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1 vs 100 was terrific! I was slow to take up online play and this was the only online game that I played on my 360. Like Mafro, I'd love to see something similar on consoles again.

+1 for the 1v100 love. They should bring that back, it was awesome and the only decent use of avatars that I ever saw.

Photek wrote:From Wikipedia:
The theatre auditorium seats 7,100 and holds one of the largest indoor stages in the United States

So Basically, MS bought a Theatre across the road from The LA Convention 3 years ago and now essentially don't have any floor space in the LA centre itself..

From what I've read they will have floor space in the convention centre as well as the theatre. Might be wishful thinking on my part but I guess part of the strategy is that it'll be slightly easier to keep unannounced games secret if less people have access to where the booths are being set up.

I wonder will they hold back the Halo 6 announcement for E3? It's inevitably going to happen so when do they announce it?

Would be down for 1 vs 100 if they made it less "play this as much as possible to get a chance to be the 1" and more "random"

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9pm is a very reasonable time for a UK audience, the Bethesda one starts at 2.30pm!

Microsoft describe it as 'our biggest showing ever' so I'm just trying to decode if that is referencing the content of the show, ie megatons, or to do with the venue and related events?

1 vs 100 was great. I liked that you were part of a quiz show where you could actually win something and all the other avatars were real people.

1 Vs 100 was amazing. I would love to see a new version.

If they could genuinely hold back a Halo 6 reveal till E3 that comes out this year it'll be a big news.

more heat than light wrote:1 Vs 100 was amazing. I would love to see a new version.

It was fantastic.

I remember hooking up my "Scene It" controllers for extra game-show immersion!

They do need to make the selection process a bit more transparent. Never once got into the 100, despite playing almost every single round.

Photek wrote:If they could genuinely hold back a Halo 6 reveal till E3 that comes out this year it'll be a big news.

Speculation that they'll be no Halo 6 this year but a spin-off instead -

Welcome back! To be frank (or Grim, really), I’m not sure if that’s a welcome back to use, or you guys, but let’s go with it either way. 2018 has arrived and with it, the promise of new fun times to be had and adventures to be embarked upon. No, not those adventures, but plenty of exciting ones regardless – some which might surprise you more than others.

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/18-and-up

Halo Battle Royale?

Also a Gears spin-off has been hinted at by twitter "insiders".

Halo and Gears, brilliant.

A Halo Battle Royale, oh my days.... although the sniper in that would be a god weapon, but with warthogs and stuff.... could be good.

It'll have been three years since Halo 6 so I was guessing that it was due this year.

If there is a Gears related game then I hope it's something in a different genre entirely almost like Halo Wars.

Not sure about a Halo battle royale. I didn't play much of 5 but the AI elements of Warzone were what made it stand out to me. Exploring that idea is more interesting than battle royale.

Obviously I hope we see more new IPs or at the very least the revival of franchises that have been dormant for years.

I kind of feel like any new Halo game needs a single-player component (especially considering the wait between titles). I'd have literally zero interest in a Battle Royal game.

Perfect Dark is very probable.

Possibly a Fable 2 Remaster too to plug gap till 4.

I'm cautiously optimistic about whatever the next Forza Horizon is, hopefully it's kept the best bits about 3 and ditched the worst from FM7. A lot of wishful thinking around the internet is it'll be set in Japan, however they would need to get the Toyota license back. No way am I hitting the Touge without a hachiroku :datass:

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Photek wrote:If they could genuinely hold back a Halo 6 reveal till E3 that comes out this year it'll be a big news.

I know some publishers reveal titles in the week or two preceding E3 so that the games get their moment of media attention. But what makes you think Microsoft would do that with Halo 6? I mean it's their biggest title and if they have something exciting to reveal that would be the perfect megaton to close the show.

"Announcing 17 New Games coming via the ID@Xbox Program"

Here's the list (+other already announced games):

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2018/03/14/ ... x-program/

Interesting timing, hadn't heard anything ID@Xbox related for ages. This has lead me to an audacious E3 prediction....

All ID@Xbox games to be included with Game Pass.

*mic drop*

Microsoft’s new gaming cloud division readies for a future beyond Xbox

Cloud services seen as the future of games

Microsoft has been building up to this move for a while. The company has been mysteriously acquiring gaming-related companies over the past few years. From Havok in 2015, Simplygon in 2017, to PlayFab earlier this year, you’ve probably never heard of any of them, but they’re important for Microsoft’s bold cloud gaming ambitions. While these acquisitions have been taking place, Microsoft has been reshuffling its gaming teams as the company prepares to launch its own cloud gaming services. Phil Spencer is now Microsoft’s head of gaming, and reports directly to CEO Satya Nadella. Microsoft’s new gaming cloud division is headed up by Kareem Choudhry, a 20-year Microsoft veteran that has worked on Outlook, DirectX, and Xbox engineering.

“Phil really wanted a dedicated team focused exclusively on the gaming cloud, says Choudhry, in an interview with The Verge. “Those were conversations that started happening last summer, and we really started creating the structure of the organization at the end of last year.” The new division is designed to entice developers and game publishers to use Microsoft’s cloud services. Ubisoft has been using Microsoft’s Azure cloud services across PC, Xbox, and PS4 with Rainbow Six: Siege recently, and even the mobile game Black Desert uses Azure virtual machines and databases. Microsoft wants more and more game developers to use its cloud, especially as games become more connected across devices for their multiplayer experiences.

“We believe there is going to be 2 billion gamers in the world, and our goal is to reach every one of them,” explains Choudhry. Part of the way Microsoft will get there with its new gaming cloud focus is with subscription services. Xbox Game Pass has been available over the past year, and recently Microsoft decided all of its first-party games would come to the subscription service at launch. Sea of Thieves is the first big title, but future Haloand Gears of War games will also be available. “We’re really pleased with the success that’s happening [with Game Pass],” says Choudhry. “We continue to believe in user choice, and we also believe there’s room in the industry for a gaming subscription and that’s what we’re going to build.”

A “Netflix for video games” would be an important service for any company with cloud gaming aspirations, but it’s going to be a difficult task for Microsoft on rival platforms like the PlayStation 4 or Nintendo’s Switch. Despite the challenge, Choudhry hints that Microsoft could achieve this by streaming games to devices. “We’re looking at ways to make that content available to anyone no matter what device they’re on,” says Choudhry.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/15/1712 ... box-future

"We are not leaving the console business behind by any means. We are continuing to invest there. The premium living room experience today is on Xbox One X, and we hope to continue that for years to come. But when you think about how we are going to broaden our business, we need to think beyond console to be successful."

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/ ... he-console

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