After Summer Game Fest and Future Game Show, the jade giant hits hard: here are all the announcements of the Xbox Games Showcase, 2023 edition
The content diaspora from publishers has fragmented the annual E3 hustle and bustle, but as Summer Game Fest and the Future show remind us, there is always someone to piece it together: theXbox Games Showcase 2023in this sense, he proposed ads for all tastes. The times when the jade giant was simply “the console with Halo” are long gone, and the distances taken by Microsoft will be even better as soon as the company unravels the legal skein to fly to the altar with Activision. As always, we have the full video below if you missed the event and don’t want spoilers. For everyone else…
Fabulous | Xbox Games Showcase 2023, all announcements
The Xbox Games Showcase 2023 opener offered a clear idea of what to expect from all the other announcements. It’s a matter of Fable, still unnumbered, with a trailer narrated with an interview with Dave the farmer (or “vegetable addict”). Action RPG is shown off in all its grand glory, as Dave ominously talks of a fading “age of heroes”. Now it’s time for revolution and death, revealing that it is actually a giant that the protagonist will reach in the clouds with a magic bean. We have no release dates, but certainly the heroine does not care. Rather, she prefers to camp out on Dave’s broken glasses. Like many other announcements of the evening, Game Pass al day one.
South of Midnight | Xbox Games Showcase 2023, all announcements
The next stop on the hype train is South of Midnight, which will take us to a fantasy interpretation of the bayou around New Orleans. Predictably, the atmosphere is best rendered by a giant (but never as tall as poor Dave) of color intent on playing his guitar, while the similarly African-American protagonist joins him. Shaky Bones, that’s the name of the one-eyed bard, can’t tell her where the monster she’s looking for is… before it emerges from the swamp. The game will come out on Xbox e Steamas well as on Game Passstill day one not yet well specified. The fact that the stop motion art style is applied to the first of many world premieres of the presentation illustrates the level of hype…
Star Wars: Outlaws | Xbox Games Showcase 2023, all announcements
Who shot first, Han or Greedo? While you scavenge in the comments, here is the Ubisoft Massive Entertainment and Lucasfilm Games studio come up with an adventure never told in the galaxy far, far away. The new protagonist, an outlaw, is caught in the Mos Eisley tavern and hunted relentlessly. Will she get by with her little pet of hers? Find out in Star Wars: Outlawstitle coming on next year only on next-gen consoles and better presented at tomorrow’s Ubisoft Forward. We’ll do a recap for him too, what do you think?
33 Immortals | Xbox Games Showcase 2023, all announcements
Introduced by Xbox’s Sarah Bond promising a show “for the heart and soul of Xbox”, we have from Thunder Lotus (Spiritfarer) a new top-down title that straddles Diablo-style battles and, ahem, frenzied beats of bullet hells. And yes, it will be “the wrath of God” that we will have to deal… with a co-op expanded to thirty-three players. Even before you make jokes about the trotting Trentino players, yes: thirty-three players at a time. The soundtrack of 33 Immortals already promises many beautiful Celtic sounds, while we will raid the game world the next year… with inclusion in the Game Pass on day one, of course.
Payday 3 | Xbox Games Showcase 2023, all announcements
It is true that “pecunia non olent”, but the filth of money is just that: filth, precisely. And it’s time to do some cleaning. The title was revealed at the end of the trailer, but what good is it when the American clown mask is so iconic? In Payday 3 we’ll be back to robbing banks, escorting hostages outside during negotiations, and placing turrets. But don’t expect the apparent calm of the episodes of Paper House: there will be scuffles with the police and they promise more lead than gold. The game awaits us 21 September only on next-gen, and will be on Game Pass on day one.
Person 3 Reload | Xbox Games Showcase 2023, all announcements
We go from a game that surprised us to another that should have (and should) have. Be that as it may, we can finally talk about it more openly: yes, Persona 3 Reload exists and, as we mentioned when talking about the related leak, it has polished the graphics, the cutscenes and also the gameplay. The interface, then, appears properly updated. If you want to know more, consult our review dedicated to the original Persona 3 Portable. The game is expected at the beginning of next year and, also confirming the latest leaked information on the title, it will be on Game Pass already on day one.
