God of War, Spider-Man and Resident Evil 7 star in Sony's busy E3 press event

Kratos returns in a visually impressive demo, while Spidey battles through New York and a new Resi teaser drops - plus Fumito Ueda's Last Guardian gets 2016 release date

While Microsoft placed the emphasis of its E3 press conference on new hardware and services, Sony went with games, games and more games. A new start for the bloody God of War series, a fresh Spider-Man adventure and a creepy-looking Resident Evil 7 were all well received by the large crown at LA's Shrine Auditorium, as was the announcement of Hideo Kojima's next project, Death Stranding.

God of War provided the opening shot of the evening, featuring a new, older Kratos, who has now been transported from Greek to Norse mythology (though he still seems to bear his old Spartan scars). In a play-through shown onstage we see the bald slaughterer sporting not only a beard, but a young son, who he's trying to teach how to hunt deer. The boy makes several mistakes though, and is then attacked by strange demon-like warriors, who Kratos attacks with an axe and a deadly range of melee moves. The sequence ends with a boss fight with a giant troll in which the son accidentally shoots his father with an arrow.