Persona 6 is real, and coming to Xbox Game Pass when it does arrive.

Today's announcement trailer, shown during the Xbox Showcase livestream, gave basically no details on the game — we simply saw some quick flashes of what looked like a graveyard.

No word on a release date was given, unfortunately. What we do know for certain, however, is it's coming to PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, including via Game Pass.

For more, be sure to check out IGN's roundup of everything announced at Xbox Showcase 2027.

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Toys for Bob revealed Spyro: A Realm Beyond during Xbox Games Showcase with a short teaser trailer and a glimpse of gameplay. This is the first original Spyro game in nearly 20 years, and it features the return of Tom Kenny as the voice of Spyro and a first in the series: "true dragon flight."

Spyro: A Realm Beyond is set for spring 2027 across Xbox Series X and S, PC, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch 2.

The short teaser trailer we saw during Xbox Games Showcase starts with a cinematic that finally reveals Spyro taking off into the air. After a Spyro: A Realm Beyond title screen, we’re treated to 10 seconds of gameplay showing off Spyro flying in-game, not gliding.

Spyro’s got a somewhat updated look that reflects his new abilities, featuring much larger wings than he sports in previous games in which he could only glide a majority of the time.

“We’re trying to amplify what it means to be a dragon, and that means leaning into dragon flight,” explained Lou Studdert, associate creative director for Spyro: A Realm Beyond at Toys for Bob.

He clarified that in Spyro: A Realm Beyond, you’ll be able to transition from ground to air at a moment’s notice. It’s simply “press a button” whenever you’d like, and it’s not restricted to certain areas or levels. This doesn’t mean, however, that you’ll be able to completely bypass the world around you to get to those gems and possible secrets.

“One of the things we’re showing off in the gameplay portion [of the trailer] is, we want you interacting with the environment,” Studdert said. “We want you diving down to catch speed, using your flame breath to ignite campfires to get lift before flapping your wings to sustain movement.”

This innate flight mechanic was Toys for Bob’s first focus of prototyping, and it drove how the studio created the game as a whole.

“Some of the things that fans really enjoy about Spyro is just the movement,” said Toys for Bob studio head Paul Yan. “It’s this Zen-like flow through the world, a sense of discovery and chaining your charge through the speed pads, collecting your gems. And so flight seems like a natural way to take that to the next level, literally.”

Toys for Bob has worked on a number of Spyro titles, including the Skylanders series, and Spyro: Reignited Trilogy, the remake of the original three Spyro games: Spyro the Dragon, Ripto’s Rage!, and Year of the Dragon.

It was while making the Reignited Trilogy back in 2018 when the developers first got the spark that evolved into a Realm Beyond. Though Toys for Bob is looking at the complete history of the franchise, the team acknowledge the original trilogy is where the character started, so it’s where they want to build and go from.

“The Reignited Trilogy is where we kind of found that tone, found that character and it really personified who Spyro is,” Studdert explained. “We saw that really resonate with the fan base, and so for us, that’ll always be an anchor."

Yan said that bringing back Tom Kenny as the voice of Spyro is pretty suggestive of how the studio thinks and what the foundation is for Spyro: A Realm Beyond. They love the character, and nothing really embodies Spyro for them more than Tom Kenny, the original voice of Spyro.

“We’re very excited to hear what the fan base thinks,” Yan said. “You know, every year, they’re very committed. There’s Spyro community day and we’re listening, and I’m just thrilled to be able to just say, ‘Yes, we have been making this, we hear you, there’s a new game.’”

There’s sure to be more details on Spyro: A Realm Beyond coming soon considering its fast approaching release next spring, but in the meantime, don’t miss IGN’s roundup of everything announced during Xbox Games Showcase 2026.

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Microsoft has announced a new limited edition Xbox Series X console variant inspired by the original Xbox.

The console will sport a translucent Xbox green shell, allowing you to see all of the inner-workings of the console. It will also have a matching translucent controller, which will be both bundled with the console and sold separately. Microsoft noted that the console and controller will have small details and surprises that pay tribute to the brand's 25 years of history.

Pricing details and pre-orders will be detailed later, but you can expect the two pieces of hardware to arrive in November. The console will likely pair well with Halo: Campaign Evolved, a remake of one of the greatest launch games of all-time. A new trailer for the remake was shown today and confirmed the game will release next month on July 28th.

Microsoft noted that this hardware launch is just one of the ways its celebrating its 25th anniversary. It's unclear if there are any other big surprisises coming for the anniversary, but we likely won't see anythign else until around November when the anniversary happen.

For more, be sure to check out IGN's roundup of everything announced at Xbox Showcase 2027.

Cade Onder is a freelancer for IGN's news team. He covers all things entertainment, including gaming, film, and more. You can find him on Twitter @Cade_Onder.

Bethesda and id Software have revealed a first look at Doom: The Dark Ages | Revelations, a new campaign DLC release that’s coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X | S with a July 7, 2026, release date.

