As the second major press conference at E3 this year, Xbox set a pretty high standard for those to follow, with some strong announcements, game reveals and a focus on catering to their hardcore fans.

Head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, was upfront about wanting to re-affirm Xbox’s commitment to high quality games on the platform, as well as high quality talent, announcing Microsoft has created new development teams as well as acquiring some big names, like Ninja Theory and Playground Games.

Phil also hinted at the next generation of Xbox, saying in his wrap-up  that the team responsible for last year’s Xbox One X is already “deep into architecturing the next Xbox console, where we will once again deliver on our commitment to deliver the benchmark of console gaming.”

We also finally had reveals of some big franchise titles like Halo Infinite, Gears 5 and Devil May Cry 5, alongside original game reveals like Session and The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit.

Here’s the full wrap-up of the briefing:

• Halo Infinite is the next mainline Halo game with Master Chief, but no further details are known beyond a trailer.

• Gears 5 brings main protagonist Kait into the forefront of the story, and two other Gears games were announced – the XCOM-like Gears Tactics and Gears Pop! for mobile

• In an obvious move to fix their problem with exclusive titles, Xbox announced five gaming studio acquisitions – the newly created ‘The Initiative’ in Santa Monica, headed by Darrell Gallagher from Crystal Dynamics; Undead Labs from Seattle, responsible for the State of Decay games; Playground Games, who have worked closely with Microsoft in the past developing the Forza Horizon series; Ninja Theory, the team behind story-driven experiences like Hellblade and Enslaved: Odyssey to the West; and Compulsion Games, the developers of We Happy Few.
• Devil May Cry 5 was finally unveiled – it stars Nero yet again, but Dante could be glimpsed at the end of the reveal trailer.
• Forza Horizon 4 brings the series to the UK, and features an online shared world

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• Fallout 76 got another trailer and was stated to be ‘4x the size of Fallout 4′
• We saw a little bit more of FromSoftware’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 
• Cyberpunk 2077 was finally officially shown off with a new trailer

• Ori and the Will of the Wisps had a new trailer
• A new 2.5D Battletoads is actually a thing!
• Jump Force, a new game combining characters from Shonen Jump series like Naruto and Dragon Ball, was announced
• Crackdown 3, while still delayed, got some Terry Crews-centric gameplay footage
• Just Cause 4 was formally announced and it’s apparently got tornadoes in it this time
• Kingdom Hearts III got a new trailer, and it was confirmed that Frozen will be one of the Disney worlds featured in the game

• After being leaked as a banner in E3’s halls, The Division 2 set in Washington DC was properly announced with a new trailer
• Cuphead is getting some new DLC in ‘The Last Course’ arriving in 2019
• There was an amusing trailer for Sea of Thieves: Cursed Sails and Forsaken Shores content
• A good chunk of Metro Exodus was shown off in a new trailer
• A new Kickstarted skateboarding game was shown off, Session
• A whole range of really cool looking independent titles were showcased in montage in a new trailer for ID@Xbox

• From the Life is Strange universe comes The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit from DONTNOD
• We Happy Few was confirmed for a release on 10 August
• The fantastic Nier Automata was revealed to be coming to Xbox One
• Tales of Vespiria: Definitive Edition is coming to Xbox One by the  end of this year.
• Tunic showed off a Zelda-like and very unique looking trailer

• Black Desert, an action-fantasy formerly-PC only MMORPG is coming to Xbox One in beta form later this year.
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider received a new trailer focusing on its story, about Lara accidentally setting off the end of the world. Oops.
• Chris Avellone showed off gameplay from Dying Light 2
• Finally, Xbox Game Pass is not only receiving several games day one, including Forza Horizon 4 and Crackdown 3, but select games will also have a new ‘Fast Start’ technology that allows them to load more quickly using the service.

Bethesda’s next up, so check back later in the day for our coverage on their press conference!