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 reveal upcoming Xbox video games, and 2025 is no totally different. Xbox Games Showcase 2025 might be livestreamed on Sunday, June 8, beginning at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK time.
Xbox Games Showcase 2025 will offer a take a look at upcoming titles from throughout Microsoft’s first-party studios, Microsoft stated, “in addition to incredible new titles from our third-party partners across the globe.”
So, what might Microsoft have up its sleeve? It has a long record of video games in growth, together with the new Fable, which was recently 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 recently 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 new game.
On the Activision Blizzard aspect of issues, there’ll of course be a new Call of Duty game later this 12 months, and numerous releases from Blizzard itself. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 launches in July, so which will make the cut.
As for Bethesda, might it lastly be time to search out out what’s subsequent for Starfield? We are, after all, still waiting for that PlayStation 5 release date confirmation. Could we get a take a look at The Elder Scrolls 6?
And there’s all the time the potential for Microsoft to reveal new Xbox {hardware}. It is reportedly set to release a next-gen Xbox console as well as an Xbox handheld at some point in 2027, so this 12 months’s showcase could also be too early to search out out more. But Microsoft could take the alternative to the touch on Xbox-branded handhelds from third-party companies.
And following in 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 release of Avowed. The direct (*2*) The Outer Worlds 2 is anticipated out later in 2025, so it appears seemingly we'll get a release date during 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 might be digital-only, which suggests there’s no theatre expertise for followers and media this 12 months. But it promised that its livestream will deliver followers “everything you’ll need to know about what’s next for Xbox, no matter where in the world you’re watching.”
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