With day two of the E3 video game conference about to begin, here are the biggest stories from Microsoft’s Xbox conference, Bethesda and moreWe are in a transitional period for video games: new console technology is right around the corner, but most of the industry’s big players aren’t quite ready to show their cards. Sony has removed itself and the PlayStation from this year’s E3 conference, leaving Microsoft to take centre stage on the first day of this year’s event. It will be on sale towards the end of 2020, and forms one half of Microsoft’s video game strategy – the other half being a cloud-powered service that lets you play Xbox games anywhere, on any screen. Cyberpunk 2077 was one of the most-anticipated games going into this year’s E3, and developer CD Projekt Red capitalised by busting out Keanu Reeves to promote it at Microsoft’s Xbox press conference. Speaking of Microsoft’s Xbox press conference, the company showed around 60 games in the course of 90 minutes.

Source: The Guardian June 10, 2019 16:10 UTC