i think what really changed is your connectivity in your home is better than ever. campaigners in hong kong those internet companies have built are promising to continue network data centres closer demonstrating — after a week of mass to your home to bring a lot protests forced the government to suspend a china extradition bill. of content already through video — netflix, youtube, et cetera — so we can rely on a much better infrastructure to bring the game. the government had argued the new law would plug legal the second thing is that we learned loopholes — and prevent the city how to adapt the game becoming a safe haven to your network conditions for overseas criminals. so that we can really make sure that even if your quality is a bit lower because of your network you can still enjoy the game as best as possible. dipomatic relations with iran keanu reeves brought some star microsoft's announcement comes power to proceedings, after tech giant google caused turning on the charm. a stir, signalling it wanted to get into gaming. google says its new games streaming continuine to be strained xbox, and nintendo for domination service, called stadia, could signal the end of the games console market, of the physical console. the biggest announcement google‘s making bold wasn't a new game. claims about stadia and no console required. one of the biggest comments that some people are saying after saudi arabia blamed tehran we've had from our readers that the console is dead, on our site is about the performance is that true? for the attacks on two tankers for us, we've learned that it's and how fast the internet that always about gamers‘ choice. in the gulf, and says it's prepared you have at home is going to be able listen to what your customer wants. to defend its interests. to support this kind and we have millions both the united states and millions of customers. and united kingdom say iran of game streaming. you know, people are struggling and it's notjust us. was "almost certainly" responsible. the industry has millions to run 4k netflix, long youtube and millions of customers who look videos, and things like that. 00:00:51,657 --> 2147483051:37:10,544 are you going to be able 2147483051:37:10,544 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 to have the internet speeds at the console experience that they have is something that is vital to their gaming experience. we're not here to try to take that away or tell somebody that the choices they've made are wrong. they have denied any both microsoft and sony seem to be hedging their bets as a new more any wrong doing. powerful playstation 5 console

is already in the works and xbox has announced project scarlett, this week we go on an excellent which will be capable of 8k graphics adventure, take dance lessons from a tomato, and will do away with load times due and get invaded by flossing aliens. to processing grunt. and will be backwards compatible with the entire xbox library of games. and that's on the way for november next year. games streaming may well be the future, but it isn't over giant alien heads, pokemon gyms, for the physical console just yet. e3 is, of course, chock—full of games, games, and, well, more games. there are so many that, frankly, it's easy to get a bit lost. but here are a few and massive queues to get that stood out for us. i grew up on wolfenstein in its various guises, into the los angeles convention centre. for hard—core gamers this can so i am super excited for youngblood — two player co—op. let's do it, sister. only mean one thing — it's for the electronic bj blazkowicz is missing entertainment expo. and his twin daughters head out orjust plain old e3 for some two player

co—op shooter action. it's not a massive title, to those in the know. but it is accessible across all main platforms, including switch, and it's due out next month, which makes it a rare beast for e3. almost a quarter of a century we also got the first real sight on from the very first show, of gameplay from this much it's now the premier event anticipated single player third in the gaming calendar, with over 70,000 people making the annual pilgrimage to the show floor. person action adventure although, why they need a rock—climbing wall i'm not quite sure. and so we sent sent along our very from the star wars franchise. own gaming gurus, kate russell and marc cieslak to see what everyone will be talking i saw it playing through the opening — frustrating not to get hands on myself — but it looks amazing, with interesting combat mechanics, about this year. using forcibilities, this e3 is a little bit different, wall running, and, of course, though, since 2017 the public has what's not to love about lightsaber been allowed in, before that this battles and the cute little droid was a games industry only affair. that sits on your shoulder? usually, playstation and xbox hold giant computing press conferences to show off their latest software and hardware. it should be on sale for christmas. however, playstation isn't i've been waiting for this attending e3 2019 at all... ..and that left xbox to be playable all year. is the only big games company — borderlands 3. with an actual piece of hardware — doing a press briefing. 00:02:52,588 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 get ready... the comic book artwork and ridiculous weapons make this instantly recognisable

as from the borderland series. moze, the gunner, is a new member of the vault hunter cast and she rocks a mech. yeah, ok, you can leave me here, i have demolition work to do. and it's another game you can put on your christmas list, as it's due out in september. square enix has assembled some of marvel‘s greatest heroes, the avengers, to star in a new narrative—driven third person action game. hello, san francisco. it's going to feature a story delivered as chapters downloadable over a period of years. a questionable decision that, as far as fans are concerned, is proving as unpopular as the unrecognisable and considerably cheaper than paying for image rights avengers line—up that appears in the game. i'll make this quick. the master chief finally returns next year in halo infinite. a game that will likely to be a technical tour to force as it's the flagship launch title for xbox‘s super powerful console project scarlett.

