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Xbox Games Showcase highlights
Microsoft just streamed their world premiere-packed Xbox Games Showcase as part of IGN and Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest.
Geoff Keighley also hosted an hour-long pre-show ahead of the main event, which featured some world premieres of its own.
Pre-Show Premieres
- Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition (Square Enix) – Xbox Announcement – December 4, 2020 (Xbox One)
- EXOMECHA (Twistedred) – World Premiere Trailer – Late 2021 (Xbox Series X, PC)
- Watch Dogs: Legion (Ubisoft) – Resistance Trailer – October 29, 2020 (PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4)
- Echo Generation (Cococucumber) – Reveal Trailer – TBA 2021 (Xbox One, Xbox Series X)
- Hello Neighbor 2 (Dynamic Pixels) – Announcement Trailer – TBA (Xbox One)
- ID@Xbox Console Launch Exclusives – Teaser Trailer
- BALAN WONDERWORLD (Square Enix) – Announcement Trailer – Spring 2021 (Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PC, PS4, Switch)
Xbox Games Showcase
- Halo Infinite (343 Industries / Xbox Game Studios) – Official Campaign Gameplay Premiere / Step Inside – Holiday 2020 (PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X)
- State of Decay 3 (Undead Labs/Xbox Game Studios) – Official Announce Trailer – TBA (PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X)
- Forza Motorsport (Turn 10/Xbox Game Studios) – Official Announce Trailer – TBA (PC, Xbox Series X)
- Everwild (Rare/Xbox Game Studios) – Eternals Trailer – TBA (PC, Xbox Series X)
- Tell Me Why (Dontnod Entertainment) – Official Chapter One Launch Trailer – August 27, 2020 (PC, Xbox One)
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Moon Studios/Xbox Game Studios) – Optimized for Xbox Series X Announce – Holiday 2020 (Xbox Series X)
- The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon (Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios) – Announce Trailer – September 9, 2020 (PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X)
- Grounded (Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios) – Official Launch Trailer – July 28, 2020 (PC, Xbox One)
- Avowed (Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios) – Official Announce Trailer – TBA 2021 (PC, Xbox Series X)
- As Dusk Falls (Interior Night) – Official Announce Trailer – TBA (PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X)
- Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine Productions/Xbox Game Studios) – Gameplay Music Trailer – Holiday 2020 (PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 4)
- Destiny 2: Beyond Light (Bungie) – Xbox Games Showcase Trailer – November 10, 2020 (Xbox Series X)
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 (CSC Game World) – Official Trailer #1 – TBA (PC, Xbox Series X)
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide (Fatshark) – Official Announcement Trailer – TBA 2021 (Xbox Series X)
- Tetris Effect: Connected (Enhance) – Announce Trailer – Holiday 2020 (PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X)
- The Gunk (Image & Form) – Reveal Trailer – TBA (PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X)
- The Medium (Bloober Team) – Dual Reality Trailer – Holiday 2020 (PC, Xbox Series X)
- Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis (SEGA) – Xbox Games Showcase Trailer – TBA 2021 (Xbox Series X)
- CrossfireX (Smilegate Entertainment/Remedy) – Official Campaign Reveal Trailer – TBA 2021 (PC, Xbox Series X)
- Fable (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios) – Official Announce Trailer – TBA (PC, Xbox Series X)
Time For A Quick Daily Quiz?
Who composed Lethal League Blaze’s “AIN’T NOTHIN’ LIKE A FUNKY BEAT”?
- Tomoya Ohtani
- Makoto Tomozawa
- Hideki Naganuma
- Hidenori Shoji
The answer will be revealed at the bottom of today’s issue. Join up with our community on Twitter and Facebook to discuss what the answer could be.
Daily Fact
Jin Sun-Kwon was intended to be a sniper with a great set of ear drums
Monolith’s classic horror shooter F.E.A.R. pits you against a group of rogue, telepathic supernatural commandos, but you’re not alone. Your teammate Jin Sun-Kwon, for example, acts as medic – but she was actually supposed to be a sniper with superhuman hearing.
The level design didn’t really feature a lot of good sniping positions, so she had to shelve the rifle. She’s still got elbow pads and gloves with red trigger fingers, but that’s all that remains of the super-sniper.
She’s not the only character who got cut down: There was supposed to be a second villain named Conrad Krieg, but the psychic cannibal Paxton Fettel stole the limelight.
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Ubisoft Financials
Ubisoft had a record-breaking quarter
While Ubisoft has been catching heat in the last few weeks, they have also enjoyed a “significantly higher-than expected performance” so far this year.
Sales are up 17.6 percent to $494.7 million in the first three months of the fiscal year of 2021, alongside a record $474.7 million in net bookings – up 30 percent from last year. The vast majority of revenue came from the back catalogue, which accounted for 97.1 percent of bookings for the quarter.
- 86.7 percent of purchases were digital, down from 93.1 percent last year
- Rainbow Six Siege net bookings up 30 percent year-on-year
- Assassin’s Creed increased “more than” 60 percent year-on-year
- Just Dance net bookings surged over 500 percent year-on-year
- Hyper Scape took top spot on Twitch during PC Technical Test
Heavy hitters: “…the Assassin’s Creed franchise saw an impressive acceleration on the back of the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla reveal. In parallel, Rainbow Six Siege continued to grow robustly despite increased competition, and the Just Dance franchise continued its solid comeback,” said Ubisoft CFO Frédérick Duguet. Ubisoft recently announced Far Cry 6, and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is out later this year.