MANILA, Philippines – Starting off with an Xbox One S reveal, Microsoft’s E3 Press conference is offering plenty for fans of different types of games to love, with a slew of trailers and the Play Anywhere system, wherein gamers can purchase a game on Xbox One and be able to play on Windows 10.

The Xbox One S will cost $399 and will be available in August. The Xbox One S will provide HDR gaming, come with a 2TB hard drive, and provide 4K Ultra HD video support.

Microsoft also announced the Xbox One family upgrade called Project Scorpio. Microsoft is touting it as the most powerful gaming console when it releases, and is meant to serve 4K resolution and high-fidelity graphics for VR functionality. Project Scorpio is set to have 6 teraflops of computing capability, 8 CPU cores, and over 320 GB per second of memory bandwidth.

Aside from the Xbox One S and Project Scorpio reveals were demonstrations and trailers for a veritable ton of games, beginning with a Gears of War 4 demo.

Gears of War 4 will feature cross-play functionality across Xbox One and Windows 10, with owners of a copy on one platform able to play on both Xbox One and Windows 10.

They also showed off a nifty Gears of War Xbox One Controller. Gears of War 4 will be available on October 11, 2016.

The folks developing Killer Instinct, meanwhile, showed off a new character from the Gears of War mythos – General Raam.

Forza Horizon 3 and Recore were also shown off. 

 

Whereas Forza was all about the cars, Recore showed off the protagonist’s many robotic companions.

Square Enix, provided a demo of Final Fantasy XV running on the Xbox One, providing a fight with Titan. Ubisoft, meanwhile showed a trailer for The Division: Underground, an expansion or add-on for The Division, which will arrive first on Xbox One.  

 

Minecraft also was also shown at the Microsoft press conference, with functionality for Minecraft on a host of different platforms having cross-functionality: On Xbox One, Windows 10, and mobile platforms.

 

Ark: Survival Evolved will also be getting Play Anywhere functionality, with Xbox One version purchasers getting Windows 10 versions too. 

 

In addition, Microsoft revealed a trailer for its independent games lineup, with quite a number of titles on hand to join the Microsoft gaming army.

 

 

 

 

 

 

CD Projekt Red showed off their Gwent card game, a card game based off its Witcher 3 game. 

 

 

 

 

Namco Bandai meanwhile, showed off Tekken 7 by providing an epic battle between Heihachi Mishima and Street Fighter’s Akuma. The game will be out in 2017.

 

 

 

 

Capcom, for its part showed off Dead Rising 4, with the game slated for the 2016 holidays.

 

 

 

Scalebound, an epic dragon-riding and giant monster-slaying adventure, also got some time in the spotlight. The game will come with Xbox One Play Anywhere functionality, allowing users to play it on Xbox One and Windows 10 with a single purchase, with 4-person co-operative play available for the groups of monster slayers out there. 

 

 

 

Rare showed off Sea of Thieves, and eager gamers watched as some new players struggled – and laughed – their way to being seaworthy!

 

 

 

Seven years after the first Halo Wars, Halo Wars 2 is set to take the world by storm, primarily because your main objective is to protect it or possibly subjugate it yourself. The game is slated for February 21, 2017 for Xbox One and Windows 10, and will have a running open beta period from today until June 20.  

 

Additional trailers from Microsoft’s E3 press conference are available on its Xbox YouTube page, though a Project Scorpio reveal trailer remains strangely absent. – Rappler.com