Microsoft has solidified its plans for June, confirming an Xbox Games Showcase 2025 in addition to an The Outer Worlds 2 Direct.
Microsoft usually hosts a June showcase to disclose upcoming Xbox video games, and 2025 is not any completely different. Xbox Games Showcase 2025 will likely be livestreamed on Sunday, June 8, beginning at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK time.
Xbox Games Showcase 2025 will provide a take a look at upcoming titles from throughout Microsoft’s first-party studios, Microsoft stated, “along with unimaginable new titles from our third-party companions throughout the globe.”
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So, what might Microsoft have up its sleeve? It has an extended listing of video games in growth, together with the brand new Fable, which was lately delayed to 2026, the Perfect Dark reboot, inXile’s Clockwork Revolution, Ninja Gaiden 4, Contraband, from the developer of the Just Cause sequence, Rare’s Everwild, which Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer lately checked out, The Coalition’s Gears of War: E-Day, Hideo Kojima’s OD, and Undead Labs’ State of Decay 3. Psychonauts developer Double Fine can also be engaged on a brand new recreation.
On the Activision Blizzard aspect of issues, there’ll in fact be a brand new Call of Duty recreation later this 12 months, and numerous releases from Blizzard itself. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 launches in July, so that will make the reduce.
As for Bethesda, might it lastly be time to seek out out what’s subsequent for Starfield? We are, in spite of everything, nonetheless ready for that PlayStation 5 launch date affirmation. Could we get a take a look at The Elder Scrolls 6?
And there’s all the time the potential for Microsoft to disclose new Xbox {hardware}. It is reportedly set to launch a next-gen Xbox console in addition to an Xbox handheld sooner or later in 2027, so this 12 months’s showcase could also be too early to seek out out extra. But Microsoft could take the chance to the touch on Xbox-branded handhelds from third-party corporations.
And following within the footsteps of the 2023 Starfield Direct and 2024 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Direct, this 12 months Microsoft will comply with its Xbox Games Showcase by The Outer Worlds 2 Direct. The Outer Worlds 2 is from Obsidian, which is recent from the discharge of Avowed. The direct “will carry you contained in the partitions of Obsidian Entertainment, revealing new gameplay, particulars, and developer insights, straight from the individuals making the sequel to the award-winning, first-person sci-fi RPG.” The Outer Worlds 2 is anticipated out later in 2025, so it appears doubtless we’ll get a launch date throughout the showcase.
Airtime for the Xbox Games Showcase adopted by The Outer Worlds 2 Direct in native time zones:
- PDT: June 8, 10am
- EDT: June 8, 1pm
- BST: June 8, 6pm
- CET: June 8, 7pm
- JST: June 9, 2am
- AEST: June 9, 3am
Microsoft stated the Xbox Games Showcase and The Outer Worlds 2 Direct will likely be digital-only, which implies there’s no theatre expertise for followers and media this 12 months. But it promised that its livestream will carry followers “all the pieces you’ll have to find out about what’s subsequent for Xbox, regardless of the place on the earth you’re watching.”
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