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BILLY STEELE: OK,
so we just wrapped

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the Xbox press conference, the
first big event at E3 2018.

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There was a lot to unpack.

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NICK SUMMERS: So many games I
can't recall a press conference

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in recent memory
that just had quite

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so many trailers and quite so
many titles packed into it.

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I mean, we were working our
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and get it all up on the site.

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BILLY STEELE: Yeah.

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So there were 50 games total,
I think, that were discussed.

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NICK SUMMERS: Yeah, some
of them were exclusive.

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Some of them were world
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you might class as console
launch exclusives, which

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means they'll
probably come later

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to the PS4 or other platforms.

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But, yeah, it was
just a ton of stuff

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to watch and get to grips with.

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BILLY STEELE: So let's
talk about the expected.

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We've got Forza.

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We've got Halo.

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We got Gears of War.

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NICK SUMMERS: This
is Microsoft's

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three big tent pol franchises.

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They've been resting Gears of
War and Halo for a little bit.

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It's been a little while
since they've put out Halo 5

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and Gears of War 4.

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So they kicked off the press
conference with Halo Infinite.

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It was a really short teaser.

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Didn't say much about the game.

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We kind of saw what looked
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through a forest.

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And eventually, you going
to see Master Chief's leg

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and his helmet.

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And that was about it.

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But still, cool to see
that that's in development.

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Gears of War, we saw a
whole bunch of Gear stuff.

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They confirmed Gears
of War 5, Gears

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Pop, which is this
mobile spin-off

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with Funko pop characters.

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BILLY STEELE: Get in
on the mobile market.

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NICK SUMMERS: Yeah, and also
like a strategy title too.

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And then, yeah, Forza,
what a great racing

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franchise for them now.

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Arguably better or more popular
than Grand Tourismo on the PS4.

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And yeah, this year, it was all
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is their more open
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big multiplayer racing title.

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BILLY STEELE: Right.

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And from the look at the
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it looks like weather
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much more of a role,
dynamic weather,

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as they call it, in that game.

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NICK SUMMERS: Yeah.

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And I think Forza Horizon 3 was
actually received very well.

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It was much more light-hearted.

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They put out a bunch
of crazy expansions

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that had loopty-loops in it.

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Yeah, it was just
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And this new one seems
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extending that further.

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It's about getting
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the idea of driving
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And that's all about being in
different weather conditions,

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trying to grapple with
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and fields and stuff.

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It just seems to be even more
of what they've done before.

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And I thought it looked great.

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BILLY STEELE: So going back
to the sheer volume of games,

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Microsoft was sort of addressing
this whole stigma that there

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aren't enough Xbox games.

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So not just the number
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but Microsoft had some pretty
big studio news as well.

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NICK SUMMERS: Yeah.

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For the longest time,
it's been kind of a joke

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that just the Xbox doesn't
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Well, the ones that have
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just haven't been that great.

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Sea of Thieves, they're
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It's getting better.

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But State of Decay 2 was fine.

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Crackdown 3 has
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So they had a big job
to do in explaining

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how they're going to bring more
exclusives to the platform.

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And the solution we've
discovered is buying studios.

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So they've acquired five
game developers, one of which

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is a brand new studio they're
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It's called the Initiative.

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It's being led by
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of Crystal Dynamics,
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the Tomb Raider series.

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They got compulsion games.

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They're working on an Indie
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They bought Ninja Theory,
which had previously done DNC.

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And they just put
Hell Blade last year.

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They bought the developer
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of Decay 2.

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They bought Playground Games
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behind Forza Horizon.

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So, yeah, that was a really
big message from them saying,

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look, we know we've
had a problem not only

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working on exclusive
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getting them out the door.

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Buying these developers, it's
very similar to what Sony does

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with Worldwide studios, saying
here's a portfolio of companies

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that we now own.

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They're going to be
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exclusively for the Xbox
and, presumably, the PC.

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You've just got a lot to
look forward to in the years

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to come, which, if
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or you're considering an Xbox
1x, that's really important.

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BILLY STEELE: Right.

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And even though there
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during the Xbox
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there were two standouts for us.

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NICK SUMMERS: Yeah.

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I would say the two
biggest third party games

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that were shown was Fallout 76.

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This is Bethesda's next
nuclear post-apocalyptic RPG.

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They'd already confirmed
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But no one really
knew what it was.

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The trailer they showed
before was very, very small.

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And we discovered that it looks
like a proper Fallout game.

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There had been rumors
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that it was some kind of more
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survival RPG.

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What they showed
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like a full blown Fallout game.

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It's set in West Virginia.

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It's set around Volt 76.

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He seems to be a survivor
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and trying to kind
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For fans of that
franchise, of course,

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that's going to be one of
the most anticipated games

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in the next couple of years.

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BILLY STEELE: Right.

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NICK SUMMERS: But aside from
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was Cyberpunk 2077.

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This is a game we've
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It's being made by CD
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the studio behind Witcher 3--

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hugely popular and
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It's a Polish studio.

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They finally showed off a CG
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which is this dystopian
future, very sort of "Blade

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Runner-esque" RPG, where--

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yeah, it's everything
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It's flying cars.

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It's holographic
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tons of crime gangs as well.

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Presumably, you are going to be
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to survive.

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No doubt sort of getting mixed
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BILLY STEELE: And as is usually
the case during these events,

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Microsoft had some stuff
to say about the future.

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They admitted that
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NICK SUMMERS: Yeah, surprise.

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BILLY STEELE: And some game
streaming stuff as well.

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NICK SUMMERS: Yeah, I
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talked about game streaming.

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It's something that's been tried
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which is now defunct.

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But Sony has Playstation now,
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really had numbers for that.

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Seems like it's been a
middling sort of success.

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But it's clear that a
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think that game
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Eventually, we won't have to
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underneath our TVs.

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But there will be a
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maybe a stick in the back
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So the fact that Microsoft
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I'm a bit skeptical as
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and whether consumers want it.

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But it's cool that they're
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And then, yeah, they
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of bits and pieces
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Game Pass, which
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to add subscription service.

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That involves actually
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[INAUDIBLE] this new Fast Pass--

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or Fast Start, sorry--
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bring in new subscribers.

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Because for them, if they
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it's another big
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BILLY STEELE: So that
was a lot of news

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packed into about 90 minutes.

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NICK SUMMERS: Yeah.

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BILLY STEELE: Yeah,
so we're just getting

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started here at E3 2018.

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Keep it locked at Engadget for
more video game news this week.

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