And it's done. Microsoft revealed the most powerful console yet, the gloriously sleek yet curiously titled Xbox One X, all of which can be yours for a mere £449. And what to play on it? Well, you'll have a new Assassin's Creed, a new Forza and a bevvy of exciting indies. Follow all the updates as they happened.
Our live coverage of this event has finished.
20:12 pm UTC Good evening everyone! I am actually a Scorpio so this is extra special for me.– Robert Purchese
20:12 pm UTC We're just assembling, like the Avengers. Are you all having a splendid Sunday?– Robert Purchese
20:14 pm UTC Hello all! Pretty sure Microsoft is using the same hold music they used last time.– Christian Donlan
20:14 pm UTC Which reminds me of this beautiful piece on This American Life about the best hold music ever. Do links work in here? https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/516/stuck-in-the-middle?act=1– Christian Donlan
20:14 pm UTC– Robert Purchese
20:15 pm UTC Tom and Wes are there! But no one else is apparently.– Robert Purchese
20:15 pm UTC Anyway, that's all I've got.– Christian Donlan
20:16 pm UTC Hello from the Galen Center in LA! Once again Microsoft shipped in a load of fans to sit in front of the stage.– Tom Phillips
20:17 pm UTC They are practising their cheering.– Tom Phillips
20:18 pm UTC Greetings, Gamers! I'm hoping for the announcement of a brand new Dizzy game for Scorpio.– Ian Higton
20:19 pm UTC– Robert Purchese
20:19 pm UTC Ian, please.– Tom Phillips
20:19 pm UTC Doesn't seem like a T-shirt you'll hang onto.– Robert Purchese
20:20 pm UTC Hello! We're sat inside the Galen Center in LA with 40 minutes to kill before Microsoft's Xbox media briefing begins. Someone tell a joke.– Wesley Yin-Poole
20:22 pm UTC Will the Xbox Scorpio, or whatever it's called, end up costing £499? It's reportedly $499.– Robert Purchese
20:26 pm UTC "Tell me a joke" "Scorpio costs £499" :(– Tom Phillips
20:28 pm UTC Looking forward to seeing more of BioWare's Anthem tonight. It looked Destiny-esque last night. How similar will it be?– Robert Purchese
20:30 pm UTC This is it, the big one! Microsoft's chance to bring it home with the most powerful console EVER SEEN.– Martin Robinson
20:30 pm UTC Or are they going to go full Theresa May and score a massive own goal, coming out with a £499 price point and nothing more than Forza 7 while droning on about strong and stable framerates?– Martin Robinson
20:31 pm UTC I'm leaning towards the latter, to be honest, but would be happy to be wrong.– Martin Robinson
20:32 pm UTC We are all set up in the home team with crisps, beers (shhhh, don't tell Oli) and what I think might well be excitement.– Martin Robinson
20:33 pm UTC Oh god it's the same sodding music they play ever sodding year being looped before the show.– Martin Robinson
20:33 pm UTC No sign of those fabulous T-shirts on the way in - but technically we still are to witness the most powerful console ever, so.– Tom Phillips
20:34 pm UTCfunkstar: so Martin, no nipples at EA last night. What are the chances tonight?
I saw a couple of tits for sure last night though...
– Martin Robinson
20:35 pm UTC Leave my selfies alone, Martin.– Tom Phillips
20:35 pm UTC New games wise, we know Anthem is on the way, plus Forza 7 and the recently leaked Ori sequel. A proper look at Crackdown would also be lovely, right?– Martin Robinson
20:37 pm UTC Assassin's Creed head of content Azaizia Aymar has just tweeted that we'll be seeing a glimpse during Microsoft's show today.– Tom Phillips
20:38 pm UTC Course, the internet has already had more than several glimpses already.– Tom Phillips
20:42 pm UTC *salutes*– Martin Robinson
20:43 pm UTC– Robert Purchese
20:43 pm UTC Just saying.– Robert Purchese
20:44 pm UTC Oh so many ways tonight could go tits up. I can't wait!– Martin Robinson
20:46 pm UTC 15 minutes people!– Martin Robinson
20:46 pm UTC Wouldn't it be nice if Microsoft announce they've bought IO and saved Hitman? That would be lovely indeed.– Wesley Yin-Poole
20:47 pm UTClacerz: "most powerful console ever" has officially become the most tired phrase ever.
A strong and stable observation.
