Gaming News Starfield, Hellblade 2, Fable: Which Xbox Besthesda games will surprise you during the E3-style show in June?
Habits Die Hard! Even though E3 will not take place this year, industry players are using the period from June to July to make important announcements. Microsoft is no exception to the rule. The company just dated its “Xbox Bethesda” conference to June 12, 2022. And since the company has 23 studios (34 if we count Activision Blizzard’s), so much to say that the surprises during the show will undoubtedly be numerous. To see it more clearly, here are the projects Microsoft is working on so far.
From Activision-Blizzard to Xbox on June 12, 2022?
STARFIELD, HELLBLADE II, FABLE: THE AAA IN PROGRESS
A simple Xbox logo on a starry background announcing June 12th. It was enough for us to be – almost – certain of one thing: We will discover it the first images of Starfield, the famous space exploration game from Bethesda, nicknamed the “Skyrim of Space”. An ambitious project that Microsoft often talks about but that has not yet been tackled despite its announcement in 2018. Until recently, his music was in the spotlight. From the design director’s mouth, players will “lose their minds” as the title is huge and emphasizes player freedom. Starfield is still scheduled for November 11, 2022 on PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series. Finally, we should not forget the development of The Elder Scrolls VI, which showed nothing concrete after the 2018 reveal, just like Starfield.
Starfield, here’s a presentation that would literally tear the show apart. But Xbox has other cards up its sleeve. Starting with the long-awaited Hellblade II Senua’s Saga, developed by Ninja Theory, also announced a long time ago. This is the sequel to Hellblade, an action-adventure game that depicts the madness of Senua, who must go to Viking hell to find her love’s soul. A second opus that had the right to do so a first gameplay trailer during the Game Awards 2021. Suffice to say we’d love to see more. Ninja Theory could also surprise by showing more of his mysterious project Mara, revealed in 2020, which again features “psychic terror”. Nothing new after the reveal either.
From left to right: Starfield, Hellblade II and Fable
Finally, this first part would not be complete without mentioning it Fable restart, managed by Playground Games (Forza Horizon 5). As a reminder, this is an action-adventure franchise originally developed by Lionhead Studios and creative Peter Molyneux, with particular emphasis on the impact of player choices, rather good or bad, as well as an aging hero along the adventure . It’s been more than ten years since we’ve had the rights to a new opus, and the reboot has only been tackled thanks to a brief teaser for now. The latest echoes imply a more complicated production than expected. So we keep our fingers crossed.
EVERWILD, PERFECTLY DARK, DETERIORATION STATE 3 : EN PÉRIL ?
Continuing with lesser-known names, there’s a project that we’ve heard a lot about at Xbox, but seems very far away from being released. It’s Everwild, the newest baby from the Rare studio (Sea of Thieves). It is THE game that would make the team reconnect with their creativity of yesteryear. In fact, the company really flourished in the mid-90s at Nintendo with titles like Donkey Kong Country, Banjo-Kazooie, GoldenEye 007. Things have gotten more complicated for the studio since then, even if Sea of Thieves has been a real revelation since it’s been updated. The latest information on Everwild speaks of production starting from scratch since the departure of the creative director. The software would aim for a 2024 release.
Everwild wouldn’t be the only software seeing incredible development. The Perfect Dark reboot (a big name in action infiltration in the early 2000s, also invented by Rare) would be upon us mass departures, at The Initiative. Like Fable, the project has only revealed a small teaser so far. Difficulties that State of Decay 3 would also face at Undead Labs after its acquisition by Microsoft, subject to serious internal tensions. The action cooperation game in a post-apocalyptic setting could therefore appear later than expected. Overall, Xbox has some standout titles that need information.
INDIANA JONES, OUTER WORLDS, REDFALL: SURPRISES!
But even if some developments are not going as well as expected, Microsoft still has a lot left. For example, you remember the ad of a new Indiana Jones game, powered by Machine Games (Wolfenstein The New Order)? The latest information on the matter comes from last year, when Bethesda praised the “phenomenal work” of its teams on the matter. Of course, we can’t wait to see what the modern take on the famous treasure hunter will look like after hits like Uncharted, the latest Tomb Raiders.
In a completely different genre, we wouldn’t say anything about The Outer Worlds 2 news either, Sequel to Obsidian’s crazy space epic (Fallout New Vegas, Pillars of Eternity), which was revealed at E3 2021. The studio is also working on Avowed, a very ambitious RPG that would sign the team’s return to big and large-scale RPGs. But both titles are said to be in an early stage of development. Likewise, it’s hard to say if we’ll have information on Redfall, an open-world shooter by Arkane Austin (Prey), or on the new plans of The Coalition (Gears 5), which recently released an impressive demo on Unreal Engine 5 imagined.
HALO INFINITE, MINECRAFT, WASTELAND 3: CAP SOLID
Finally, it’s almost certain that Microsoft will use his speech to take stock of the new game content already released. In particular, this dear Halo Infinite from 343 Industries, released in late 2021. The FPS has just welcomed the second season of its multiplayer while that is being rumouredA Battle Royale will soon join the Master Chief’s escapades. Minecraft keeps updating along the same lines, but its studio — Mojang — might unveil new projects. Ditto for inXile’s Wasteland 3, whose latest DLC arrived in October.
From left to right: Halo Infinite, Minecraft and Wasteland 3
And there are still some Xbox Game Studios left:
ID software (Eternal Destiny), forced games (We happy couple), double fine (Psychonauts 2), 10 turn (Forza Motorsport 8), edge of the world (Age of Empires IV), Tango Gameworks (Ghostwire Tokyo), ZeniMax Online (Elder Scrolls Online), Alpha Dog Games (Monstro City Rampage), Roundhouse Studios (Prey 2006 sous “Human Head Studios”) et Xbox release (As Dusk Falls, Contraband – Xbox exclusive from the creators of Just Cause).
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