June 11 (Portaltic/EP) –
Fable, South of Midnight and Star Wars: Outlaws have opened the annual Xbox Games Showcase event in which Microsoft’s video game division has shared a large number of scoops along with previews of titles expected by players of their platforms.
Xbox has announced this Sunday the video games that will reach its platforms in the coming months as well as those that are in development in the studios of its brand (Xbox Game Studios) or third parties, in a new edition of Xbox Games Showcase.
This event has been the setting in which the head of Microsoft Gaming and Xbox, Phil Spencer, has announced a new edition of the Xbox Series S console in black and with a 1TB of SSD memory, which will be available on September 1, with remote also in black, for $349.
The avalanche of news has begun with the new installment of Fable, a title for people over 18 years of age, developed by Xbox Game Studios and Playground Games, which explores what it means to be a hero in the kingdom of Albion.
This first part has also welcomed two world firsts: South of Midnight (Xbox Series and Steam), from Compulsion Games, a third-person title with a dark style and fantasy genre inspired by the deep South of America.
Also Star Wars: Outlaws, a new installment of the popular galactic saga, from Massive Entertainment and LucasFilm Games, which immerses the player in a story starring smugglers, set between the films The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
Thunder Lotus brings one of the many firsts that have appeared in the Xbox event: 33 Immortals (2024), a cooperative action game for up to 33 players, who can participate in ‘pick up’ battles and ‘raids’.
Although it is not a world first, the Xbox stage has presented the gameplay of Pay Day 3, the cooperative ‘shooter’ starring a gang of robbers. It will arrive on September 21.
Together with Obsidian Entertainment, Xbox Game Studios will bring in 2024 Avowed, a first-person game, which puts the player in the shoes of being able to use magic, in a world where a mysterious plague has spread in the world of the living.
The pirate game Sea of Thieves will deliver a new adventure based on The Legend of Monkey Island, which will be available on July 20 for Xbox Series and Steam, from Rare and LucasFilm Games.
The video game firm has announced for the first time the next generation of the Microsoft flight simulator, which will arrive in 2024. Developed by Asobo Studios, fans of this title will be able to focus on developing a professional career in the air with a multitude of vehicles: from helicopters rescue, air ambulances and transport planes to others more focused on leisure such as hot air balloons or planes and small planes for experimental, low-altitude or racing flights.
Before, on November 3, Microsoft Flight Simulator will grow with a new expansion that will incorporate the Ornithopter ship from the movie Dune and the map of Arrakis, coinciding with the theatrical release of the second part of the movie.
Bethesda has also shared some news, starting with the Fallout 76 Atlantic City installment, which will arrive “soon”. Also The Elder Scrolls online: Necrom, an adventure within Shadow Over Morrowind that will arrive on June 20. It will allow the Telvanni Peninsula and Apocrypha to be exploited.
Blizzard, for its part, has announced new content for OverWatch 2, which will arrive with the Invasion expansion on August 10: new missions, new maps and five new characters.
On October 10, Forza Motorsport will arrive, with which you can experience “the new era of competition”, along with legendary racing vehicles from Chevrolet and Cadillac, among the more than 500 cars that will be available.
Atlus, for its part, has brought two novelties from the Persona action role-playing saga: Persona 5 Tactica, which will be available on November 17, and Persona 3 Reload, which is expected in early 2024.
Atlus has also unveiled another anime-style RPG: fantasy drama Metaphor ReFantazio, which will be available in 2024.
For the first time, Jusant, from Don’t Do, has been presented, an action, puzzle and climbing game starring a boy and his little pet, which will arrive in autumn 2023. Also for the first time, Still wakes the Deep (early 2024) , a first-person narrative horror game by The Chinese Room, set on an oil rig.
Senua’s Saga: Hell Blade 2, from Xbox Game Studios and ninja Theory; Like a Dragon, Infinite Wealth (2024), by Ruy Ga Gotoku; Kunitsu-Gami: Path of Goddess; Dungeons of Hinterberg (2024), and the city management and construction simulator Cities Skylines II (2024).
Keanu Reeves has appeared on stage for the first official trailer for Phatom Liberty, the Cyperpunk 2077 expansion, a new adventure in which his character, Jonnhy Silver, returns. This “massive expansion” will be available on September 26.
From the creators of the Banner Saga troilology will arrive in 2024 TowerBorne, a cooperative exploration adventure in an ever-changing world. And from InExile, Clockwork Revolution, a time travel game whose premise is “change the past, control the future.”
