The new mech-inspired world of Lightyear Frontier was shown off during The Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase 2022. The trailer gave players a glimpse of a peaceful farming life with unique alien plants to create your very own ecosystem, and a big ol’ mech to help you out with it all. Additionally, players can explore the vast planet and learn about its history deep inside the ancient ruins.

This game also offers a co-op experience with three friends to expand your farm further. You’ll be able to build a new home in the Lightyear Frontier using the resources around you. Of course, farmers will also need to maintain the health of their crops, by protecting them from weather hazards and any unwanted guests.

You can view Lightyear Frontier A Fresh Start trailer here on YouTube, along with an official description from Frame Break:

Settle on a beautiful, new planet in the Lightyear Frontier. Begin your farming adventure as you build a farm, plant & harvest alien crops, and discover ancient secrets as you explore this distant world!

Game creator Hideo Kojima of Kojima Productions joined the Xbox Games Showcase presentation today for a quick but impactful announcement; he and his team are working on a new project in partnership with Xbox.

Unfortunately, he chose to share next to nothing about what the project will be, beyond sharing that it is a “game I have always wanted to make.”

Kojima also implied that it’s a new game, and thus likely not part of any existing franchise. He also spoke briefly about Microsoft’s cloud technology, suggesting that the project might leverage that capability as well.

It’s not much to go on, but it’s an interesting new direction for the studio and auteur, as Kojima has more recently been connected to Sony and its PlayStation brand.

It will be especially interesting to see what shape this new project will take as we learn more, but that may be quite a long way off from now.

Gothic puzzle platformer The Last Case Of Benedict Fox was announced at today’s Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, but it’s bringing a demon along for the ride. Set in Boston, Massachusetts in 1925, The Last Case Of Benedict Fox follows, you guessed it, self-appointed detective Benedict Fox as he searches through a dodgy mansion. Watch the suitably moody trailer below.

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Bethesda and Microsoft revealed yet another look at the ambitious “Skyrim in space” RPG Starfield during the two companies’ joint presentation today. This time, it was much more than eight seconds, and featured actually gameplay.

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Tonight's Xbox and Bethesda Showcase brought confirmation of Microsoft's new partnership with Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima.

Details were thin on the ground - really, there was nothing here which had not been reported already - but tonight Microsoft made it official.

Kojima is working on a brand new project with Xbox which will harness the company's cloud technology. If this sounds familiar, well, it's a promise we've heard before, and a detail which first found its way online last summer, when whispers of Kojima working with Microsoft first hit the internet.

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UPDATE 13/6/22: The Persona series will also be heading to Steam and PS5, although no release date has been given.

A press release shared with Eurogamer states: "These beloved games will also be heading to Steam and PlayStation 5". However, without a release date, this could be a timed exclusive for Xbox and PC.

Persona 4 Golden, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, and Persona 5 Strikers are already available on Steam, so it makes sense to complete the set.

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Obsidian Entertainment's cooperative survival game Grounded is prepping for its full launch in September after spending years in open development as part of Xbox Game Preview. Check out the trailer below to see the newest look at Grounded before launch.

When Grounded releases in a few months, it'll have every update that's been included in its early access period thus far and something that hasn't been available yet. The entire story campaign will be playable alone or with friends for the first time, completing the Grounded experience. Along with the whole story mode, new armor and weapon recipes and a fight against a giant Mantis await players when the update hits.

Grounded is available on Game Preview right now on Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC.

Three classic Atlus games, Persona 3 Portable, Persona 4 Golden, and Persona 5 Royal, are finally coming to Xbox. The news was announced earlier today during Microsoft’s big Xbox and Bethesda showcase.

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In a bit of a surprise twist, Phil Spencer took to the stage during the Xbox showcase today to announce that three Persona games were making their way to the Xbox, starting with Persona 5 Royal this October. We also got a flashy new trailer to go with the announcement, which you can check out down below:

Aside from Persona 5 Royal, Xbox fans will also be able to enjoy Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden, though release dates haven’t been announced for the latter two games just yet. It’ll definitely be a huge opportunity for Xbox players to finally get to check out Atlus’s biggest Persona games if they haven’t already, and just between you and me, Personas 3 and 4 are the ones worth checking out first for sure.

One other thing to note is that 3 and 4 will be getting improved graphics, so if you’re like me and have only been able to enjoy P3P on your crusty old Vita, this will be a nice change.

Anyways, Persona 5 Royal is set to be released for Xbox on Oct. 21.