First gameplay showed the Doomslayer is sticking to his medieval theme for the add-on content, as he can be seen dismantling enemies with a new spear weapon in a collection of snowy environments. It can, of course, be hucked into demons, but it can also be used to reflect bullets. A few shots also show him using the new tool to grapple to ledges and levitate around enemies.

Doom: The Dark Ages | Revelations delivers the installment’s first campaign expansion when it launches this summer. You can see all of the bloody gameplay below.

"Wounded and betrayed, the Slayer is thrust into a merciless purgatory only escapable by confronting haunting truths and forging new strength with the help of a mysterious ally," an official story description shared in a post from Bethesda said. "He must ascend from the prison of his mind and fight an abomination of the gods to set his followers on the path to freedom."

If you need to catch up on all of the biggest reveals, you can check out everything announced at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026.

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Sega has announced Crazy Taxi: World Tour, its long-teased franchise revival that's now coming in 2027.

Fully revealed via a trailer shown today during the Xbox Showcase, this new Crazy Taxi title is in development for PC, PlayStation 5, Switch 2 and Xbox Series X/S.

For more, be sure to check out IGN's roundup of everything announced at Xbox Showcase 2027.

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Xbox has announced Senua, a continuation of Ninja Theory’s Hellblade series. Once again starring the Celtic warrior Senua, it promises to be a more gameplay-driven experience that expands on the narrative foundations of the previous two Hellblade games.

Revealed as part of the Xbox Games Showcase, Senua is set to be released in 2027 on Xbox Series X/S, PC, and PS5. The debut trailer will no doubt feel familiar to fans of the series, with its grounded, earthy aesthetic and violent, strugglesome combat. It depicts Senua emerging from a strange gold substance before trekking across a beautiful world full of dangerous enemies and eerie lights. As ever, Senua is accompanied by whispering voices – the manifestation of the psychosis from which she suffers.

Considering this is a continuation of Senua’ Saga, it’s interesting that Ninja Theory has chosen to call it simply “Senua” rather than Hellblade 3. Discussing the decision as part of a new interview posted to Xbox Wire, Ninja Theory’s studio head Dom Matthews said “The title of just Senua really reflects that this is something fresh and new and different. It is a different style of game.”

Eagle-eyed viewers will notice that Senua’s combat skills appear to have been deepened, with the ability to throw weapons and attack from stealth. Compared to the relatively stripped-back Hellblade games, Matthews explained that Senua has been designed to be more of a full-fledged action-adventure game. It seems we can expect more exploration, more puzzle solving, and more robust combat encounters.

“The key phrase for us has been ‘tactical choice’,” explained Matthews to Xbox Wire. “So as a player, you can go into fights and you have options as to how you approach that fight, how you engage in that fight, even whether you want to take on those enemies in the first place. Even in today’s trailer, you see Senua choosing to stealthily sneak up on enemies so not to alert the others, as opposed to wildly running into the fight – which you could also choose to do. This is the type of choice we’re excited for players to have fun with.”

Senua will also have access to “Focus Abilities”, such as the reality-shattering skill that can be seen in the trailer. Matthews revealed that players can use these abilities “as and when they wish, across traversal, puzzle solving and combat.” For example, that shatter skill will open up new spaces in the world, but it can also be used to push back enemies in combat.

Despite this deeper combat system, though, Matthews noted that Senua is “not a combat-action game. People shouldn't expect that this is like two-thirds combat. We're really thinking about it as being a fairly even split between combat, traversal, and puzzle solving.”

The Xbox Wire post provides a little more context on the game’s size, which takes place on a map “about twice the size of what we had in Hellblade 2”. There’s now more verticality, with more environmental elements to interact with, he promised. But while the map and the way you interact with it has been pushed past the boundaries of Senua’s previous adventures, those games’ more focused form still seemingly acts as the bedrock of this new journey. “To be clear though, this isn’t an open world game,” said Matthews. “It is a linear story told through a map built of interconnected locations.”

This bigger world is Senua’s vision of purgatory, which has manifested as her childhood homeland. Trapped between life and death, Senua is on a quest to be reunited with the loved ones she has lost. But while this is clearly connected to the story explored in the Hellblade games, Senua has been designed as something of a standalone sequel.

“It’s all very much presented in a way that, if you haven't been there [for the previous games], then you're fully going to understand and get what's happening in this title,” said Matthews.

This announcement confirms previous rumours of a new Hellblade that's more of a “game”. It also proves that the series was able to defy the apparent death knell sounded by low sales and middling Game Pass performance at launch.

For more, be sure to check out IGN's roundup of everything announced at Xbox Showcase 2027.

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Persona 4 Revival snuck into the Xbox Games Showcase 2026 to confirm it has a release date of February 18, 2027.

