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The studio behind touching indie Spiritfarer debuts a beautiful new sidescroller At Fate’s End Announcement Trailer – 4K | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 – YouTube Watch On Man, just look at that art. Gorg. “At Fate’s End is an action-adventure game where you fight the ones you love,” says the official line. It’s out next year.

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 has Doomguy in it, demo out today (Image credit: Activision) And Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Unless you’re a Tony Hawk 2 truther, these are the best games in the series, so the release on July 11 may as well be a holiday for geriatric millenials everywhere. Doomguy was playable back in the day, too, so it’s fun seeing him back.

Popular anime Solo Leveling’s action game gets 4-player co-op Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 – YouTube Watch On Solo Leveling: Arise already has a Steam page with a release date set for this year. But the trailer above changes the name to Solo Leveling Arise: Overdrive, and changes the release date to next year. The big ticket item in the trailer is 4-player co-op, which I guess is what’s coming next year. Arise is already playable on mobile.

Indie narrative platformer Planet of Lana is getting a sequel next year Planet of Lana II: Children of the Leaf Announcement Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 – YouTube Watch On We liked Planet of Lana, but it’s not one I expected to see get a sequel!

Mudang: Two Hearts is a Korean action game coming in 2026 MUDANG: Two Hearts | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 – YouTube Watch On A “stealth action thriller set in modern-day South Korea” as North and South are on the verge of recombining… and then some shit goes bad. “On the day when the historic bill was set to pass, a mystery terrorist group attacks the South Korean National Assembly, throwing the entire nation into chaos. Sent to uncover the truth, a North Korean soldier stumbles upon a K-Pop star and is given a new mission: protect the girl who can unravel it all. As their stories intertwine, a chilling truth begins to take shape…” Of course it’s a K-pop star. 💅

Age of Mythology Retold expansion Heavenly Spear is out this fall Age of Mythology: Retold – Heavenly Spear – Announce Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 – YouTube Watch On We really liked Age of Mythology Retold, and it’s already gotten one good expansion. Why not another one!

There Are No Ghosts at the Grand is… a musical puzzle game? No Ghosts At The Grand – Reveal Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 – YouTube Watch On This may be the single-most perplexing trailer I’ve seen in summer game season so far. Everyone’s singing, and you’re renovating a hotel using magical power tools. There’s a talking cat. There’s a talking tool with a Scottish accent. “They will Wicker Man your ass,” someone says at one point. At one point I saw some cryptic writing that seemed part of a puzzle? I have absolutely no idea what this game is, and I’m afraid of it. The official description only helps a little: “In this spooky, cozy, musical mystery, you’ll become the reluctant heir to a dilapidated hotel that was once renowned for its charm and hospitality. As you go room-to-room solving restoration puzzles, you’ll also end up uncovering some surreal, supernatural secrets of the hotel’s past. Welcome to The Grand.”

Don’t Nod’s next game is Aphelion, a sci-fi adventure Aphelion | Reveal Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 – YouTube Watch On Aphelion, out in 2026, puts you in the shoes of a space explorer, and wouldn’t you know it: space is pretty hazardous. Here’s the official description: “By 2060, Earth will be uninhabitable. The discovery of a 9th planet – Persephone – at the edge of the Solar System, is humanity’s best hope. The European Space Agency is dispatching the Hope 01 scientific mission, consisting of 2 accomplished astronauts, Ariane and Thomas. Their mission: to survey the planet and determine whether humanity can prosper anew here. Stranded on a frozen planet, astronaut Ariane must brave rugged landscapes and shifting realities to rescue her wounded partner, Thomas. This story-rich sci-fi adventure blends exploration, traversal, and tense stealth gameplay.”

The Elder Scrolls Online: Seasons of the Worm Cult expansion is out in 10 days (Image credit: Bethesda) Personally, I don’t care for worm cult season. Too wriggly.

Bloober’s sci-fi Cronos: The New Dawn is out this fall Cronos: The New Dawn – Survive the Nest | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 – YouTube Watch On Lookin’ real Dead Spacey. We’ve seen a decent amount of Cronos already, but here’s a moody new trailer.

Grounded 2: Grounded Harder (not actual title) announced Grounded 2 – Announce Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 – YouTube Watch On “With new flexible legs, the Yoked Girth action figure can ride anything.” Well that’s a hell of a line from a fake toy commercial within this trailer for… Grounded 2! Obsidian’s survival game is getting a sequel. You’re still tiny and still hangin’ out in the backyard all Honey I Shrunk the… style. But now there’s ant riding, which I don’t think the original game had? Ohh, so that’s why action figure hero Yoked Girth was riding his battle beast in the toy commercial… Grounded 2 looks like more Grounded, but with a bit of a glow up. Oh, and it’s out in “Game preview” (aka early access” on July 29!