After years of CG trailers for Starfield, we've long been waiting to see this Bethesda Game Studios title in action, and that finally happened at today's Xbox Games Showcase. The initial reaction can simply be summarized as "WOW!"

In a variety of gameplay clips, creator Todd Howard walked us through various gameplay aspects, revealing that this science-fiction RPG features over 1,000 planets to explore. From barren moons to heavily populated worlds, you can go where you want to see what you discover.

The first locale we see is a moon called Kreet, which is stark in detail with rocky grain terrains and brief flares of color with red plants. In this regard, the color scheme is similar to Star Wars' Crait from The Last Jedi. Here, we are given our first taste of gameplay, which we see from both first- and third-person viewpoints. Despite looking like a barren place, Kreet is crawling with creatures, like trilobites that mean you no harm, as well as giant crabs that, at first instinct, appear to want to take a bite out of you, but after they see your gun drawn, they back away. It'll be interesting to see if these creatures' A.I. recognize you as a threat, or are designed to be skittish.

Since crafting is a part of Starfield, you'll be scanning and mining minerals as you explore new worlds. We see a sequence where iron (Fe) is discovered. If all minerals are labeled this way, we'll all be masters of the periodic table after sinking hundreds of hours into this game.

After many delays, Overwatch 2 has a release date. Blizzard's sequel will launch on October 4th - and it'll have a new free-to-play model when it does.

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We didn't see this one coming: renowned role-playing game developer Obsidian is releasing a brand new game called Pentiment this November on Xbox consoles, PC and the cloud.

It's a narrative-focused murder mystery set in medieval times, and the action takes place on the pages of an era-appropriate book. It certainly looks different to everything else out there.

The game is led by Obsidian star director Josh Sawyer (Fallout: new Vegas, Pillars of Eternity) and is apparently an idea he pitched years and years ago at Black Isle Studios, according to IGN, which interviewed Sawyer about his new game.

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Today's Xbox Games Showcase featured many games – big and small – by a glut of different development teams. Baby Robot Games is a Barcelona-based studio that focuses on supernatural stealth and adventure games. Today, it revealed Ereban: Shadow Legacy, a game where you must harness mystical shadow powers and use high-tech gadgets to uncover the truth about your past to save the universe.

In the trailer, the main character, Ayana, who channels some serious Tron energy with her attire, confronts big mechs. Apparently, Ayana is the last descent of a forgotten race and is key to saving this dying, morally grey universe. The gameplay footage showed her stealthily outsmarting big machines and using an array of powers. She can also stab them through the head, so that's pretty cool. She even takes some big falls from huge heights, reminiscent of Assassin's Creed. Watch the trailer above to get the full scoop.

Ereban: Shadow Legacy will launch day one on Xbox Game Pass. No release date was revealed.

Dying to know when Diablo 4 is going to release on Xbox Series X|S? Well, no need for a necromancer to wake you from the dead, as it was revealed during the Xbox and Bethesda showcase that the game is coming to the next-gen console. Here is everything you need to know about when you can expect it.

Diablo 4 Xbox Series X|S Release Date

Diablo 4 is set to arrive on Xbox Series X|S at some point in 2023. At the time of writing, Activision Blizzard hasn’t shared an exact release date outside of the vague year-wide window.

Does Diablo 4 Xbox Series X|S Have Cross-Play?

While Blizzard haven’t confirmed the existence of cross-play in Diablo 4 for Xbox Series X|S yet, it will more than likely be in the game, as every other version of the game emphatically boasts it. Whether function will be specific to just playing with other next-gen consoles (like PS5) and PC has yet to be stated.

Does Diablo 4 Xbox Series X|S Cross-Save?

At the moment, we don’t know if Diablo 4 will enable players to take their progression over with them to next-gen or other version of the game, though it seems likely, as the Blizzard has been making a big push to try and make the game as accessible as possible.

The Persona series will have a new home, as Atlus appeared with Persona 3, Persona 4, and Persona 5 during the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase on June 12, 2022. They appeared during a section going over Xbox Game Pass additions. The versions that will be playable on Xbox consoles and PCs will be Persona 3 Portable, Persona 4 Golden, and Persona 5 Royal.

This means updated versions of all three entries will appear. Persona 3 Portable features both male and female avatar options, with social links changing for each one. Persona 4 Golden included extra content like Marie, more activities, and an additional adventure. Persona 5 Royal adds another semester to the game and additional character. In Persona 3 and 4, French, Italian, German, and Spanish will be available as text options.

