Microsoft joins the June madness with Xbox Games Showcase

Plus a Direct for what looks to be Call of Duty

Marco Wutz | Apr 30, 2024

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Microsoft confirmed a Xbox Games Showcase for June 9, 2024, with a Direct Showcase of “the next installment of a beloved franchise” following right after the main event.

Looking at the edgy imagery with redacted text and the head of mythological creature Cerberus smeared all over symbols of US power, this basically screams Call of Duty – and according to The Verge that’s exactly what the Direct following the Xbox Games Showcase will be all about.

According to the same report, this will be a much bigger event than Microsoft’s showcase from 2023 – which makes sense, since it will be the first to show off games from Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, and Xbox Game Studios. Apparently, fans can expect release dates for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Avowed, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, and Starfield: Shattered Space.

Bethesda’s Todd Howard already teased the Starfield expansion’s release to take place in Fall 2024.

A brand-new Gears of War is slated to be revealed at the show alongside the next Call of Duty entry and other parts of the Xbox line-up for 2025.

Rumors around Gears of War have popped up here and there over the years, but recently got new substance to themselves thanks to several job advertisements at developer The Coalition.

The Xbox Games Showcase is set to happen on June 9, 2024, at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST.

Published Apr 30, 2024

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg