Everything announced at the Xbox Games Showcase
All the news, announcements, reveals, updates and more from the Xbox Games Showcase
So with around two hours left to go until the Xbox Games Showcase, let's take a little walk around the Xbox gardens to see what we could expect to pop up at today's event.
Let's start with the biggest rumor but also potentially most interesting, and that's the reports that Xbox could be about to reveal an Xbox ha♉ndheld console.
Now, it's a little farfetched perhaps꧟, ജbut rumors of an Xbox handheld have been doing the rounds for a number of years now.
What's not clear is what kind of form that could💫 take. A mini Series S? An Android powered streaming device? A cl🗹oud-based dedicated console? Or a genuine Game Pass powered Steam Deck rival?
Now myself and our Hardware Editor, Phil, agree that if an Xbox handheld finally shows up during the Xbox Games Showcase, we hope it’s not a PlaySt🌠ation Portal rival. I just want to be able to access my Game Pass games on a plane, train, o⛦r anywhere I damn please. Please.
I personally think it's pretty unlikely that Xbox announces new hardware 𒁃today, but hey I've been wrong before. I personally would love to see the controller refresh that was detailed in the documents that were leaked as part of ꦆthe Activision acquisition.
That is said to retain the same design as the current pads, but be quite the upgrade in terms of features. It'll allegedl🅷y have Xbox Wireless 2, Bluetooth 5.2 and Direct-to-Cloud functionality to improve overall connectivity and reduce latency regardless of what you're connected to.
But, more importantly for my wireless loving ass, it'll apparently include a re🃏chargeable, swa💮ppable, battery as standard. Goodbye AA batteries, be GONE.
According to that report, it's also supposedly going to include wide "build improvements" and "improved longevity", with t🌳hings like new modular thumbst✱icks, haptic feedback, quieter buttons, and more.
The docs had it listed as a May 2024 launch, but seeing as those docs wer♏e from May 2022 no doubt things have changed since then.
The report goes though that this snazzy new Universal Controller will be sold standalone but also debut with the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox Series X refresh that was also detailed in the leak.
The big takeaways from that leak were that it's going to ditch the chunky cuboid design, and opt for a tall cylindrical shape that completely ditches the disc drive.
It'll still have a power button, pairing button,🌃 and USB-C port but it's unclear how much difference there will be in size between the two from the concept designs alone.
We also don't know what the price difference will be - good or bad. The documents ꦅsay it'll be the "same great 🍸price", but again these are from 2022. The RRP of the Xbox Series X is still $499, but if you get a good deal you can get one now for around $399.
In his predictions for this Xbox Games Showcase, our own Xbox expert (Xpert?) Josh West said he wants to see a little less conversation and a little more action, please.
"Looking at the lineup of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Xbox Series X games, I find myself reconnecting with why I became so drawn to the Xbox platform in its halcyon years: the promise of PC-quality play on console; the framework to take online multiplayer to new, unassailable heights; and a comm🧸itment to delivering best-in-class experiences within the 'core' shooter, role-play, and racing niches. Sadly, that message became diluted over time as Xbox waged a war for input one and spent a generation cycle dealing with the aftermath."
So now, we basically just need some games.
So what about those games, then eh? Let's leave 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 out of this chat as we absolutely know it's getting a full reveal at its dedi𓄧cated post-show D✨irect.
My personal pick would be to see more of Fable. We got that epic full trailer at last year'ꦓs event complete with Richard Ayoade as Dave the giant and 'vegetable enthusiast', but we've not heaღrd anything about the game since.
We got some glimmers of gameplay from this trailer, some magi💮c use and combat, but we did get a fantastic sense that new developer Playground Games (of Forza Horizon faওme) is going to retain the British sense of humor that's always been a staple of the series.
Another game that was showed off for the first time at last year's Summer Game Fest Xbox Showcase was 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:South of Midnight.
Honestly one of my favorite trailer𓆏s for some time, it's got that creepy cool vibe going on with promises of "a fantastical and macabre third-person action-adventure set in the American Deep South".
Another one from last year's showcase was 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Clockwork Revolution. Another very cool trailer that gave serious BioShock vibes. Again no details on this one since the꧅n either.
Of course, all eyes will be on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which only got fully revealed with its title earlier this year. It's currently got a loose release window of this fall♚, but I'd imagine that will get fully confirmed a♎t today's showcase.