Of the three, Persona 5 Royal will be the first title to show on Xbox Game Pass. It will appear in 2022. Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden won't show up until sometime in 2023.

During today’s Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase 2022, Obsidian Entertainment’s Honey I Shrunk the Kids-esque title, Grounded, received a launch window for its full release. Grounded will leave Early Access this September.

Go ahead and check out a brand new trailer for the bite-sized back yard adventure:

As you can see in the footage above, Grounded’s game preview status will finally end in September, and the full release will bring with it access to the whole yard, base defense, wild biomes, huge bosses, and most importantly, the full in-depth story.

Of course, those who subscribe to Game Pass will net the full release for no extra charge.

For more information, here’s an official description courtesy of Obsidian Entertainment:

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Explore, build and survive together in this first person, multiplayer, survival-adventure. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Explore this immersive and persistent world, where the insect life reacts to your actions.

Shelter and tools are critical to your survival. Build epic bases to protect you and your stuff from the insects and the elements. Craft weapons, tools, and armor, allowing you to better fight, explore and survive.

If you've been patiently waiting for developer Obsidian's enjoyable garden survival adventure Grounded to wrap up early access and get its full release, your time is almost near: Microsoft has confirmed it'll be doing just that this September.

Grounded has been available in early access for PC and Xbox since July 2020, miniaturising players - in true Honey, I Shrunk the Kids fashion - down to bug height and sending them off on an 80s-themed survival adventure through an ordinary backyard.

There's building, crafting, spiders the size of trucks (at least from your miniaturised perspective), and a whole lot more to experience as you - along with a couple of friends if you like - fight to find a way to return to human size.

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While Diablo IV has been announced for a bit now, we’re finally getting a proper look at some gameplay. Blizzard showed off a cinematic trailer during the Xbox and Bethesda showcase today, which you can check out down below:

The trailer itself definitely evokes an eerie vibe that’s a far cry from Diablo III, which had been criticized for looking a little too bright and happy clappy. Blizzard also revealed that the Necromancer class would be playable at launch, which is definitely exciting news for series fans who love summoning the undead.

Aside from the cinematic trailer, Blizzard also dropped a gameplay trailer showing off various environments and some character customization elements. The game will feature giant world bosses that you can take on during certain times, and just like in previous games in the series, you can team up with other players to loot together.

Today during the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, a new trailer was shown for the upcoming game As Dusk Falls. It also got a release date; the interactive drama will be launching on July 19.

The trailer showcased in-game capture that showcased some of the scenes and gameplay that can be expected in As Dusk Falls, which was originally announced about two years ago. It teases family secrets and choices that will profoundly affect the outcome of the game.

If you missed what As Dusk Falls is all about, here’s what the Xbox website has to say about the game:

As Dusk Falls is an original interactive drama from INTERIOR/NIGHT that explores the entangled lives of two families across thirty years in small town Arizona. Starting with a robbery-gone-wrong in 1999, the choices you make will have powerful impact on the characters’ lives in this epic story of betrayal, sacrifice and resilience.

As Dusk Falls features a unique visual technique in its art style called rotoscoping, which creates animation by tracing motion picture footage frame by frame to produce realistic action. It certainly gives the game a distinct and memorable style.

You’ll be able to play As Dusk Falls solo or with up to eight friends.

As Dusk Falls will release next month on July 19, so the wait won’t last too much longer. It will be available on day one via Game Pass on Xbox and on PC. You can watch the trailer from today’s showcase below.

Narrative game As Dusk Falls finally has a release date of 19th July.

It's the debut game from Interior/Night, led by Caroline Marchal (formerly Quantic Dream), and features a beautiful art style that mimics graphic novels.

It's set for release across Xbox Series X/S and PC, and will hit Game Pass on day one.

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Diablo 4, the game that's not Diablo Immortal, will launch for PC, PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S in 2023, Blizzard confirmed today.

As with Overwatch 2, which Blizzard detailed earlier, Diablo 4 will have cross-play and cross-progression across all platforms.

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Peaceful farming sims are always in, really, and Lightyear Frontier is a) in space and b) has a mighty morphin' tractor mech. Digging up a gameplay trailer at today’s Xthesda Games Showcase, Lightyear Frontier is taking farming to the final frontier in Spring 2023 - but that frontier includes Game Pass on day one. This planet may be on the edge of the galaxy, but it has good wifi.

