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The long-awaited revelation of Starfield’s gameplay and a new game by Hideo Kojima were the highlights of this year’s Xbox & Bethesda Showcase.
During tonight’s live stream, Microsoft focused on showing games that will be available to Xbox and PC users over the next 12 months.
It started with the first gameplay footage of Redfall, Arkane’s multiplayer vampire shooter, which is now confirmed to be first-person, and ended with an expanded look at the gameplay of Bethesda’s sci-fi role-playing game. Starfield. Both titles have recently been delayed until 2023, with no new dates being given during today’s presentation.
Microsoft also announced a number of new partnerships with notable developers, most notably the creator of Death Stranding and Metal Gear, Hideo Kojima.
According to its founder, Kojima Productions is now working with Xbox Game Studios on “a completely new game” that “has always wanted to do,” enabled by Microsoft’s cloud technology. Kojima said the development “may take a while,” so we’re unlikely to hear anything more about it anytime soon.
Other announced announcements include deals with Atlus to bring three Persona titles to Xbox Game Pass, starting with Persona 5 Royal on October 21, and Riot Games to give Game Pass subscribers more access to their flagship games.
Subscribers will have all the characters unlocked in League of Legends and its Wild Rift spin-off, as well as the Valorant shooter, as well as content in Teamfight Tactics and the League of Legends digital card game Legends of Runeterra.
Not surprisingly, the Xbox Game Pass was the centerpiece of tonight’s revelations. About 20 titles were confirmed to be available to subscribers on the 1st, including third-party titles such as Hollow Knight: Silkson, Squanch Games’ new alien cartoon shooter, High On Life, the turn-based strategy game Oxide Games Now: History Untold, the sci-fi multiplayer shooter Ark 2, the Flintlock from Kepler Interactive: The Siege of Dawn, the mechanics-based farming simulator Lightyear Frontier, the multiplayer action game Naraka: Bladepoint and the new game Team Ninja Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty.
In fact, the only revelations that didn’t seem to reach Game Pass were Diablo 4 (for which Blizzard announced the latest class of characters, The Necromancer, and showed the first Xbox game images) and Overwatch 2, the free version of Blizzard. -Play on the shooting arena that will be launched in early access on October 4th.
Microsoft showed more than 30 games during its presentation. You can catch up with everything from tonight’s showcase and the rest of the week to our handy summary of all your ads.