Clockwork Revolution Xbox Showcase 2025 Trailer – YouTube Watch On On first reveal of Clockwork Revolution in 2023 we thought it might be a new BioShock, but we’re excited to see the RPG veterans at inXile (Wasteland 3 and 4, The Bard’s Tale 4) making their take on “the love child of Arcanum and Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines.” This generously detailed trailer looked great, but disappointingly ended by saying the game is coming “in due time.” Bummer! On the bright side, there’s so much to unpack in the trailer above we’ll be scrutinizing it for quite awhile.

Pokémon studio Game Freak is making a game for Xbox and it looks a little nicer than Pokemon Beast of Reincarnation – Reveal Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 – YouTube Watch On With apologies to everyone who is very sad about the graphics in Pokémon games on the Switch, here’s a trailer for a game called Beast of Reincarnation. It looks to pull from Japanese folklore and Monster Hunter, but also has robots in it? And yeah, it looks a bit nicer than those Switch games. It’s coming next year to PC and consoles.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle DLC arrives September 4 Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The Order of Giants – Official DLC Reveal | Xbox Games Showcase – YouTube Watch On The Order of Giants, DLC for last year’s fantastic Indiana Jones adventure, is coming in a few months.

Ninja Gaiden 4 izuna drops its way onto PC and Xbox in October NINJA GAIDEN 4 – Official Release Date Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 – YouTube Watch On Quite a lengthy new trailer for Ninja Gaiden 4 at this year’s show! We learned about this game just a few months ago and I’m psyched to see more of it. The highlight of this trailer was seeing original protagonist Ryu Hayabusa in action, cracking skulls with a twirling izuna drop. The new protagonist looks like a nasty piece of work, too. This one’s gonna be gory (and hopefully restore Ninja Gaiden to glory).

Super Meat Boy goes 3D next year (Image credit: Super Meat Boy) Wow, a new Super Meat Boy? Wasn’t expecting that! A 3D sequel to one of the great indie platformers is coming “early 2026” to PC, Xbox, Game Pass, etc.

Blood of Dawnwalker is out next year The Blood of Dawnwalker — Game Trailer | Trapped Between Two Worlds | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 – YouTube Watch On “A story-rich action RPG steeped in dark fantasy:” yep, that’s The Blood of Dawnwalker. The game from former CD Projekt developers got a new trailer at the showcase, and is out in 2026. A few months ago it was on the cover of PC Gamer!

“Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available at launch and in Game Pass when the Ally releases later this year” (Image credit: Team Cherry)

The Xbox handheld is real, using a Ryzen AI APU (Image credit: Xbox) It’s been rumored, and here it is: the Xbox handheld. It’s a modified version of the Asus ROG Ally, with an Xbox button right on the system. “The Xbox Ally is an Xbox you can hold in your hands, bringing together the power of Xbox and the freedom of Windows,” says Sarah Bond.

Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy coming 2026 Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy – Reveal Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 – YouTube Watch On This was an intriguing one: the Plage Tale series is going into what looks like ancient Rome, showing a gladiator arena and a woman running from some kinda monsters.

World premiere: a sequel to that game with the talking gun HIGH ON LIFE 2 Official Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 – YouTube Watch On There are those words I love to hear. I’m less sure I wanted to hear them used to announce a sequel to the game with the sassymouth gun, High on Life, from the studio founded by Rick & Morty’s Justin Roiland. You may recall that Roiland departed Adult Swim and Squanch Games after some very disturbing allegations against him. So he won’t be involved in this sequel.

Xbox kicks off with an Outer Worlds 2 trailer, coming October 29 Isn’t there a whole Outer Worlds 2-focused stream after this? No fair doubling up! But now we have a release date: October 29

Just a few minutes to go. I have to say, the preroll of Fallout 76 (I assume?) players fishing has been a nice and chill way to lead off the showcase. I’m cozy and ready for some games. That guy on the boat snoring his head off is tempting me to go back to bed, though. (Image credit: Microsoft)

Reminder: Microsoft offers accessible showcase streams, too The official Xbox YouTube channel has two additional versions of the showcase livestream: American Sign Language Xbox Games Showcase 2025

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15 minutes to go. Predictions? What are we pulling for at this year’s showcase? Trick question! There’s only one correct answer, and it’s a sequel to Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge. Actually, I’d take an official Xbox emulator on PC, too.

Xbox and Windows united? We’re just over 30 minutes away from the start of the Xbox showcase! Microsoft has been talking about bringing its Windows and console ecosystems closer together, and now The Verge reports that Xbox games are showing up within the app library on Windows. Prelude to an announcement today? Xbox console games are suddenly showing up inside the Xbox PC app https://t.co/YK05DVDspUJune 8, 2025