Monday, June 10, 2013

Microsoft Press Conference Recap


- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain began the show, with Hideo Kojima taking the stage after a new trailer. The game is a next-generation title running on the Fox Engine.

- The Xbox 360 is getting a new revision, this time it's outer case resembles that of the Xbone. No word on a price drop for the now 8 year old console.

- From July until November XBL Gold subscibers will get 2 free games per month from Games on Demand, sort of like the giveaways Sony does with PS+ on the PS3 and Vita. No word on what games will be available for this offer.

- World of Tanks is coming to the 360 as a free to play title.

- Rounding out the Xbox 360 content, a new Dark Souls II trailer was shown and the September release of Grand Theft Auto V was mentioned.

- Ryse: Son of Rome, which was once a 360 Kinect-only title in past E3 shows, is now a CryEngine made Xbone game that appears to have a controller based hack and slash mechanic.

- Killer Instinct is getting rebooted as an Xbone exclusive. Madcatz is developing a companion arcade stick for the release of the game.

- New Forza 5 trailer with promises of adaptive AI that learns your playstyle and goes off and races for you while you're away.

- Quantum Break is apparently a mixture of a sci-fi TV show and decision-based game mechanics that affect how the story of the show plays out.

- Insomniac, the once Sony-exclusive developers of Resistance and Ratchet and Clank, are making a new Xbone exclusive open world FPS titled Sunset Overdrive.

- D4 is another Xbone exclusive with cel-shaded visuals. Nothing to indicate what type of game this is or how it plays was shown.

- Project Spark is a user-generated content creation game made with elements similar to Spore and Modnation Racers. It apparently incorporates a good deal of Smartglass technology.

- The Xbone exclusive Crimson Dragon was announced. It is made by the creator of the niche cult-hit Panzer Dragoon Orta and appears to be reminiscent of the prior Panzer Dragoon game mechanics.

- Smartglass can apparently be used to set up XBL multiplayer games while you play another singleplayer game on the console. It seems to have Marketplace access as well.

- Streaming functionality is now part of the Xbone via Twitch.

- Increase in the number of XBL friends and MS Points are now being converted to standard currency.

- Dead Rising 3 in-game demonstrated on-stage. Apparently an Xbone exclusive, incorporates Smartglass options into the game mechanics.

- Witcher 3 is now officially coming to consoles via Xbone.

- Battlefield 4 is coming to Xbone, with exclusive downloadable content.

- A CGI trailer announcing Halo 5 as an Xbone exclusive was shown, with a speculated release date in 2014.

- As seen in the leak from Game Informer, Respawn's first game is Titanfall, a sci-fi FPS set in a world with mechs. Titanfall is coming to Xbone, Xbox 360 and PC.

- The Xbone hardware will release this coming November at a whopping $499.99.

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