In development at MachineGames, the game's story will take place between the Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade movies, around 1937. It'll start at the iconic Marshall College where Jones teaches, but from there, we'll be traveling the globe for answers, including the Vatican, Egypt🌸, and the Himalayas.
The gameplay looks great - as you'd expect from FPS experts MachineGames - with plenty of stealth and puzzle solving in between taking out Nazis wit𓄧h your gun and whip. While the majority is first-person, the game will also occasiಌonally pull back to third-person to let you take in Indy in his full splendour.
Let's taဣke another look at that reveal 🌌trailer shall we?
澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:State of Decay 3 should also be a contender to appear at the Xbox Games Showcase today. that seemingly confirm𒉰ed a trailer is set to drop today, which is good because we've not heard from developer Undead Labs for years now.
There's also 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl. With⛦ its release date currently set for September 5, I wouldn't be surprised if we got a new trailer today at the Xbox Games Showcase, detailing more about this highly-anticipated new game.
The other pretty sure bet is that Bethesda Game Studios will give us a good look at Starfield: Shattered Space, the first expansion for its space RPG. We just had a big May update for the game that introduced a tonne of quality of life features, so much so that many of us have gone back to the game - 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:particularly for the removal of over en✤cumꦉbrance - but the 🎃details on the DLC have been few and far between.
Just 5 minutesꦛ to go until the showcase now, you can tune 𒁃in right here:
It's also a wonder whether Xbox will mention any of the controversies that have occurred in recent months too. There's been a lot - 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:mass layoffs at Activision, the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:cutting of ties with Toys for Bob, the 🔜澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:cancellation of a new Blizzard survival g🌼ame, and the incredibly sad and shocking 澳洲幸运5开奖号码𝓡历史查询:closure of Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks.
Here we go!
Oh we're starting with Call of Duty then🦋 eh? Start as we mean to end it.
This seems🐎 to be the full reveal trailer, complete with The Prodigy as ba✅cking track.
It's set in the 1990s, after the Cold War ends where the "t🧸ruth is not what it seems".
Treyarch a🍸nd Raven working on it. 10 years since COD was last in an Xbox show.
We'rꩲe getting a look at the campaign, multiplayer and zombies later.
First COD game that's 🗹coming to Game Pass Day One.
Bethesda world premiere up first.
Doom but make it medieval?
♛You can load a skull into a grinder and then it turns it into bullets. Is t🐼hat the most Doom thing ever? I think so.
Doom: The Dark Ages coming 2025.
State of Decay 3 up now from Undead Labs.
Taking a softer tone with the v🅠ocals questioning who the zombies we🃏re before the whole undead thing.
If you can call a zombie game beautiful, then ♎that's what this trailer is.
No release date for🐻 State of Decay 3 - not even a window.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard there with a loose Fall 2024 release date and confirmation that some of our old pals are🐠 returning.
Starfield: Shattered Space DLC up now -🌳 and it looks like it's all about the Va'ruun.
"Until there's no more you, only us"
That's not sinister at all.
Much more horror sci-fi vibes t🧸han the 🃏core game.
That's coming 2024, but no details on when.
New content coming to the base game tonight including new locations, new gear, new bounties, ꦍand new custom content from Bethesda and the community.
Fal💎lout 76: Skyline Valley details being out♔lined in a new trailer now.
New Vault 63 details, which is how the DLC starts out with you hearing an explosion and then f🎉inding the Vault 63 door.
You can play as a Ghoul starting 2025.
New game from Kepler Interactive here.
Lo𝓰oks pretty cool actually, lots of dramatic boss fights and stunning backdrops. Fo9ur main characters, who all seem to be playable in combat♛ at least.
Expedition 33 coming 2025.
South of Midni𓆏ght up now with a very cool art style and 24-frame-esque animation.
Our hero is riding on the back of a giant fish.
We're getting our first look at gameplay her🌌e. Third person, with grappling hook to get around.
Combat is with the little hooks but s💖eemingly with some sort of power attached. Defeating an enemy brings the flowers and nature back♏ to an area that's otherwise full of red pustules.
She's also got some kind of magical 𒀰wing or cape? Looks badass.
2025 on PC and Xbox Series X.
World of Warcraft: The War Within coming 26 A🍸ugust 2024.
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater now?
Naked Sn🌜ake - has to find his own weapons and equipmentও, and food. "One man army".
Looks incredible.
No release date.
New content for Sea o🌺🌠f Thieves coming July 25.
