Every announcement from the Xbox Games Showcase 2023

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Arguably the main event of this year's NotE3 and Summer Game Fest season, tonight's Xbox Games Showcase had more fresh game announcements than you can shake a Series X at. If you missed it or just want a handy recap of every new trailer that went down, we've got you covered. Here's everything that was announced at the Xbox Games Showcase 2023.

Kicking things off with a bang, we got our first proper look at Playground Games' Fable. It will be a Day One Game Pass game, too, and will feature a giant veggie enthusiast called Dave played by British comedian Richard Ayoade. It sure looks like Fable all right, with daft jokes, fart jokes and other flavours of jokes. Us Brits like our jokes, all right? We also got to see tiny glimpses of its magic combat and the legendary beasts we'll be fighting. Still no release date, though.

A crusty stop motion musician called Shakin' Bones took centre stage here to introduce a brand-new game called South Of Midnight. In it, a modern-looking female warrior rocks up in a swamp asking where she could find a big old nasty monster. Mr Bones isn't very talkative, it seems, but in classic fashion, said monster then rises up from the swamp behind her. The trailer doesn't give much else away, but it will be a third-person action adventure set in a magic realist American South. No release date for this one yet, either.

The only thing we knew about Ubisoft's open world Star Wars game before today was that Ubisoft was making an open world Star Wars game. Now, we've got our first look at it, albeit in cinematic form rather than any actual gameplay. In this flashy reveal trailer for Star Wars Outlaws, we see scoundrel heroine Kay Vess escape from some bad dudes and head to her ship. A proper look will