– Christian Donlan
20:48 pm UTC The super Xbox fans in the seats at the front are doing a Mexican wave. They cheered a safety announcement. Also all are wearing those T-shirts.– Wesley Yin-Poole
20:48 pm UTC– Tom Phillips
20:49 pm UTC Eugh, the state of that.– Martin Robinson
20:49 pm UTC I was at an SOE Fan Faire one year and the crowd did a volumetric Mexican wave.– Christian Donlan
20:49 pm UTC Not sure if super fans or Microsoft employees. (That's Aaron Greenberg at the top of the pic.)– Tom Phillips
20:49 pm UTC *pulls cardigan over the Splatoon t-shirt I'm wearing right now*– Martin Robinson
20:53 pm UTC Same.– Martin Robinson
20:56 pm UTC– Tom Phillips
20:57 pm UTC Not confirmed, but it looks like Scorpio just leaked, minutes before the conference start.– Tom Phillips
20:57 pm UTC Well there it is.– Martin Robinson
20:57 pm UTC That's a dinky little thing.– Martin Robinson
20:57 pm UTC And quite a sexy one. Where do they fit all the graphics?– Martin Robinson
20:57 pm UTC I guess they're all kept in the cloud.– Martin Robinson
20:57 pm UTC With controller for scale, it looks tiny. Incredibly impressive.– Tom Phillips
20:58 pm UTC I like the insouciant way the controller is leaning on it. Practically smoking a Gauloises.– Christian Donlan
20:59 pm UTC We're currently speculating how they'll do the reveal - whether they'll have it stored inside an OG Xbox One.– Martin Robinson
20:59 pm UTC Or - this is my bet - after 30 minutes of talking, Phil Spencer will reveal he's been holding one in his cheeks the entire time and regurgitate it on stage.– Martin Robinson
20:59 pm UTC Huge wedding cake and it pops out on a spring.– Christian Donlan
21:00 pm UTC And we're off.– Tom Phillips
21:01 pm UTC Kicking off with a look at how pixels have grown over the years.– Martin Robinson
21:01 pm UTC Big cheers here for the ultra 4K message.– Wesley Yin-Poole
21:01 pm UTC It's how the quality of the pixels has improved that really wows me though.– Martin Robinson
21:02 pm UTC Big cheers for Chief.– Tom Phillips
21:02 pm UTC Some hardcore motherboard and silicon love too. Get in.– Martin Robinson
21:02 pm UTC And big cheers for a glimpse at Master Chief. Still a fan favourite.– Wesley Yin-Poole
21:02 pm UTC And the picture is real.– Tom Phillips
21:03 pm UTC This is all a bit Project Natal.– Martin Robinson
21:03 pm UTC And there's the dinky box.– Martin Robinson
21:03 pm UTC Fans in the front are very, very excited.– Tom Phillips
21:04 pm UTC Phil Spencer, everyone, sporting an Xbox controller t-shirt.– Martin Robinson
21:04 pm UTC Renegades, the lot of them.– Tom Phillips
21:04 pm UTC And a jacket that looks a bit Bovingdon market circa 1996. Quite a radical look all told.– Martin Robinson
21:05 pm UTC Xbox One X. Hmm. Not sure...– Wesley Yin-Poole
21:05 pm UTC That's.... Not a great name.– Martin Robinson
21:05 pm UTC xox Kisses!– Oli Welsh
21:06 pm UTC– Robert Purchese
21:06 pm UTC Kareem looks *so* Microsoft.– Martin Robinson
21:07 pm UTC People are cheering tech specs. I guess this is what we are now.– Martin Robinson
21:08 pm UTC One important fact - it's out November 7th.– Martin Robinson
21:08 pm UTC Will be fully backwards compatible, of course.– Martin Robinson
21:08 pm UTC Still no word on price...– Tom Phillips
21:08 pm UTC And people without 4K TVs will see the benefits.– Martin Robinson
21:09 pm UTC Whoops and cheers for the liquid cooled vapour chamber.– Tom Phillips
21:09 pm UTC Also the Xbox One X vapes.– Martin Robinson
21:10 pm UTC It's the most powerful Xbox ever, and the smallest.– Martin Robinson
21:10 pm UTC Is it the most expensive though?– Martin Robinson
21:11 pm UTC They're leading with Forza.– Martin Robinson
21:11 pm UTC I like racing games, but even I'm not that excited by a new Forza.– Martin Robinson
21:11 pm UTC It does look small indeed. That's perhaps one of the more impressive things about it.– Wesley Yin-Poole
21:12 pm UTC The headline from that is truck racing.– Martin Robinson
21:12 pm UTC You're going to sell your new console with truck racing?– Martin Robinson
21:13 pm UTC I came here for games, Microsoft, not real life cars. Come the fuck on!– Wesley Yin-Poole
21:13 pm UTC And here's a new Porsche. It looks like every other Porsche, because they all look the fucking same.– Martin Robinson
21:14 pm UTC Are they seriously selling their new console like this?– Martin Robinson
