Microsoft's annual E3 press briefing on its Xbox business is, if nothing else, never a dull affair. Heck, last year, a car rose out of the stage! And one year, some of The Beatles showed up. What's gonna happen today? That's the question! We get the feeling that our friend the Master Chief will make an appearance in at least one Halo game announcement, the couch-sized men of the Gears of War universe are likely to show up, and we've got our fingers crossed for a hovercraft or some madness rising out of the stage this morning. We'll get started shortly after 9AM PT/12PM ET.
Microsoft's annual E3 press briefing on its Xbox business is, if nothing else, never a dull affair. Heck, last year, a car rose out of the stage! And one year, some of The Beatles showed up. What's gonna happen today? That's the question! We get the feeling that our friend the Master Chief will make an appearance in at least one Halo game announcement, the couch-sized men of the Gears of War universe are likely to show up, and we've got our fingers crossed for a hovercraft or some madness rising out of the stage this morning. We'll get started shortly after 9AM PT/12PM ET.
We're seated at Xbox! Same setup as last year at USC's Galen Center.
Everything is SO GREEN.
Folks are finally beginning to file in... probably more than 5,000 seats as USC's basketball arena is currently configured.
Hey folks! Ben Gilbert here with Tim Seppala and intrepid photog Zach Honig. Welcome to our E3 2014 coverage!
Say hi, Tim!
E3, it's all happening!
As per usual, the Microsoft Xbox press conference is in University of Southern California's Galen Center. Things are very, very green.
Which, ya know, Xbox. Green. Naturally!
Major Nelson is currently interviewing the head of Turn 10 Studios form Forza Horizon 2, and next up we have Alex from Harmonix and they're talkin' Fantasia.
Halo is confirmed for a talking point today; imagine that! Major Nelson is talking to the fine folks from 343 Industries.
Frank O'Connor, the head custodian of the Halo franchise, poked a little passive-aggressive jab at us over our news of the Halo: Master Chief Collection coming to Xbox One this year.
Now Major's talking about a new achievement-tracking system coming to Xbox One, enabling the Snap function to work with achievements.
One thing that's pretty neat is the ability to search the internet for help with especially hard achievements. Simply select an achievement and ask for help. Xbox One pushes you to the web where you can explore more on how to beat it. Cheating? Perhaps! But convenient!
Even the welcome carpet is green (instead of red, naturally). Now we're seeing the team from Insomniac Games talk about Sunset Overdrive.
Dig Killer Instinct? Now we're seeing a trailer for the second season, handled by Iron Galaxy Studios, which adds TJ Combo. Some big cheers in the crowd for that. He looks like a boxer!
Hey, Titanfall! Respawn Games' Abbie Heppe is talking to Major Nelson. The studio is showing off a new mode this year.
Threes, that amazing iOS game, is heading to the Xbox One! That's not what we expected, but boy is that an amazing game.
Designer Asher Vollmer is speaking with the Major about it, and it sounds like we'll be able to play Threes while, say, watching Netflix. The first game that actually makes sense to do that!
Now we're moving inside, with Graeme Boyd taking over hosting duties. He says over 200 people transformed the Galen Center into the green nightmarescape it is today.
Boyd's throwing things back to Major who's now got Rod Fergusson from Black Tusk, the folks behind the next Gears of War franchise.
Fergusson is rocking a sideways Canada flag on his shirt, and it looks like we'll hear more about that next Gears game today. Or maybe Rod Fergusson's just here to hang out? We sincerely doubt it.
Meanwhile, the screen inside the Galen Center is showing a variety of #MyFavoriteGame hashtags. The crew of HBO's Silicon Valley is briefly talking about their favorite games. They like games, y'all!
Hey, were you one of the reported 7.5 million downloaders of the free-to-play Happy Wars? It's coming to Xbox One with four-player split-screen and cross-platform play. You can transfer your info from the Xbox 360 version too, from the sounds of it.
We're about seven minutes from the show kicking off here, y'all. This place is filling up pretty fast -- even the nosebleeds are filled.
Major's just saying his thanks and signing off, so we're gonna gear up for the actual show. Hurry up and wait is this year's theme, apparently!
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