It’s a schedule update for Atlus’ yellow-tinted RPG that came with a nice, long look at gameplay. Considering it’s been nearly 18 years since the studio first launched the original game, fans are more than familiar with its characters and story, but today’s footage also revealed a fresh coat of paint with updated visuals.

Persona 4 Revival launches in February of next year for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S. If you need to catch up on all of the biggest reveals, you can check out everything announced at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026.

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A new trailer for Halo: Campaign Evolved confirmed the game's release date and showed a new look at the three brand-new missions for the game.

The trailer confirmed that the game is imminent as Halo: Campaign Evolved will release on July 28, 2026 on Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PC. In an Xbox Wire blog post, Microsoft confirmed that players can get five-days of early access and play the game on July 23rd if they purchase the premium edition ($69.99) or collector's edition ($199.99). The base game will cost $49.99.

Instead of showing us new looks at iconic missions with a new coat of paint, the trailer focused on the new story missions known as Operation: METEORITE that were made exclusively for this remake. They'll take place one year before the events of the main game with Master Chief and Sgt. Johnson going on an exciting new mission. Perhaps more excitingly, at least one of these new missions will feature space combat. These new missions were created in collaboration with Troy Denning, who penned a number of Halo novels.

As already noted, there will also be two special editions for the game. The $69.99 premium edition will include early access, in-game skins, a digital artbook, and a digital short story that leads into the events of Operation: METEORITE. The $199.99 collector's edition will include everything in the premium edition plus a 12-inch statue of Master Chief from Dark Horse, a light-up Cortana chip, a physical copy of a reimagined version of the original game's manual, a steelbook, art prints, and yes, an actual game disc (except for the PC version).

For more, be sure to check out IGN's roundup of everything announced at Xbox Showcase 2027.

Xbox's Fable reboot now has a confirmed 2027 release date — and a fresh trailer has revealed Marvel star Hayley Atwell will play its villain, named Isabel.

Today's look at Fable during the Xbox Showcase featured plenty of Atwell, who claims that she is the only hero that Albion needs. The trailer then concluded with a tease of Fable's original villain, Jack of Blades, confirming his involvement too.

The trailer then wrapped with confirmation of Fable's new release date following its recent delay until next year, pushing it clear of GTA 6's impact. Fable will launch on February 23, 2027.

"Isabel is a driven, powerful Hero on a quest to make right a tragic injustice," said Fable associate narrative director Craig Owens. "Driven by grief, Isabel has turned her pain into determination and focus that sets her at odds with The Hero of Briar Hill and Humphry, her one-time guardian. Isabel’s conviction that she’s not just doing the right thing, but she’ll be able to make right any harm she causes along the way makes her a powerful, dangerous enemy."

For more, be sure to check out IGN's roundup of everything announced at Xbox Showcase 2027.

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Gears of War: E-Day kicked off the Xbox Games Showcase 2026 with a first look at gameplay, a release date of October 6, 2026, and confirmation that it will be an Xbox console exclusive.

Our first look at The Coalition’s Gears prequel game follows an armorless (and more mobile) Marcus Fenix as he shoots through the streets of a city on Sera as Emergeance Day kicks off. Regular civilians can be seen being torn apart as the Locust horde makes its grand, gory debut. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma then followed the presentation to confirm that this next game will not come to PS5.

While it’s nice to see Gears of War: E-Day give players that October release date, PlayStation fans may be torn to hear that it will only launch for Xbox when it comes to its console presence. You can see that first gameplay trailer below.

Exact platforms have not been revealed, but Gears of War: E-Day is expected to come to PC and Xbox Series X | S. We at least know that it won't be coming to PS5, at least not for a while. If you need to catch up on all of the biggest reveals, you can check out everything announced at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026.

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It took some time, but The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has finally crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office.

Nintendo and Illumination's Mario movie sequel took 10 weekends to pass the coveted movie milestone (via Deadline). Although that means it reached $1 billion at much a slower pace than its predecessor, which took only 26 days, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is now the first and only movie to cross the box office billion mark in 2026.

With both animated adaptations finding tremendous success in theaters, the two Super Mario films have now accumulated a total of more than $2.30 billion. That lands them in the number nine spot in the list of top 10 animated franchises worldwide, with Despicable Me in first at $5.64 billion, Shrek in second at $3.98 billion, and Toy Story in third at $3.28 billion. As some of the names in the list feature franchises with as many as six total films, Mario has a good shot at shaking things up, should more sequels get the greenlight.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie took Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, and even Star Fox's Fox McCloud on an intergalactic adventure when it premiered in theaters April 1, 2026. Mixed critical response did little to stop Nintendo's latest film from kicking off with a roaring start, as it managed to pull in $34 million on the day of its Wednesday release alone.

It's since spun up $428.5 million domestically and $571.5 million internationally. For comparison, The Super Mario Bros. Movie ended its box office run with $574.9 million domestically and $785.8 million internationally, bringing its total to about $1.36 billion (via Box Office Mojo).

