghost Recon Breakpoint antagonist Cole D. Walker.
• Uplay+ launches in September 2019 with over 100 titles for $14.99 a month, alongside Gods & Monsters’ February 25, 2020 release date.

Watch Dogs: Legion Redefines the Cast

The show opened with an extended gameplay reveal of Watch Dogs: Legion, set in a dystopian, post-Brexit London. Creative director Clint Hocking walked the audience through the game’s headline feature: a “play as anyone” system that lets players recruit and take direct control of virtually any NPC wandering the open world, each with their own skills, quirks, and vulnerabilities. Permadeath is part of the package, meaning a recruited operative who falls in the field is gone for good — a real cost attached to every mission decision. Ubisoft set the release for March 6, 2020, giving the studio roughly nine months from the E3 stage to launch.

Jon Bernthal Brings Cole D. Walker to the Stage

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint got its own spotlight, with Ubisoft bringing actor Jon Bernthal out in person — accompanied by his dog, Bam Bam — to talk about playing Cole D. Walker, the game’s antagonist and a former Ghost turned rogue. Having Bernthal physically on the Orpheum stage was a deliberate swing at giving Breakpoint a recognizable face beyond the usual military-shooter marketing, tying the game’s story stakes to an actor known for playing morally complicated tough guys.

New IPs and Live-Service Bets

Beyond the two headliners, Ubisoft used the briefing to plant flags on several new live-service and genre experiments. Rainbow Six Quarantine was announced as a three-player tactical co-op survival shooter spun directly out of Siege’s Outbreak event, giving the Rainbow Six audience a standalone way to play the zombie-adjacent mode. Roller Champions, a free-to-play competitive roller derby game, and Gods & Monsters — a stylized mythological action-adventure from the Assassin’s Creed Odyssey team, dated for February 25, 2020 — rounded out the new-IP push. Readers tracking the full spread of what Ubisoft has queued up can find more detail in Top 10 NEW UBISOFT Games of 2020 & 2021.

Uplay+ and the Subscription Pitch

Ubisoft formally announced Uplay+, its PC subscription service, offering access to more than 100 titles for $14.99 per month starting in September 2019 — a direct answer to the subscription models other publishers and platform holders were building out.

Uplay+ launches in September with more than 100 Ubisoft titles available for $14.99 a month.

The briefing also made room for Just Dance 2020, a live orchestral Assassin’s Creed Symphony performance, and a sneak peek at Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet, a workplace comedy series Ubisoft co-created with Rob McElhenney for Apple TV+. It’s a wider bet than just games — Ubisoft using its biggest annual stage to also sell a streaming comedy speaks to how much the publisher wants its brand attached to more than just controllers. For a broader read on how Ubisoft’s corporate priorities have played out around the same period, see Cyberpunk 2077 Roasts EA, CDPR Says NO “Politics”? Red Dead 2 Online Protest Victory & Ubisoft Chaos.

Two release dates now anchor Ubisoft’s next several months: Gods & Monsters on February 25, 2020, followed less than two weeks later by Watch Dogs: Legion on March 6. That’s a tight window for two very different pitches — a stylized mythological adventure and a permadeath-driven London uprising sim — landing back to back, with Uplay+ already up and running by the time either one ships.