Xbox has not had the best year, so far. In January and February, a leaked announcement that formerly Xbox-exclusive games were about to make their way on to rival consoles the PlayStation and Nintendo Switch sent the most vociferous portion of its fanbase into a tailspin, convincing themselves that Microsoft was about to give up on Xbox exclusivity altogether. In May, Xbox closed two well-loved studios that it had acquired in a spending spree a few years ago: Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin .
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be available on Game Pass when it launches on 25 October, and is set in the 90s after the collapse of the iron curtain. From Bethesda, which Microsoft acquired in 2021, there was DOOM: The Dark Ages, a new instalment in the venerable shooter series that will also release on PlayStation 5 when it comes out in 2025. EA and Ubisoft showed new footage from their upcoming multiplatform Dragon Age and Assassin’s Creed games releasing later this year.
South of Midnight is an adventure game set in a fantasy-flavoured version of the US south, featuring giant talking catfish and gators the size of islands. There was a long, promising-looking trailer for Fable, the British fairytale-fantasy game in development at Playground. Ukraine-made shooter STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl and the forthcoming new Flight Simulator were also shown, in a trailer that somehow managed to romanticise agricultural aviation and private charter flights.
A smattering of independent games, most of which are multiplatform, provided a counterpoint to a rather guns-and-gore heavy opening salvo from the show: Annapurna’s Mixtape, a magical-realist 1980s teen drama; FragPunk, a comic-book-styled mix of card game and hero shooter. An intriguing role-playing game called Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is set in a world where a mysterious painter daubs a number in the sky every year, instantly vapourising everyone over that age.
The showcase was well-received in a room full of Xbox fans – which, after a year of difficult PR moments for the company, will doubtless come as a relief to its executives. Next to a very light schedule of 2024 and 2025 games from PlayStation, the Xbox slate is looking relatively packed.
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