This is a brief roundup of all the big news from Microsoft’s GamesCom Press-Conference.
Games:
Remedy Studio, the people behind cult classic Alan Wake, new time bending game, Quantum Break is now being released on April 5, 2015.
The first gameplay for the Crackdown reboot, has a lot of explosions.
Platinum Studio’s Xbox exclusive Scalebound is being released holiday 2016. The first gameplay trailer is below.
Rash from Battletoads is a new playable guest character in Killer Instinct. He is available to play right now.
From Software showed off some brand new Dark Souls III gameplay.
Gameplay from the long dormant Homefront: Revolution was shown off today. Along with the announcement of an Xbox One beta.
The newest gameplay trailer for Rise of the Tomb Raider.
Halo Wars 2 is coming Fall 2016! Here is the first cinematic trailer.
ID@Xbox announces new games coming first to consoles on Xbox including City:Skylines and We Happy Few.
Features and Hardware:
Xbox backwards compatibility comes to everyone in November. All games with gold games from now on will be backwards compatible at launch.
DVR functionality will let you stream and record to any windows 10 device in 2016.
A new Limited Edition Halo 5 Xbox One is coming October 20, 2015. Pre-orders are up now.
A new Xbox one chat pad is coming in November 2016.
Stay Tuned to GameSkinny for more Gamescom news and impressions.
