Microsoft Press Conference - Post Show Discussion - #E32014

[Aulayna]

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Monday, 9th June 2014 - 9:30am PST, 12:30pm EST, 5:30pm GMT (BST)

Microsoft have backtracked and reverted a lot of the controversial decisions surrounding the XBOX One. Last year they were blasted for focusing more on the home entertainment aspect of the device and not devoting enough attention to the one thing E3 viewers care about: Games. You can view our coverage of the Microsoft E3 2013 Press Conference here.

This year, following the departure of Don Mattrick to Zynga, Microsoft have a new head of XBOX, in the form of well chiseled Phil Spencer. Spencer has promised that the press conference this year will focus almost exclusively on games and digital content delivery. Spencer has also noted that the "bar is going to be high" from other studios, and he wants Microsoft to deliver. More details are expected on Halo 5, the new Forza and the new Gears of War.

Will Microsoft win back the favour of skeptical gamers this year?

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TOO LONG, DIDN'T READ:

• Sunset Overdrive releases 24th October
• Crackdown 3
• The Rise of the Tomb Raider
• HALO: The Master Chief Collection, featuring Halo Anniversary, Halo 2 Anniversary, Halo 3 and Halo 4 with everything unlocked as well as exclusive content leading up to Halo 5
• Forza Horizon 2
• Many third party titles (COD: Advanced Warfare, Dragon Age: Inquisition etc) will be releasing DLC on XBOX One first
• Fable Legends - Co-Op Fable, someone gets to play as the villain and try and screw everyone over in true DnD style
• Scalebound - Platinum Games Inc. new title
• Ori and the Blind Forest
• Inside, the spiritual sequel to Limbo
• Reboot of Phantom Dust
• Footage from Assassin's Creed Unity in Co-Op as well as new looks at The Witcher 3 and Project Spark
• Dance Central: Spotlight for Kinect on XBOX One

[Bolivar]

Their conference last year was exclusively devoted to games as well. Regardless, I'm most excited for their conference, as they usually announce all the best third party titles I'm most likely to be playing.

I'm expecting Quantum Break, Fallout 4, and their Fortaleza AR glasses to counter Sony's Project Morpheus.

[Psychotic]

I wanna cut that guy's hair.

[Loony BoB]

"Priority release" perks even for DLC annoy me. Even for games I don't play. Why is this a thing? It should never be a thing.

[Psychotic]

Never been a fan of CoD but this looks god damn sexy.

[Psychotic]

Assassin's Creed: Les Mis

Also, Ubisoft Montreal, stop telling us about you being French-Canadian. Nobody is impressed.

[Psychotic]

DAGRON AEG!!!!!!!! That looks smurfing ace.

Sunset Overdrive looks cool although the dude in it looks like a colossal douche.

[Psychotic]

WHATEVER THE smurf THAT DEAD RISING GAME IS

MORE FABLE

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Xbox One stop tempting me you slut

[I Took the Red Pill]

Sunset Overdrive looks pretty nice. Gives me a Viewtiful Joe kind of vibe.

Dragon Age looks pretty cool too. Graphics looked great. Hopefully the final product actually looks like that.

Assassin's Creed gets no interest from me at all. Looks like every other AC game to me. Honestly would've believed it was on 360 if someone told me that before watching the gameplay. I'd rather see some next-gen level running and body collision mechanics and graphics than the same old fare. But I'm sure it'll make a boatload of money in any case, so whatevz

[Psychotic]

CONKER

smurf YES

Microsoft win E3.

Project Spark looks amazing too.

But Conker. Sorry. Nope. You will not top Conker. Sorry. No. Not happening.

Whatever this indie artsy crap on the screen is right now can get to smurf though.

[Psychotic]

It certainly is Halo time, Aul. Master Chief collection? They only just re-released Halo CE. Not sold on it. Halo 2 can piss off, I want to hear about what they did with Halo 3

"Here's 3 last gen games and a last last gen game with new graphics. Oh and a beta!!!". Ehhhhhhhfffff.

[Aulayna]

New Tomb Raider.

NEW TOMB RAIDER!

[Shauna]

[Psychotic]

Hey no leave the gryphon alone Witcher III looks cool. Not interested in Tomb Raider or Phantom Dust.

[Bolivar]

Lol @ the ars technica live blog:

I gotta say, between Killer Instinct, Conker, and a Ken Lobb speech, this is as close as E3 2014 will get to a Nintendo press conference.