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Xbox One X And Everything Else Microsoft Showed At E3 2017

Microsoft kicked off their E3 2017 press conference by officially revealing their beefy new console, the $499 Xbox One X. WITNESS. The new console may have been Microsoft’s big hardware announcement, but they actually didn’t spend too much time talking about the device itself. With the announcement out of the way, their focus quickly shifted…

BioWare Shows Off Six Minutes of Stunning New Shooter, Anthem

After years of teasing it, BioWare’s next big game, Anthem, was shown off during Microsoft’s E3 press conference in LA today. In the world of Anthem, you are a freelancer who lives within the walls of a city that is protecting humanity. It looks dope. In classic BioWare tradition, conversations with other people are cinematic:…

Xbox One Will Get Compatibility With Original Xbox Games [Update]

Microsoft is expanding Xbox One’s backward compatibility program to the first Xbox, it said today at its E3 media briefing. Original Xbox games will begin appearing on the platform later this year. “OG games will look better and play better across the Xbox One family,” said head of Xbox Phil Spencer. For the time being,…

Microsoft Announces Ori And The Will Of The Wisps

As part of its E3 2017 press conference, Microsoft announced a sequel to painterly platformer Ori And The Blind Forest. It’s called Ori And The Will Of The Wisps. It looks extremely pretty! I feel bad for the blind forest, which presumably cannot see itself. The game doesn’t have a release date yet, unfortunately.

Ashen, a beautiful survival game we first wrote about in 2014, is finally nearing the finish line. It was at Microsoft’s E3 presser earlier today, and will be out later this year. Here’s a trailer.

Life is Strange: Before The Storm’s First Episode Drops In August

Get ready for a hella teen time in Life is Strange: Before the Storm, a prequel starring Chloe and Rachel before the events of the first game. There will be three episodes total, with the first one releasing on August 31st. Here’s the very dramatic first trailer: The question is: will there be time travel…

Cuphead Is Finally Coming Out In September 

Cuphead, the long awaited indie game beautifully animated in the vein of classic cartoons, will finally get released September 29 on Xbox One and PC. Originally revealed at E3 2014, Studio MDHR’s boss-centric platformer focuses on tough combat rendered in the style of old animation studios like Disney, Van Beuren, and Fleischer. The game was…

Super Lucky’s Tale, an Xbox One and Windows 10 version of the Oculus Rift VR game, is coming out on November 7, Microsoft said today. No, it’s not VR on the Xbox. It’s a non-VR version. Also that’s not Conker.

Crackdown 3 Features Terry Crews, Is Out November

Microsoft’s open-world adventure gameCrackdown 3 will be released on November 7th for Xbox One and Windows. And it features beloved actor-slash-athlete Terry Crews as the character Commander Jaxon. Crackdown is an Xbox-exclusive sandbox franchise in which the player is a superhero “Agent of Justice” who, uh, cracks down on crime. Crackdown 3 takes place in…

Tacoma, the new game from the makers of Gone Home, is coming to PC and Xbox One on August 2. That’s surprisingly soon! The game is about uncovering “the mysteries held by Lunar Transfer Station Tacoma and its crew, living at the edge of humanity’s reach.”

Sea Of Thieves Looks Better Than It Ever Has

Sea of Thieves, Rare’s pirate co-op game, will have players working together to man ships and find hidden treasure. The 10 minute demo that played during today’s Xbox One press conference gave us a closer look at how the action will play out, and the game looks pretty cool! It will be out in early…

Short cyberpunk adventure game The Last Night still looks absolutely incredible in its new E3 trailer. It’s a “cinematic platformer” rendered in gorgeous pixel art and slated for release in 2018.

New Dragon Ball Z Fighting Game Coming In 2018

Dragon Ball Fighter Z, a 2D DBZ fighting game, is due out in 2018 from Arc Systems and Bandai Namco. It was shown at Microsoft’s E3 press conference, but is also coming to PlayStation and PC. Here’s the trailer. Those cel-shaded visuals look incredible

Black Desert Online is coming to Xbox One. You might remember it as that one fantasy MMO with the hyper-detailed character creator.

Minecraft Gets An Official High-End Graphic Makeover

Minecraft is getting a major graphics overhaul according to an announcement made by Mojang at Microsoft’s E3 press briefing today. These improvements, including 4K treatment, will be part of the “Super Duper Graphics Pack,” available this fall. The new texture pack will also come alongside a “Better Together” update which will introduce cross-play among the…

Microsoft just announced space shooter Deep Rock Galactic for the Xbox One. In it, one to four players—“space dwarves”—will explore and battle their way through procedurally-generated cave systems.

State Of Decay 2 Looks Great, Coming Next Spring 

Open world zombie survival game State of Decay 2 is coming to Xbox One next year, Microsoft announced today. It will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title compatible with Windows 10. Here’s the trailer: 18 months after the zombie apocalypse, the military abandons a refugee camp in small-town America. Those left behind must band together…

Battlegrounds Coming To Xbox One This Year

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is coming to Xbox One. It appears to be timed console exclusive for this year. PUBG is a competitive game where 100 people hit each other with frying pans to decide who gets to use their frying pan to cook a chicken. The game’s still in early access, but already, it’s taken PC…

Assassin’s Creed Origins Finally Announced For Real, Set In Egypt

Assassin’s Creed Origins, set in ancient Egypt, is indeed the next entry in the series, coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC on October 27th. The game we’ve all known has existed for some time finally got officially acknowledged at today’s Microsoft press briefing, and it looks great. In it, you play as Bayek, an…

Metro: Exodus Announced, Out Next Year

The latest in the Metro series, called Metro: Exodus, is on its way to Xbox One, with Xbox One X enhancements, Microsoft said today at its E3 conference. The game, which will at the very least let you kill a giant mutant with a crossbow, will be released in 2018. Microsoft did not exactly announce…