
We're closing in on the big Xbox Games Showcase for 2024, with this year's event recently confirmed to be airing on June 9th - and it's sounding like we might be in for a treat during the 2024 show and beyond.
Windows Central's Jez Corden has been hyping up the event on Twitter, discussing his most anticipated title and what else we can expect from the big show. Whatever games do end up being a part of the livestream, Corden says he's heard that "Microsoft is very confident in their lineup" - not only for this year's showcase but beyond that as well.
As you can see in the above thread there, Corden goes for State of Decay 3 as the game he'd love to see show up during the event. This is by no means confirmation that it'll actually feature next month, but given that it's been almost four years since the game's announcement, we're also hopeful that it'll make an appearance some day soon.
As for something that's perhaps a little more set in stone - it's safe to say that we can probably expect the next Call of Duty to feature heavily at this year's Xbox showcase. The team recently teased the game getting it's own 'Direct' right after the main show, with the title heavily rumoured to be another mainline Black Ops installment.
Are there any specific titles you want to make an appearance this year? Tell us your picks down below!
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They are probably confident because they will drop a load of Activision games finally on top of what ever they have planned aswell
Well they have the studios, let’s just wait and see in June, which I’m so looking forward to.
Just bring the big AAA quality games and you could have the second half of 2024 and the first quarter of 2025 to yourselves.
There seems to be such a big exclusive quiet window console wise between July 2024 to March 2025 to take advantage of from the other two.
I don't doubt their confident on the shows line up, Xbox has been very good at showcases.
It's actually getting games out the door and sticking the landing they struggle with.
I'm excited to see what drops on Game Pass & Acti games - but my question is will Wu-Tang: Taste The Pain (Shaolin Style), be part of that.... or will it be a license Nightmare?
I'm sure they are but as an Xbox owner I'm not that confident in what they're delivering to us hardware owners.
They have to be, because 3 of the 4 major releases for this year won’t have arrived. Plus Starfield expansion.
If the rumours are true, then they should feel confident. Shattered Space (Starfield expansion) for September, CoD in October, Avowed and MSFS 24 in November with Indiana Jones in December (if rumours are true) would give MS a decent line-up for their Show.
That's their own games, but Stalker 2 and other partner games, as well as whatever games they want to show that are due in 2025 and beyond that will add to the overall impact.
That's without considering any 'older' games, inc ABK games that will come to Game Pass.
I'm sure they feel positive and optimistic...
I’m glad they feel optimistic and confident and all that jazz, but that’s a line we’ve heard before. Hopefully Avowed and Indy hit 2024 and deliver as experiences and hopefully Xbox finally delivers a compelling line-up beyond that to demonstrate why we own Xboxes. If anything, Xbox has the strength of being able to say “we will release something this year.” Not sure PS or Switch can say that.
@abe_hikura Truer words never spoken
They do seem to have an amazing lineup with just the known games incoming over the next few years starting with heckblade 2 this month. Im excited to learn about some of the unknowns. We have come a long ways from the handful of internal studios.
I'm very excited for the showcase, that's for sure. So many good franchises to pull from now.
They've said this when I've considered it bad and they've said it when I've thought it was good so I will wait and see what we get
im not confident in long term xbox brand growth at all if most or all xbox games go to ps like the real ms boss wants. i fear what the price of ps6 will be.
I have a good feeling about this showcase. It was only a matter of time before MS started clicking on all cylinders in regards to all of the acquisitions they have made the last few years. Sure, there have been some foul ups, like Redfall, but I blame Arkane and Bethesda for that one FAR more so than MS. Arkane never should have strayed from single player games and you can see by the games design they just couldn’t quite figure out what they wanted that game to be.
MS has plenty coming down the pipeline that I am super pumped about. Should be a great show. Hopefully we start getting that ABK library dropped on Game Pass as well. It’s time!!
@somnambulance
PlayStation can’t say that. It’s already been confirmed by Sony that there will be no big 1st party titles dropped in 2024. Investing as big as they did in live service had a price.
It would be nice if they gave some updates on the games they announced in 2019/2020.
2024 is set to be a great Xbox year even without the showcase.
1. Hellblade 2
2. Avowed
3. Indy
4. COD
not to mention Fable and Gears news to be expected as both are 2025ish I assume.
With all the games we know about and the announcments we don't it's gping to be gigantic.
Would also expect to see a bunch if not all of the COD games to come to XBOX very soon.
@Vipor007 I thought that game got banned?
Don't they say this every year? Have they ever said "we are a little worried about are showcase and the games". I will say after the last few have been pretty damn good though and I prefer Xboxs showcase over any of the others.