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Diablo IV is still set for a 2023 release, Blizzard announced today. And while that 365-day launch window may not be super exciting, it was also revealed that the fan favorite Necromancer will be the game’s fifth and final playable class (at least for now). Put on your finest bone armor, folks, it’s once again time…

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Xbox has a history of showing off some of our favorite indies during its big showcases, and it looks like it's keeping that tradition alive and well. During the platform's Summer Game Fest event today, we got our first glimpse at a new project from Limbo and Inside lead designer Jeppe Carlsen.

Cocoon, published by Annapurna Interactive, which has a showcase of its own next month, promises to be a mind-bending experience with an undeniably compelling art style. The creators promise to take players "on an adventure across worlds within worlds," which are represented by a series of unusual glowing orbs in the trailer. The clip begins with a sweeping and stylized view of a desert landscape which is soon disturbed by a blinding beam of white light. Our hero pops out of a mechanical-looking cocoon energized by the laser and appears to be a kind of beetle. We mostly see it grabbing and distributing globes of various colors, which may allow it to jump to different locations.

 There's not a lot to glean from this reveal trailer, but the game's Steam page goes into a little more detail. 

Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels is the first expansion for the much-loved, high-octane racing title, and a new trailer showing what players can expect was shown during the Xbox & Bethesda Showcase 2022.

This new expansion will take players to the Horizon Hot Wheels Park, high up in the clouds in the mountains of Mexico, and comes packed with new cars and brand-new custom track pieces, so players can create their own tracks.

Including more than 200 kilometres of the fastest, most extreme tracks set in an open-world playground that covers four new biomes, Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels will keep players on the edge of their seats as they seek to master every twist and turn.

Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels is launching on PC and Xbox, on July 19, and will retail for $19.99 USD, and it’s coming to Game Pass on day one.

The official description for Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels is as follows:

Calling all daredevil drivers and creators! Blast off to the visually stunning, exhilarating new Horizon Hot Wheels Park in the clouds high above Mexico.

Experience the fastest, most extreme tracks ever devised. Design, build and share your own Hot Wheels adventure with 80 distinct, snappable track pieces.

Race 10 amazing new cars including the lightning-fast 2021 Hennessey Venom F5 and the iconic 2000 Hot Wheels Deora II.

We now have another look at the Vin Diesel in his dino riding gear. Yes, that's right, at Microsoft and Bethesda's showcase this evening, we got another look at Ark 2.

As well as this, we also got the news that it will now be coming our way in 2023. You will be able to play it on day one with Game Pass, via console, cloud and PC.

You can check out the new cinematic trailer for Ark 2 below and see Vin Diesel as his character Santiago saddled atop a dino.

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We still don't have a firm Diablo IV release date yet (other than 2023), but we now know every class we can play when it eventually releases. The necromancer joins the previously announced barbarian, sorceress, rogue, and druid, all allowing for high levels of customization.

As you dive into dangerous open areas, you'll be hunting the disciples of Lilith, the daughter of hatred. In new gameplay footage, developer Blizzard Entertainment says Diablo IV offers over 150 dungeons, along with territories to reclaim, and story sequences that occur as you explore. Some of these story moments could lead to massive boss battles that require numerous players.

Diablo IV offers cross-play between console and PC, and also two-player couch play for people in the same household. If you play a bunch and become incredibly powerful, the game will highlight you as a champion, which other players can see. Along with the high number of dungeons, Blizzard claims the endgame is deep and will continue to expand years after release.

Blizzard says they are close to completing development, but has only given an open 2023 timeframe for release.

Ara: History Untold was revealed during the Xbox and Bethesda Games showcase today, with scant detail beyond a cinematic trailer and a website.

It's a turn-based grand strategy game, from Ashes of the Singularity developer Oxide Games, and the angle seems to be: Civilization, but with an emphasis on alternate history.

Think snow-capped Pyramids, steampunk future-cities, and blimps, of course, because who doesn't love a good blimp.

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Koei Tecmo Games and Team Ninja have revealed Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty and it’s coming to Xbox consoles and PC next year. 

Revealed during today’s Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty looks quite similar to Team Ninja’s Nioh series in that it features a ninja-like character fighting against not just humans, but monstrous and demonic monsters, too. The reveal trailer, which you can watch below, doesn’t feature any gameplay but it gave us quite the taste of Fallen Dynasty’s world.

As you can see in the trailer above, the character that appears to be the protagonist of Fallen Dynasty is fighting off barbarian enemies before consuming something that turns them into a massive demon dragon monster that looks terrifying. Here’s what the trailer description for Fallen Dynasty says about the game: 

It looks great, albeit a little scary, and fortunately, we don’t have to wait too long to check it out because Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty hits Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC in early 2023. 

