Perfect Dark and State of Decay 3 Are on Track for Gameplay Deep Dives Within 18 Months – Matt Booty

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At the Xbox Games Showcase earlier this week, Microsoft provided updates on a number of games that were initially announced years ago but had gone into complete radio silence since then, with prominent titles like Fable and Avowed re-emerging after long absences with in-engine footage and gameplay footage respectively.

But of course, you don’t need to look at Microsoft’s slate of announced first party games for too long to realize that as things stand, that’s just a drop in the bucket. The Xbox Game Studios banner collectively has a number of games in the pipeline that were announced years ago but haven’t been heard from a single time since their reveals- so when can we expect similar gameplay updates for those?

While it’s hard to say how long it’ll be before we have concrete details on all games in that group, at least a few seem to be gearing up for gameplay reveals in the next year and a half. Speaking recently with Giant Bomb, Xbox Game Studios boss Matt Booty touched on the topic, and explained that he’s “cautiously confident” that the likes of State of Decay 3 and Perfect Dark will be ready to do gameplay deep dives within the next 18 months.

“As I look ahead to 2024, everything that we’re going to ship, I’ve seen builds of, like very recently, or played them,” Booty said. “I’ve said this before, there’s so much stuff in Fable where, when I get with [Turn 10 Studios head] Alan [Hartman], I’m just like, ‘why don’t you show this and this and this?’ and [he goes], ‘no, no’. Because there’s a lot of cool stuff in that game that I’m excited about.

“As I think ahead even as we get into 2025, we’ve seen builds of games at The Initiative, I know, just because [Undead Labs] are there in Seattle, what’s going on with State