This year we didn’t get E3, yet it has been a great season for video games. Microsoft hosted the Xbox Games Showcase to highlight the most exciting and creative video games coming to Xbox consoles and Windows PCs in the coming days. Here are the five titles we are looking forward to.
STARFIELD
You will have to wait till September 6 to take to the stars. During the Xbox showcase, Bethesda gave fans a deeper look at Starfield. The upcoming Bethesda title is the studio’s most ambitious RPG to date, comprising over 1,000 planets that players can explore. Todd Howard, director and executive producer at Bethesda, said that the game allows players to go about exploration and combat in a variety of ways. Coming to PC and Xbox Series X/S.
STAR WARS OUTLAWS
The long-awaited open-world Star Wars game is coming in 2024. Ubisoft has showcased a cinematic trailer, introducing fans to the game’s Han Solo-like protagonist, Key Vess, an outlaw on the run who gets involved in a plot involving a crime syndicate in the Outer Rim. Ubisoft will release Star Wars: Outlaws on Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5 and PC.
CYBERPUNK-2077:
PHANTOM LIBERTY Described as a spy-thriller, the Cyberpunk 2077 expansion will revolve around V, a cyberpunk for hire who swears allegiance to the New United States of America. Players, as V, will team up with FIA agent Solomon Reed to solve a high-profile case. In December, CD Projekt Red announced that Idris Elba would be joining the cast of the game for the expansion to play a new character named Solomon. Coming on September 26.
FABLE
The trailer to the game has a humorous interview of Dave, played by Richard Ayoade, who wants to grow vegetables in a fantastical world. The wry sense of humour is spot on and we see a giant beanstalk grow. The next thing we discover is that Ayoade is, in fact, a giant. The speech is interspersed with clips of a Fable hero taking care of bandits. The sequence ends with the hero in his grasp, being raised to his mouth. Beyond the initial trailer, Microsoft and Playground Games are keeping the plot under wraps.
SOUTH OF MIDNIGHT
It’s a brand-new IP from We Happy Few and Contrast developer Compulsion Games. The Xbox blog says it will be a third-person action-adventure game in which players will have to track down supernatural creatures through Hazel. The game unfolds in a fictionalised swathe of the US, inspired by “the more interesting geological, topographical, cultural, societal, historical areas of the South”, creative director David Sears said