Xbox Games Showcase: Here’s Everything Announced or Revealed
Microsoft hosted a jam-packed Xbox Games Showcase 2024 on Sunday, filled with new reveals and updates on games from its first-party studios and third-party partners. The Xbox parent company showed off games from Activision, Bethesda, Blizzard, Xbox Game Studios and more. The showcase kicked off with a new campaign trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and concluded with a reveal for the next Gears of War title. Previously announced titles State of Decay 3, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Perfect Dark, Avowed and South of Midnight also got new trailers.
The Xbox Games Showcase aired two days after Summer Game Fest and just a week after Sony hosted its State of Play livestream. In addition to first-party games, the showcase also featured trailers for third-party titles like Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and more.
Microsoft also revealed three new Xbox Series S/X variants, including an all-digital Xbox Series X. The Xbox Games Showcase was also followed by a Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Direct presentation. Here’s everything announced at the Xbox Games Showcase:
Gears of War: E-Day
The rumors turned out to be true when Microsoft revealed the next Gears of War at the Xbox Games Showcase. Gears of War: E-Day, the next mainline game in the series, is set 14 years before the original Gears of War, during Emergence Day. The game received a cinematic trailer, featuring in-game assets, and a new instrumental version of Gary Jules’ “Mad World,” which inspired the iconic 2006 Gears of War commercialThere are no release date details available yet, but don’t expect E-Day to launch anytime soon.
Doom: The Dark Ages
Perhaps the highlight of the showcase was the reveal of the next main game in the Doom series. Doom: The Dark Ages takes a medieval approach to monster slaying, placing the Doom Slayer in a dark fantasy setting. The epic trailer showed off brutal moves, a demented skull-feeding gun, and a bladed Shield Saw that flies off to slay demons and returns to your hands as Thor’s hammer.
The Doom Slayer can also wield his Atlan mech against colossal demons and soar around on a cybernetic war dragon. Doom: The Dark Ages will launch in 2025 on Xbox Series S/X, PC, and PS5, with a day one release on Game Pass.
Perfect darkness
Perfect Dark got a first-look gameplay trailer at the Xbox Games Showcase, featuring first-person combat and parkour. Developed by The Initiative and Crystal Dynamics and published by Xbox Game Studios, the Perfect Dark reboot was first officially teased at The Game Awards 2020.
The new trailer shows off the game’s setting in Cairo and its protagonist, Joanna Dark. Gameplay features close-quarters hand-to-hand combat, gunplay, stealth, and fluid parkour traversal. Perfect Dark does not yet have a confirmed release date.
South of midnight
Compulsion Games’ South of Midnight, first revealed at the Xbox Games Showcase 2023, has received a new trailer, showcasing third-person action-adventure gameplay. South of Midnight features a distinct art style and fantasy elements.
The trailer showcased the protagonist, Hazel, and her companion Catfish as they travel through a flooded wilderness and encounter magical beasts. Hazel can use her magical weaving powers in both combat and traversal. The game will be available on Xbox Series S/X and PC in 2025.
State of decay 3
State of Decay 3 debuted with a new trailer at the Xbox Games Showcase. The open-world zombie survival title will serve as a sequel to 2018’s State of Decay 2. Set years after the zombie apocalypse, the game tasks you with battling the undead and reclaiming lost lands. There is no official release date or window for State of Decay 3 yet.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
While the next Call of Duty got a special Direct presentation following the Xbox Games Showcase, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was shown off with a campaign trailer during the showcase. Developed by Treyarch and Raven Software, Black Ops 6 is set in the early ’90s and will weave a thrilling tale of espionage.
The trailer brings back familiar characters, blockbuster action, and tight gunplay. The first-person shooter is coming to PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series S/X on October 25, with a day one release on Game Pass.
Granted
Obsidian Entertainment’s Avowed got a new story trailer at the Xbox Games Showcase. The first-person action-RPG focuses on melee and magical combat. The game is set to launch on PC and Xbox Series S/X in 2024.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
The Xbox Showcase included a new trailer for MachineGames’ Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, showcasing new gameplay and a story portion of the game, with Indy pursuing a mysterious artifact in the Himalayas. The game will launch later this year on PC and Xbox Series S/X.
Here’s everything else that was announced or updated during the Xbox Games Showcase:
- Age of Mythology: Retold (PC, Xbox Series S/X – releases September 4, pre-orders now)
- Fable (PC, Xbox Series S/X – 2025)
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (PC, Xbox Series S/X – coming November 19)
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows Gameplay Reveal (PC, Xbox Series S/X, PS5 – Coming November 15)
- Atomfall (PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, PS4, PS5 – 2025)
- Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33 (PC, Xbox Series S/X, PS5)
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard (PC, Xbox Series S/X, PS5 – Fall 2024)
- Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn (PC, Xbox Series S/X, PS5 – coming July 18)
- FragPunk (PC, Xbox Series S/X – 2025)
- Life Is Strange: Double Exposure (PC, Xbox Series S/X, PS5 – coming October 29)
- Mecha Break (PC, Xbox Series S/X, PS5 – 2025)
- Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater gameplay (PC, Xbox Series S/X, PS5 – 2024)
- Mixtape (PC, Xbox Series S/X, PS5 – 2025)
- STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl (PC, Xbox Series S/X – coming September 5)
- Winter Burrow (PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X – early 2025)
- Wuchang: Fallen Feathers (PC, Xbox Series S/X, PS5 – 2025)
- Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred Expansion (PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, PS4, PS5 – coming October 8)
- Fallout 76 Skyline Valley Expansion (PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, PS4, PS5 – coming June 6)
- Starfield Shattered Space Expansion (PC, Xbox Series S/X – 2024)
- World of Warcraft: The War Within Expansion, PC – Coming August 26)
