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“Moving forward, AMD will go beyond building custom chips for Xbox consoles to designing a full roadmap of gaming-optimized chips, combining the power of Ryzen and Radeon for consoles, handhelds, PCs and the cloud.” AMD CEO Lisa Su says in a video posted on Thursday.

Just kidding. Microsoft is continuing to beef up its Game Pass offerings by adding Blizzard titles, this time with the remasters of the first three Warcraft games, which are available on June 26th for subscribers on PC.

“We will be playable natively and optimized for gaming handhelds on day one,” according to a post from Roblox CEO David Baszucki.

You can see the cost on the game’s Steam page. Microsoft had already said it would be raising the price of new first-party Xbox games to the $79.99 price, and here we are.

Xbox chief Phil Spencer just casually revealed Gears of War: E-Day is coming in 2026, 25 years after the launch of the original Xbox. It’s arriving alongside a “the next Forza,” according to Spencer, and “the return of a classic that’s been with us since the beginning.” That classic sure sounds like the Halo CE remaster I wrote about last year.

The big final reveal for the Xbox portion of the event was the next Call of Duty, which will be Black Ops 7. According to Activision, the new game will be set in 2035 and follows a story “where David Mason leads the Black Ops team against a manipulative enemy who weaponizes fear above all else.”

Gears of War: Reloaded will put the original Gears series in more hands than ever before. We already knew the game was coming to PS5 for the first time, along with cross-play and cross progression. We also knew the release date, August 26th. I guess Xbox didn’t really want anything, just to remind us it’s still here and coming soon.

If you already bought a Windows gaming handheld, you might not need to upgrade your hardware to get the overhauled Xbox app, Game Bar, and Windows OS that Microsoft and Asus just announced.

The game, At Fate’s End, is “an action-adventure game where you fight the ones you love,” according to the game’s reveal trailer. It looks like a game perfectly designed for me, so I’m already looking forward to its release sometime in 2026.

Bloober Team is having a great time. Silent Hill 2 released to rave reviews and the developer has another project in the works with Konami. The team also has an original project, Cronos: The New Dawn.
We got a new trailer for the game featuring a tone of gross, be-tentacled monsters and some timey wimey shenanigans. Still now firm release date, though, beyond fall 2025.

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 launches on July 11th, and Activision debuted a new trailer at the Xbox Games Showcase that showed off TMNT’s Michelangelo as a playable character.

With Palworld already a hit on Xbox, it’s no surprise other similar games are on the way. Next up is Aniimo, described as a “creature-catching open-world ARPG.” There don’t appear to be any guns, but the graphics sure look slick. It launches next year on the Xbox, PC, and mobile.

Don’t Nod, the studio behind the hella good adventure series, is going in a very different direction with a sci-fi survival game called Aphelion. It’s launching in 2026.

Obsidian’s Honey I Shrunk the Kids-esque survival game is getting a sequel, and yes there are still lots of bug. It’s launching on July 29th.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle came out just last year and the folks at MachineGames have been busy. During the Xbox Games Showcase we got a glimpse at a new DLC campaign, The Order of Giants.

The time-bending steampunk shooter Clockwork Revolution looks like it will offer plenty of tools for chaotic combat, though it’s not clear yet when the game will be launching.

Super Meat Boy 3D is a new, 3D take on the challenging indie platformer. It’s launching in early 2026.

The latest trailer for Ninja Gaiden 4 gives a great idea of the brutal action fans can expect. But the most surprising bit might be how disturbing some of these monster designs are. Even better, we got a release date: it’s dropping on October 21st.

One of the first reveals was for a sequel to the comedic shooter High on Life, which introduces a skater vibe to the experience. It’s launching “this winter” and doesn’t look like it will skimp on the jokes.

The countdown to a big games showcase is usually filled with sizzle reels of upcoming games, but Microsoft has gone in a different direction: some chill clips of people fishing in Fallout 76 as part of the game’s most recent update.

If you haven’t had enough of gaming events, Microsoft has one more. The Xbox Games Showcase kicks off at 1PM ET, and will be followed by a second event focused entirely on The Outer Worlds 2.