Good morning! Today’s the day we learn all about the big games coming to Xbox One in the first 12 months of its lifecycle.
We’ll be reporting on rumours throughout the day, then giving you the conference in full when it airs at 5.30pn BST.
Is your body ready?
19.07 That’s it! What a conference!! What did you think?
19.02 Some gameplay footage is now being shown. Can jump once and bounce off environment. It’s coming Spring 2014.
19.04 Titanfall is an Xbox One Exclusive. Mech-based warfare!
19.02 Respawn Entertainment. The final Xbox One Exclusive…
19.00 £429 for UK Xbox. $499 in USA. 499 Euros. Xbox One launches in November 2013.
18.56 Halo running at 60 FPS. Not announced as Halo 5, just a new Halo game from 343.
18.55 HALO!??!?!?!? Halo 5???
18.54 Another new game. Hooded man walking in a desert. Graphics look elegant. Ground moving under his feet. Rocks forming in the air. One massive collapse as a ship comes from below.
18.52 Black Tusk Studios is a new studio under Microsoft. In-game footage shown. Fireworks going off and neon lit buildings. No new game revealed, but engine looks interesting.
18.52 Top down game, Below, looks a bit like Link to the Past meets Journey. Interested to hear more on that…
18.50 Second Assault is a timed exclusive for Xbox One. Battlefield IV is doing the Call of Duty and bringing first map pack first to Xbox One
18.49 Battlefield IV looks incredible. Ship combat. And just look at that water…
18.46 Battlefield 4 looks immense. Boats blowing apart. Planes rolling on their sides. Envrionments being ripped apart. Phenomenal.
18.43 Battlefield IV about to be shown off in 60 FPS. The sound is borked again…
18.41 The graphics are … oh my word …. The Last Part of the legend is coming and it looks incredible. Multi-region open world. Boat travel. Tactical combat. Witcher 3 is going to be incredible.
18.40 Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is coming to Xbox One. Quick-switching and changes of spells with voice commands. Smartglass will also allow inventory swapping. Exclusive features for Xbox One.
18.38 Wait…Did he just summon an airstrike using Smartglass? And it’s out this year exclusively for Xbox One…
18.36 Now you can drive cars! Zombies can clamber on the sides and pull you out. This is much more open world and looks incredible. I want this NOW!
18.35 Dead Rising 3 looks less clunky. More free-roaming, agile and fluid. Still the same crazy amount of zombies and weapons, though.
18.32 Dead Rising 3 is coming to Xbox One. An open world zombie game. Nick Ramos is the new hero and he’s trying to escape city on verge of an outbreak.
18.31 New game trailer from creators of Panzer Dragoon. There’s no sound, guys! But it’s called Crimson Dragon!
18.30 Moving from Microsoft Points to real money. Friend list expanded. Xbox Live Gold Sharing has also been introduced.
18.28 You can share all of your experiences straight onto TwitchTV through an exclusive deal! Oh, my…
18.25 Timeline is useable on Smartglass. Ryse takes advantage of this. Can see leaderboards, achievements and the progress a player has made. Can play Ryse while Smartglass works in the background. More Killer Instinct being shown off. It also records gameclip while playing. Players can go to Upload Studio and curate, share and publish gaming videos from Xbox One. Can add commentary with Kinect!! Oh, my!
18.22 Can change a rock into a giant mech and do many other things. Project Spark is also coming to Windows 8!
18.20 Claude is the game’s protagonist. World can be built in the first instance. Character can then jump in the game. Claude can add behaviour and turn rocks in pets. Can also add your own bad guys in. Claude can do the fighting or he can get the rock to do the fighting for him.
18.18 Project Spark is now being demoed. Looks like a Smartglass experience. Also with Kinect voice commands. Can show deserts, arctic, woodlands, and show weather and day cycles.
18.17 An episodic murder mystery by Swery65. D4 is cel-shaded and coming to Xbox One.
18.16 Player in a frozen scene, pushing past some glass and brings a frozen person, bringing her into a frozen state. The facial expressions look incredible.