we're yet to see any gameplay, but the e3 trailer hinted that a catastrophe has befallen mankind and the chief looks like he's getting a new ai best buddy. i chose you because you were special. hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that us border officials admitted a hack. photos and license plates of around 100,000 travellers have been compromised. whatsapp announced it would take legal action against people sending spam messages on its platform. the crackdown is set start in december. and uber said that australia would be first international market for its flying taxi service, uber air. the startup is already launching a separate helicopter service in new york next month. now, this might look like facebook ceo mark zuckerberg, but it's actually a fake video. and the social media mogul says it will stay online. the sham footage was posted

to facebook and instagram by an artist who has been making celebrity deep fakes for a uk art exhibition. british grocery delivery business 0cado has invested £17 million into companies developing vertical farms, where veggies are stacked upwards in shelves. the retail tech firm plans to grow leafy greens in these indoor farms next to its distribution centres. and, finally, a robot that's been taught irony. really... showcased at an ai conference in canada, the aptly named irony man has been taught to nail a combination of nonchalant facial expressions and deadpan delivery. i really hate fast food. it is not healthy at all. i — really — love fast food. its german makers say the bot is more likeable and more motivated. adding augmented reality to a real—life karting experience using these magic leap headsets adds a whole new level of fun you'd usually only expect to get in a videogame. well, we use game engines to develop a 3—d world and then we take

an absence of an environment, through a camera feed, and then we place the digital world into our world. virtual reality is taking an individual and bringing them to a virtual environment, you know, enclosed, augmented is taking the digital world and intertwining it with ours, so you can create more of a realistic experience. now this is the kind of experience that is definitely not infringing anybody‘s copyright. the experience is supposed to be collaborative. rather than racing, kate and i are working together to take out all of the bad guys. off the track, spectators can throw power ups and also bomb us to slow

us down — if that's what they want to do. hunt, lauda, frost, senna, nothing on cieslak and russell. so it's clearly early days for the technology. but there we are, i've got a power up now. and that power up has allows me to boost it across the finish line. welcome to in indie zone. with understated booths and a noticeable lack of queues, this is where you will find true originality on show. you must blend seamlessly into human society. the speaking simulator is about a robot who's trying to infiltrate humanity — just by having conversations like we're having now. so players have to manipulate the mouth and the tongue to make their words come out. and you have to do it very quickly. because if you don't your face

will start to explode, because you're a robot. and humans find that a little bit suspicious. my teeth are falling out. 0h! oh no! it's all gone horribly wrong. well, that's the way i end most e3s, to be honest. it's a place where you can sit down and talk about art. earthnight is a hand—painted dragon apocalypse, 2—d platformer, love letter to classic games like mario and sonic and old arcade games. it's a, i don't know, it's a procedurally generated nightmare, i guess. everything is trying to kill you. but everything is really beautiful. you're so close! you are so close! yes! now you're a dragonslayer. i am a dragonslayer! do you have a painting you would like to play with? um, yeah, let's go with the scream. all right. sounds good. we have a minute and a half to try and recreate the painting. a bit of that there and, um... 0hhhh.

0r take a detour into alternative pop culture. boyfriend dungeon is a dating simulator dungeon crawler mash up. basically, your weapons turn into beautiful people and you take them out on dates to make them grow stronger. we love dating sims, but we always thought it would be really fun to kind of break it up with, like, some sort of action — and that was combat for us. and, basically, we thought a lot of dating sims were really geared towards a certain kind of audience. it was very r rated, a lot of females wearing not a lot of things. so we kind of wanted to make a game that felt like it welcomed us and we have, like, male, female, non—binary options in the game and you decide to date whoever you want and we also have a cat if you decide you want to be single, ‘cause, you can be single and still have a fulfilling life. i appreciate that. yes! a trip to the indie zone always reminds me that gaming isn't just about consoles and big fat pcs. check out these. blinks are smart tabletop game pieces and each one knows its own game. it's like a nintendo game cartridge and it can teach all the other blinks how to play the game. i will challenge you. we are playing mortals.

