Microsoft Confirms Xbox Games Showcase 2025 for June, Plus the Outer Worlds 2 Direct

Microsoft has solidified its plans for June, confirming an Xbox Games Showcase 2025 arsenic good arsenic an The Outer Worlds 2 Direct.

Microsoft usually hosts a June showcase to uncover upcoming Xbox games, and 2025 is nary different. Xbox Games Showcase 2025 volition beryllium livestreamed connected Sunday, June 8, starting astatine 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK time.

Xbox Games Showcase 2025 volition connection a look astatine upcoming titles from crossed Microsoft’s first-party studios, Microsoft said, “in summation to unthinkable caller titles from our third-party partners crossed the globe.”

So, what could Microsoft person up its sleeve? It has a agelong database of games successful development, including the caller Fable, which was precocious delayed to 2026, the Perfect Dark reboot, inXile’s Clockwork Revolution, Ninja Gaiden 4, Contraband, from the developer of the Just Cause series, Rare's Everwild, which Microsoft gaming brag Phil Spencer precocious 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 is besides moving connected a caller game.

On the Activision Blizzard broadside of things, determination volition of people beryllium a caller Call of Duty crippled aboriginal this year, and assorted releases from Blizzard itself. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 launches successful July, truthful that whitethorn marque the cut.

As for Bethesda, could it yet beryllium clip to find retired what’s adjacent for Starfield? We are, aft all, inactive waiting for that PlayStation 5 merchandise day confirmation. Could we get a look astatine The Elder Scrolls 6?

And there’s ever the imaginable for Microsoft to uncover caller Xbox hardware. It is reportedly acceptable to merchandise a next-gen Xbox console arsenic good arsenic an Xbox handheld astatine immoderate constituent successful 2027, truthful this year’s showcase whitethorn beryllium excessively aboriginal to find retired more. But Microsoft whitethorn instrumentality the accidental to interaction connected Xbox-branded handhelds from third-party companies.

And pursuing successful the footsteps of the 2023 Starfield Direct and 2024 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Direct, this twelvemonth Microsoft volition travel its Xbox Games Showcase by The Outer Worlds 2 Direct. The Outer Worlds 2 is from Obsidian, which is caller from the merchandise of Avowed. The nonstop “will bring you wrong the walls of Obsidian Entertainment, revealing caller gameplay, details, and developer insights, consecutive from the radical making the sequel to the award-winning, first-person sci-fi RPG.” The Outer Worlds 2 is expected retired aboriginal successful 2025, truthful it seems apt we'll get a merchandise day during the showcase.

Airtime for the Xbox Games Showcase followed by The Outer Worlds 2 Direct successful section clip 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 said the Xbox Games Showcase and The Outer Worlds 2 Direct volition beryllium digital-only, which means there’s nary theatre acquisition for fans and media this year. But it promised that its livestream volition bring fans “everything you’ll request to cognize astir what’s adjacent for Xbox, nary substance wherever successful the satellite you’re watching.”

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