Xbox and Bethesda not-E3 Games Showcase will be around 90 minutes long

metro.co.uk:

Microsoft’s big preview event is going to be around an hour and a half long, implying a showcase on the same scale as their E3 shows.

The first three months of 2022 may have been unusually busy for video games but one glance at the current release schedules makes it obvious that the subsequent three months, and beyond, aren’t nearly so stacked.

Not only is it unclear what most companies are planning to release later in the year but it’s just as hard to guess when they’ll even reveal their plans, especially as there’s no E3 this year.

The one company that has laid their cards on the table though is Microsoft, who have a preview event scheduled for June 12 – which is sounding increasingly like it’s going to be just as big as a regular E3 showcase.

After a fan discovered what seemed to be evidence that the showcase would last 90 minutes, Xbox marketing boss Aaron Greenberg confirmed that while there isn’t yet an official runtime he does expect it to last ‘close to that 90 minute mark’.

Clearly that’s a long show, so there’s every reason to hope that it will host some major new announcements and reveals. In fact, that’s virtually guaranteed, since Microsoft currently doesn’t have a single game scheduled with a confirmed release date.

It’s easy enough to guess what the most likely titles to be featured are, including Fable, Forza Motorsport, The Outer Worlds 2, Avowed, Hellblade 2, and Redfall, but officially speaking none are confirmed.

At this point it’s not wise to suggest any are guaranteed since, as Greenberg implies, the line-up for these sort of shows is always in a constant state of flux and sometimes can change literally minutes before a presentation.

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