Announced during the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, Minecraft is now dipping its toes into a whole new genre. Minecraft Legends will be Mojang trying its hands at an “action strategy game.” There was definitely action to be seen as the player character was shown leading groups of friendly monsters to battle.

Seeing as this is also Minecraft, there is somewhat automated building shown but it seems you will be able to create outposts for a break from the action. It’s unusual to see Minecraft from the perspective shown, but there is definitely something cool about leading around an army of classic Minecraft monsters.

You can watch the reveal trailer for yourself below:

Just as with Minecraft Dungeons, Legends will be multi-platform for PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch. Seeing as it’s also a Minecraft title, it will be no doubt releasing on Game Pass on day one.

Ebb Software showed a new trailer for Scorn at today’s Xbox Games Showcase, and the first-person horror adventure continues to look just as disturbing as ever.

Drawing clear lines of inspiration from the famous artist, H.R. Giger, Scorn features some of the same disconcerting imagery that is a part of the art from movies like Alien, in which biological and mechanical elements seem to merge.

The new trailer continues to embrace those elements, with more than a little bit of body horror mixed in for good measure. The video shows numerous instances of disconnected human appendages attached to strange, non-human machines and creatures. And the protagonist appears to be horribly mutilated in the brief glimpses we get of their arms and other body parts.

Ebb has stated in the past that Scorn is aiming for a cohesive “lived-in” world, in which players are thrown in the deep-end by arriving and having to try and grasp what is even happening in the spaces they explore. Environments are said to be maze-like and individual regions are open and exploreable, but interconnected with other distinct spaces.

The developers are also touting the game’s focus on full-body awareness. Rather than have items simply floating in the world and having them picked up by magic, every object is a real thing that your character must lift or move with their own hands, hopefully leading to a greater sense of immersion. And, given the subject matter, a likely greater sense of disquiet.

The much-anticipated metroidvania Hollow Knight: Silksong finally gave another peek at the beautiful and awful things awaiting us in a new kingdom of insects. Microsoft's NotE3 showcase brought a new trailer, which didn't help with the info bugheads really crave—a release date—but did announce the exciting news that Silksong will be on Game Pass at launch. Here, come watch, check out some of the beautiful and awful things waiting to murder you.

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Open world action RPG Flintlock The Siege of Dawn received a new gameplay showing at the Xbox and Bethesda Showcase.

From developer A44, the creator of Ashen, the game features third person gun and axe combat, plus a cute familiar companion who joins in combat and can be ridden through the air.

The game is set for release in 2023 on PC (Steam, Epic), Xbox consoles, PS5, and PS4. It'll hit Game Pass too.

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The Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase 2022 is currently taking place, and features a lineup of blockbuster games that will release of the next 12 months. A Plague Tale: Requiem is one of the many titles shown during the livestream. The game tells the story of Amicia and Hugo as they escape from their homeland and do whatever it takes to survive in a world overrun by vermin.

This sequel to A Plague Tale: Innocence looked stunning in this latest trailer, showcasing realistic flame and lighting effects, the many treacherous paths the siblings must take, and of a few thousand rats to top it all off.

You can view Focus Entertainment’s A Plague Tale: Requiem Gameplay trailer and the official description:

During today’s Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase 2022, Ark 2 was re-revealed to be coming to Xbox consoles and PC in 2023. Interestingly, famous Hollywood star Vin Diesel will play a pivotal role in the game, and was shown in the announcement trailer riding a Tyrannosaurus Rex while looking super badass.

Go ahead and feast your eyes on the brand new trailer down below:

First announced back at The Game Awards in 2020, many fans of the dino-centric FPS experience have been clamouring to hear more about a release date for the much-anticipated sequel to 2017’s popular online title, Ark: Survival Evolved.

For more information about the prehistoric action-RPG, here’s an official description courtesy of the developer:

Starring Vin Diesel (Fast Franchise) as Santiago and Auli’i Cravalho (Moana) as his daughter Meeka. Survive the past. Tame the future. Awakened on a primal world filled with dinosaurs & humans struggling for dominance, you must team-up with legendary heroes to confront dark forces. Saddle up, & join the definitive next-gen survival experience with ARK 2!

Stay tuned for more coverage from the Xbox and Bethesda Games showcase here at Twinfinite, and for more Ark-related content, feel free to peruse the relevant links down below.

Ark 2 launches on Xbox and PC platforms in 2023.