21:15 pm UTC Anyway, dynamic weather is back having been cut from the last Forza.– Martin Robinson
21:16 pm UTC The Nurburgring does look super dramatic with its moody skies. 150 cars around the Nordschleife for the true N24 experience please?– Martin Robinson
21:17 pm UTC There'll be some 700 cars in this.– Martin Robinson
21:17 pm UTC Well, that's a new Forza. It's out October 3rd.– Martin Robinson
21:18 pm UTC Surprising it's not day and date with X.– Tom Phillips
21:18 pm UTC 42 games inbound, 22 with some form of Xbox exclusivity.– Martin Robinson
21:19 pm UTC A new 4A game - this is how you do a technical showcase, for sure.– Martin Robinson
21:21 pm UTC Eye stab is the new neck stab.– Tom Phillips
21:21 pm UTC It's a new Metro - so super impressive techincally, and super grimy. A rat just got stabbed in the eye.– Martin Robinson
21:23 pm UTC So basically you shoot rats.– Martin Robinson
21:23 pm UTC And a big mole.– Martin Robinson
21:24 pm UTC Metro Exodus, everyone.– Martin Robinson
21:24 pm UTC Assassin's Creed up next, for some real diversity after the rat killing and the cars.– Martin Robinson
21:25 pm UTC You get to slide down pyramids.– Martin Robinson
21:25 pm UTC Think you can stab a rhino in the eye too.– Martin Robinson
21:26 pm UTC Creative director Jean Guesdon now rocks up with some very gallic distressed jeans.– Martin Robinson
21:26 pm UTC Roll us one would 'ya?– Martin Robinson
21:28 pm UTC The name Xbox One X is so dumb poor Guesdon couldn't even spit it out without choking on a bit of his sick.– Martin Robinson
21:28 pm UTC Looks a bit Witcher 3 this, doesn't it?– Wesley Yin-Poole
21:29 pm UTCfeistycheese: That wasnt very impressive. Anybody who thinks otherwise is in De Nile. Sorry.
I love you!
– Robert Purchese
21:29 pm UTC Requires 8GB of Ramses.– Christian Donlan
21:30 pm UTC I'd say the handling of that horse looks off. Needs a bit of toe-in on the front hooves maybe?– Martin Robinson
21:30 pm UTC Real trend this generation for collecting the things you just shot people with.– Christian Donlan
21:30 pm UTC You can arrow people in the face.– Martin Robinson
21:31 pm UTC Oh and there's Destiny-style loot, so there's some of that diversity for you.– Martin Robinson
21:31 pm UTC Come on video games, you can do better than this!– Martin Robinson
21:32 pm UTC I think Ubisoft have the Cheops to pull this off.– Christian Donlan
21:33 pm UTC That was a video game.– Martin Robinson
21:34 pm UTC Player Unknown's Battlegrounds, a genuinely exciting get.– Martin Robinson
21:34 pm UTC Unless this is like that time everyone was scrabbling to get Dean Hall and DayZ on stage at a console holder's conference only for it all to come to naught.– Martin Robinson
21:35 pm UTC But! This is coming out exclusively on Xbox later this year. So there's hope!– Martin Robinson
21:36 pm UTC Ah, as some of you are pointing out it's console 'launch' exclusive - so it sounds like it will be coming to PS4 at some point too.– Martin Robinson
21:37 pm UTC It's No Man's Sky with mini-guns!– Tom Phillips
21:37 pm UTC This is Deep Rock Galactic.– Martin Robinson
21:38 pm UTC And quick as a flash we're onto State of Decay 2.– Martin Robinson
21:38 pm UTC Which is a genuine Xbox exclusive.– Martin Robinson
21:39 pm UTC So rack up zombies next to the cars, rat shooting and big annual franchises.– Martin Robinson
21:41 pm UTC Credit to Microsoft, though - they've kept the focus firmly on the games so far with no real filler.– Martin Robinson
21:41 pm UTC Wouldn't mind some more imaginative games, though.– Martin Robinson
21:41 pm UTC A zombie just ate a man's face.– Martin Robinson
21:43 pm UTC Spring 2018 release for Xbox - and as you've noted, it's Xbox play anywhere so PC too. Though I think that's the case for all Microsoft Studio games?– Martin Robinson
21:44 pm UTC There's a really angry man shouting on the stage for some reason.– Martin Robinson
21:44 pm UTC I was quite enjoying this until the guy by the side of the stage started screaming.– Tom Phillips
21:44 pm UTC I have no idea what's upset him so much.– Martin Robinson
21:45 pm UTC He's gone now. The game he was angry about was called The Darwin Project. He really looked like he didn't like it.– Martin Robinson
21:45 pm UTC There's your meme from tonight's conference, anyway.– Martin Robinson
21:46 pm UTC So here's Minecraft.– Martin Robinson
21:47 pm UTC It'll have more graphics on Xbox One X.– Martin Robinson
