If you were expecting Halo Infinite to reset a timeline or take the Halo franchise in a radically new direction in terms of story, don't. Halo Infinite is the next chapter in Master Chief's story, and essentially just Halo 6.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is almost upon us, and we still don't know that much about it as Rockstar Games are keeping a lid on the biggest features of their upcoming cowboy sandbox. Here's what we do know however, about this new foray into the untamed frontier of the wild west.

Not only did the Xbox One release a little later than the PlayStation 4 at the beginning of this gen in 2013, but it was also more expensive and less powerful. That wasn’t a great start for the Xbox One, which has now blossomed into a beast thanks to the Xbox One X. Leaving the gates second is a mistake that Microsoft probably doesn’t want to make again – and it’s likely that the next generation of Xbox (in whatever guise that may be) will be out before Sony’s ready to launch its own next-generation PlayStation.

This year, Zombies is on of the main pillars of Call of Duty Black Ops 4, which ditches the traditional single player campaign to instead focus on traditional multiplayer, Battle Royale and the Zombies mode.

Sea of Thieves is preparing to brace itself for some stormy new content. Revealed at E3 2018, some of that content isn’t exactly far off now that the Hungering Deep has gone live: September to be exact, when Cursed Sails arrives in September and is then followed by Forsaken Shores. What’s really on the horizon though? More enriching experience, according to Rare’s captains.

It may not have much in the way of exclusives right now, but the Xbox One is still an absolutely terrific machine if you don’t mind focusing on third-party games more often. That’s primarily thanks to the Xbox Game Pass service, which functions as a Netflix for games, giving users a veritable buffet of titles to gorge on. There’s some …

The US games retail-tracking company the NPD has released its figures for last month, showing that Sony’s PlayStation 4 remains the best-selling console in the US. As is usual, their analysis includes hardware, physical copies of games sold at retail, and some (but not all!) games sold digitally.

Despite there being so few right now, Microsoft is still putting out some quality exclusives at E3. And if it's an indication of the future, it's one that looks very bright.