Every year, the largest developers and publishers converge on Los Angeles for E3 to show off the next year or two of gaming. The "big three," (Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo) in particular have an even heftier mission: to have the "best" press conference.

Microsoft is kicking off the show on Monday, June 4 at 9:30 AM, and we're hearing that it has big plans for the show. We've put our heads together to speculate exactly what said plans might be, and came up with some predictions as to what we expect to hear the Xbox-maker reveal.

It's E3, and you know what that means! It's time for Microsoft to completely revamp the Xbox dashboard. While some of the changes in the past haven't really felt needed, we're actually fairly excited to hear what it has in store for the revamped interface, because we're still not sold on the current Kinect-focused one.

It's a hassle to find anything, nothing is organized in a way that makes sense, and we're guessing the number of people waving at their TVs to watch Netflix is much lower than those stumbling through with a controller. Hopefully Microsoft will find a nice middle ground, because the current setup isn't doing it for us.

Microsoft isn't going to be happy until every single person has a Kinect eerily staring at them while they play Xbox 360 games. It's done a good job forcing the peripheral into homes thus far, but it still has a long way to go. Because of that, and because we're fairly late into this console generation, we expect either a price cut, or a new Kinect bundle that's essentially a stealth price cut.

Maybe Microsoft will just shove Kinects into every bundle already on the market - effectively cutting the price of every Xbox on store shelves by $100 by including a shiny new Kinect. Maybe it'll slash $50 off of all of the current bundles and hope that consumers will use those savings to buy Kinects. Either way, we expect Microsoft to make a drastic move this year at E3 in terms of pricing.

While we're on the subject of "things that are almost always at Microsoft's E3 press conference," let's roll right over to Halo. Halo 4 is due out this fall, and we still haven't much significant footage of it. We've been given drips of singleplayer information and hints of multiplayer details, but so far it's all been very limited. With a release only a few months away, it's time for Microsoft to do a full stage presentation. And while it's showing the game off, it might as well reveal what we already all sort of know: it's going to have Kinect functionality.

Odds are, it won't mean standing in your living room pretending to be Master Chief (unless, you know, that's your thing), so don't get too worried. We're guessing squad commands, the ability to toss grenades, or other elements that could easily be assigned to voice will be, and that it'll be completely optional. Or maybe we'll just be able to say "Xbox, mute 'HeartEater420'" during a multiplayer match. That'd be "Better with Kinect" alright.

Since Halo 3, there's been a bit of a role reversal in the FPS world, and now it's Halo's job to be the "Call of Duty killer" in hopes of taking back its crown. That's why, beyond finally detailing what gamers should expect from Halo 4, we believe Microsoft will roll out plans for a multiplayer beta to assure that everyone remembers why the last few Halo games sold millions of copies.

To make things more interesting, we think that the beta might start during E3, or shortly after. What better way to build buzz than to tell people that they can start experiencing Halo 4 as soon as the press conference is over? Microsoft has done that kind of thing before, and if it wants any chance of taking down CoD, it has to start pulling some rabbits out of helmets as soon as possible.

Halo isn't the only FPS that's going to be on Microsoft's stage, though. Just as it did in years before, we expect Microsoft to use its platform to show off singleplayer footage of the next Call of Duty - and you can bet it'll be big, loud, explosive, and futuristic.

But more than that, this will likely be the place where Microsoft will unveil some sort of exclusivity with downloadable content, as it often does. It might be as minor as early access to downloable content, but or as major as some interesting Call of Duty Elite/Xbox Live integration. Activision could release an Xbox App of some sort that fully merges Elite and Xbox Live - that'd be a good excuse to buy the Xbox version over the PlayStation for hardcore COD fans.

Does anyone care about Kinect Sports? We're sure some people do, and they'll likely be jumping up and down with excitement when someone from Rare takes the stage with a few "prop children" to show off the next season of Kinect Sports. Yay!

What sports will be featured this year? They've already covered the basics, so the next logical move would be going timely by tying it into Olympic events. We doubt Microsoft is actually going to go after the pricey license, but it could work around it by just including a bunch of Olympic sports, for people to trip over their coffee tables playing. It'll be just like the real thing, except with more crying and less drug testing.

Amazon's video service was added to Xbox Live as of today, meaning Microsoft isn't finished adding streaming services to its system. What's left? Well, the obvious answer is Major League Soccer. Soccer is the last sport without a console streaming partner, and Microsoft is in a much better position to stream it than Sony.

Why? Because the Seattle Sounders, that's why. The Washington-based team is owned by Microsoft, and their jerseys have branding all over them. Seriously, they have an Xbox Live logo on their jerseys. So, yeah, we're really expecting this one to be revealed.

Last year, Electronic Arts pledged its support for Kinect, and this year we believe it'll take it further. While we don't see Peter Moore dragging a bunch of athletes on stage like EA did when it announced its Xbox Live integration, we do anticipate details on how all of its sports licenses will use Kinect - and we do mean all of them.