21:47 pm UTC Aaaaaaand, a special new graphics mode. It introduces even more graphics, and they're super duper apparently.– Martin Robinson
21:48 pm UTC People are clapping that you can pre-order new games.– Wesley Yin-Poole
21:49 pm UTC It's the innovation corner, starting off with something new from Japan.– Martin Robinson
21:50 pm UTC Those Dragon Ball games that come out every year and you don't care about? Yeah, they're coming to Xbox One X.– Martin Robinson
21:50 pm UTC I can't believe they're doing this.– Martin Robinson
21:51 pm UTC And that's the sound of the barrel being scraped there.– Martin Robinson
21:52 pm UTC Black Desert Online, the MMO that caused ripples a few years ago, is up next.– Martin Robinson
21:52 pm UTC 'It costs £6.99 on Steam' says Donlan.– Martin Robinson
21:54 pm UTC Now here's something special - which will be familiar if you were at EGX a couple of years ago. The Last Night.– Martin Robinson
21:54 pm UTC It's been doing the rounds for a while, and it does look absolutely gorgeous.– Martin Robinson
21:55 pm UTC The Annapurna Interactive logo, something which increasingly gets my attention - they have exquisite taste and have been behind some of this year's most interesting games.– Martin Robinson
21:55 pm UTC Artful Escape is the most Bertie game I have ever seen.– Tom Phillips
21:56 pm UTC It's a preface to The Artful Escape. Another one you'll get on PC, but it'll be console launch exclusive on Xbox One.– Martin Robinson
21:57 pm UTC Here's some more Bandai Namco stuff we typically only see during Sony's TGS conference given some airtime - Code Vein.– Martin Robinson
21:57 pm UTC Sea of Thieves though!– Martin Robinson
21:57 pm UTC Sea of Thieves is a shared world adventure. Last time I heard the phrase shared world was when Activision announced Destiny...– Wesley Yin-Poole
22:00 pm UTC Lovely water.– Martin Robinson
22:00 pm UTC If they'd have led with that water I'd have been much more hyped.– Martin Robinson
22:00 pm UTC If they'd have just streamed two hours of that water lolling around I'd be pre-ordering an Xbox XOXOXOX right now.– Martin Robinson
22:02 pm UTCKami: I'm just realising most of this will be on PC, won't it?
Yarp.
– Martin Robinson
22:05 pm UTC Now *this* does look exciting and original.– Martin Robinson
22:05 pm UTC Although I've probably seen enough now thanks.– Martin Robinson
22:06 pm UTC Aaaaand it's been pushed back to early next year.– Martin Robinson
22:06 pm UTC And now, Tacoma - the new game from the Gone Home people.– Martin Robinson
22:06 pm UTC Which ticks my original/exciting boxes too.– Martin Robinson
22:07 pm UTC Now, a fox.– Martin Robinson
22:07 pm UTC It's not Tails, I'll tell you that much.– Martin Robinson
22:08 pm UTC It's a Rare-style platformer, but not by Rare. And it looks very much like Lucky's Tale, the Oculus launch game.– Martin Robinson
22:09 pm UTC Oh, it is Lucky's Tale 2. For all those who were after a sequel.– Martin Robinson
22:10 pm UTC Cuphead! The super pretty platformer that now has a release date - September 29th.– Martin Robinson
22:10 pm UTC Crackdown, now starring Terry Crews. I'll have some of that.– Martin Robinson
22:11 pm UTC All is forgiven Xbox best console evaaaa Phil SPencer 4 life– Martin Robinson
22:12 pm UTC It's by Sumo, it's got Terry Crews in it, it's got orbs. Nothing can go wrong, surely.– Martin Robinson
22:12 pm UTC Have they ditched the city-levelling tech though? We're not seeing any of that here.– Martin Robinson
22:13 pm UTC November 7th release date - so alongside Xbox OXO cube.– Martin Robinson
22:14 pm UTC 'And now, here are some games on Steam'. Donlan again there, whose burns I'm not afraid to steal.– Martin Robinson
22:15 pm UTC It does look like it's been significantly downgraded from the original reveal. Let's hope there's more to show, though!– Martin Robinson
22:16 pm UTC The Annapurna logo again!– Martin Robinson
22:16 pm UTC This is Ashen, by Aurora 44.– Martin Robinson
22:16 pm UTC *also available on Steam– Martin Robinson
22:18 pm UTC The Life is Strange prequel now.– Martin Robinson
22:19 pm UTC Life is Strange Before the Storm, a three-parter coming out the end of August.– Martin Robinson
22:20 pm UTC More Mordor.– Martin Robinson
22:21 pm UTC Shadow of Moredor amitrite.– Martin Robinson
22:23 pm UTCweebleman: "Shadow of Moredor amitrite." Those beers going down essy martin?
