Everything announced at Xbox Game Showcase Extended
Microsoft held the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase on June 12, giving a first look at gameplay for Redfall and Starfield and revealing brand-new games like Pentiment and Minecraft Legends. As that showcase was focused on reveals, it had a very fast pace outside of the extended looks at Redfall and Starfield. Microsoft is making up for that with the Xbox Games Showcase Extended presentation today.
During it, we’ll learn more about the games we saw on Sunday and possibly even get a couple of new announcements about games coming to Xbox over the next year. Specifically, Xbox Marketing GM Aaron Greenberg tweeted that Xbox Games Showcase Extended “will feature interviews with more context and discussions with folks” about the games shown on Sunday. While this livestream will probably be slower-paced and less reveal-heavy than Sunday’s showcase, we’re still rounding up everything Microsoft decides to highlight during Xbox Games Showcase Extended and will update this story as Microsoft reveals new information about the impending Xbox game lineup.
Valheim is coming to Xbox Game Pass as a console exclusive
The first real announcement of the Xbox Games Showcase Extended was that Valheim is coming to Xbox Game Pass. The PC version of the game will come to Xbox Game Pass this fall. It will then come to Xbox consoles and that version of Xbox Game Pass in Spring 2023 as a console exclusive. High On Life’s Justin Roiland.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre game is coming to Xbox Game Pass
A new trailer was released for the multiplayer horror game based on The Texas Chainsaw Massacrewhich will be on Xbox Game Pass at launch. We also learned that the game will be a console launch exclusive on Xbox One and Xbox Series X in 2023 for a bit before coming to PS4 and PS5 later in the year.
Slime Rancher 2 is still coming this year
After skipping out on the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, console-exclusive Slime Rancher 2 popped up here with a new trailer showing The Conservatory, the player’s base of operations, exploration gameplay, and more. It will be released in Fall 2022 and be on Xbox Game Pass day one.
Fall Guys pays homage to an iconic Halo trailer
Mediatonic and Epic Games revealed that a Halo collaboration is coming to the Xbox versions of Fall Guys on June 30. They revealed this through a trailer that parodies Halo 3’s iconic Believe trailer, as we see a lot of beans frozen in the middle of a battle. This collaboration is called “Spartan Showdown”, and players will be able to earn Halo-themed cosmetics by completing challenges while the event is live.
Everything Else
- Bethesda’s Pete Hines defended the delays of Redfall and Starfield, discussed how Redfall was distinct from previous Arkane and cooperative shooter games, referenced The Elder Scrolls Online and Fallout 76’s expansions, and emphasized how players have lots of freedom to do what they want in Starfield in an interview.
- Hell: Bladepoint’s developers gave an overview of the game’s characters, gameplay, and the campaign ahead of its release on Xbox Series X|S consoles next week. NetEase also confirmed that it would come to Xbox One later this year.
- We got to see some brief gameplay footage from Ara: Stories Untold as the developers discussed how this grand strategy game supports player agency and reflects player choices and confirmed that its technical alpha begins later this summer.
- Grounded’s developers reflected on the survival game’s development and teased how the 1.0 launch this September will resolve the story and introduce a new Praying Mantis boss.
- Microsoft Flight Simulator and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s collaboration was discussed in a video featuring Gamertag Radio’s Parris Lilly.
- High On Life’s Justin Roiland discussed the formation of Squanch Games and his quirky new sci-fi Metroidvania shooter where players take down the leaders of a cartel with talking guns.
- A dev diary for Pentiment revealed more details about the story, characters, and setting of Josh Sawyer’s new medieval narrative adventure game.
- As Dusk Falls got a new developer diary where they show how its choice-based gameplay works and discuss its themes and narrative ahead of its July 19 launch.
- We saw some new gameplay from the Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels expansion, so we could understand just how these toys have been incorporated into 4 new Mexican biomes.
- Mojang Executive Producer Dennis Ries revealed that Mojang first teased Minecraft Legends at Minecon 2018 with a t-shirt and explained why Mojang is making an action-strategy game with Blackbird Interactive’s help.
- And ID@Xbox trailer highlighted upcoming indie games like Tinykin, Togges, Coral Island, and Hollow Knight: Silksong.
- Sarah Bond teased Project Moorcroft, a Game Pass feature that will developers put a demo of their unreleased game in Game Pass to get feedback from players.
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