Xbox E3: Microsoft unveil next gen console, Game Pass changes and latest games at press conference - as it happened
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Your support makes all the difference.Xbox is hosting its E3 conference, during which it is expected to unveil its next gen console and the games that will be played on it.
The event will allow Xbox to reveal the new titles coming over the next year and beyond.
And it will be the biggest event of the conference, since PlayStation has decided to avoid the gaming event entirely and will not be hosting a press conference.
As well as the next generation console, Microsoft is expected to show off a new Halo game, updates on Game Pass and its streaming service Project xCloud, as well as potentially unexpected Xbox games.
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And some announcements on Xbox Games Pass for PC, too, which was first revealed last month. It launches in open beta today.
You can get it now by downloading the new Xbox app on Windows.
There'll also be a new membership called "Xbox Game Pass Ultimate".
That will give you all this:
You can start with this for $1 now, to launch.
Here's that Flight Simulator trailer, in case those screenshots got your appetite going. It's the nicest looking thing we've had so far, I think.
Microsoft has bought Double Fine, it announces on stage. And – after a run of jokes about how the developers could work on new Halo games or Excel features – founder Tim Schafer is showing off Psychonauts 2.
There'll be a Lego Star Wars game next year, too. It will take in the action from all nine films.
Strange game now being shown – called "12 Minutes", which it says is "an interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop" – where you seem to mostly look from a ceiling.
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