The NotE3 season is in full swing. Despite the demise of a once unmissable exhibition, June remains full of video game announcements. Microsoft followed suit over the weekend Annual Geoff Keighley Summer Festival with its own showcase of Xbox 2024 games.
As it was last year, the company has filled its digital showroom with trailers and is revealing the work of its first family of Xbox Game Studios. Notably, this was the first subsequent demonstration of Xbox games Microsoft’s merger with Activision Blizzardand it allowed the company to open up Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 on its own terms and tout the fact that it will go on “select Xbox Game Pass plans” on day one.
The company has come up with other projects of its own such as He confessed, Age of Mythology: Retelling, Doom: The Dark Ages, A fable, Gears of War: E-Day, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Flight simulator 2024, Perfect dark, South of the Northand State of disintegration 3.
It’s an impressive plate on paper, but it’s still unclear exactly when many of these projects will actually launch. The Age of Mythology: A Retelling The debut is scheduled for September 4, 2024 and Flight simulator 2024 will arrive on November 19.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6which has only recently become prime fodder, will hit the screens on October 25. Then we have tentative release dates of “2024” He confessed and Indiana Jonesand a “2025” launch promise. South of the North, A fableand Doom: The Dark Ages. As for the rest, who knows?
Big names after big layoffs at Microsoft
It’s not uncommon for projects to be announced years before they’re released, but it looks like Microsoft needs its own plans to start coming together sooner rather than later. The company just laid off 1,900 employees and closed studios including Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks, the latter of which just recently scored what felt like a huge win in Hi-Fi Rush. These decisions come just months after spending $68.7 billion to acquire Activision Blizzard.
It’s not that Microsoft doesn’t have solid first-party offerings. Repentance, Grounded, Sea of thieves, Senua Saga: Hellblade II, Forza Motorsport, Forza Horizon 5and Star field no doubt has its fans, but there remains a sense of anticipation surrounding the company due to its outrageous spending and decision-making in recent years.
The latest Xbox Game Showcase shows promise, but with no concrete release dates and Xbox management under increasing scrutiny, it remains to be seen whether a much-needed big win is just around the corner.
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