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Heather Alexandra
heatheralexandra
Former Senior Writer and Critic at Kotaku.

Shannon McIntosh and Verena Mei on stage. Two professional race car drivers out there to show off in game footage from Forza 7. Read more

A world debut for a new supercar, for all you car folks out there. Partnership with Porsche. A new car coming out on the stage. 2018 Porsche 911 GT2RS. Looks very sleek. Read more

World premiere trailer opens on a vast desert, some camels, and a man getting into a fast racer car. Appears to be the next Forza. Read more

Xbox One X billed as the smallest Xbox ever. I wonder how it compares to the Xbox One S. Read more

The console will have a liquid cooled vapor chamber. Should keep Xbox One X from overheating as much as the older consoles. Read more

Supersampling technique to help upscale older titles and make them look better. Read more

Backward compatibility with Xbox One accessories and games working with Xbox One X from the start. Read more

Kareem Choudhry, director of software engineering, out on stage to talk about the stats. 6 teraflop CPU, true 4k. Eight million pixels and HDR. Blu-ray playback Read more

“The original Xbox team lived by the mantra: there’s not power greater than X.” Read more

Pretty nifty sequence of characters being built by a processor. Master Chief, Talion. Gears of War and Crackdown. Revealing a console. Presumably the Scorpio. Read more

Opening montage showing iterations of many games. Old school Halo, Oddworld, and such. “It all leads to this..” we’re told. Read more

Alright, we’re about start. Here’s to the return of Blinx the Time Sweeper. Which will certainly not be happening or I’ll buy a hat to eat. Read more

The shirts are real! I can’t believe it but I guess it makes sense given how much of an upgrade the Scorpio seems to be. It’ll definitely be a major focus but I really hope we see a good mix of games. Anthem, Halo, and maybe they could toss in a Phantom Dust 2 just to make a gal happy. Read more

Oh gosh, a Microsoft liveblog. Gita, I’m sitting at a Hilton hotel bar getting ready for some games. Folks seem excited about Scorpio but I want to hear about this new BioWare game. We’ll see! Read more

Haha. That’s what I get for writing on a noisey show floor. They were Quarrens, those squid head folk. Read more