Avowed | Xbox Games Showcase 2023, all announcements
Fantasy that goes beyond the classic swashbuckling combination is nothing new in itself, the original Final Fantasy VII dating back to the 90s, but we don’t regret seeing more titles thus blending more declinations of the vein. The player in Avowed he will be able to dabble with his library to cast the most disparate spells, but firearms and bows also make their appearance in the clashes. We will be able to “forge our own destiny” the next yearwhen the game releases on next-gen consoles and Steam. Naturally, here too Game Pass on day one.
Sea of Thieves: The Legend of Monkey Island | Xbox Games Showcase 2023, tutti gli annunci
We’re always happy to see Rare at work on something (anything!), and it fills us with joy to see their current project marry so well with their quintessentially British humour. The former “Nintendo from across the Channel” joins forces with Lucasfilm Games for a collaboration that, to be honest, we are surprised we haven’t seen before. Sea of Thieves: The Legend of Monkey Island it responds perfectly to the questions that might arise from reading its name. Players will find themselves on Guybrush Island when he became governor, while LeChuck turned memories of him into a prison. In addition to the game world (see the review of the undersigned), the atmosphere also remains between the serious and the facetious. This Free DLC is expected the July 20th. Yaarrrrrr!
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (and more!) | Xbox Games Showcase 2023, all announcements
Since the last collaboration between Xbox Game Studios and Asobo Studio… we’d spend less time saying what’s not in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, so let’s cut the pleasantries short. The “new generation of flight”, as reflected in the in-game recorded material, promises the use of canadairs to put out fires, helicopters for transport, air ambulances, aircraft for rural use, others to rescue lost mountaineers, accompany skydivers, build, carry out industrial transport, escort VIPs, participate in air races, fly gliders, do scientific research… and this is just what we did in time to type. The sky, with its aircraft (including hot air balloons!) “calls” the next yearalso on Game Pass on day one… while the expansion of Dune comes the November 3rd for the current simulator.
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II | Xbox Games Showcase 2023, all announcements
Melissa Juergens, interpreter of the eponymous protagonist, regrets having to cut short on the gameplay of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II. This does not prevent Ninja Theory from showing us a scene in which Senua sneaks into the narrow passage of a damp cave while hearing the most disparate voices, disagreeing with each other. “He Can hear them sleeping through us”… no, we don’t have the context. The demonic voice she hears scares her, leading her to ask “What do you want me to do?”. Apart from a mental trip, we only know that the game is out next year solo su next-gen, con Game Pass al day one.
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth | Xbox Games Showcase 2023, all announcements
If you have Shinji’s funny censures imprinted in your mind after seeing Neon Genesis Evangelion, the presentation of this new Yakuza spinoff will make you laugh. The bilingual dubbing immediately makes it clear that Ichiban is on the beaches of (let’s assume) California… completely naked. Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio suggests that it is a different spinoff from Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. As soon as Ichiban realizes that he has the little dragon in the wind, we learn the title of the game. The arrival, for Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealthis expected to early 2024.
Fallout 76 | Xbox Games Showcase 2023, all announcements
If Vault Boy can make an appearance in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate with a black and white projection, it’s welcome if Bethesda does the same to show they’re back on track. The song “The call of 76” is entirely in rhyme, and alternates the usual gory approach to 1920s animation with gameplay scenes. Certainly, Fallout 76 is in better shape than we remembered, especially now that Vault Boy entertains with the swing trio in a new location. The expansion that will lead us to Atlantic City is provided “presto”, while the base game (naturally) is available with Game Pass already.
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess | Xbox Games Showcase 2023, all announcements
Capcom also has something to say, and it is… certainly a far cry from the more well-known franchises by the late Capsule Computers. In the Japanese world of Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, in the role of a samurai we will escort a goddess between Lovecraftian limbs that emerge from the ground and annexed horrors. Both characters will explore the game world with their talents, from his bows to her ritual dances. For the rest, the gameplay promises hack & slash in spades. The title is expected solo su next-gen (which is starting to seem strange, given Phil Spencer’s opinion on the sudden abandonment of previous consoles), with Game Pass on day one.
Forza Motorsport | Xbox Games Showcase 2023, all announcements
Compared to the blue counterpart Gran Turismo, the motorsport series of the Xbox stable has pressed on the accelerator …