No Don Mattrick this year, so we can hope that Microsoft's E3 presentation, which is being called an Xbox Event can still offer some spine-tingling watching.
We're covering the briefing here and in other stories as it pre-shows from 5pm UK time and then when the what the company is called 'the show' and what journalists think of as a serious 'press event' at 5:30pm. 
While you wait, check out the other E3 events' schedules below: 
MONDAY JUNE 9th
5:30pm – Microsoft Media Briefing
9pm – EA World Première
11pm – Ubisoft Media Briefing
TUESDAY JUNE 10th
2am – Sony Press Conferences
5pm – Nintendo Digital Direct
All Times Below are PDT - add eight hours for British Summer Time
Monday June 9th		
9:30am	Xbox E3 2014 Media Briefing	
11:00am	Xbox E3 2014 Media Briefing Post show	
11:30pm	Hotline Miami 2 (Dennaton Games/Devolver Digital)	
12:00pm	EA World Premiere: E3 2014 Preview	
1:00pm	EA Special Event	
2:00pm	EA World Premiere: E3 2014 Post show	
2:30pm	Bethesda (Unannounced title)	
3:00pm	Ubisoft 2014 E3 Media Briefing	
4:00pm	Ubisoft 2014 E3 Media Briefing Post show	
4:30pm	Witcher 3 (CD Projekt RED)	
5:00pm	Dying Light (Techland)	
5:30pm	Final thoughts	
6:00pm	PlayStation E3 2014 Press Conference	
		
Tuesday June 10th:		
9:00am	Nintendo Digital Event	
10:00am	Deep Silver (Unannounced title)	
10:15am	Deep Silver (Unannounced title)	
10:30am	Dragon Age: Inquisition (EA)	
11:00am	Ubisoft (Unannounced title)	
11:20am	The Division (Ubisoft)	
11:40am	Farcry 4 (Ubisoft)	
12:00pm	Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Activision)	
12:20pm	Microsoft Studios (Unannounced title)	
12:40pm	Microsoft Studios (Unannounced title)	
1:00pm	DRIVECLUB (SCEA)	
1:20pm	Evil Within (Bethesda)	
1:40pm	Lords of the Fallen (NAMCO)	
2:00pm	Destiny (Activision/BUNGIE)	
2:20pm	The Order: 1886 (Sony Computer Entertainment)	
2:40pm	Nintendo (Unannounced title)	
3:00pm	Evolve Special Tournament (2K)	
4:00pm	Super Smash Bros. Invitational (Nintendo)	
		
Wednesday June 11th:		
10:00am	Alienware	
10:30am	Twitch Time	
11:00am	Sunset Overdrive (Insomniac Games/Microsoft Studios)	
11:20am	Microsoft Studios (Unannounced title)	
11:40am	Killer Instinct: Season Two (Iron Galaxy/Microsoft Studios)	
12:00pm	Square Enix (Unannounced title)	
12:20pm	Warhammer 40k: Eternal Crusade (Square Enix)	
12:40pm	H1Z1 (Sony Online Entertainment)	
1:00pm	EA (Unannounced title)	
1:20pm	Batman: Arkham Knight (Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)	
1:40pm	Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)	
2:10pm	Nintendo (Unannounced title)	
2:30pm	Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (Unannounced title)	
2:50pm	Crytek (Unannounced title)	
3:00pm	Sony Computer Entertainment (Unannounced PS4/PS3 title)	
3:15pm	Sony Computer Entertainment (Unannounced PS4/PS Vita Digital title)	
3:30pm	Hohokum (Honeyslug, SCE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment)	
3:45pm	Helldivers (Arrowhead Game Studios/Sony Computer Entertainment)	
4:00pm	Alien Isolation (The Creative Assembly/SEGA)	
4:20pm	Civilization: Beyond Earth (2K)	
4:40pm	Diablo III: Reaper of Souls	Ultimate Evil Edition on PS4 (Blizzard)
5:00pm	Evolve Special Tournament (2K)	
		
Thursday June 12th:		
10:00am	Tetris w/creator Alexey Pajitnov	
10:15am	Zombies Monsters Robots (Ying Pei Games)	
10:30am	Guinness World Records	certificate presentation
11:00am	Fable Legends (Lionhead Studios/Microsoft Studios)	
11:20am	Microsoft Studios (TBD)	
11:40am	Project Spark (Team Dakota/Microsoft Studios)	
12:00pm	Nintendo (Unannounced title)	
12:20am	Square Enix (Unannounced title)	
12:40pm	PlanetSide 2 PS4 Edition (Sony Online Entertainment)	
1:00pm	505 Games (TBD)	
1:20pm	Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (Unannounced title)	
1:40pm	Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (Gearbox/2K)	
2:00pm	Ubisoft (Unannounced title)	
2:20pm	The Crew (Ubisoft)	
2:40pm	Nintendo (Unannounced title)	
3:00pm	Tecmo Koei (Unannounced title)	
3:20pm	Disney Infinity 2.0: Marvel Super Heroes (Disney Interactive)	
3:40pm	SEGA Sonic BOOM! (SEGA)	
4:00pm	Evolve Special Tournament (2K)