With what appears to be another home run under its belt, Nintendo is showing no sign of slowing down its film ambitions. The gaming company set an April 2028 date for its next animated movie earlier this year, and in April 2027, fans will absolutely return to theaters to catch its live-action The Legend of Zelda movie.

IGN called The Super Mario Galaxy Movie "okay" in its 6/10 review. At the time, we said it "ditches an engaging story in favor of a pipe-bursting amount of Easter eggs, but that’s not an all-together bad thing."

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Big updates are arriving soon to Aether & Iron, and it seems like there could be even more in the future. As you can see in the new trailer above, a new roadside garage, new missions, and a new dice mini game are coming soon to the 1930s-set Decopunk narrative RPG.

Ahead of the reveal, which debuted exclusively at IGN Live 2026, I sat down with the team at Seismic Squirrel to chat about why these new updates might not be the last new material we see from the game and what players might expect in terms of future lore.

“Our game is built off the graveyard of darlings,” says Aether & Iron’s Narrative Tyler Whitney. “When we were building this, narratively, it was a lot more ambitious [with regard to] the scope of how big things would be. And the more that we built out the game, the more we realized that we had to trim narratively things down in order to fit what the team was capable of. And what was left on the cutting room floor is a lot more of New York history that I wanted to put forward.”

“At one point our Production Supervisor, Josh [Enz], came in and killed two-thirds of the game,” says Creative Director Duane Stinnett. “So what we released is about 33% of what we originally scoped. But you get a better experience than if we had tried to stretch it across so much more. So it ends up working out for the best.”

When I asked Whitney if leaving two thirds of the game on the cutting room floor meant that potential sequels to Aether & Iron were a possibility, he said he’s open to it.

“Look, you can't confirm anything,” Whitney says. “We would love the opportunity. We have a massive backlog of material. I wrote a big wiki for everything. The amount of world building that was written internally compared to what made the game is a depressingly small percentage. So if people love the game, if people want to see more, we have so much more to share.”

Key to the unique appeal of Aether & Iron are the retro floating cars (powered by the titular Aether) which are used in combat, racing, and act as a central pillar of the game. I asked Whitney and Stinnett how they balanced the chaotic fantasy of 1930s flying cars with the rigid demands of a turn-based tactical strategy game.

“It was a very painful process,” Stinnett says. “The game was initially prototyped as a fully free-roaming 3D game. We went through so many iterations looking at how other titles handled turn-based three-dimensional flight with depth, and honestly nothing was clicking. It just didn't feel right.”

“With turn-based tactical combat, one problem that we kept running into was like, ‘Okay, how do we make them feel like flying cars?’” Whitney says. “What difference does it make? And so we really tried to figure out ways to [to make] the combat feel unique. And I think that's what goes a long way in making the story feel interesting and compelling.”

“We finally landed on an isometric view where the vehicles are bound to these glowing blue ‘Aether roads,’” Stinnett says. “In earlier builds, they hovered over normal cobblestones, but it just looked like they were driving normally; there was no sense of vertigo or depth. Now, the roads are made of a gaseous, translucent blue mist. You can see right through them into the empty air below. It allowed us to keep the combat grounded enough to make tactical sense, but players can still jump in, split lanes, and utilize car momentum to slam wreckage into enemy lines.”

And while the cars in Aether & Iron might at first glance appear to be based on real ones from the 1930s, the team confirms that the vehicles in the game were actually built from the ground up by the team at Seismic Squirrel.

“It’s really an amalgamation of existing vehicles that were heightened and adapted to fit the narrative in whatever context they lived in the world and in the narrative,” Stinnett says. “We would've had to get clearances to use real cars because [some of those] car companies still exist to this day. So [the vehicles in Aether & Iron] are sort of amalgamations of existing cars.

“So for the Lowers, which is the lowest segment of society, the working class industrial section, a lot of the cars are retrofitted to fly, but they were ground cars originally. So you take a crappy Model T or something, it's all rusted out and you retrofit it with lifters and that's how people get around. And then by the time you get to the top of the city, everything's sort of like 1930s built from the ground up to fly.”

Although the vehicles were designed from scratch, there was still plenty of inspiration behind Aether & Iron that the creators leaned into when building the game.

“One of the games that I first fell in love with was BioShock on my Xbox 360,” Whitney says. “I fell in love with the world so much that I bought the books and made up stories in my head for what happened. And then Gangs New York and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, two movies that were instrumental in my upbringing, definitely find home in [our game] because of [their] romanticism. I think that's something that followed us through into Aether & Iron.”

Aether & Iron is available now on Steam.

