Xbox Is Having its Best Stretch of Game Releases Since Fall 2007

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Just because I know that headline will have some of you primed to start typing in the Comments section, know that this column isn’t about Xbox exclusives. Those, as we all know by now, are still dripping out of the Xbox Game Studios spigot rather than flowing. But the back-pressure is rising, and I’m sure I’ll write more about what’s next in a future column. For today, I want to focus simply on games being released for the Xbox Series X and S right now, this Fall, whether they’re exclusive or not. Most of them aren’t, certainly, but it doesn’t make the following statement any less true: we are in the single biggest 90-day stretch of game releases since Xbox 360’s historic Fall 2007.

That legendary run, culminating in the second anniversary of the Xbox 360 on November 22, included an insane smorgasbord of games that were exclusives: Halo 3, BioShock, Mass Effect, The Orange Box, and Project Gotham Racing 4. Throw in the multiplatform releases of Rock Band, Assassin’s Creed, and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and, quite honestly, I’m not sure if we’ll ever top that. But Fall 2023, aka Right Now, is sure doing its damndest to try! Take a look at what’s come out recently and what’s still on the way in the next couple of months:

That’s 15 big games in the span of about 12-13 weeks. There are more of course, but I’ve particularly chosen the higher-profile releases, with the exceptions of Cocoon – which is from a gameplay designer who worked on Limbo and Inside and just got a glowing review on IGN – as well as Sea of Stars, which has already been released to excellent reviews. Plus, Baldur’s Gate 3 is due out on Xbox Series X and S by the end of the year. And if only they came out at a pace of about one a week, as that averages