Microsoft brings Pirates Of The Caribbean to Sea Of Thieves and Top Gun to Flight Simulator
Bethesda also shows off more of Starfield and Microsoft shares more Halo Infinite footage
After a partially COVID-necessitated hiatus last year, it’s E3 time again, making this the most wonderful time of the year for video game fans… or at least video game fans who like to know what’s coming out in the future more than they like actually playing video games, because E3 is more about trailers and release dates than it is about playing anything now that it’s all virtual and nobody puts out game demos anymore. Anyway, Microsoft held its big presentation today, teaming up with recently acquired game studio Bethesda for a pretty solid showing of new things coming to Xboxes and personal computers in the near future.
The two big highlights were the oft-delayed Halo Infinite and Bethesda’s Starfield, with Microsoft confirming that the former will be out later this year and that its multiplayer component—arguably the best part of the average Halo game—will be free to play (while the story mode, about our good friend Mr. Master Chief, will cost money). Starfield, meanwhile, is the first wholly new game that is not a sequel to an existing thing from Bethesda Game Studios (the folks behind Skyrim and the recent Fallout games) in decades. It’s some kind of space game, with robots and beefy-looking, realistic-ish space ships, and it’ll be available exclusively on PC and Xbox on November 11, 2022.