Sunday’s presentation in Los Angeles started and ended with two big games coming next year from publisher Bethesda, which Microsoft bought in 2020: Redfall, a first-person shooter in which players fight vampires, and Starfield, a role-playing game set in space.
All four games will be on Xbox Game Pass, the core of Microsoft’s gaming strategy and the reason it paid $7.5 billion for Bethesda and is buying Activision Blizzard for $69 billion. Game Pass allows users to pay monthly for unlimited access to a growing list of hundreds of games. Rather than engage in a hardware duel with rivals Sony Group Corp, the maker of PlayStation, and Nintendo Co, Microsoft is working to create the Netflix of gaming – and by many accounts is already close to doing so. Almost every game at the showcase ended with a chyron saying, “Play it day one with Game Pass,” a constant reminder of the company’s strategy.
During the showcase, Microsoft also announced a new Minecraft spinoff called Minecraft Legends as well as several colorful indie titles such as an action game called Ravenlok and an adventure game called Cocoon, all of which will be available on Game Pass the day that they launch.
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