E3 2015 Hololens

E3 2015: Xbox wows with Halo 5, Tomb Raider and Hololens

Xbox kicked off its E3 2015 show with Halo 5. After promising its best E3 show ever and a disappointing appearance at last year’s event, Microsoft had a lot to prove. Things started well, with a little lull in the middle, but once a holographic Minecraft was revealed, all was forgiven and the crowd was almost stunned into submission.

rise of the tomb raider
Lara and her new sidekick in Rise of the Tomb Raider at E3 2015

Halo 5 looked stunning and ticked all the multiplayer boxes. Forza Motorsport 6, Gears 4 and a new, exclusive IP from the creators of Metroid also impressed. Team Xbox brought out the big guns, with Rise of the Tomb, raider, which saw Lara and a sidekick trying to scale an icy mountain top.

However, Minecraft really stole the show, thanks to the magic of augmented reality with Hololens. Seeing a Mincraft city rise up out of a tabletop, on the stage was like the Star Wars chess game just became a real thing – a-mazing.

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Chella hails from the UK and joined Gameindustry.com around the year 2000. It was so many moons ago, she can't quite remember. Back then, the only women you saw in the games industry were in bikinis and vertiginous heels at trade shows - oh how times have changed, kind of. Chella started as a humble reviewer, but soon became our European Correspondent and keeps us on top of industry happenings across the Pond. She tends to like the weird Japanese games we've never heard of, so that's good for making us look all-encompassing and stuff. Chella does like games, so don't be fooled by the copious amount of columns devoted to bemoaning the lack of variety in the industry. When she's not surfing (the sea, not the internet) or camping up mountains, Chella likes a good action RPG (especially if it's sci-fi), anything with a good narrative and like we said, the weirder the better. She's also a regular in the GiN Lounge, but that's just because we like her accent.