Brand new trailer for Flintlock: The Siege ✃of Dawn, coming July 18, 2024.
Game Pass, Xbox Series X, PC.
Age of Mythꦑology Retold - coming September 4, 2024🎃.
Strategy game. Game Pass, Xbox Series X, PC.
OMG IT'S PERFECT DARK
This is the first we've seen of this game since the origꦗinal announcement. Very crips visuals, stealth gameplay focus as you'd hope, lots of gadgets and equipment.
"There's only one way forw💞ard, find the truth".
'Stop Carrington's attack' is the dire🅘ctive in the corner, with subobjects for finding the Bl💦ack Site and escaping the ambush.
Switches to full on combat, first p𝔍erson gunplay with some melee attacks.
Perfect Dark - day one with Game Pass but no da𝔍te.
Matt Booty here to talk now:
"first ꧟look at gameplay, we can't wait to share more".
Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred coming October.
New playable class, new𒈔 region, new story content.
Opening cinematic is all about a young woman talking to what she thinks is her dead grandmother, but obviouཧsly it's not.
That cinem𒈔atic certainly isn't for the gore-phobic.
Actual date for that DLC - October 8.
Fable now and we're got a new charaꦐcter introduction - who may be voiced by Super Hans from Peep Show (Matt King).
Humphrey seems to have an ex that's back and it's problematic.&n🐷bsp;
🌳Coming 2025. Day One Game Pass, Xbox Series X,🔯 and PC.
Definitely felt like there was a tease for a morality system ꦺin that dialogue.
Fragpunks - 5v5 hero shootꦬer with cards that can change gameplaꦫy. Coming 2025.
Winter Burrow c𒅌oming early 2025 - a lovely looking s𒊎urvival game about a tiny mouse that's 100% going to make me cry.
New Annapurna game now, which is so early ♌90s. Minidisc🐻 player, cutie headphones, skateboarding, references to Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Teen angst but with flying?
"Your greatest memories are locked in music".
Game is called Mixtape. Coming 2025.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 now, teasing more of i🐭ts careers.
Commercial Flight Pilot, Air Ambulance, Aerial Adveꦕrtising, VIP Cha🗹rter Service, Agricultural Aviation, Search and Rescue, Helicopter Cargo, Aerial Firefighting and more.
Lots of this was already teased at the announcement last year, but there is one moment whe💟n you get out of your plane and take a pic of an animal that seems pretty brand new.
November 19, 2024 rele𒊎ase date for💦 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.
Elder S🦂crolls Online - for a limited time you can plaꦑy all the DLC for free.
Reminder that Gold Road is coming June 18.
Life is Strange 3!!!
Murder Mystery story, can shift into parallel timelines where the vict🅰im (her friend) is still alive. Ca✤n she save Sapphi?
New Max Caulfield adventure, coming Octob🧔er 29, 2024.&🦹nbsp;
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle up now.
Bᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚrand new story trailer. Mention of finding the stones.
Himalayas segment in the freezing sno♔w. Feels very Uncharted.&n✃bsp;
The faces are great. Very Harris𝄹on Ford ticks on our Indy here.꧙
2024 window still. No Indy release date.
Mechabreak coming 2025. Beta coming August.
Wuchang: Faꦬllen Feathers coming 2025. Looks int♔eresting!
Ah here comes Avowed at last!
Lengthy trailer here showing off combat, chara𒆙cters, enemies and locations.
Coming 2024 still - no release date.
Rebellion's new game looks kinda bananas in a good way. Mechs, gl♋owing zombies, British pomp. Phone box in the mountains.
Atomfall coming 2025.
Assassin's Creed: Shadows with ꦆa new trailer now - ahead of tomorrow's Ubisoft Forward which is interesting.
Nice look at the two characters together.
Reminder of that November 15 release date.
ST꧙ALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl new trailer, lots of gameplay showed off, anomalies.
September 5 reconfirmed.
HARDWARE ALERT
All-new digital Xbox Series X and S. Also said it'♒s "hard at work on the nꦦext generation"
Saved one more thing for the end.
New Gears of War.
Gears of War E-Day. Looks like a p🗹requel featuring Marcus Fenix and Augustus Cole.
No date on that, but clearly focused on Emergence Day, which is not something we've seen iღn the sꦆeries to date beyond callbacks.
Right now it's over to Leon on the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Direct live blog, and here we'll wrap up everything we saw in the Xbox Games Showcaꦗse.
