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Rare first announced the Xbox One and PC game Sea of Thieves

E3 2017 news

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Rare announces Sea of Thieves

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Gameplay tips for Sea of Thieves

Hands-on with Sea of Thieves

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What we’ve seen of the game so far looks intriguing, but many gamers are still wondering what the hell Sea of Thieves actually is . To answer that question, let’s take a look at all the information Microsoft and Rare have released so far.Microsoft showed off a lengthy gameplay video for Sea of Thieves during its E3 2017 presentation.And if you still want more, you're in luck. Here's another 43 minutes of gameplay footage:We also went hands-on with the game at E3 2017. Here are our very positive impressions of Sea of Thieves Microsoft also pushed the game back from its previous 2017 release window and into early 2018 That's all the Sea of Thieves E3 2017 news for now. We'll keep this updated if more comes out. In the meantime, let's go back to the game's announcement and look at everything we've learned about it so far.We first learned about Sea of Thieves during Microsoft’s E3 press conference in June 2015, when Rare showed a video of a first-person online pirate game. It appeared to be a colorful MMO-like game that put you and other players in a tropical world and had you do things like fight skeletons and engage in ship battles.Sea of Thieves was a no-show at Gamescom 2015 , but in January 2016, Microsoft exec Aaron Greenberg spoke with us about the game , describing the core mechanic like this: “meet a bunch of people on a ship and we're going to an island.”At E3 2016, Rare showed off a new gameplay trailer.We finally got our hands on an early build of the game at the show. The Unlocked crew discussed their reactions — both good and bad — on a podcast During E3 2016 and again at Gamescom 2016, we spoke with some of the developers for more information about Sea of Thieves.Even after the conferences, many people were still confused about what the hell Sea of Thieves actually is. So in October 2016, we tried to answer that question with an in-depth Q&A-style explainer The next time we got a glimpse at Sea of Thieves was in April 2017, when Xbox head Phil Spencer visited Rare Studios and did a let’s play of the game with developer commentary.

Chris Reed is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @_chrislreed