Let's hope none of the unveilings include more exclusives becoming multiplatform and diluting the need to have an Xbox (further).
I can't help but feel a tad negative going into this reveal. That's mostly fueled by hype for past years and it really not amounting to much.
I'm also pretty bummed out that Halo Infinite is on a death slide existing only to milk players with the shop between now and the next release.
Microsoft rarely use their showcases to show Halo projects. The last time was Infinite and despite my excitement we all know how that turned out. I just feel my favorite franchise is being terribly mishandled.
I guess this is somewhat what it feels to be a Gears of War fan?
@RIghteousNixon That is true. Theres still rumors of things we don’t know yet, however. Smaller scale projects from Sony, such as an AstroBot title. I expect Sony will have third party exclusives to flesh out their line-up.
It’s nice to see Xbox having the most potential for a strong holiday line-up. We know nothing about Nintendo’s plans (I mean, they did announce Mario Wonder three months before release, so anything is possible for them if they’re willing to drop something that huge with such little time), but I mean, if Xbox sticks the landing with Avowed and Indy alone, that’s a win, and Stalker 2 is certainly coming too. If Silksong finally has a date, even better. It’s rumored Clockwork Revolution and State of Decay 3 will get updates. Gears and CoD don’t do anything for me, but they’re essentially on lock too. This could be an absolutely massive showcase with something for everyone, but I’ve also said that before and felt that way before. Hopefully this is the one.
@IssaBrvndo That was Thrill Kill, the Wu game was made by the same engine
I feel in the minority saying I’m gonna be largely unaffected if they don’t show anything cool as I still use my series s as a legacy system, meaning I only play old games and mostly casually. Anything I wanna new or serious I wanna play I’d play on the deck.
With all this progress and how long they have built up their portfolio of game studios, it’s not hard to get pretty excited!
What I’m hoping they show is updates on already announced games that have gone radio silent for a while, alongside announcements for some new games. Just imagining what they could have under the wraps waiting to get announced just fuels my enthusiasm.
Really, really, really want a mode in state of decay where can turn off all the special zombies and only let the regular ones in.
Just be nice to have "regular" zombie experience to play. Walking dead simulator/typical zombie movie vibe and feel.
@somnambulance
Oh, I get having doubts when it comes to Xbox. Anyone who has been with the brand long enough knows that keeping their expectations in check is always a smart move with Xbox shows. Still, they have a ton of studios now and it really was only a matter of time before things really started to get rolling. And many of their developers are solid developers. I think the next year or two things are going to change considerably on the Xbox first party front. Time will tell…
@DoomGuy_117 @OldGamer999 as they should be there is a real chance we see a lot of heavy hitters. The one title that was on the leaked document that i rarely see people talk about is the Elder Scrolls 4 oblivion remake. Maybe that get’s shown off. The target date from the leak would line up. Now the game i want the most is the Gears of War Marcus Fenix collection. Then Gears 6 in 2026 for the 20th anniversary. Overall there is almost 10 AAA big titles that they could show off here. That would be one of the best showings for the brand ever.
Having basically 4 publishers I’d expect so!
@RIghteousNixon I really hope so. I like a lot of the developers under the Microsoft banner, so I’m rooting for them to finally turn things around. I suspect we’ll get an Activision Gamepass dump with the showcase too. I don’t anticipate that’ll be anything too exciting for me (unless THPS Underground gets ported to modern consoles… I can dream), but my logic tells me that people will lap that up if it happens. Everything seems set up for a home run, but… Xbox has a way. Lol.
I mean, I almost expect a solid showcase of cinematic trailers with 2024 as a release date tacked onto everything. Meanwhile, we’re all saying, “…but it’s June already! Where’s the release date!?” That’s how I felt about that Lost Records trailer at the ID showcase. Just slap a release date on there already!
@HonestHick
Gears 6 for 2025, that will be 6 years since Gears 5, not including hive busters.
I should think that is long enough and millions of person development hours over 6 years.
@OldGamer999 it would be great to have it in 2025. I was thinking they might go Collection in 2024-2025 and then 2026 is the 20th anniversary and they would drop gears 6. If they drop Gears 6 in 2025 then i hope tue collection is shadow drop at the June event or shortly after so that collection get’s it time to shine and bring in new players.
Wow, time is ticking, hadn't really realised it's that soon. Will try and keep expectations low and not get caught up in the hype cycle.
I'd love to see updates on clockwork revolution, south of midnight and everwild.
In the meantime, we will fire employees from four studios:
Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog Studios, Roundhouse Games. WTF???
@Vipor007 ahhhhh ok ok
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