Starts 6pm UK time.
That’s a pretty solid line-up, if it all comes to pass.
It’s an important moment for Microsoft; let’s see what it’s got.
See you at 6pm?
Our live coverage of this event has finished.
Hello and happy Sunday!
Here we go again.
What are you hoping to see today?
Thank you all for joining us!
Let’s have a look what everyone’s been saying…
Hah!
But yes, yes it does.
You’re not alone!
The Dragon Age trailer is due on Tuesday, 11th, so I doubt we’ll see it here.
Indeed I think it does.
That reminds me: Blizzard was being very cryptic about WoW on console recently.
Maybe this is finally the moment it happens.
Seems like Chris is quite near the front.
I hope we see him in the audience reaction shots.
He’d better not be whooping and hollering.
First look at Black Ops 6
Something’s happening!
We’re going to see some mature trailers apparently.
I’ll be the judge of that.
Saddam Hussein: check.
This must be Black Ops 6.
The Berlin Wall has come down.
We’re getting a montage of Gulf War, um, action.
There’s George Bush.
There’s Bill Clinton.
The Prodigy’s Firestarter is playing and my god, that’s still a banger.
But of course there are guns - lots of guns - too.
Requisite helicopter mission with minigun.
Come on, where’s Thatcher?
We get Phil Spencer instead.
Black Ops 6 will be the first Call of Duty game available on Game Pass day one.
We’re now getting another premiere, one Spencer is pumped about.
This is something fantastical.
Doom: The Dark Ages announced
It looks like Doom.
That’s definitely the Doom Slayer.
But it’s all much more gothic.
There’s a spinning chainsaw shield.
There’s a double-barrelled shotgun.
There are some huge gothic beasties.
There’s an exo suit!
Doom: The Dark Ages.
Just call it Heretic you cowards!
This must be State of Decay 3!
Modified cars, scavengers, zombies, chain fences - all the typical zombie survival stuff.
Oh we’ve transitioned into some gameplay now.
It’s got a nice clean look, if that really is gameplay - no hud.
Can you really have gameplay without a hud?
Maybe it’s target rendering.
I’m not sure I can glean much about the game from this trailer.
A car stops on a bridge.
State of Decay 3.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard!
Dragon Age: The Veilguard releases this autumn
We’re being introduced to the characters.
Lucanis the mage killer.
Belara the veil jumper.
Taash the dragon hunter.
Nice trailer giving a great overview of the game.
It’s CGI but it looks very lively.
Dragon Age comes out this autumn.
Starfield Shattered Space coming this year
We’re on to Starfield now, it looks like.
There’s a distinct horror gibe.
Purpley pink planets, red-tinged atmospheres.
Starfield Shattered Space coming this year.
This is all happening at breakneck speed.
I’m here for it.
And we’re onto another world premiere…
Expedition 33 announced
Sandfall Interactive and Kepler.
We’re hearing about a lady who paints, and we’re seeing a CGI trailer about people disappearing.
A bit of gameplay mixed in showing multiple characters.
It’s an RPG it looks like, with combat like Final Fantasy.
It’s visually very impressive.
There’s a lot going on on screen.
Expedition 33 the game is called.
It’s coming 2024 to PC and Xbox.
They’re having a chat in Southern American accents.
Just a chat, with a big fish.
We’re now follwoing the character running through a swampy biome.
They’ve got some grappling hook-looking abilities that whizz them through the environment.
They’ve walked into a boss encounter.
The monster we’re fighting now is a bulging, morphing ball of rage.
We defeat it and the area suddenly grows with flowers.
Now the character is flying on an air current with some spiritual kind of ability.
There’s some guitary music accompanying the action.
It’s very stylish, and the world is crooked and imaginative.
A kind of action adventure game then?
South of Midnight it’s called, coming 2025 to PC and Xbox.
WoW The War Within releases 26th August
Blizzard now.
It’s World of Warcraft.
Could it be WoW console?
Come on, do it you cowards!
We’re seeing a montage of all the big villains from WoW.
It’s a montage of CGI footage from all of the game’s main expansions.
