Sea of Thieves makes a good first impression with a gorgeous open ocean for you to explore and captivating sailing mechanics. But it's a trick that's short-lived, with its barebones content ringing at the door sooner than you can say Davy Jones.

Raytracing is the biggest new addition to DirectX 12 and popular games engines, but what exactly does it do? This Unreal Engine Star Wars demo gives you a small taste of the potential future of videogame fidelity.

I’m pretty gosh darned excited for Microsoft and Rare’s impending Sea of Thieves. It’s a seafaring pirate game that I had no interest in whatsoever, until I played the beta and found myself having hours of goofy fun with a crew of likeminded (and equally incapable) scurvy seadogs.

Microsoft is shaking their E3 plans up in a large way, moving al of their booth space outside of the main convention centre and rescheduling their conference.

Mouse and Keyboard support from Microsoft is still coming one day for the Xbox One. But don't expect that to mean the company will ban adapters currently in the wild.

It may have been more cramped than a Hong Kong flat party, but E3 2017 felt alive and energised. The showfloor was buzzing, people were having a good time and the venue felt like a prime example of what video games were supposed to do: Connect with people. This year, you can grab a second chance at experiencing the mania of E3. Provided that you have enough green in your wallet that is.

In a year where Xbox needs to prove that it has not only the right exclusives to promote its console family, but also the guts to try something more unique, Sea of Thieves feels like that beautifully idiotic dream realised.

If you though Halo video-games take long to develop, you should see how long its taking them to make a TV series based on the iconic games.