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Forza 7 Is Coming On The Xbox One X

The first game designed with Microsoft’s new Xbox One X in mind was shown off at the company’s E3 presser today, and it’s Forza Motorsport 7. Here’s the debut trailer. Note that just because this is being shown off with the Xbox One X in mind, it’s also coming to the Xbox One and PC…

Microsoft Announces Xbox One X, Will Be $499

Microsoft’s next console, codenamed Project Scorpio, will be called Xbox One X, the company said today. It will be out on November 7 worldwide and cost four-hundred-ninety-nine U.S. dollars (aka $500). The big buzzwords are “True 4K,” and Microsoft is touting Xbox One X’s higher resolution. It’ll support all previous Xbox One games and accessories,…

We’re Liveblogging Microsoft’s E3 Press Conference [Update: We’re Done]

E3 is underway, which means tons of games and a lot of people in suits talking. Microsoft’s press conference starts a 2PM Pacific time today. Hopefully they’ll bring the games to go along with the Scorpio. Gita Jackson and I will bring you all the details live, starting in a few minutes. You can watch…

Watch The Xbox E3 2017 Press Conference Live, Right Here [UPDATE: Over]

From teraflops to teraflips, Microsoft’s holding its E3 2017 press conference at 5pm Eastern today, and you can watch it right here. Expect first-party games like Sea of Thieves and Crackdown 3 as well as big third-party games like Anthem and maybe Assassin’s Creed: Origins. And of course, expect Microsoft to reveal details on Xbox…

Project Scorpio Hasn’t Even Been Unveiled Yet And It’s Already Become A Meme

Speaking of t-shirts, Microsoft is handing out its own ahead of the press briefing later this afternoon. They read “I witnessed the most powerful console ever” and naturally the Internet is having a field day. Here are just a few of the best entries already swirling around Twitter:

Here Are Some Bad E3 T-Shirts 

These appear to be just a few of the T-shirts being sold near the Los Angeles Convention Center where E3 is being held this week. Unlike in previous years, the event is open to the public this time, so naturally vendors are looking to make a buck by sellinglazy merch Game Informer’s Ben Hanson spotted…

Microsoft contests the big data report on the percentage of Xbox One players who use backwards compatibility, stating that it was “misleading due to an incomplete set of data.” You can read more here.

Screwball Comedy Game Jazzpunk Is Getting DLC Three Years Later

Jazzpunk is weird and funny and absurd. An adventure game in the mold of Stanley Parable, it shoves genres, jokes, and cultural references into a blender and offers the result with a nonplussed grin. Luis Hernandez started working on Jazzpunk with Jess Brouse as part of Necrophone Games a while back, first bringing it to…

Square Enix Gave Sweet, Fake SNES Carts To King’s Tale Staff

Square Enix gave a pretty nifty thank-you gift to the developers of A King’s Tale: Final Fantasy XV—a replica Super Nintendo cartridge with the game’s art and logo. It even includes the box. It’s a thematically appropriate gift, since A King’s Tale is a (free) game for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 that’s styled after…

When Things Get Lit Aboard The Starship Enterprise

“Look at the hands bruh, look at the hands bruh.” That’s what inVINCEable77 started shouting at one point while sitting in an online lobby for the Star Trek: Bridge Crew VR game released last month. YouTuber Raymond Tennent recorded the entire conversation between Starfleet’s best and brightest which ran almost fifteen minutes. One obvious take-away…

Kingdom Come: Deliverance has a new trailer and a new release date of February 13, 2018. The “no magic bullshit” medieval RPG was originally due back in 2015 before slipping year after year. Building massive open worlds is hard it turns out, hence the cinematic trailer without gameplay.

Here’s The Latest Kingdom Hearts III Trailer

Square Enix just dropped the new trailer for Kingdom Hearts III onto YouTube, after premiering it at the “Kingdom Hearts Orchestra” concert tonight in Los Angeles. “Don’t assume your dreams are just fantasy,” the trailer begins. Hey, if this wasn’t just fantasy, maybe it would have a release date at the end? It doesn’t, of…

We’ve Finally Seen A Campaign Mission From Star Wars: Battlefront II

EA Play’s press conference was packed with thirty minutes of Star Wars: Battlefront II multiplayer but lots of people wanted to see the campaign. We did. After that showcase ended, I sat down to watch a developer-guided runthrough of an early story mission. The 15 minute sequence was full of dogfights, stealth takedowns, and laser…

The Xbox One S Will Be $50 Cheaper Starting Tomorrow [UPDATE: ‘For A Limited Time Only’] 

Ahead of unveiling Project Scorpio at Sunday’s press briefing, Microsoft announced today on Twitter that the existing Xbox One S will cost $50 less starting June 11. Just about every version of the console currently available at places like Amazon and GameStop are offered as bundles, meaning that come tomorrow, the 500GB Xbox One S…

EA Sports FIFA 18 on Nintendo Switch (yes that’s what Nintendo’s calling it) will include all the stuff FIFA games normally have minus the Alex Hunter story mode hyped at today’s EA event. Instead, the Switch version will have an exclusive “Kick Off” mode. Nintendo is calling it the “deepest portable FIFA ever.”

Everything EA Announced At E3 2017

Electronic Arts just kicked off E3 2017 with an earlier than usual Saturday press conference. EA showed some Star Wars, some sports, some car chases, and a brand-new game from BioWare called Anthem. There was also a live drumline, in case you thought E3 needed more drumlines. EA didn’t announce much—the only two new games…

Our First Look At Star Wars Battlefront II’s Multiplayer In Action 

EA showed off some Battlefront II footage at today, and it looks awesome. According to EA boss Andrew Wilson, the developers considered all “constructive” criticism players had for the first game. They also claim BFII will have three times more content than the first game. As some of you already know, unlike the first game,…

BioWare Announces New IP, Anthem

Here’s a brief teaser of BioWare’s next big new game, a brand new intellectual property called Anthem. Not much to say just yet, but EA says we’ll see more of it at Microsoft’s press conference tomorrow. BioWare has been teasing this new IP for years now, since Mass Effect executive producer Casey Hudson first started…

The Most Interesting New Game Announced Today Is A Co-Op Prison Break

EA just announced A Way Out, a new co-op-only adventure game by the team behind 2013 indie darling Brothers. It’s a split-screen prison break game slated for a 2018 release. Director Josef Fares told E3’s audience that he “wanted to play a game where the characters had unique personalities and goals.” A Way Out is…

Three Minutes Of Need For Speed Payback Gameplay 

As part of its E3 2017 press conference, EA debuted some new Need For Speed Payback gameplay footage. It’s about a crew, but then somebody left that crew, so now there’s bad blood and intrigue. Here’s hoping Vin Diesel and Rock “The Dwayne” Johnson at least get cameos. In the trailer, “the crew (Tyler, Jess…