Microsoft’s Sea of Thieves shows how you use cannons to board ships

We got an extended look Sea of Thieves gameplay at today’s Microsoft event at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Highlights included showing how players can get shot out of a cannon onto an enemy ship as well as a persistent shared world.

The massively multiplayer online pirate game is one of GamesBeat’s most anticipated titles at this year’s E3, and it has been inching closer to final release with its latest invite-only technical alpha in May. Sea of Thieves comes from Rare, which is known for early classics like Banjo-Kazooie and Battletoads and, since its acquisition by Microsoft in 2002, Perfect Dark Zero and Viva Piñata. In 2015, the studio’s Rare Replay collection, which it released to celebrate its 30-year anniversary, became the most preordered game at E3.