Starfield launches in November 2022. Forza Horizon 5 in November 2021. The Outer Worlds 2 introduced with no date or 12 months. New video games from the builders of Just Cause and Prey. An enormous multiplayer reveal for Halo Infinite. And Sea of Thieves is teaming up with its most pure associate, Pirates of the Caribbean. We additionally bought launch dates and/ or trailers for a bunch of titles, together with Age of Empires IV, Psychonauts 2, STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl, and Microsoft Flight Simulator on Series S/X, alongside some new names. All that is coming to Xbox Game Pass as properly — PC, Xbox consoles and cloud gaming — as are another titles, together with award-winning Hades (August 21), Diablo II: Resurrected (September 23), and Back 4 Blood (October 12). Here is each main announcement from Xbox and Bethesda’s E3 2021 showcase.
Forza Horizon 5
Release date: November 5 (Premium version), November 9 (Everyone)
Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X and PC (Windows + Steam)
After a number of experiences claiming {that a} new Forza Horizon from Playground Games would arrive earlier than the following Forza Motorsport from Turn 10, it is now official. After Australia and the UK, Forza Horizon 5 is now headed to Mexico. Horizon 5 is promising the most important open world of any Horizon title, higher seasons, and a extra social and wilder expertise.
You can kind a co-op convoy as you “meet” different racers, you may participate in minigames and challenges in Horizon Arcade, you may give “Kudos” to fellow racers for optimistic acts, and you may even create your individual Barn Finds for associates with any automobile in Gift Drops. Forza Horizon 5 will provide 1080p 30fps on Xbox Series S, and 4K 30fps on Xbox Series X with an elective 60fps efficiency mode.
Starfield
Release date: November 11, 2022
Platforms: Xbox Series S/X and PC
Bethesda gave us our first take a look at its first new universe in 25 years at E3 2021. In the role-playing sport Starfield, gamers can create their very own character and traverse the celebs with “unparalleled freedom”, Bethesda guarantees. Is this the studio’s personal No Man’s Sky? We will study extra on that over the following 12 months and a half. Starfield is made utilizing the all-new Creation Engine 2 — its predecessor was used to make the likes of Skyrim and Fallout 4.
Halo Infinite
Release date: Late 2021
Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X and PC
The multiplayer games-as-a-service facet of the following Halo title can be free-to-play, 343 Industries revealed at E3 2021, showcasing what gamers can count on in a two-minute-long multiplayer gameplay reveal. Xbox additionally gave us extra information on the Halo Infinite marketing campaign, which is able to function a brand new UNSC AI the Weapon that has been function constructed to cease Cortana who absconded in Halo 5: Guardians. As the Master Chief, you’ll discover Zeta Halo and defeat the Banished to get management of the ring.
The Outer Worlds 2
No precise particulars had been supplied on the follow-up to Obsidian’s alt-history motion role-playing sport besides that it’ll happen in a “new star system with a new crew.” The accompanying tongue-in-cheek announcement trailer for The Outer Worlds 2 does little to increase on that as properly, because the crew as a substitute determined to parody announcement trailers for giant sci-fi experiences of its kind — claiming that the builders have not completed designing the protagonist, the story, or any gameplay.
Redfall
Release date: Summer 2022
Platforms: Xbox Series S/X and PC
The subsequent sport for Prey and Dishonored maker Arkane Austin is an open-world co-op first-person shooter that pits you in opposition to superpowered vampires who have no of vampires’ conventional weaknesses. You can play as one among 4 Redfall characters — an ex-military sharpshooter, a mystical investigator, empathetic girl with robotic companion, and the telekinetic youngest — with powers of their very own. Or you may select to go at it with as much as three associates.
Age of Empires IV
Release date: October 28, 2021
Platforms: PC (Windows + Steam)
Joan of Arc will return to Age of Empires with the long-anticipated fourth numbered entry, as a part of the French civilisation that can be embroiled within the Hundred Years War with the English (beforehand revealed as as one among 4 civilisations alongside Mongols, Chinese and Delhi Sultanate). The different new civilisation introduced at E3 2021 is the Abbasid Dynasty that focuses on know-how and offers gamers quite a lot of upgrades because of its House of Wisdom landmark. And oh, there’s naval fight in Age of Empires IV.
Microsoft Flight Simulator
Release date: July 27, 2021
Platforms: Xbox Series S/X
Nearly a 12 months since its launch on PC, the most recent entry in aircraft flying simulation is on its method to next-gen Xbox consoles — with every little thing as is. That means 37,000 airports, 2 million cities, and 1.5 billion buildings, along with mountain ranges, roads, timber, rivers, animals, and visitors. Microsoft Flight Simulator will even get a free Top Gun: Maverick mode, when the Tom Cruise film opens in November. But there isn’t any phrase on an Xbox One debut.
STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl
Release date: April 28, 2022
Platforms: Xbox Series S/X and PC
The subsequent mainline entry in Ukrainian developer GSC Game World’s first-person shooter collection now has a subtitle: Heart of Chernobyl, a callback of kinds to the primary ever sport from 2007. We bought about 4 minutes of STALKER 2 gameplay at E3 2021, showcasing vigorous gunplay, eerie open air, a waltz lover, and monsters — all linked collectively by a dialog round a fireplace. The one different factor they’ve in frequent is the intense degree of element because of the ability of next-gen.
Contraband
Just Cause maker Avalanche Studios is leveraging its open world experience to create a co-op smuggler’s paradise set within the fictional world of 1970s Bayan, the place you’ll be pulling off heists — amongst much more — if the tiny announcement trailer is something to go by. Contraband will make use of Just Cause’s Ape Engine too, whose prowess is coming to Xbox Series S/X for the primary time.
Psychonauts 2
Release date: August 25, 2021
Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, PS4, PS5 and PC. Mac and Linux TBA
The sequel to Double Fine’s 2005 cult traditional is now simply a few months away. In Psychonauts 2, acrobat and psychic Razputin Aquato should deliver again a murderous villain again from the lifeless, all whereas coming to grips with all manners of challenges inside a… mind. Just because the mind has completely different elements to it, so will Psychonauts 2, with several types of ranges. All you have to to avoid wasting the world is a few bacon, it appears.
A Plague Tale: Requiem
Release date: 2022
Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X and PC
French developer Asobo Studio’s 2019 survival horror sport is getting a direct sequel with returning duo Amicia and her little brother Hugo on “a perilous new quest, doing whatever it takes to survive a brutal, uncaring world.” The 90-second announcement trailer reveals struggle within the Middle Ages, and a nightmarish swarm of rats. Are they actual? You wager they’re.
Replaced
Release date: 2022
Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X and PC
It’s not The Last Night, nevertheless it certain threw many off at its E3 2021 announcement, with its neon-lit pixelated dystopian world and beat ’em up gameplay. And although the trailer would not say it, an accompanying announcement tweet revealed that you’ll play as a synthetic intelligence trapped in a human physique.
Atomic Heart
There are main steampunk vibes to this alt-history first-person motion sport that’s set in 1955 Soviet Union the place Internet, holograms and robots are already a factor. You will play as P-3, an agent despatched by the Soviet authorities to research a producing facility that has dropped off radar. But if the Atomic Heart reveal trailer is something to go by, you’ll be engaged in much more than that.
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