Titanfall 2, FIFA 17, Battlefield 1 and new Star Wars games: Everything EA just unveiled at E3 2016 - CNET

E3 2016 is the first year that gaming giant Electronic Arts will not have a booth at the show floor. In fact, EA is holding its own alteative event called EA Live -- right around the coer from convention center.

After some early trailer releases (and some less deliberate Titanfall 2 leaks) EA pretty much gave the fans exactly what they'd anticipated, with a few hits on Mass Effect Andromeda, Battlefield 1, Star Wars and more. Here's how it all unfolded.

Titanfall 2: Well with the EA Play press conference still an hour from kicking off, we've already had news about Titanfall 2 after a demo was accidentally shown when EA published a rehearsal of its E3 show. The release date is October 28 and the biggest change is a single player campaign that you'll be able to play offline. My colleague Sean Hollister managed to get hands on with the game.

FIFA 17: FIFA is basically a license to print money so there was no way that EA wasn't going to aounce something new. The FIFA 17 trailer was released ahead of the conference and showcased a brand new story mode that has you playing as Alex Hunter as he make his way through the English Premier League.

The conference has begun and it's kicking off with Titanfall 2. The Titanfall 2 multiplayer trailer has set the audience absolutely wild and the single-player trailer "for the four people who didn't see the leak". It looks like it's quite heavy on story and that's actually more exciting to me than any multiplayer. Controversial I know.

There's a second EA Play event happening in London and we're apparently cutting back and forth from LA to there. We're currently discussing Madden 17 from London and the esports community.

EA has a "new approach" to esports, with three new competitions: challenger events, premier series and EA Major, the professional end of the spectrum. On stage are the final eight best Madden players about to compete in the first EA Major event happening on Tuesday.

Mass Effect Andromeda: Bioware on stage to discuss the next Mass Effect game. "Building on the things you love" about the old series, but with more freedom for gameplay, and all powered by the Frostbite engine. More information coming in "Fall" and a behind the scenes trailer rather than a complete focus on gameplay. The game does, off course, take place in the Andromeda galaxy, allowing Bioware a lot of freedom to change things up. But don't panic: the Mako tank is back.

Play to Give: EA is offering in-game challenges on number of its games that will have a charity component. He for She, Code.org, Special Effect and more can all benefit from gamers participating.

More FIFA 17 news, back in London. An entertaining trailer showing the improvements in the graphics from the first ever FIFA game segued into an actor playing the Alex Hunter character from the story mode, The Jouey. It's using the Frostbite engine and it will feature the EPL club managers for the first time. This is apparently quite exciting. FIFA 17 has been revamped with new gameplay physics, new attacking techniques and an active intelligence system all apparently inspired by real life players.

EA Originals: a new program from EA. It's about supporting smaller developers, with EA partnering with selected projects. EA says it offers a level of security for the developers and all the profits from the game go to the devs. The first EA Original is called Fe from Zoink out of Gothenberg.

It's a game about our relationship with nature, according to the developer. You play as a young cub -- vaguely like a black fox -- and you explore a dark forest to lea songs from the animals you encounter. The villains are the Silent Ones that stop the music. Sounds something like Limbo meets Eco the Dolphin, but looks lovely.

Star Wars: Jade Raymond on stage to discuss the wide range of Star Wars games in production. Next year will be an new Battlefront, with content from the new films. In 2018, Visceral games will have a new narrative action game in the Star Wars world. Respawn is also working on a new third-person action game "set in a different Star Wars era". Amy Heig from Visceral shows off a tiny, tiny moment of footage from the game her team is working on during a Star Wars behind the scenes video.

One very interesting bit from the video showed a quick glimpse of someone wearing a PlayStation VR headset:

Battlefield 1: A quick in-game footage trailer showing tanks and biplanes fighting it out in World War 1. Apparently it's just a taster, as shortly after the press conference we'll see a live stream of a 64 player game, with Jamie Foxx and Zac Ephron for some mystifying reason.

Dynamic weather and destruction physics are some of the key features, plus 'Behemoth' vehicles. A longer trailer has horses, motorbikes, crashing Zeppelins and a lot of explosions.