Michael Peyton is the Senior Editorial Director of Events & Entertainment at IGN, leading entertainment content and coverage of tentpole events including IGN Live, San Diego Comic Con, gamescom, and IGN Fan Fest. He's spent 20 years working in the games and entertainment industry, and his adventures have taken him everywhere from the Oscars to Japan to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Follow him on Bluesky @MichaelPeyton

Hot Wheels Infinite Rush was revealed at Summer Game Fest on Friday and now we can exclusively reveal some extended gameplay from the upcoming racer. As you can see in the player above, Hot Wheels Infinite Rush is slated to include tons of new elements not found in its predecessors including a Drift Stunt Challenge, Stuntman Challenge, and Destroy Everything! Challenge, where players get to utterly wreck everything that possibly can within a set timeframe.

Ahead of the gameplay reveal at IGN Live 2026, I sat down with Michele Caletti, Development and Creative Director at Milestone - the studio behind the game, who told me that Hot Wheels Infinite Rush has a lot that fans of previous Hot Wheels Games will recognize, but marks a whole new world for the popular series.

“It’s not at all Hot Wheels Unleashed 3,” Caletta says. “It's a completely different thing.We wanted to keep some of the positive aspects that were very well recognized because basically Hot Wheels 1 and 2 are proper racing games with nuance, with content, with quality through and through. We built a community. So making Infinite Rush has been a very big challenge because we wanted to preserve the good, but we wanted to change a lot.”

Perhaps the biggest new element in Hot Wheels Infinite Rush is a series of freely explorable islands which allow players to hunt for a slew of discoverable items.

“There are going to be four big islands,” Caletti says. “You can freely explore, go around. [They are] different one from the other. You can find challenges, races, secrets, [and] collectibles. You don't select the next challenge or next race from a menu, but basically you go around, have a look and find things along the way in the classic open world pattern.

“This is a huge change because you can easily find yourself spending hours going around trying to catch the last secret, trying to find some new challenge that you've spotted. And it's completely different from the game loop perspective and from the way you perceive the game.”

In addition to the islands, Caletti says there’s a second major shift the development team implemented while building the game.

“The second huge change is the artistic vision placement,” Caletti says. “The other Hot Wheels games were based on the mantra of ‘Hot Wheels cars in real life-size, in toy form, in the real world, where you race in the back yard [or] in the kitchen.’ [With Hot Wheels Infinite Rush] we wanted to experiment with something very different.

“You'll still be a toy car, but you're going to race in a world made like a diorama. So there are islands themed like cities, like resorts. Everything is in the scale of the car yet it's somehow toy form. Everything is clearly made in plastic [so] there's a significant shift. The things we've been able to create from the artistic perspective is very, very different.

“On top, there are smaller changes,” Caletti says. “Here we have gone a step further in terms of differentiating the vehicles and creating four big classes with peculiar mechanics, their own vehicles, challenges, and race mechanics. Being able to zip around [the islands] opens up a different variety of challenges. Everything is somehow familiar and yet everything is different because of the scale factor.”

Beyond the new islands, mechanics, and scale that Hot Wheels Infinite Rush brings to the storied franchise, Caletti says that he’s excited for some of the more social elements the game will feature.

“I’d be very happy if [players] start interacting with each other online,” Caletti says. “Discussing how to catch all the secret items or the hidden items or the items that seem very hard to pick around the world. In other racing games, there's the discussion where to find all the cars, where to try to find all the secrets and to smash all the items. I'd like players to do the same with this game.”

For more IGN Live, check out all of the cool things you can see when the event wraps up later today.

Michael Peyton is the Senior Editorial Director of Events & Entertainment at IGN, leading entertainment content and coverage of tentpole events including IGN Live, San Diego Comic Con, gamescom, and IGN Fan Fest. He's spent 20 years working in the games and entertainment industry, and his adventures have taken him everywhere from the Oscars to Japan to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Follow him on Bluesky @MichaelPeyton

Xbox Games Showcase is back for another year, and this one promises a great deal from Microsoft. The showcase kicks off on Sunday, June 7 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UK time, and we’ll have live updates below, bringing you all the announcements as they happen. It will be followed immediately by a Gears of War: E-Day Direct, which will deliver a deep dive on the next game in the action series.

So, what can we expect from Xbox Games Showcase itself? Microsoft has a number of big first-party games due out in what remains of 2026 and into 2027 that are still without release dates, so you’d expect those to be announced today. For example, Halo: Campaign Evolved, which we’re sure to get another look at during the show, will probably get a release date. A Gears of War E-Day release date is a sure bet, but will Microsoft also confirm a PS5 version? There’s been a lot of talk about Microsoft potentially returning to Xbox exclusives since new CEO Asha Sharma took over, so it will be interesting to see if any games at the showcase skip Sony’s console.

I’m also hoping for firm release dates for inXile Entertainment’s Clockwork Revolution, Undead Labs’ State of Decay 3, and Playground's recently delayed Fable. Meanwhile, we know we’ll get a look at the DMZ mode in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 during the show.

