Behold, the Scorpio King!
the best part of this is the shop looks more real than the original cgi face
Behold, the Scorpio King!
I am kinda surprised Dishonored 2 is gonna be at MS' conference. Is Bethesda not doing a show this year?
Fallout 4 was there last year too.
Nothing strange about that.
Xbox UK might have confirmed that Dishonored 2, Battlefield 1, Recore, Gears 4 and Halo Wars 2 are locked in for Microsofts showings
Spitting hot fire of truth. I remember being dumbfounded at how bad it was.the best part of this is the shop looks more real than the original cgi face
the best part of this is the shop looks more real than the original cgi face
I remember a friend tellin me first hand about the ending. I thought he was joking. A half scorpion half rock monster comes out and fights them. Stop lyingSpitting hot fire of truth. I remember being dumbfounded at how bad it was.
Xbox UK might have confirmed that Dishonored 2, Battlefield 1, Recore, Gears 4 and Halo Wars 2 are locked in for Microsofts showings
Do think microsoft will announce another Halo spin-off for next year since Halo 6 probably won't come out until 2018? Man, I would love another ODST game, one that focuses on co-op and PvE.
In my dreams, 343 announces that they are helming Perfect Dark 2 (with Rare's top studio heads consulting).
343 is Microsoft's premiere first-person shooter developer - who else would (in-house) be better than 343 to take on Perfect Dark 2?
I'd like to see 343i take on some older MS properties, but I don't think they need a new FPS. They have Halo, and the rest of the market's saturated with yearly 3rd party franchises.
IIRC, Ken Lobb mentioned last year that they talk Perfect Dark a lot and that if brought back it would likely not be a FPS.
Do think microsoft will announce another Halo spin-off for next year since Halo 6 probably won't come out until 2018? Man, I would love another ODST game, one that focuses on co-op and PvE.
In my dreams, 343 announces that they are helming Perfect Dark 2 (with Rare's top studio heads consulting).
343 is Microsoft's premiere first-person shooter developer - who else would (in-house) be better than 343 to take on Perfect Dark 2?
IIRC, Ken Lobb mentioned last year that they talk Perfect Dark a lot and that if brought back it would likely not be a FPS.
I think there will be a Halo game next year. It won't be Halo 6, it will be a launch title for Scorpio, and... that's about all I can realistically come up with. Who would make it? Genre? "Halo 5: ODST"-style substantial expansion/graphical update to Halo 5? Who knows, but with the exception of 2013 (XBO launch year) there has been a substantial/retail Halo game every year since 2009.
Could be totally off, but I'd imagine MS would love to have something in the Halo brand to launch with the Scorpio next year.
Halo RPG this is the year
I hate the idea of Halo 3 anniversary. The game is playable on XB1! And it's not a BC game; it's a "port" with its own massive set of achievements in Master Chief Collection.
That would do absolutely nothing for me.
It's a quiet Saturday afternoon... why not make some conference predictions? I'm basing all of this off of rumors, last year's general show format, plus a few small guesses. (holy crap they have a lot to show this year)
Gears of War 4 - Co-op campaign demo, Horde mode tease.
Dead Rising 4 - Announcement trailer, 2017 release window.
Phil Spencer - Summer platform update (Cortana, background music, etc.) and backwards compatibility announcements. (lots of big/fan-favorite titles *available now*)
Peter Moore from EA - Quick look at something from Battlefield 1 that wasnt shown at EAs conference, announce DLC relationship + beta dates. (first on Xbox One, etc.)
- Potential announcements of the "Xbox Stick" and "Xbox Apple TV" that were hinted at last week.
Bethesda - Show off Dishonored 2, as mentioned in that Xbox UK video. Maybe an announcement of Skyrim backwards compatibility? (if they don't announce a remaster on Sunday)
- Talk about EA Access, announce SW: BF and NFS coming *today* to the Vault, as well as a handful of 360 backwards compatible games coming to the Vault as well, will add more going forward. (SSX, Mass Effect trilogy, BF: BC2
)please
Indies/Small Titles - Updates on Cuphead, Inside, and Below - all given release dates. () News from other ID@XBOX devs/games coming to Xbox (Tacoma, Ashen, etc.) along with new announcements.2016!
*every game you see from this point on is a MS Studios published Xbox/Win10 exclusive* (or some other, similar
- Indie montage.
- Maybe a tease of Moon Studios' new game? (new IP)
ly obnoxioustagline)
Forza Horizon 3 - Announcement trailer, Australia setting, September release.
Sea of Thieves - Extended trailer/gameplay demo, 2016 release window given. Beta announced for sometime this summer.
Halo Wars 2 - Extended trailer/gameplay demo, release date announced. (November?) Beta announced for the summer.
- Teaser for Rare's other new game. Battletoads?
Banjo?