Essssy indeed.
– Martin Robinson
22:24 pm UTClacerz: 7 minutes until the $399 reveal, because that's all Microsoft has. This has been shite.
We've been told this one will run longer than 90 minutes. How much longer I don't know.
– Martin Robinson
22:26 pm UTC I've been lukewarm on this as I'm not a fan of the excessive violence. That Orc is making me want to get involved, though.– Martin Robinson
22:26 pm UTC Also, I didn't say - stunning jacket on that Mordor chap. The fashion highlight of the show so far.– Martin Robinson
22:26 pm UTC Ori Ori Ori!– Martin Robinson
22:28 pm UTC Good lord this is a splendid looking video game.– Martin Robinson
22:29 pm UTC Phil takes to the stage again, which makes me think we're close to wrapping up.– Martin Robinson
22:30 pm UTC Biggest cheers of the conference for OG Xbox.– Tom Phillips
22:30 pm UTC Original Xbox games are now coming to Xbox One for backwards compatibility.– Martin Robinson
22:31 pm UTC They'll be improved in the emulation. And Crimson Skies is heading up the line-up.– Martin Robinson
22:31 pm UTC Yes please.– Martin Robinson
22:32 pm UTC Gears of War 4, Forza Horizon 3, Minecraft, Killer Instinct all getting 4K updates for the Xbox Bisto.– Martin Robinson
22:33 pm UTC $499.– Martin Robinson
22:34 pm UTC That's the price that pretty much killed the Xbox One, so....– Martin Robinson
22:34 pm UTC Here's Patrick Soderlund, who has puzzlingly long thumbs.– Martin Robinson
22:34 pm UTC He's here to show us Anthem.– Martin Robinson
22:36 pm UTC It's a Frostbite game, obviously - and it looks like it's first-person.– Martin Robinson
22:36 pm UTC Also, it looks gorgeous– Martin Robinson
22:37 pm UTC Facial animation that Mass Effect Andromeda could have benefitted from, and an incredible fidelity and detail in the world.– Martin Robinson
22:37 pm UTC And yeah it's Destiny basically.– Martin Robinson
22:38 pm UTC With added Ubisoft simulated bantz.– Martin Robinson
22:38 pm UTC Sorry, it's Destiny plus jetpacks times graphics.– Martin Robinson
22:39 pm UTC Worth reiterating that it does look absolutely gorgeous.– Martin Robinson
22:40 pm UTCLividCarrion: Is it me or does this look gorgeous?
It's not just you!
– Martin Robinson
22:42 pm UTCRayza: I sense a downgrade coming
I think this looks legit - and after the Watch Dogs fiasco I don't think anyone would want to repeat that trick. I am super naive though.
– Martin Robinson
22:43 pm UTC Does Microsoft have any of its own games to end with? Or are we done?– Martin Robinson
22:43 pm UTC Thanks for joining us! See you again later for Bethesda!– Tom Phillips
22:44 pm UTC I think that's it. I think that counts as officially underwhelming - not seeing the game that's going to make you want to part with 500 sheets for a new console.– Martin Robinson
22:45 pm UTC We'll wrap up here. There'll be more comment and analysis coming, plus we'll be dragging ourselves up in a few hours for Bethesda's conference. Tara!– Martin Robinson
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