Now, let’s speculate a little. We know Bethesda is working on a number of new games, but will any turn up at Xbox Games Showcase? How about that Fallout 3 Remaster? Could The Elder Scrolls 6 finally show off gameplay? Despite the fact TES6 was announced aeons ago, it showing up here somehow feels like wishful thinking.

One thing we know won’t be at Xbox Games Showcase is Project Helix, Microsoft’s next-generation console. This one’s all about the games, the company has confirmed. And, just like during Sony’s State of Play showcase, don’t expect GTA 6 to pop up at Xbox Games Showcase. Rockstar, as we all know, will do its own thing when it’s good and ready.

It’s worth noting that Xbox Games Showcase trailers will continue to display rival platforms, including PlayStation 5, but this may be the last time Microsoft does so. “Seeing the feedback on logos. It was a miss, and I own it,” Sharma said last month. “We are talking about how we adjust for future Xbox shows.”

While you wait to find out what Xbox has in store, let us know what you’re hoping to see in the comments below! And be sure to come back here in time for Xbox Games Showcase itself, and we’ll have everything announced as it happens.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4

Microsoft closed out Xbox Games Showcase with a first look at the DMZ mode in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. This is the extraction mode, separate to Campaign and Multiplayer.

Clockwork Revolution

inXile's Clockwork Revolution has a new trailer and the surprise confirmation it's Xbox console exclusive. It's due out at some point in 2027. No PS5 version then!

Spyro: A Realm Beyond

Spyro is back! Spyro: A Realm Beyond is from Toys for Bob, and sees Spyro actually take flight. It's due out spring 2027.

Persona 6

It's finally here! Persona 6 is real and it has its debut trailer, although it told us next to nothing about the game. It is coming day one to Xbox Game Pass, which feels big.

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse has a new trailer and a release date: October 15, 2026.

Where Winds Meet

Where Winds Meet has shadow-dropped on Xbox. Meanwhile, the Hidden Mountain DLC is due out July 2026.

Valor Mortis

Valor Mortis, a first-person action soulslike from the creators of Ghostrunner, has a new trailer and a release date: Sept 24, 2026. I can't believe I'm saying this, but that's yet another September game. Good luck to them all!

Minecraft Dungeons 2

Minecraft Dungeons 2 has a new trailer and a release date: Sept 29, 2026. Yes, that's another new game to add to the September pile.

Xbox Series X25 Limited Edition

Microsoft went hard on nostalgia with the reveal of the Xbox Series X25 Limited Edition, which leans heavily on the original Xbox console. It's due out November 2026. That means that for the first time, Microsoft is bringing a translucent design to Xbox Series X, drawing inspiration from the original Xbox and OG Green so many fans remember. There's a Xbox Wireless Controller X25 Special Edition, too. Just bring back the blades while you're at it, Microsoft!

Crazy Taxi World Tour

Crazy Taxi is back! Sega has a brand new game in the series, dubbed World Tour, and it's out in 2027.

Doom: The Dark Ages Revelations

Doom: The Dark Ages is getting an expansion! It's called Revelations and it's due out July 7.

Senua

Ninja Theory is back with another Hellblade game, except this one is simply called Senua. From the gameplay reveal, it looks like there's more going on in terms of combat. It's due out in 2027.

Join Us

Here's another brand new game announcement: Join Us. As you'd expect from a video game with that as the title, it's about joining a cult.

Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember

Team Ninja announced Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember, due out early 2027.

Bad Magpie

Xbox Games Showcase saw the announcement of Bad Magpie.

Metro 2039

4A Games's Metro 2039 has a brand new trailer, showing off its gritty first-person shooting. It's due tou February 2027.

State of Decay 3

State of Decay 3 made its expected appearance at Xbox Games Showcase, bringing with it a new trailer. But Undead Labs' sequel still doesn't have a firm release date. All we got was a 2027 release window, which is a little disappointing.

Persona 4 Revival

Persona 4 Revival has a release date: February 18, 2027. And it's coming day one to Game Pass!

Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy

Xbox Games Showcase brought us a new trailer for Asobo Studio's Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy. And yes, this one is coming day one to Xbox Game Pass.

Halo: Campaign Evolved

The new Halo: Campaign Evolved trailer teased the new story content coming to the game. Three new missions are included, complete with space combat. The release date is confirmed! July 28, 2026. Not long now.

Fable

Playground's Fable has a new trailer, confirming MCU star Hayley Atwell plays the main villain. We also have a release date: February 23, 2027.

Gears of War: E-Day

Xbox Games Showcase kicked off with a new trailer for Gears of War: E-Day, showing a young Marcus Fenix in civilian clothing fighting through the streets against the surprise Locust attack. And we have a release date: October 6, 2026. The big news here though is Gears of War: E-Day is Xbox console exclusive, which means there's no PlaySation 5 version. That's a massive call from new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma right there.