Shouting orders to teammates in Fifa? Check. Calling out commands in NHL? Done. Yelling "FORE" for some reason in Tiger Woods? Absolutely. Every single EA Sports game will dabble in Kinect this year, though we believe the highlight example will be Madden. Beyond being able to call audibles in real-time, we anticipate an "All-Play" mode like the one found in the Wii Madden games, allowing non-gamers to use their bodies and motion-control to play a stripped-down version of Madden.

Epic's gearing up for the next generation of consoles, which means it's likely going to want to start selling people on its next engine. The Unreal Engine 4 has already been teased and shown in image form, but we expect to see much more at E3. Showing off a video of the "next generation" at Microsoft's press conference would make perfect sense, seeing as Sony is promising to stay in the current generation for a little longer.

It's going to look awesome, too. The screens gave us a glimpse of the next-gen, but seeing it in action is going to be something else. Oh, and whatever's shown off is essentially going to be a teaser for whatever its first next-gen game is going to be, just like when Epic showed off the Unreal Engine 3 demo with what ended up becoming Gears of War.

Epic and Chair already confirmed that, long ago, Infinity Blade was a series meant for Kinect, but the peripheral was abandoned in favor of an iOS-based future. We have a feeling that, with the success of the game on mobile, the developer is ready to bring the hacky, slashy franchise to more platforms in hopes of expanding the brand to a wider audience.

Think about it: the controls could be almost identical. Swipes of the screen could be replaced with arm motions, taps with jabs, and dodges with... well, dodges. It'd be like a big, grown-up version of Fruit Ninja Kinect, only you'll be swiping monsters to death instead of watermelons.

But Epic won't stop there. The company announced Fortnite a few months back, but has remained silent on it since the initial trailer hit. Odds are, they spent that time searching for a publisher and polishing up the title for a full unveil at E3. Since it's not having its own press conference, we're guessing that said unveil is going to happen at Microsoft's - but we're going to take this a step further.

Besides showing the game off at Microsoft's press conference, we expect Epic to reveal that it'll enjoy at least a limited exclusivity on the Xbox 360. Microsoft might've actually picked it up entirely, as it did with Gears of War, in hopes that it may, somehow, end up being its next AAA exclusive franchise.

Yeah, another Epic prediction - but you shouldn't be too surprised. Microsoft/Epic's relationship has paved the way to great success for both companies, and we think that bromance will be reaffirmed this year. And let's be honest... you didn't think Epic was actually done with Gears of War, did you? We think that a teaser trailer for a new Gears of War is likely being finished up right now, and prepped for a reveal at E3 - though we don't think it'll be Gears of War 4.

Instead, it'll be one of two things: a prequel set during the Pendulum Wars, or a multiplayer-focused game that blurs the line between Unreal Tournament and Gears of War. Gears of War's multiplayer on a larger scale with big, open maps and vehicles would be extremely interesting, and we'd be shocked if Epic didn't attempt to keep Gears of War in the public eye, post GoW3.

Let's be honest: no one expects Fable: The Journey to fill the Fable-sized void in our hearts. It might end up being an amazing game in its own right, but an on-rails Kinect game isn't going to make up for the lack of a fully-fledged Fable title. Considering Microsoft owns a lion's share of Lionhead Studios, the MS presser would make a great place to announce that the next entry in the series is coming out next year.

Expect Fable 4 to be a step back towards Fable 2 after the less-than-stellar reception to the changes in Fable 3, and also expect the developers to call it the "end of the current Fable story," in hopes of rebooting all things Fable for the next-generation in a few years.

Oh, and it'll have Kinect support. Because hey, why not.

Mass Effect is poised to be one of the biggest games of the year, but in order to assure it remains in the gaming zeitgeist, EA needs to release a steady stream of downloadable content. While we know there are multiple packs in the works (besides the extended ending, of course), we don't know what they're about, or when they'll come out.

We have a feeling that EA will use Microsoft's press conference to give out some of these details, and maybe release the first trailer for whatever post-release Mass Effect DLC it has planned. Odds are more details will be revealed at EA's own press conference, but giving gamers a taste during Microsoft's conference definitely sounds like something that could happen.

Nintendo's Wii U is due out this year, meaning Microsoft isn't going to be in the same position with the Xbox 720 that it was with the Xbox 360. Being the first of a new generation can have its perks, and there's no doubt some people at Microsoft are angry that Nintendo is beating MS to shelves. Because of this, we expect to at least hear the first details on the next-generation MS console at this year's show.

Microsoft might drop some minor spec information just to make Nintendo's system seem inefficient, and we might hear a release window. Microsoft could even show "test footage" built on the Unreal 4 engine on, displaying what it believes the next-gen will look like. This would no doubt be all be smoke and mirrors in hopes of distracting people from Nintendo's console, but odds are it'll work, because it's going to be very, very pretty.

While we're pretty confident in most of our predictions, we're sure there are still some other announcements that are going to completely blindside us. We're also sure that you have some predictions of your own, so be sure to write about them in the comments below so we can see what you're looking forward to at this year's E3.

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