According Respawn Entertainment lead artist Joel Emslie, the goal behind the controller was, “to create a controller that feels as if it is a piece of military spec hardware transported from the universe of Titanfall and into players hands.”

It will be available for $64.99 alongside the launch of the game on March 18th.

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Fable Legends

Rediscover Fable – Return to a well-loved world of magic, humour and high adventure. Find thrilling stories, exciting combat, and exceptional characters.

In Fable Legends, your Hero will never be alone. You can play the game single player, with a party of three A.I companions that follow your lead. Or, you can play cooperatively with up to three of your friends to discover the game’s quests and content.

Fable has always allowed players with an evil streak to express themselves, and Fable Legends presents new opportunities for villainy. Instead of controlling a single character, you command the many creatures, traps, and environmental challenges that the Heroes must struggle to overcome.

That’s according to Microsoft Studios corporate vice president Phil Spencer, who teased the game in Major Nelson’s latest podcast.

“We’re gonna have a really short stage presentation with some news, talking about some unique exclusive coming to the platform,” Spencer said. “We’re going to talk about Europe’s biggest franchise and maybe some interesting things. We have some stuff, but most of the time will be spent with the press getting time with the developers, with their games. So you should think about this as a room with a lot of hands-on. We think that these platforms are about the games, and we want to give the press time with the games.”

Spencer then said that he believes “there’s no better way than having developers talk about what they’re getting out of the platform, whether it’s cloud functionality, Kinect stuff. Rare will be there. You’ll have the Forza team talking about the work that they’re doing. You’ll have third parties there. I think it’s really going to be a great show, because the creators are the ones that make these platforms sing.”

GamesCom happens in Cologne, Germany, from August 21st-25th.

Microsoft is going out of its way to impress gamers at the upcoming show, with Spencer adding that: “It’s really going to be the first time at scale consumers are gonna get their hands on Xbox One,” Spencer said. “It’s going to be tremendous. Our studios and third party studios are hard at work filling out the booth. Biggest booth we’ve ever had.”

And I completely understand. The game is very ambitious in that it attempts to seamlessly tie a TV series with a videogame, with episodic chapters going back and forth between TV and game on Xbox One. It also ties in with Microsoft’s desire to push TV this generation, and Remedy obviously, as stated above by its own studio boss, couldn’t take on such a venture without the backing of Microsoft.

“This is clearly a strategic move for them as well as us. This is something – we have crazy ideas – but we need to fall back and let the full force of a company like Microsoft see it through.

For us, our interests are nicely aligned. We serve a strategic purpose for them in delivering unique content for their platform with a unique twist. And for us that allows us [to] follow the creative passion that the team needs to fulfill through a project like this.”

No release date has been given to the game, but it’ll hopefully be released sometime next year.

Eurogamer pressed Respawn Entertainment’s Lead artist Joel Emslie on the matter, and his answers gave big hints about the game’s future, and the reasons for Xbox One being a starting point.

When you boil it down, we would love to be everywhere, but we’re just starting out. It comes down to quality, not quantity. We have a fantastic relationship with Microsoft. It just boiled down to, okay, how can we hit this as hard as can and get it on as many platforms as possible and deliver the quality, the 60 hertz, out of the gate? That was the goal.

We of course would want to go further in the future with stuff, but we’re just starting out. It’s pretty frustrating! We want to be everywhere. We want to put Titanfall everywhere, but that’s where we’re at. We’re starting there.

Emslie added:

We’re making a multiplayer-focused game so you want to be online. It’s plain and simple. We’re really in love with the Xbox One. Obviously it’s more power on a console, and we’re going to take full advantage of it.

The question was then put plain to Emslie: will Titanfall come to PS4 or not?

It’s definitely not out of the question. We have a huge appreciation for the fans. Coming out and showing it to everybody, we’re super nervous and wanted to make sure everybody loved it. We love all our fans, whatever console they support.

So yeah. We want to make everybody happy, but this is where we’re at right now.

Sounds like a ‘yes’ to me.

E3 Update: Gameplay video and world premier trailer released, quench them below.

The game is named Titan Fall, uses the cloud a lot, and will only be released on Xbox One, PC and Xbox 360. Screenshot of the magazine’s July cover can be found below.

Titan Fall is being published by EA, a company that’s confirmed to be in a strategic partnership with Microsoft and its new console, Xbox One. This is big.

“Xbox One and PC. With a 360 version being developed by someone else. Game uses cloud a bunch apparently,” NeoGAF user Cartman 99, who spotted the leak said.

According to information provided to Kotaku last month, Titanfall is a “Sci-fi multiplayer combat with agile, lethal mech suits.”

The new game from Respawn is a futuristic multiplayer-centric online shooter, one of our sources says. The source describes the game as a battle of Davids and Goliaths. The Davids are heavily-armed foot soldiers. The Goliaths are the giant exosekeltons—Titans—that these soldiers can pilot. These Titans are big mech-style walkers that move with an agility not seen in games like Mechwarrior or Steel Battalions.

To keep the action balanced, game maps limit the number of Titans that can be used in a skirmish. Weapon loadouts for the foot soldiers are designed to ensure that the characters on foot can take out the Titans if need be.

This is a big leak, one GameInformer must be reeling over now, but the bigger news here is the exclusive nature of the game. Remember these guys are the same people who crafted Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, so it’ll be interesting to see what they were able to create with Titanfall.

More as it happens.