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Having given us a powerful portrayal of the final days of Wolverine in Logan, Hugh Jackman now turns to another iconic character nearing his end in The Death of Robin Hood, and we got the first look at a new clip this weekend at IGN Live. The clip focuses on this film's older version of Robin Hood, now pondering his dark life of crime and murder, and finding his past catching up to him in the form an enemy who challenges him in a particular fiery setting.

On hand to speak about the film was director Michael Sarnoski, whose previous work includes the acclaimed Nicolas Cage movie, Pig, and A Quiet Place: Day One. Sarnoski explained how The Death of Robin Hood is a reinterpretation of "The almost millennia old story of the death of Robin Hood, which was one of the earliest myths around Robin Hood in the early ballads. This is kind of a gritty reimagining of that story. What if Robin really were a real human being who was this medieval bandit that had a kind of problematic history, and how would the end of his life look from a from a deeply personal standpoint?"

Sarnoski understands people will think of Logan when seeing Jackman has been cast in this role, but remarked, "What excited Hugh about the movie, and what excited me about Hugh, was that, yes, on the surface, there's this kind of aging hero dealing with his legacy of violence, but I think he was really excited to boil it down to something more essential to get into action that doesn't feel superhero action, but feels like just an old man trying desperately to kill someone in the mud."

In The Death of Robin Hood, Sarnoski said they worked "to design these scenes that don't feel like these are incredible fighters dancing around, doing all this crazy stuff. These are just people trying not to die. And I think he was excited to try and figure that out, and then try and figure out that transition into the really internal world of this Robin Hood character, and how to show both the intense brutality and violence of this character, and that internal, thoughtful, intelligent, eventually warm character that is hiding beneath that as well. Watching him do something similar, but take it in a completely different direction, was really inspiring,"

Discussing his personal connection to the story, Sarnoski recalled, "As a kid I loved the Disney Robin Hood and I loved the Costner Robin Hood, and then I got this copy of an old Robin Hood book that had the Death of Robin Hood legend in it when I was like 10 years old and it didn't make sense to me. I was like, 'Wait a minute, so you're saying that this dancing fox died,,,?' I'm trying to figure out how to pair the stories of this adventurer with this very human, spiritual death. That was really fascinating to me."

IGN also spoke to Sarnoski about his next project - a little film called Death Stranding. You can see what he had to say about the current status of his script for the movie and working alongside Hideo Kojima.

The Death of Robin Hood opens June 19, 2026.

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Sporting a new title, the story began in AMC's Interview with the Vampire continues in The Vampire Lestat, and a rocking new clip from the next chapter in Anne Rice's beloved Vampire Chronicles debuted at IGN Live this weekend.

The clip shows Lestat (Sam Reid) in his new guise as a genuine rock star, as his voice over provides an overview of his band's status, backstory, and lineup, as the ever-confident vampire explains "Naturally, I named the band after myself," along with the early goal "to induce what Gen Snooze called FOMO."

The third season of the series is tackling material from Anne Rice's second Vampire Chronicles book, The Vampire Lestat, hence the name change. This time out, Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rises, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.

Also starring Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle, The Vampire Lestat's seven-episode season kicks off June 7 at 9:00pm ET/PT on AMC and AMC+.

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At IGN Live Saturday, attendees got a first look at a new trailer for the PowerWash Simulator 2: Star Wars Pack DLC. When George Lucas created Star Wars, one of the things that stood out about it compared to other sci-fi movies of its era was the lived in aesthetic, which included the kind of dirt and grime rarely seen up until that point in a genre that usually went for clean and pristine. But as much as things can be dirty in Star Wars, sometimes you gotta take a look at your filthy Gonk droid and realize it's time to wash that sucker!

In this Star Wars take on PowerWash Simulator 2, players will play as a class five labor droid, P0-W2. The new trailer provides more glimpses of the different iconic locations and vehicles featured, all pulled from the original trilogy era that the PowerWash Simulator 2: Star Wars Pack is set in, including the Lars Homestead, Chalmun's Cantina, X-Wing fighters, AT-ATs, and the bridge of a Super Star Destroyer... And trust me, you are gonna want to make that bridge look good before Lord Vader comes back and starts Force choking you.

The Star Wars Pack for PowerWash Simulator 2 will be available on PlayStation 5 (PS5), PlayStation 5 Pro (PS5 Pro), PC, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch 2 on July 16, 2026.

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He-Man and his fellow Masters of the Universe can currently be found in movie theaters, and at IGN Live Saturday, we had the exclusive debut of a video in which the stars of that film react to the just-released Masters of the Universe: Legends Unite cooperative card game.

Nicholas Galitzine ("Adam / He-Man"), Camila Mendes ("Teela") and Idris Elba ("Man-at-Arms") got their own first look at the game and how their respective characters appear in it. This in turn inspires the trio to show off what their own signature pose would be if they themselves were in the game. Plus, they discuss which of the cast are secret -- or not so secret -- gamers.