purple. victorious. well played, kate. very close. i'm going to put that down to experience. another game. you almost beat the creator. of you go, off you go, we're going to play. bye! watchdogs legion is set in a post—brexit dystopian near—future london. had a good run there for a while. now it's all right. bombings. and people thrown in cages like animals. a bleak surveillance state where abuse of technology has led to huge unemployment, a privatised nhs and massive levels

of civil unrest. it's not a particularly flattering picture of britain. before e3, i went behind the scenes at its developer ubisoft‘s studios in canada. the brexit vote happened, we were 1.5 years into development and we settled on london as a location and an important decision for us was to address it had on and say yes, this is part of our world and backstory. brexit in our game is not sort of the cause of the problems we are depicting in the game world, the causes of brexit really are the causes of the problems in our world and that is really how we address it. in the game, the player assumes the role of an anti—authoritarian hacker, recruiting a team of characters to help bring down the regime. a large area of london has been mapped in this game and every single person that you meet in the city streets is playable. as you interact with them, a unique character, personality and backstory is filled in for them by the game's

artificial intelligence. we have video games about the apocalypse, nuclear disasters, and world wars and now we have brexit which really means the rest of the world is looking at brexit as a legitimate disaster and it's quite fascinating and the fact that it's something that we should be taking seriously, it's not something that is just happening on our stage, it's in the world stage and that is particularly interesting and kind of scary. here at e3, despite or because of its themes, watchdogs is doing exceedingly well but it's not the only game to take inspiration from headlines in the uk. call of duty: modern farfare features a terrorist attack in london's piccadilly circus. it sticks close to its series roots. a globetrotting first—person shooters, from developers infinity ward, a player spends a lot of time as a special forces soldier. back in 2009, controversy surrounding the franchise with the inclusion of the now infamous no—russian mission which allowed the player to mow down

innocent civilians at an aiport. we want to put something of a redeeming quality into this world. we want to basically shine a light. we have a very big platform. call of duty has a huge reach and so if we were just making something that was sort of benign and just didn't really have anything to say, it would be a missed opportunity for us as creators. but we don't want to do that. what we want to do is, we want to sort of shine some light on the way the world works today and maybe make people think twice about it. developers, along with many people who play games, regard them as a 21st—century art form which can and should deal with thought—provoking content. games are just another form of media and they are another part of our culture. we as game developers, in my opinion, not only should do this, we have a responsibility to do this, to make games speak to broader cultural issues at large, in order to,

not to educate but provide that context for people who choose to engage with games is their primary form of culture and entertainment. art, movies, literature and music all tackle difficult and challenging subject matter. 0ften it's a way of better making us understand our world and it seems the same is true for videogames. out of the 20 best video games last year, only two don't require extreme of violence to win. i'm not saying that's a bad thing, but i wonder if it's possible to have a good time in gaming without having to hit, shoot or explode anything along the way. so this year, i've

set myself a task. seek out the non—violent fun on the e3 floor. where to start? no. too violent. so jason, is there anything i can do where i don't have to violence anything. yes, if you know where to look. that booth is a great example. farming—based mini0games. and sporting games like ea's entire sporting line—up. so my first solid lead takes me to ea play where the latest from the fifa and nfl franchises are making sports fans happy. i'm not a massive fan of this gameplay style. what's my goalie doing there?! and let's face it, it's far too hot to stand in a shipping container mashing buttons today. more my style is another family favourite getting an island living expansion. the sims 4.

