The Xbox Video games Showcase was filled with bulletins and surprises. From a full reveal of Fable to launch home windows for Avowed and Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, there’s a lot to be enthusiastic about in case you’re an Xbox gamer.
However there are a number of Xbox Recreation Studios video games introduced beforehand over the past a number of years which have been MIA ever since. This is an inventory of Xbox Recreation Studios we all know exist however had been a no-show at the moment.
MachineGames’ Indiana Jones
In early 2021, we discovered Wolfeinstein: The New Order and The New Colossus developer MachineGames and Bethesda had been engaged on an Indiana Jones sport. Outdoors of the announcement, we’ve not heard a lot concerning the challenge.
We do know Bethesda Recreation Studios’ Todd Howard will function Government Producer and that he pitched the sport. Final 12 months Howard went on Lex Fridman’s podcast and talked about this untitled Indiana Jones sport could be a “distinctive” mash-up of various genres.
State of Decay 3
Three years in the past, an Xbox showcase previewed an inventory of video games that may be out there on the Xbox Sequence X/S consoles. State of Decay 3 was a kind of video games introduced throughout that July 2020 showcase that has but to be launched.
State of Decay 3 has no launch window and we’ve but to see any gameplay of the third installment from Undead Labs’ third-person survival horror zombie sport. The newest information got here from Xbox Recreation Studios head Matt Booty, who confirmed State of Decay 3 was being made in Unreal Engine 5 and that The Coalition could be concerned in improvement.
The Outer Worlds 2
On the 2021 Xbox Video games Showcase, Obsidian introduced it was growing a a sequel to its 2019 hit The Outer Worlds. Not a lot is learn about it, which isn’t solely shocking when you think about Obsidian has been busy with a number of initiatives.
From Grounded leaving early entry final 12 months, to its critically-acclaimed journey sport Pentiment launching final 12 months, and Avowed at present slated to launch subsequent 12 months, Obsidian has been holding busy.
Excellent Darkish
On the 2020 Recreation Awards, Microsoft revealed a brand new Excellent Darkish sport. It is being developed by The Iniative a brand new studio shaped by Microsoft again in 2018. A weblog submit printed throughout its unveiling famous that this challenge is “aiming to ship a undercover agent thriller set in a near-future world”.
Everwild
At X019, Uncommon introduced Everwild, a brand new IP that was in early improvement. Whereas again in 2021, it was reported that Everwild was being fully rebooted, Matt Booty would go on to say in an interview with Kinda Humorous that the report was “extra particular and a little bit extra excessive” than the reality.
With Uncommon engaged on this plus Sea of Thieves, which introduced a brand new Monkey Island crossover at at the moment’s Xbox Video games Showcase, hopefully the legendary British studio may have extra to share on Everwild quickly.
Contraband
In 2021, Simply Trigger developer Avalanche Studios introduced a model new sport referred to as Contraband. It is an open-world co-op sport that will probably be an Xbox console unique (and its coming to PC, too). Xbox Recreation Studios is publishing the title, however outdoors of its reveal two years in the past, we’ve not heard a lot concerning the sport and no gameplay has been proven as of but. We do know that the sport will probably be utilizing the most recent iteration of Avalanche’s Apex Engine.
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