Microsoft's GDC 2026 Keynote Live Report: 'Building for the Future With Xbox'

Microsoft is acceptable to clasp a keynote astatine the Game Developers Conference to shed airy connected its plans for the aboriginal of Xbox, and IGN volition beryllium successful the country to bring you each the quality arsenic it happens.

'Building for the Future with Xbox' volition spot Jason Ronald (VP, Next Generation, Microsoft Xbox) big a "conversation astir the imaginativeness shaping the aboriginal of Xbox and however we're gathering a much flexible, connected aboriginal for crippled creators and players everywhere." And IGN volition beryllium successful the country to present a unrecorded study connected everything pertinent nonstop from GDC, from 10.10am PT today, March 11.

Microsoft's GDC beingness comes aft it unveiled Project Helix, the codename for its next-gen Xbox, and a important shakeup astatine its gaming business, with erstwhile gaming brag Phil Spencer retiring, would-be successor Sarah Bond out, and Asha Sharma drafted successful arsenic caller Xbox CEO.

Following the news, Seamus Blackley, who co-created Xbox astatine Microsoft, said that due to the fact that Xbox is not a halfway portion of Microsoft’s all-encompassing AI push, it was perchance “being sunsetted.” Blackley added that the information Sharma came implicit from Microsoft’s AI squad with nary gaming inheritance was further grounds of the company’s strategy. “They don’t accidental that, but that’s what’s happening,” Blackley said. “I expect that the caller CEO, Asha Sharma, her occupation is going to beryllium arsenic a palliative attraction doc who slides Xbox mildly into the night."

But Microsoft brag Satya Nadella countered that interest by past week insisting that Microsoft is “long connected gaming” and volition ever put successful it.

Project Helix volition play Xbox and PC games. "Great commencement to the greeting with Team Xbox, wherever we talked astir our committedness to the instrumentality of Xbox including Project Helix, the codification sanction for our adjacent procreation console," Sharma posted connected her X relationship past week. "Project Helix volition pb successful show and play your Xbox and PC games. Looking guardant to chatting astir this much with partners and studios astatine my archetypal GDC adjacent week!"

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