• Edit: the trailer for the E3 press conference just released, proving the leak true. Do you think the other stuff in the leak is also true?

   

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  A trailer for Xbox Daily and the Xbox Media Briefing will be published later today by Microsoft (obv they can release it whenever they push the button, so could be tomorrow, too). It's already available on their servers. I can't give you details on how to get there though, sry. It will not feature anything too relevant but still one interesting new theme. 

  Only read further if you are fine with potential E3 spoilers!!!

  People asked me what else I could catch from Xbox API etc. I will just share it now. Take these as rumors or whatever. I don't know what will be at E3 or whatever.

  • Rare is working on a new Battletoads (maybe just the Rare name though like at the Killer Instinct reveal trailer, game could also co-developed by another studio)
  • Sea of Thieves won't be a straight MMO, more like The Division/Destiny, seems like MS will give this game a huge focus, cross-play, cross-buy
  • FH3 set in Australia
  • General RAAM for Killer Instinct
  • Something Age of Empires (still not sure what exactly, prob new game)
  • Halo Wars 2 Beta is a thing, no cross-play mentioned
  • Zombie online game by MS, prob new State of Decay, could also be Dead Rising
  • Anniversary update will gets its own landing page on Xbox.com with the major features listed, prob "available now" at E3 for preview

  Based on the hundreds of lines of source code these are most logical things I could catch within the past few days. There is so much more, but it's really difficult for me to determine what is still relevant, what is just old data and so on. I also see many Conker tags and connections, but I can't find anything concrete about it. So this could mean nothing. I only wrote down the things that will most likely be accurate and are based on recent data updates. 

  That's all I have for now. Nothing on hardware, sry.

  UPDATE JUNE 1TH

  I kept searching all night. Again - and I really want to emphasize this - I'm just sharing the interesting tidbits, tags and pages I'm finding. As already stated above I don't know what will actually appear at E3, what will appear at Gamescom or what will never appear. As an example I'm seeing tons and tons of old Phantom Dust test play session logs. We all know that game never released and is on-hold. And no, I did not find anything new regarding this one. If it's coming back, they did it with a new ID. That said, I got some requests by you guys - so here are the results. 

  • No relevant Banjo-Kazooie tags or connections, only older ones obviously. 
  • References for mouse and keyboard Support found
  • I'm almost sure now on the new AoE game. Castle Siege has a different ID everywhere I found references. 
  • There is a chance the zombie game is just DayZ. The exact title isn't listed (only genre tags etc) which is why I can't know it for sure. 
  • Halo Wars 2 has tons of recent play session logs which lead me to the impression the Beta could be close. 
  • Same for Crackdown 3. 
  • Nothing for Crimson Skies, Project Gotham Racing, Jade Empire, Midtown Madness. Sry. 
  • There are tons of Conker tags everywhere. The problem is: I can't find all of the connected IDs. We have Conker in Rare Replay, Young Conker by Asobo, Project Spark Conker. There is a chance there is also another Conker thing hidden here somewhere, but it's really difficult to find the correct ID. So I will just say: tons of Conker things. Doesn't have to mean anything, could be though.

If their is a new age of empires I really hope it's good.... none of this Age of Empires Online or that weird mobile nonesense.

Agree. And please, don't make it Windows 10 exclusive.

Oh it will be, no doubt about that. Not something that bothers me though as I think Windows 10 is great. I don't expect Microsoft will ever release a PC title that isn't Windows 10 Exclusive from now on.

Sea of thieves looks very interesting.

Excited for a new age of empires.

That would be a very disappointing conference. Probably not true

if this is true, the huge surprise is gonna be hardware instead of software.

A new Age of Empires sounds awesome, providing it is done right, and providing I don't have to upgrade to Win 10 to get it. Knowing MS though, I'm not holding my breath.

If there is a new AOE and it's at E3 it's gonna be for consoles, which means it's probably gonna suck.