12 Predictions for Xbox's Summer Showcase

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The Xbox Showcase takes place on June 11 at 10 am PT/1pm ET and for a little fun we thought we’d take a stab at what we believe could make an appearance. Some of these are likely pie in the sky dreams, but that’s half the fun. Let us know what we got right and what we got wrong following the event.

I’ll take the layup to kick us off: I think we’ll get our first look at Fable gameplay! Fable was teased by the Xbox social media team on Twitter last week, so it seems likely that I’m going to see the thing I’m most excited about in the portfolio in just a few days! I can’t wait to see Playground’s take on this. And if it turns out that this is just a PC port or remaster of Fable 2 I’m going to riot.

I also think id Software will announce its next game, and it is a single-player Quake reboot that does for Quake what Doom 2016 did for Doom. I’m not saying the gameplay will be the same thing – not at all! – but that it will modernize and reinvent Quake for the 2020’s. It’s time; Doom Eternal shipped over three years ago now, and id already has its tech base in the form of idTech 666, which already got updated and optimized for the Series X.

I’m also hoping for a Gears 6 teaser, including our first UE5 look at it. Previous Gears games have always gotten a short teaser well in advance of their release. I think this is a Fall 2024 game – especially after what Rod said on the podcast last week – but a short teaser now makes sense. They’ll stay quiet for another year, then go into an all-out blitz of trailers and pre-release coverage.

We haven’t heard from Undead Labs on its zombie sequel in a while and I think we’re going to finally see gameplay. The survival genre has been very popular lately and the time is right to evolve the