Masters of the Universe: Legends Unite is a deckbuilder game, featuring 8 playable characters, 400+ cards, competitive trials, and more. Masters of the Universe: Legends Unite is available now on Amazon Luna, while the Masters of the Universe movie is now in theaters.

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UPDATE June 7 2026: Gears of War: E-Day has received a Pan European Game Information (PEGI) rating of PEGI 18 for PC, Xbox Series X | S, and PS5.

Reliable leaker billbil-kun at Dealabs has published a report stating a stock keeping unit (SKU) for a PS5 physical version of the new Gears game exists. They also report the game will be priced at $69.99, with pre-orders for PC and Xbox Series X | S expected to go live following today's Xbox Games Showcase.

Microsoft has not officially announced platforms for Gears of War: E-Day.

ORIGINAL STORY JUNE 7 2026: A placeholder listing for a PS5 version of Gears of War: E-Day has appeared on Walmart's website less than 24 hours before Microsoft's big 2026 Xbox Games Showcase.

Reddit user Laughing__Man_ was one of the first to share the discovery when they posted a link for a "Gears: E-Day Standard Edition" available for PlayStation 5 via Walmart.com late yesterday. That link has now been scrubbed of any mention of Microsoft's Gears of War prequel, but IGN was able to visit the link before it was taken down.

In addition to mentions of a PS5 version of Gears of War: E-Day, the page featured a price of $99.99 for the standard edition while describing its genre as "first-person shooter" with a pending ESRB rating. Three bullet points – Placeholder 1, TBD 2, and TBD 3 – could also be seen. In other words, just about every piece of text on the Walmart listing suggests the page was a placeholder posted in error, but its existence still has fans scratching their heads.

Gears of War: E-Day was announced in 2024 with the expectation that it would eventually launch for PC and Xbox Series X | S – not PS5. Winds have shifted through the last few years, though, leading fans to second-guess Microsoft's exclusivity strategy. As some games, including Halo: Campaign Evolved, trickle onto Sony's rival console, many have believed the new Gears of War game would follow suit, and the appearance of the retailer's listing will only cause those rumors to heat up.

However, Microsoft has seemingly walked back some of that messaging recently. While the appearance of PS5 versions of titles like Gears of War: Reloaded had many believing Microsoft was quickly moving away from exclusives altogether, newly appointed CEO Asha Sharma has signaled a potential change of plans.

A mission statement emailed to Xbox staff in April of this year also promised leadership would "reevaluate" the company's approach to exclusivity. One month later, chief content officer Matt Booty warned the upcoming Xbox Games Showcase would still feature competing logos. Sharma eventually called the decision to highlight other platforms "a miss," promising that discussions about how to "adjust for future Xbox shows" were happening behind the scenes.

Just days ago, Sharma returned to the exclusivity topic when she acknowledged that a platform "must have exclusive content and services" during a conversation with Bloomberg. It's hard to say how much influence this newfound appreciation for exclusive games could have on games like Gears of War: E-Day, which has been in development for years.

Meanwhile, just as the Walmart listing had fans believing a PS5 version could soon be announced, conflicting rumors suggesting that a PlayStation version was recently canceled have emerged. They originate from Giant Bomb host Jeff Grubb, who said that "Gears of War: E-Day was going to be on PS5" but is "not anymore" following an internal decision that "just got made."

So, the Gears of War: E-Day PS5 listing could be our first hint at a PlayStation version of the game…or it could mean absolutely nothing. As leaks and rumors consume an increasingly busy Summer Game Fest, it's probably best players keep expectations in check until we hear from a more official source. We'll at least know much more about the upcoming prequel game when the Gears of War: E-Day Direct follows the Xbox Games Showcase 2026 presentation later today.

For more on the future of Gears of War, Microsoft, and Xbox, you can read about the all-caps rebrand Sharma revealed in May. You can also read about the "hard choices" she warned about a few weeks ago, as well as the Game Pass price cuts that arrived in April.

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With Supergirl flying into theaters on June 26, a new clip from the film was revealed at IGN Live today.

In the clip, Kara/Supergirl (Milly Alcock) is attempting to get information in an alien bar filled with unscrupulous types, one of whom has a rather loathsome suggestion for how they can pay her for what she wants involving the young girl she's protecting, Ruthye (Eve Ridley). Kara's suggestion is to instead raise the stakes, while also having them arm wrestle to see who gets what they want... with these guys clearly not understanding who they're messing with.

The second movie in the relaunched DCU that kicked off on the big screen with 2025's Superman, Supergirl stars House of the Dragon alum Alcock in the title role alongside Ridley, Jason Momoa as Lobo, Matthias Schoenaerts as Krem, David Krumholtz as Zor-El, Emily Beecham as Alura In-Ze, and David Corenswet reprising his role as Superman.

For more on Supergirl, see IGN's guide to who's who in the new DCU film.

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