Xbox E3: Microsoft unveil next gen console, Game Pass changes and latest games at press conference - as it happened

Phil Spencer, Executive President of Gaming at Microsoft, speaks during the Microsoft xBox E3 briefing at the Microsoft Theater on June 10, 2018 in Los Angeles, California (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Xbox is hosting its E3 conference, during which it is expected to unveil its next gen console and the games that will be played on it.

The event will allow Xbox to reveal the new titles coming over the next year and beyond.

And it will be the biggest event of the conference, since PlayStation has decided to avoid the gaming event entirely and will not be hosting a press conference.

As well as the next generation console, Microsoft is expected to show off a new Halo game, updates on Game Pass and its streaming service Project xCloud, as well as potentially unexpected Xbox games.

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[9 June 2019 21:03 · Andrew Griffin]

First up: Outer Worlds. It looks bright and beautiful and a little satirical.

[9 June 2019 21:04 · Andrew Griffin]

And a release date: 25 October.

[9 June 2019 21:05 · Andrew Griffin]

First up properly is Ninja Theory, the developers who announced they'd joined Xbox Game Studios last year.

[9 June 2019 21:07 · Andrew Griffin]

And they're premiering Bleeding Edge, a game they say has been in the works for several years (and long before the two teamed up). It will be available on Xbox Game Pass at launch.

[9 June 2019 21:08 · Andrew Griffin]

I don't know what we're being shown now but it has so many horrible spiders and webs in it that I don't want to share a grab for fear of upsetting any watching arachnophobes. It looks beautiful though!

[9 June 2019 21:09 · Andrew Griffin]

Oh! It's the new Ori game. Ori and the Will of the Wisps.

[9 June 2019 21:11 · Andrew Griffin]

And here we are with some sort Minecraft Dungeons. AS you'd expect, the trailer has a lot of blocky people running around in dungeons!

Out Spring 2020. 4-player co-op. And it'll be available on Game Pass.

[9 June 2019 21:14 · Andrew Griffin]

Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox, is on stage. So we're going to launch into the proper stuff.

He is talking about the power of games, and how they can bring people together. (He even says they can "unify the world", which seems a big claim, but I hope it's true!)

He says this is the most exciting time for gamers: people can play whenever they want, where they want and with whomever they want. Everything Xbox does is guided by its belief that gaming is for everyone, he says.

That seems to be the message of this speech, and presumably the rest of the event: bringing people together, by giving everyone the games they want to play.

[9 June 2019 21:15 · Andrew Griffin]

This will be the largest selection of games from anyone on any stage this year, he says.

(Which is easier this year given PlayStation aren't presenting.)

There'll be 60 games to be showed off today. 34 of them will be in Xbox Game pass.

[9 June 2019 21:15 · Andrew Griffin]

And we'll have new console news, he says! (That was right at the end of the preview, so buckle up and get comfortable if that's what you're here for.)