Come on, come on, what is it, what is it?
There’s a Galadriel-like voice over talking about the final battle drawing near.
It’s not just a trailer for the new expansion is it, the War Within?
Oh god it is isn’t it.
This is the start of a trilogy of expansions.
Oh I got so excited for a moment there.
Stand down, stand down.
Release date 26th August 2024, for The War Within.
Metal Gear Solid 3 remake shown
Snake!
As in, Solid Snake!
Or Naked Snake, as the game is calling him.
It’s the Metal Gear Solid 3 remake, and it looks very handsome.
Bah, no other juicy details.
444 Games and Kepler now.
This looks like Flintlock.
I love that hatchet the main character has - and seems to be dextrously smashing into people’s heads.
They can turn into the talking god creature rat thing and fly through the air.
An “explosive Soulslike” the trailer calls it, and it looks it.
Flintlock: The Siece of Dawn, coming 18th July to PC and Xbox.
Age of Mythology remaster coming 4th September
Age of Mythology now, I assume.
Zeus giving orders, as he’s wont to do.
One of the gods is causing an earthquake - rude.
It is Age of Mythology: Retold, coming 4th September to PC and Xbox.
Perfect Dark announced in gameplay trailer
This must be Perfect Dark!
Crystal Dynamics and The Intiative.
We’re in a futuristic setting.
Joanna Dark leaping around, hiding behind boxes, parkouring, chatting away.
If this is gameplay, it’s very smart and fluid looking.
There’s a real dextrous spy feel to how the game plays.
We’re in a computer base now.
Whoa, she just took someone down with a flurry of kicks.
There’s sliding, slow-mo shooting, night vision, smoke bombs.
It’s colourful, it’s fast.
Perfect Dark, no release date.
Xbox’s Matt Booty on screen now, giving us an overview of Xbox games.
Looks like he’s bought himself a new leather jacket for the occasion.
Is this the outro?
He’s moving onto Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred.
It’s coming this October.
We’re going to see the opening cinematic for it now.
Blizzard does do a good cinematic.
We’re in a Southern American setting, it looks like, maybe an Amazonion river.
She’s muttering to herself, and oh dear, she seems to be slightly possessed.
Now she’s talking to her mother in a floating stone.
The faces of these characters are rendered brilliantly - those skin textures are wonderful.
Something horrid is going to happen now isn’t it?
She’s being drained of her life and strung up in a fleshy hellscape now.
Snap back to reality and we’re back on the boat.
This whole trainer has been quite gruesome; Blizzard, doubling down on grimness.
Coming 8th October to PC and Xbox.
Hmm - I’m sure it’ll come to PlayStation too but maybe they’re not saying yet?
This must be Fable!
Fable coming 2025
This is all in-game footage apparently.
We’re seeing Humphry, whose voice I don’t recognise but I’m sure they’re famous.
We’re seeing the main character walk around a city.
They’re in a forest now, in front of a giant toad.
It’s montaging a bit now.
I wonder if we’re building to a release date.
Humphry reckons he made the hero who we’ll play as.
We’re seeing some magic and some combat.
It’s hard to grasp how much of this is CGI or not.
And as Kami points out, are we limited to one hero now?
Another world premiere now.
A heavily stylised look, a shooter, but fast and comic book loud.
Cards in it too, that give you some kind of power-ups.
5v5 rule-changing arena shooter.
Called Fragpunk, coming 2025.
A storybook looking illustration, with us playing as a dainty little mouse.
It seems to be a kind of survival game.
We have to chop trees and gather equipment to survive the wilds.
It’s very cosy.
Well, it was until a giant owl turned up.
Winter Burrow, coming early 2025 to PC and Xbox.
Vibesy teenage game Mixtape announced
Headphones, Annapurna, downhill skateboarding.
More lower FPS animation.
This really looks like Spider-Verse in terms of how it moves and looks.
It’s a mixture of 3D and 2D.
It’s a story about being a teenager in an american town in the 1980s, I think.
It’s got a hell of a soundtrack, it’s very vibesy.
It’s a bit fantastical too - the characters are floating.
