‘Star Wars: Outlaws’ to ‘Starfield’: Every game presented at Xbox Showcase 2023

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In a time when Sony’s first-party exclusives were conspicuously absent and Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest left us wanting more, Xbox bulldozed over the competition with a 2-hour showcase that featured more than two dozen games, not to mention an extensive look at Bethesda’s Starfield.

With no triple-A titles to fight back against Sony and Nintendo’s onslaught, Xbox has recently found itself in a peculiar position. While the blue team kept customers busy through The Last of Us Part I and God of War Ragnarok, and Switch recently delivered the adventure of a lifetime through The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Microsoft waited on its newly acquired game studios to fill the content gap.

To put it in simple terms, Xbox needed a huge win, and with titles such as Avowed and Starfield still a little ways off, the Xbox Games Showcase 2023 was a golden opportunity to get back into the competition. And boy, did they deliver on that potential.

Microsoft presented a lot of games that are currently under development at Xbox Studios and beyond, so without further ado, let’s give you a recap of everything that happened during those magical two hours.

The previous Fable game spent many years in development hell until finally getting canceled by Microsoft. Now the company is promising us that this new reboot will be different. Well, given that it’s been in development since 2018, we were really expecting to see gameplay footage at tonight’s showcase. Still, this in-engine clip might be enough to appease diehard fans – for the time being, at least.

Avowed is the ultimate fantasy role-playing experience, especially since it’s coming from developers who are veterans of the genre. Coming from an isometric franchise like Pillars of