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XBOX has ramped up the console war with Playstation by offering a load of upcoming games for one all-in price on its impressive Game Pass subscription service.
The games firm went big in its E3 announcement, lifting the lid on 30 new blockbuster titles coming to its Series X and S in the next few years.
And a whopping 27 of them will be included with Game Pass, a Netflixstyle service that offers up more than 100 games to download and play instantly for as little as £7.99 a month.
With Sony’s PS5 absent from this year’s annual Los Angeles E3 expo, Microsoft’s gaming arm wanted to make the most of the big stage.
So as it celebrated 20 years of existence, Xbox announced a slew of bigbudget titles including upcoming scifi role-play epic Starfield, a massive space explorer 25 years in the making at newly acquired studio Bethesda. It’s due out in November 2022.
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Redfall, a new co-op, open-world first-person shooter from Arkane Austin, was also announced to big fanfare. That’s likely to be one for next year too. And much-loved PC hit shooting game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. gets a brand new sequel on the Xbox platforms. More immediately, racing fans will get Mexico-based Forza Horizon 5 ahead of Christmas as well as the super-hyped Halo Infinite space game. A new multiplayer-only shooter in Battlefield 2042, which will run at 60fps while supporting 128 players on Xbox Series X|S, is coming shortly. Microsoft’s much-wanted PC hit Flight Simulator lands on Xbox Series X|S and Game Pass on July 27. There will even be a free Top Gun: Maverick expansion – launching alongside the new Top Gun: Maverick movie on November 19.
Will Tuttle, Xbox Wire editorin-chief, said: “For more than 20 years, Team Xbox has focused on making Xbox a place where fans will find great games. We are all on a mission to bring the joy of gaming to everyone on the planet and that’s why we put players at the centre of everything that we do.” Other blockbuster triple-a titles unveiled included Age Of Empires IV, Among Us, Sega’s Yakuza: Like A Dragon and Psychonauts 2.