Artsy, imaginative, musical.
Mixtape, it’s called.
Flight Simulator 2024 releases 19th November
Flight Simulator 2024.
It’s got commercial flights, in case you want to show EasyJet how to do it.
There’s an air ambulance now.
There’s plane chartering.
There’s agricultural aviation.
There’s search and rescue.
There’s helicopter cargo transport.
Basically, there’s a lot to do in the world now besides flying over your house.
It’s very pretty looking, as you might expect.
Flight Sim 2024 releases 19th November.
Life is Strange: Double Exposure announced for October
Brief Elder Scrolls Online interlude there.
I’d love to get into it properly sometime.
A lady finds her friend’s body in the woods.
We’re in modern day times.
An all new supernatural murder mystery.
Ah it’s Max from Life is Strange.
But Max can jump timelines to try and save her friend.
Life is Strange: Double Exposure coming 29th October.
A fresh look at Indiana Jones
MachineGames now.
It’s Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.
A frozen bridge with missing planks.
First-person, detailed environments.
They’re trying to solve a puzzle but enemies arrive.
It’s haphazard in the Indy way, but it’s a cut-scene of sorts.
Some brilliantly awful German accents: check.
Why don’t they just get German actors to do it?
Probably because they find it offensive?
The atmosphere is right - a bit silly, a bit pantomime.
Now the ship is falling off the cliff and we’re into an action scene.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle coming 2024.
No release date, then.
Laser beams are criss-crossing the sky, bullets are pelting everywhere.
It’s like a fireworks display up there.
Now we’re on the ground with oversized melee weapons, dashing and thrusting, ooh err.
This is Mecha Break, coming 2025, with a beta in August.
A live service game then?
A pile of corpses now, a twisted monster on top of them with very long arms.
A character pulling a long sword from their back and flipping up to attack it.
They have some magical powers.
Now we’re montaging to see differnt boss enemies.
It’s an action game, it’s Japanese themed.
It’s nice and twisted.
Wuchang Fallen Feathers, coming 2025.
Ah, this looks like Avowed from Obsidian.
A lot more exciting.
Perhaps Obsidian took notes.
Still only “coming 2024”.
Rebellion reveals Atomfall
A world premiere now.
An English countryside village, it looks like.
World War 2 era it seems.
Hitting someone with a cricket bat!
A bow and arrow.
Some strange cult rituals.
Atomfall, coming 2025.
A Japanese samurai-inspired game now.
Oh now we’ve swapped to a male-sounding viewpoint and character.
This one is fully armoured and heavy by comparison.
It’s an action game of some kind.
“Together, we will bring justice back to the people.”
Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, coming 15th November.
Stalker 2 gets 5th September release date
This must be Stalker 2.
Chris has been playing this out in LA by the way and wasn’t particularly impressed.
I don’t think he’ll mind me saying that.
It looks like a game, at least - it looks like it’s got actual, proper substance.
Stalker 2, coming 5th September.
She announces there’s going to be a new all-digital Xbox Series X coming this autumn.
“And we’re hard at work on the next generation,” she adds.
There’s one more thing!
This is it, the big finish.
We’re in a ruined front room.
Someone’s smashed through a wall.
Gears of War: E-day closes the show
It looks like Marcus Phoenix - or is that Dom?
- having a fight with a Locust.
And he’s getting pummelled.
He smashes a TV in the Locust’s face.
He’s still not doing very well.
Oh but now he’s blown the creatur’s head off.
A hole to hell opens.
He falls, but then a hand pulls him up.
Piano music plays in the background, reminscent of those earlier Gears trailers.
Gears of War: E-Day it’s called.
Well that was more like it wasn’t it?
That was breathless from the off, and a lot of things to be excited about.
I don’t think they left any rock unturned there.
Hah, yes, that’s very true.
We’re not going to be covering the Black Ops stream I’m afraid.
The next one we’re covering live is Ubisoft Forward tomorrow evening at 7.30pm UK time.
Tom Clancy’s Ubisoft, you mean?
A lot to think about after that.
Good show, Microsoft, good show.
It was very much needed.
