Annual gaming exhibition Gamescom, which is traditionally held in the German city of Cologne, though inferior to the scale of E3, but still collects under its roof hundreds of thousands of gamers and game journalists from around the world. This year the exhibition American company Microsoft has decided to organise a conference. The fall in the sale of new gaming console Xbox One X, so the Redmond giant needs to try to maximize the interest of your audience and encourage people to purchase this device worth $ 500. View out if marketers Microsoft to achieve this goal.
The event was very intimate. No stage and huge screens. Sofa for three of the leading and Studio guests. As spectators in the hall, most likely, were the employees of Microsoft (who else will be actively cheering for no reason?). Ordinary visitors to the event were not. The conference was originally designed for half an hour. During this time, we promised to show 7 world premieres.
The first guest was Jean Gedon from publisher Ubisoft. He spoke about the development of Assassin’s Creed: Origin and showed a new CG trailer. The game comes out October 27.
Game developer PlayerUnknown”s Battlegrounds attended the conference. After PC its incredibly successful the game will be released exclusively for the Xbox One and Xbox One X. the release date is not yet known, but it must happen before the end of the year.
Premiere game World of battleships. It will go on sale in the summer of 2018.
As expected, initially flopped at the sales of the game Re-Core will get a quality reissue. The release will take place on August 29.
Gorgeous video about Xbox One X showed us more at E3.
New gameplay State of Decay 2. In my opinion, is the most interesting exclusive game for Xbox One. At least compared to other projects. The first part I really liked, so I’m looking forward to the sequel. It will be released in the spring of 2018.
A bit of World of Tanks, which will soon become available to players of Xbox One X in full 4K. Also, the game will get new mode of War Stories, which will be available to all players on August 22.
The video of indie games.
A new trailer for Sea of Thieves.
How we could do without Xbox One X in the style of Minecraft? Because without it we have no way to play this game in 4K. Included two controllers in the style of a Creeper and a pig from the game, as well as a copy of Minecraft.
Trailer Middle-Earth: Shadow of War. The game will also bundle with Xbox One console S.
Cuphead — amazing side scrolling style of old cartoons. The game will be released on September 29.
For the first time showed us gameplay simulator Surviving Mars. The game will be released in 2018.
Another trailer Xbox One X. this time they showed us a limited edition bundle consoles to put on its case codenamed Project Scorpio. It was under him it was announced last year.
The conference came to an end. The miracle did not happen and decent new exclusives was not shown. Behind the scenes and mysterious Codename Hollywood project, information about which was leaked recently. So we learn about him in the future. And below you can watch the entire conference in the record.
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