18.16 Quantum Break now. The choices you make creates player’s personal interpretation of the TV show. We’re now about to see some real-time footage of Quantum Break.
18.14 Phil Harrison talks about more new games for Xbox One. Minecraft coming to Xbox One. Bigger worlds and maps being offered.
18.10 All in-game footage of Forza 5 being shown in world-exclusive trailer. I’m not a racing fan, but WOW!
18.08 Drivatar will assess how you drive. It recreates your speed and style, even in cars and on tracks you’ve never raced. Drivatar races against the world when you’re not playing and you get credits for Drivatar’s work. Will we even need to play games anymore?
18.07 Crikey. The attention to detail of cars on Xbox One is incredible. Forza 5 is more human and more intelligent. A drivatar. We’re not getting to see some racing.
18.05 Now time for Forza 5
18.05 Oh, my! Sunset Overdrive is cel-shaded parkour with shotguns, record launchers (yes, RECORDS!) and zombies!
18.05 Brief showing of Killer Instinct, but yeah…Now Insomniac Games are coming to Xbox One with a new game called Sunset Overdrive.
18.03 Killer Instinct is BACK!!
18.02 Ryse is exclusive to Xbox One at launch.
18.00 It doesn’t look like there’s any Kinect capabilities here. Player seems to be able to summon archers to fire with the tap of LB. Destructable environments look neat. Nice job from Crytek.
17.58 Saw a group of troops using shield wall to deflect incoming arrows. Seems neat.
17.57 Ryse has a fair bit of QTE going on. Third Person Action Adventure set in Ancient Rome. Seems graphic, but not God of War graphic.
17.55 Ryse is about to be shown. Will we actually see some gameplay this time?
17.54 From Software bringing a big Dark Souls 2 experience to Xbox 360 as well. Looks incredible. Due March 2014.
17.50 Sequel to Max and the Magic Marker coming to Xbox 360. Draw to interact with a 2D platformer. Looks great. Again, for Xbox 360. Max Curse of the Evil Brotherhood.
17.49 Free to download on Xbox 360! World of Tanks Xbox 360 Edition is coming this Summer!
17.46 Three new Xbox 360 games about to be shown. World of Tanks coming to Xbox 360!
17.45 Xbox Live going PS Plus! Two free games per month for Xbox Live Gold Members. Assassin’s Creed 2 and Halo 3 upcoming!
17.45 Xbox 360 going to remade into a slim-line. The model is available today! Wow!
17.42 Punished Snake is the lead in The Phantom Pain. Emerich and Ocelot will also make a return! Incredible trailer. Keifer doing an awesome job as Snake
17.37 Open World Metal Gear?! Red Dead esque. With realtime weather and a new breed of stealth and varios modes of transport! Oh, my!
17.35 Runnign a bit behind but we’re opening with a game. It’s Konami and Kojima!
17.30 About to get underway! Let’s see what the future holds!
15:00 Unfortunately, we’re not able to host the Microsoft conference on Expansive. We ARE hosting EA, Ubisoft and Sony, however. The best place to watch the conference as it happens is either on xbox.com or on your Xbox dashboard.
14.30 While tonight is supposed to be about software, we expect new information to be revealed about Kinect 2.0 capabilities and what it can actually do in games. Don’t expect MS to go in massive detail, but do expect to see some of the evolutions in the hardware. What would you like to see from a new variation of Kinect?
11:15 So this is the official strap-line for Xbox One. Does it make sense to you? We think it means ‘All in One console with just one input’ but that doesn’t make a lot of sense because it uses Kinect, Smartglass and a controller as an input. So…that’s out…
Any other theories?
09:40 We’ll also find out what titles will be part of this year’s Summer of Arcade. Microsoft have made it clear that there will also be a few 360 surprises made today.
09:25 We do know that we’ll be seeing Ryse: Son of Rome later today. The title was originally supposed to be a 360 Kinect game, but has been pushed back toward the Xbox One. We’ll also see LocoCycle, a new IP from Twisted Pixel and the previously announced Forza Motorsport V. What else would you like to see?
09:20 Microsoft are set to show off 20 games during their presentation. Some of those we know about. Some we don’t.
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