Crackdown 3 - Extended trailer/gameplay demo, full release in early 2017. Announcement of multiplayer beta in August as previously announced. *more at Gamescom*
Recore - Short trailer/gameplay demo, early 2017 release window given. *more at Gamescom*
Scalebound - Short trailer, no release window given other than 2017. *more at Gamescom*
Age of Empires - CG announcement trailer showing the setting, developer, 2017 release. *more at Gamescom*
Phil Spencer - #CreativeChatter. Talks about MS plan for the future of Win10/Xbox as a "platform". Announces that all games going forward and those you saw today will launch day and date on Win10.
One More Thing... (total guesses here) - EITHER New Red Dead, May 2017, RDR BC (or remaster?) *available now* OR Halo spin-off title announced, vague hints at setting/genre/developer, will be take "full advantage of the next generation of Xbox hardware" or however they will talk about the Scorpio. 2017.
- Xbox Slim announced, $299, release late June/early July.
- Talk about "what's next" in some capacity. Perhaps they will give Scorpio a public codename so they can talk about it vaguely for the next year? Maybe they will give specifics? Oculus partnership? (I'm not sure how they will address all of this, but I think they will in some form or another.)
/show
I know these aren't exactly predictions, rather a compilation of all the rumors we have so far, but something at least somewhat like this seems possible to me. I'm not creative enough to come up with any wild announcements outside of the things that have already been rumored, haha.
Anything wildly obvious that I'm missing?
That's like two new games. I would expect that they would show more than that.
That's like two new games. I would expect that they would show more than that.
I was barely beaten to this
I started working on this a few hours ago but had to stop for some work stuff. Oh Well.
It's a quiet Saturday afternoon... why not make some conference predictions? I'm basing all of this off of rumors, last year's general show format, plus a few small guesses. (holy crap they have a lot to show this year)
Gears of War 4 - Co-op campaign demo, Horde mode tease.
Dead Rising 4 - Announcement trailer, 2017 release window.
Phil Spencer - Summer platform update (Cortana, background music, etc.) and backwards compatibility announcements. (lots of big/fan-favorite titles *available now*)
Peter Moore from EA - Quick look at something from Battlefield 1 that wasnt shown at EAs conference, announce DLC relationship + beta dates. (first on Xbox One, etc.)
- Potential announcements of the "Xbox Stick" and "Xbox Apple TV" that were hinted at last week.
Bethesda - Show off Dishonored 2, as mentioned in that Xbox UK video. Maybe an announcement of Skyrim backwards compatibility? (if they don't announce a remaster on Sunday)
- Talk about EA Access, announce SW: BF and NFS coming *today* to the Vault, as well as a handful of 360 backwards compatible games coming to the Vault as well, will add more going forward. (SSX, Mass Effect trilogy, BF: BC2
)please
Indies/Small Titles - Updates on Cuphead, Inside, and Below - all given release dates. () News from other ID@XBOX devs/games coming to Xbox (Tacoma, Ashen, etc.) along with new announcements.2016!
*every game you see from this point on is a MS Studios published Xbox/Win10 exclusive* (or some other, similar
- Indie montage.
- Maybe a tease of Moon Studios' new game? (new IP)
ly obnoxioustagline)
Forza Horizon 3 - Announcement trailer, Australia setting, September release.
Sea of Thieves - Extended trailer/gameplay demo, 2016 release window given. Beta announced for sometime this summer.
Halo Wars 2 - Extended trailer/gameplay demo, release date announced. (November?) Beta announced for the summer.
- Teaser for Rare's other new game. Battletoads?
Banjo?
Crackdown 3 - Extended trailer/gameplay demo, full release in early 2017. Announcement of multiplayer beta in August as previously announced. *more at Gamescom*
Recore - Short trailer/gameplay demo, early 2017 release window given. *more at Gamescom*
Scalebound - Short trailer, no release window given other than 2017. *more at Gamescom*
Age of Empires - CG announcement trailer showing the setting, developer, 2017 release. *more at Gamescom*
Phil Spencer - #CreativeChatter. Talks about MS plan for the future of Win10/Xbox as a "platform". Announces that all games going forward and those you saw today will launch day and date on Win10.
One More Thing... (total guesses here) - EITHER New Red Dead, May 2017, RDR BC (or remaster?) *available now* OR Halo spin-off title announced, vague hints at setting/genre/developer, will be take "full advantage of the next generation of Xbox hardware" or however they will talk about the Scorpio. 2017.
- Xbox Slim announced, $299, release late June/early July.
- Talk about "what's next" in some capacity. Perhaps they will give Scorpio a public codename so they can talk about it vaguely for the next year? Maybe they will give specifics? Oculus partnership? (I'm not sure how they will address all of this, but I think they will in some form or another.)
/show
I know these aren't exactly predictions, rather a compilation of all the rumors we have so far, but something at least somewhat like this seems possible to me. I'm not creative enough to come up with any wild announcements outside of the things that have already been rumored, haha.
Anything wildly obvious that I'm missing?
It's a quiet Saturday afternoon... why not make some conference predictions? I'm basing all of this off of rumors, last year's general show format, plus a few small guesses. (holy crap they have a lot to show this year)
Gears of War 4 - Co-op campaign demo, Horde mode tease.
Dead Rising 4 - Announcement trailer, 2017 release window.
