10 a.m. PT
Microsoft kicked off its E3 game industry conference with new footage from its latest franchise game, “Halo 5: Guardians,” which will come out on Oct. 27 and features a multiplayer zone with up to 24 live players and maps four times the size of previous versions.
Executives also got a whoop from the hundreds of bloggers, journalists and gamers in attendance at The Galen Center in Los Angeles when they announced the Xbox One console will have backward-compatibility with Xbox 360 games. Discs from the previous Xbox console can simply be inserted, downloaded to the hard drive and played on the newer console.
The company also unveiled a new controller called the Xbox Elite with customizable buttons.
8:50 a.m. PT
Doors open, and hundreds of people lined up outside are let into The Galen Center in Los Angeles for Microsoft’s Xbox briefing for E3, the video game industry’s annual conference.
Microsoft is expected to promote the latest game in its “Halo” franchise as well as give another glimpse of its augmented reality headset, HoloLens.
Bloggers, gamers and journalists, many wearing the black and green colors of Xbox, stream into the arena on the campus of the University of Southern California. Inside, music is blaring in the darkened space covered in Xbox logos while green spotlights sweep the crowd.
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