0ne sporting title i can really get behind is you ubisoft‘s roller champions. it's what would happen if starlight express got together with rocket league and had a baby and it's playable right now. it's going to be free to play, but apart from this e3 demo, not out until early next year. final stop, nintendo. surely this cutesy japanese publisher has loads of stuff where i don't have to hit anything. surprisingly, even here, very few games are free from violence although i have set the bar pretty high with a zero—tolerance approach. one exception is luigi's mansion 3. i know this looks kinda violent but luigi isn't hitting, he's sucking. in the end, i found a lot of fun. but looking around, it's obvious

where the bulk of the money is. violent games do sell. also violent games unfortunately are better for competition. there are non—violent competitive games but games like call of duty or streetfighter are just better for the competitive aspects. it's unfortunate that people seem to think that violent games cause violent people but there is really no truth to that and the proof is out there. i might have had to look a little bit harder for the gentle games here at e3 but i think i'm going to remember them longer than years ofjedi doom wars 5, or whatever it's called. well, a difficult challenge that you set yourself there kate. do you know what, i thought it was going to be more difficult than what it was but when i actually got out there on the show floor and started snuffling around, they might not get the media attention of the more violent aaa titles, but there is a lot of awesome

gameplay out there if you don't want to bash anyone over the head. what for you has been the moment of the show? i think my time in the in the indie zone. half a day with the indie people, i got around five different titles, played them all properly. two hours. did i mention, no queues? queues here are awful. absolutely. a horrible situation. how about you ? keanu reeves turning up at the xbox press event and reading autocue, as if he were nicholas cage, that was really quite a special moment. the internet went into meltdown. does he have a head for gaming? absolutely. i'm excited for the reboots this year. some really awesome classics, we've got doom, final fantasy, wolfenstein loads more all getting a 21st—century makeover. that is me happy this christmas. personally, iwould prefer to see some new ideas, some fresh ideas injected into video games rather than rehashing old titles. at least we won't be fighting over the console. that is absolutely true, kate. unfortunately, though, it is the end of our time with e3. yes, don't forget, you can catch us

on social media at @bbcclick. do you notice where we are? yes, retro arcade. best of three? it's a deal. bye bye! see ya. hello. another day where we've seen some torrential rain across parts of the uk, exacerbating the flooding we saw earlier in the week. this was burton upon trent in staffordshire during saturday afternoon. for others, blue skies and sunshine. and it's this mixture that we keep as we go into sunday, our area of low pressure still slow moving to the north—west of the uk. and another frontal system working its way north and eastwards. so this will generate showers through sunday morning,

initially across northern ireland, wales, south—west england, but soon extending north and eastwards across much of the uk. now, where these showers develop they'll be heavy, they'll be thundery, they'll be slow—moving. some gusty winds as well associated with these showers. here's an idea of average wind strengths. but the gusts will be even higher. could well see some hailstones, too. meanwhile, across parts of southern and south—east england fewer showers through the afternoon, more sunshine, so 20 or 21 celsius. where we've got the frequent showers struggling to get much above 1a or 15. and these showers merging at times to give a longer spell of rain. certainly the case as we go through sunday evening. some heavy spells of rain working their way across northern england, into scotland, continue across parts of northern ireland, some rain returning to wales through the early hours of monday morning. it's not a cold night for most. we're going to hold up to between 11 and 13 celsius. high single figures across rural scotland. so as we start the new week, our area of low pressure still to the north—west of the uk, generating some heavy showers for scotland and northern ireland. a cold front draped across northern england and wales bringing some spells of rain through monday morning. but turning more showery as the day wears on. to the south and east of this, mainly dry, some spells of sunshine, some heavy and thundery showers, though, across a large swathe

of scotland and northern ireland. so temperatures here again 1a or 15 celsius. in the sunshine, further south and east, 20, maybe 21 celsius. now, as we go into tuesday, briefly, we see this ridge of high pressure across much of england and wales and southern scotland. keeping an eye on this area of low pressure, though, could bring some heavy rain later on tuesday into southern parts of england. still some heavy showers and longer the spells of rain across parts of scotland. but they should ease across northern ireland on tuesday. much of england and wales having a mainly dry day with some sunshine, but keeping an eye on this rain arriving into southern counties of england later on tuesday. ahead of this, some warmth, 20 or 21 celsius for much of england and wales. we could see some heavy rain for a time, later on tuesday and into wednesday. as that clears, things are looking drier and a bit warmer towards the end of the week. bye— bye.

welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers my name is reged ahmad. people are expected to return to the streets on sunday, despite the hong kong government's decision to suspend a controversial plan to allow alleged criminals to be extradited to mainland china. the proposals resulted in mass protests in the former british colony, some of which turned violent.

0ur correspondent rupert wingfield hayes reports from hong kong. 0ur correspondent steve mcdonnell is in hong kong. why are people still planning to