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bowl games are getting new life at the e3 video game Expo I'm Bridget Carey this is your CNET update III the biggest video game conference in the world is going on now in Los Angeles game makers are showing off new titles and technologies to come and of course virtual reality is part of that conversation but at this early stage of the technology we're really just getting teases of what's possible Microsoft announced it's going to work with virtuality headsets made by valve and oculus but it also showed off a demo of how microsoft's hololens will work with the blocky building game minecraft with hololens it can just project an image of your game in front of your view like a floating TV but you can even have it project the Minecraft world you created on top of a table in your room giving you a unique perspective that can be manipulated using your voice enhance but there's still no word on when you can get a hololens or play this now getting back to the real world microsoft also announced that the xbox one is going to be able to play your old xbox 360 games later this year but there is a catch stick in an old game disk and the machine will allow you to download a version for free from the online store and there are about a hundred games to start it's up to the game developers to allow it to be backward compatible when the Xbox one came out in 2013 older 360 game discs were useless on the new system so this may be a bit of a bummer to anyone who's sold or gave away their older games in the past two years but it has added incentive for anyone who did not upgrade yet this fall Xbox one will also have a new controller called the elite wireless controller with four additional paddle buttons that hug the back you can also interchange pieces it has hair trigger locks and adjustable sensitivity among the many games Microsoft teased perhaps the biggest this year will be halo 5 guardians or you're on a team hunting down the Fallen star of the series Master Chief now labeled a traitor the halo environment lets 24 people play together in a multiplayer mode called warzone if you're looking for something more creative check out the game cuphead it's a game designed in the style of old 9 20s and 1930s cartoons like Betty Boop Felix the Cat Popeye in Disney Silly Symphonies it's so weird it may just steal the show from the usual apocalyptic theme games these days the end of the world just feels a little mundane speaking of which there's lots of excitement around fallout 4 it's a game six years in the making and it's launching on November 10th this time you can build your own weapons to survive the nuclear wasteland of Boston game maker Bethesda also just released a free iOS mobile game called fallout shelter it's sort of like Sim City where you help manage the towns underground shelters keeping the residents happy and healthy that's it for this tech news update there's plenty more ìiî coverage in cnet.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey