Microsoft came out strong this year for their E3 conference. Opening the conference with the Xbox One S. The new Xbox One S is 40% smaller, will come with a 2 TB HD and will support 4k video. The sleek new hardware will cost $299 and be available August of this year.
Next up we got an in depth look into Gears of War 4. Coming October 11th, Gears 4 will launch with cross platform capabilities including shared saves and achievements from xbox one and windows 10 as well as cross play. In addition Microsoft has shown off the brand new Gears of War Elite controller.
Killer Instinct then announced that General Raam will be a playable character coming soon.
The third installment of the popular racing game will launch on September 27 and will be set in Australia. Enjoy 4 player co op as you drive with your friends across the beach, highway, rain-forests and dunes.
We got a look at gameplay for the upcoming ReCore which is coming Sept 13th.
We got another look at Final Fantasy XV which is launching September 30th.
The Underground expansion will be coming first to Xbox One players on June 28th.
The Division Underground trailer
Battlefield 1
Battlefield 1 was shown along with the announcement that EA Access users will get early access to the game starting on October 13th ahead of its October 31st full release.
New features coming to the Xbox One were talked about. Some of those include:
- Background music
- Cortana
- Clubs on Xbox live (link up with friends)
- Looking for group (post wanted ads to find other gamers playing what you would like)
- Arena on Xbox live (a place to set up and play in tournament settings)
- Custom controllers available to order off of the Xbox store
A look into the Minecraft friendly update which includes texture packs and further add ons coming this fall. Cross platform play along with dedicated servers in addition to Realms, a way to get all your friends engaged and playing together, are coming as well. Look out for more news coming September during MineCon.
We got a nice sizzle reel of upcoming ID @ Xbox games followed by a nice teaser for Inside and some solid gameplay of We Happy Few.
Inside will be released June 29th and starting now Limbo is free to Xbox Gold members
We Happy Few will be available July 26th
Gwent, the popular card game from the hit game The Witcher, is coming and will feature a single player campaign and also a beta for the popular card game will be available September of this year.
Tekken 7 was announced for early 2017 and also Tekken Tag tournament is free for Xbox gold members
Holiday 2016 will bring Dead Rising 4
Gameplay was shown for Scalebound with little info other than the 2017 release window.
Finally gameplay was shown off for Sea of Thieves. No release date was discussed.
State of Decay 2 set for 2017.
Halo Wars 2 will launch on February 21st 2017 and starting today (6/13) for one week you can jump into the beta.
The conference ended with the official news of Project Scorpio. The future Xbox platform is promised to support VR with a solid 8 CPU cores. 4k gaming with true 4k along with many other upgrades are in store for this upcoming console.
Cory J
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