Phil Spencer - Summer platform update (Cortana, background music, etc.) and backwards compatibility announcements. (lots of big/fan-favorite titles *available now*)
Peter Moore from EA - Quick look at something from Battlefield 1 that wasn’t shown at EA’s conference, announce DLC relationship + beta dates. (first on Xbox One, etc.)
- Potential announcements of the "Xbox Stick" and "Xbox Apple TV" that were hinted at last week.
Bethesda - Show off Dishonored 2, as mentioned in that Xbox UK video. Maybe an announcement of Skyrim backwards compatibility? (if they don't announce a remaster on Sunday)
- Talk about EA Access, announce SW: BF and NFS coming *today* to the Vault, as well as a handful of 360 backwards compatible games coming to the Vault as well, will add more going forward. (SSX, Mass Effect trilogy, BF: BC2
)please
Indies/Small Titles - Updates on Cuphead, Inside, and Below - all given release dates. () News from other ID@XBOX devs/games coming to Xbox (Tacoma, Ashen, etc.) along with new announcements.2016!
*every game you see from this point on is a MS Studios published Xbox/Win10 exclusive* (or some other, similar
- Indie montage.
- Maybe a tease of Moon Studios' new game? (new IP)
ly obnoxioustagline)
Forza Horizon 3 - Announcement trailer, Australia setting, September release.
Sea of Thieves - Extended trailer/gameplay demo, 2016 release window given. Beta announced for sometime this summer.
Halo Wars 2 - Extended trailer/gameplay demo, release date announced. (November?) Beta announced for the summer.
- Teaser for Rare's other new game. Battletoads?
Banjo?
Crackdown 3 - Extended trailer/gameplay demo, full release in early 2017. Announcement of multiplayer beta in August as previously announced. *more at Gamescom*
Recore - Short trailer/gameplay demo, early 2017 release window given. *more at Gamescom*
Scalebound - Short trailer, no release window given other than 2017. *more at Gamescom*
Age of Empires - CG announcement trailer showing the setting, developer, 2017 release. *more at Gamescom*
Phil Spencer - #CreativeChatter. Talks about MS plan for the future of Win10/Xbox as a "platform". Announces that all games going forward and those you saw today will launch day and date on Win10.
One More Thing... (total guesses here) - EITHER New Red Dead, May 2017, RDR BC (or remaster?) *available now* OR Halo spin-off title announced, vague hints at setting/genre/developer, will be take "full advantage of the next generation of Xbox hardware" or however they will talk about the Scorpio. 2017.
- Xbox Slim announced, $299, release late June/early July.
- Talk about "what's next" in some capacity. Perhaps they will give Scorpio a public codename so they can talk about it vaguely for the next year? Maybe they will give specifics? Oculus partnership? (I'm not sure how they will address all of this, but I think they will in some form or another.)
/show
I know these aren't exactly predictions, rather a compilation of all the rumors we have so far, but something at least somewhat like this seems possible to me. I'm not creative enough to come up with any wild announcements outside of the things that have already been rumored, haha.
Anything wildly obvious that I'm missing?
If I were to guess which would skip, I'd say Crackdown 3 and/or Sea of Thieves.
One of these is totally getting a "now" beta after the show. Microsoft needs to step up their "now" game.
I see it as
Not at conference
- I think Age of Empire gets announced outside of conference. 2017
- Scorpio
- Undead Labs
If I were to guess which would skip, I'd say Crackdown 3 and/or Sea of Thieves.
As much as I don't want to miss out on Crackdown stuff, I am pretty sure MS will have some stuff to actually announce.
Those games don't get shown at MS conferences, even though they market themDuh. You forgot the inevitable showings of Madden and FIFA.
I don't think they are going to be there. But that would be the perfect place for itAre they still doing that ridiculous PC conference like last year?
One of these is totally getting a "now" beta after the show. Microsoft needs to step up their "now" game.
Almost definitive Crackdown will be there. A small group of the public (Xbox MVPs I think) were invited to play it nearly 4 months ago. We were told information would shortly follow. Plus, this email's been in circulation.
It missed E3 last year. It won't miss it again.
Are they still doing that ridiculous PC conference like last year?
I hate the idea of Halo 3 anniversary. The game is playable on XB1! And it's not a BC game; it's a "port" with its own massive set of achievements in Master Chief Collection.
That would do absolutely nothing for me.
This is a great list, but definitely missing more announcements. I think we might even see one or two of their already announced titles go AWOL for E3 (in favour of Gamescom, or, you know, soon) in favour of an announcement or two. (EDIT: Just need to say 'in favour of', once more, for good measure)
If I were to guess which would skip, I'd say Crackdown 3 and/or Sea of Thieves.
As much as I don't want to miss out on Crackdown stuff, I am pretty sure MS will have some stuff to actually announce.
IIRC, Ken Lobb mentioned last year that they talk Perfect Dark a lot and that if brought back it would likely not be a FPS.
Third Person Shooter/Stealth, with tons of gadgets, and a weird story premise with Elvis and the Maians, Skedar, and other weird shit.
You got your "MGS" replacement exclusive to Xbox.