The 2024 Xbox Games Showcase, the first summer event since Microsoft’s $68.7 billion merger with Activision Blizzard in 2023, generated high anticipation. “It’s the biggest moment of the year to show you the future of gaming with Xbox,” wrote Xbox Wire editor Joe Skrebels. The event featured announcements from Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda, Xbox Game Studios, and third-party developers. Here’s a rundown of everything revealed:
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
- Release Date: October 25, 2024
- Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X
- Game Pass: Available on launch day
Doom: The Dark Ages
- Release Date: Expected in 2025
- Platforms: Xbox Game Pass on launch day
- Details: The Doom Slayer travels back in time, featuring gameplay with dragons.
State of Decay 3
- Setting: Years after the zombie apocalypse
- Status: No release date yet
- Details: Follow-up to State of Decay 2
Dragon Age: Veilguard
- Release Date: 2024
- Details: Focus on a group of allies in the upcoming Dragon Age title
Starfield: Shattered Space (and more)
- Release Date: 2024
- Details: First expansion exploring the creepiness of space, with additional content from the community
Fallout 76
- Update: Skyline Valley
- Release Date: June 12, 2024
- Details: Play as a ghoul in a new region of Appalachia
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Release Date: 2025
- Platform: Xbox Series X
- Details: A role-playing game to save humanity from destruction
South of Midnight
- Release Date: 2025
- Platforms: Xbox consoles, Windows PC
- Details: A fantasy game set in a post-hurricane swamp
World of Warcraft: The War Within
- Release Date: August 26, 2024
- Details: New expansion marking the start of a new saga
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
- Details: Remake of 2004’s Metal Gear Solid 3 with modern controls
- Release Date: TBA
Sea of Thieves
- Season 13 Release Date: July 25, 2024
- Details: Become an evil pirate
Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn
- Release Date: July 18, 2024
- Platforms: Xbox consoles, Windows PC
- Details: “Explosive Souls-lite” action-RPG
Age of Mythology: Retold
- Release Date: September 4, 2024
- Platforms: Xbox Series X, Windows PC
- Details: Expands into mythology with gods, monsters, and humans
Perfect Dark
- Details: First gameplay reveal
- Release Date: TBA
Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred
- Release Date: October 2024
- Details: New character class, region, and story
Fable
- Release Date: 2025
- Details: Cheeky trailer with no official release date
Fragpunk
- Release Date: 2025
- Details: A five-on-five shooter with cards
Winter Burrow
- Release Date: 2025
- Details: A little mouse returning home and looking for their aunt
Mixtape
- Release Date: 2025
- Details: A coming-of-age story told through music
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
- Release Date: November 19, 2024
- Details: Features commercial piloting, agriculture, search-and-rescue, cargo transport, and aerial firefighting
The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road
- Release Date: June 18, 2024
- Details: 10th anniversary release
Life is Strange: Double Exposure
- Release Date: October 29, 2024
- Platforms: Windows PC, Xbox Series X
- Details: Max Caulfield returns, flipping between realities
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
- Release Date: 2024
- Platforms: Windows PC, Xbox Series X
- Details: Action-packed with classic Indiana Jones elements
Mecha Break
- Release Date: August 2024
- Details: Mecha combat reminiscent of Gundam
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers
- Release Date: 2025
- Platforms: Xbox Game Pass on launch day
- Details: Soulslike set in the late Ming Dynasty
Avowed
- Release Date: 2024
- Details: Adventure and danger on a mysterious island
Atomfall
- Release Date: 2025
- Platforms: Windows PC, Xbox Series X
- Details: Single-player survival game after a nuclear disaster
Assassin’s Creed Shadows
- Release Date: November 15, 2024
- Platforms: Xbox consoles, Windows PC
- Details: New installment in the iconic franchise
STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl
- Release Date: September 5, 2024
- Details: Borderless open-world with a non-linear story
New Xbox Series X Consoles
- Details: 2TB SSD Xbox Series X, all-digital 1TB SSD Xbox Series X, and 1TB SSD Xbox Series X
Gears of War: E-Day
- Details: Sixth installment with intense action and camaraderie
- Release Date: TBA
