The big games, reveals, and trailers from Xbox Games Showcase

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Microsoft promised “games, games, games, and Starfield” ahead of its annual Xbox Games Showcase held Sunday, a promise it did indeed deliver on. Xbox executive Aaron Greenberg set expectations ahead of the event, saying Microsoft’s new game trailers were focused on in-game and in-engine footage. Across the two-hour event, Microsoft and Bethesda (acquired by Microsoft in 2020) outlined their slate of upcoming games coming in 2023 and beyond.

Playground Games’ Fable kicked off the show, while the reveal of new Xbox Series S hardware ended it, with some Star Wars, Persona, and several new properties stuffed in between all the fast-moving trailers.

Here’s all the biggest announcements from Sunday’s Xbox Games Showcase.

Microsoft announced in 2020 that developer Playground Games is working on Fable, a revival of the beloved franchise. But beyond that initial trailer, which was essentially one minute of a fairy flying around, Microsoft and Playground Games have kept Fable under wraps. That is, of course, until Sunday, where a closer look was debuted. The Fable trailer starred giant British actor Richard Ayoade and his take on Fable’s telltale humor.

Fable is a Microsoft exclusive, coming to Xbox Series X and Windows PC.

Compulsion Games debuted South of Midnight, which will come to Xbox Series X and Windows PC — day one on game pass. South of Midnight is set in the American Deep South, specifically, it looks to be in the bayou. It’s clearly got fantastical elements mixed up in the southern setting; South of Midnight developer Compulsion Games describes the tone as “macabre.”

Lucasfilm Games’ new Star Wars game Star Wars Outlaws features a new protagonist in a world overrun with crime syndicates. Not a Jedi or a Sith, she’s