Microsoft Insists Every Game Shown at Its Xbox Showcase in June Is Safe — but What Were the No-Shows?

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Amid the video crippled cancelations and workplace closures that person travel arsenic a effect of Microsoft’s devastating circular of layoffs this week is interest astir the destiny of beauteous overmuch each Xbox crippled without a steadfast merchandise date.

Microsoft games canceled arsenic portion of the cuts see Rare’s Everwild, an unannounced MMO from ZeniMax Online Studios, the developer of The Elder Scrolls Online, and the Perfect Dark Reboot. The latter's developer, The Initiative, was unopen down. The squad moving connected Blizzard’s mobile crippled Warcraft Rumble was laid disconnected arsenic caller contented ceased.

Meanwhile, outer developers who were funded by Microsoft were besides hit. Romero Games, the workplace founded by Doom co-creator John Romero and Brenda Romero, has suffered important layoffs and the aboriginal of its caller shooter is successful doubt.

That’s a batch to instrumentality in, but it begs the question: which Xbox Game Studios games remain? And which, if any, were softly canceled?

In a memo sent to each Microsoft gaming unit and viewed by IGN this week, Matt Booty, caput of Xbox Game Studios, said Microsoft inactive has "more than 40 projects successful progressive development, continued momentum connected titles shipping this fall, and a beardown slate headed into 2026."

Additionally, a root told Variety that each crippled featured astatine the Xbox Games Showcase presumption successful June is continuing on. So, what were those games, which we present presume are harmless — astatine slightest for the clip being?

Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 was astatine the show, and is definite to travel retired aboriginal this twelvemonth (despite the layoffs hitting its assorted developers). inXile crippled Clockwork Revolution starred astatine the show, truthful that’s safe. Obsidian’s Grounded 2 and The Outer Worlds 2 were astatine the amusement and we should presume are some safe. It's a akin woody for Double Fine’s Keeper, The Coalition’s Gears of War: Reloaded, Ninja Gaiden 4, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle’s Order of the Giants DLC. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4, and the ROG Xbox Ally, some astatine the show, volition proceed too. Despite the cancelation of Everwild, Rare’s Sea of Thieves continues with caller updates.

At the extremity of the showcase, Xbox brag Phil Spencer teased Forza, Fable, Gears of War: E-Day, and a Halo: Combat Evolved remake for 2026. We presume since those games were mentioned, they’re safe, though it’s worthy noting that the Forza mentioned by Spencer nary uncertainty relates to the adjacent Forza Horizon crippled from Playground, which is besides making Fable. Turn 10, which makes the much sim-focused Forza games, was deed hard by the layoffs.

So, we cognize which games Microsoft inactive intends to release. But, fixed the events of this week, it’s present intolerable to deliberation astir different Xbox games successful the works without a grade of concern. Everwild and Perfect Dark were conspicuous by their lack astatine past month's amusement and some were canceled. What other failed to crook up?

Minecraft — retrieve Microsoft owns Minecraft! — remains immense and harmless arsenic houses, you feel. But what astir Contraband from Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios? Where’s Undead Labs’ State of Decay 3? Ninja Theory’s Project Mara? Microsoft has a Hideo Kojima game, OD, connected its books. Is that inactive happening? Toys for Bob, the Crash Bandicoot 4 developer and Call of Duty enactment workplace that near the Xbox-owned Activision successful February 2024, signed an statement with Xbox straight to people its adjacent game. Is that inactive alive?

And what astir Bethesda? ZOS’s MMO has fallen by the wayside, but surely Bethesda Game Studios' The Elder Scrolls VI and the adjacent Fallout are fine. Starfield’s promised adjacent enlargement feels precarious, fixed Bethesda's vigor soundlessness connected the game. And what astir Blizzard? As of past twelvemonth it was reportedly hard astatine enactment connected a StarCraft shooter. Is that inactive the case?

It’s lone erstwhile you tally done what wasn’t astatine the Xbox Games Showcase past period that you recognize what’s astatine involvement here: Microsoft owns a immense fig of improvement studios crossed the globe, from Bethesda to Blizzard and Activision to Halo. When Xbox suffers important problems, a immense swathe of the video crippled manufacture and its developers do, too.

All eyes are connected August's gamescom, wherever Microsoft is expected to amusement much of what is has coming down the line. Perhaps Phil Spencer volition springiness fans a wide thought of what’s successful the works from Xbox and what isn't arsenic Microsoft's multiplatform propulsion soldiers on. It is inactive readying to merchandise a next-gen Xbox console, though we don't cognize when. Is the first-party Xbox handheld Spencer teased past twelvemonth besides inactive alive? Does Microsoft inactive program to merchandise its ain gaming app store, contempt the nonaccomplishment of Call of Duty Warzone Mobile, Warcraft Rumble, and this week's important cuts to Candy Crush shaper King?

In the abbreviated term, astatine least, the games we saw successful June are inactive connected the way. But the agelong word aboriginal of Xbox remains vague indeed.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].

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