Everything Microsoft Announced At E3 2019

[Koby]

The first details on a powerful new Xbox console, release dates for anticipated games like Cyberpunk 2077, and another developer acquired by Xbox Game Studios led Microsoft’s packed slate of announcements for its E3 briefing on Sunday.

Project Scarlett, the next-generation Xbox console, will be released for the 2020 holiday season. Halo Infinite will launch alongside it.

The pitch sounds a lot like what Sony was talking about with PlayStation 5. The emphasis is on “reducing load times.” There will be a solid-state hard drive which can be used as “virtual RAM” to cut down on loading times. The AMD processor will be “four times more powerful than Xbox One X,” it will use “high-bandwidth GDDR6” RAM, and will be able to do 8 K resolution and 120 FPS.

 

• Cyberpunk 2077 will star Keanu Reeves, and it’s coming out on April 16, 2020.
• Double Fine Productions is joining Xbox Studios.
• Xbox One is getting “console streaming,” aka remote play.
• Gears 5 is coming on September 10 (trailer).
• An all-new, redesigned Elite controller, called “Series 2” with an internal battery that will give you up to 40 hours of gameplay on a single charge. It’s got a charging dock & Bluetooth.
• Sega’s free to play online RPG Phantasy Star Online 2 is finally coming to the West, on Xbox One and PC.
• Tales of Arise is coming to PC & XBOX in 2020.
• Elden Ring, a collaboration between Hidetaka Miyazaki (Dark Souls) and George R.R. Martin (Game of Thrones), was officially announced.
• Battletoads. It’s a 2-D, 3-player, couch co-op sidescrolling brawler with Saturday morning cartoon animation. No release date details.
• Microsoft Flight Simulator is back, for Xbox One and PC (trailer).
• Action RPG Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is coming in 2020. It’s an action RPG (trailer).
• The latest RPG from Obsidian, The Outer Worlds, will be released on October 25.
• Bleeding Edge, the new first-person action combat multiplayer game from Ninja Theory, got a new trailer.
• Ori and the Will of the Wisps is out February 11, 2020.
• Minecraft Dungeons is coming Spring 2020 (trailer).
• We saw some more footage from Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order. It’s still releasing on November 15.
• A Blair Witch game is coming on August 30.
• Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, with remastered audio and 4K graphics. Coming this fall to PC.
• Forza Horizon 4 is getting a Lego Speed Champions expansion.

 

 

More games. So many more games.

Spiritfarer (ThunderLotus). The Legend of Wright, an RPG that looks like a kid is drawing it on notebook paper and cardboard (coming 2020). A new Wasteland 3 trailer. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (“all nine films, all-new game”), coming 2020. 12 Minutes is an “interactive thriller about a man in a time loop,” coming soon. Way to the Woods (2020). Dying Light 2 (Spring 2020). The mobile Gears Pop! game that crosses Funko Pops with Gears of War (“pre-order soon”).

 

And there’s State of Decay 2: Heartland (available now). Crossfire X, a new game based on the popular online shooter from Smilegate (“first to console on Xbox One in 2020"). A new trailer for Borderlands 3 (September 13).

Lots of stuff is coming to Xbox Game Pass, and Xbox Game Pass is coming to PC.

Microsoft showed a sizzle reel of indie games, then said that all of them will be on Xbox Game Pass on day one: Dead Static Drive, Pathologic 2, Star Renegades, The Good Life, Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, Creature in the Well, Killer Queen Black, Riverbond, Unto the End, Blazing Chrome, Felix the Reaper, Undermine, Supermarket Shriek, Secret Neighbor, Ikenfell, Lord of the Rings Living Card Game, Totem Teller, and Cross Code.

 

Batman Arkham Knight, Metro: Exodus, Hollow Knight, and Borderlands: The Handsome Collection have all hit Xbox Game Pass today. So will Commander Lilith and the Fight For Sanctuary, a new piece of content for Borderlands: The Handsome Collection that will lead into 3.

 

Xbox Game Pass for PC is also launching in open beta today for $10 per month, with over 100 games including Imperator: Rome and Football Manager 2019. The Master Chief Collection is also coming to PC, “starting with Halo: Reach.” There’s also a membership called Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, where you get access to both console and PC Game Pass services, plus Xbox Live Gold, all together.