Xbox at Gamescom: Slew of new edgy games to unfurl
XBOX goes to annual video game expo Gamescom barely two months from the launch of a super-powered Xbox One X, but it’s just bumped showcase title “Crackdown 3” into 2017. So what can we expect from Xbox at the enormous games event?
“We are doing something we haven’t done in awhile at Gamescom, it will be different from what fans expect but I’m excited,” Phil Spencer tweeted in the lead-up to Gamescom 2017.
Rather than Spencer leading the show, as he did at June’s glitzy Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3,) Xbox Europe’s Graeme Boyd and Maxi Gräff host an “Xbox @ Gamescom” live show, a pared-down event with news, gameplay, and developer chats.
Xbox laid out some of its Gamescom plans in a mid-July announcement, telegraphing 27 playable games on Xbox One and Windows 10 systems, but limiting namechecks to October’s “Forza Motorsport 7,” a 20th anniversary edition for “Age of Empires,” and early 2018’s naval multiplayer “Sea of Thieves.”
Just as well, as high profile super-sized action showpiece “Crackdown 3,” originally set for a November release, has been moved into 2018.
“ReCore” is expected to be repackaged in a deluxe edition while Microsoft-published postapocalyptic jaunt “State of Decay 2”, like “Sea of Thieves,” has been earmarked for an early 2018 debut and could drop in.
PC gaming’s enormous hit “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” is also due on Xbox One before the year’s end, while other titles with promised Xbox One X enhancements include “Destiny 2,” “Middle Earth: Shadow of War,” “Gears of War 4,” “Minecraft,” and “Halo 5.” — Relaxnews