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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Phantasy Star Online 2, a huge game in Japan, is coming to Xbox One. Spring 2020.
Borderlands 3. September 13. (And also a chance to mention that the previous games have come to Game Pass.)
Here's the George RR Martin game, the Elden Ring. This sounds very dramatic.
Everyone at E3 will be getting the first hands-on with Project xCloud, Microsoft's new plan to allow people to stream Xbox games over the internet.
There'll be two ways to play, says Phil Spencer. One will be your own Xbox, streamed over the internet, which will be free. The other will be a console in Microsoft's data centre (which presumably won't be free).
"A console should be designed and built and optimised for one thing and one thing only: gaming."
"We don't want to build just another console. We want it truly to be transformative."
A lot of talk about the frustration of loading screens. No more fake elevators that keep you occupied while things load, Microsoft promises.
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