Microsoft skipped a lot of previously announced games

Restrictions due to the coronavirus turned out to be stricter than originally thought. You can see it in the latest presentations. Summer Game Fest main show she was inconspicuous and not surprised. sony si Game state Ubisoft and Electronic Arts weren’t involved at all. The neE3 was saved this year by Microsoft, which boasts a number of interesting games.

Xbox presentation with Bethes it was definitely interesting, but even then it was clear that the American giant had a reverse and he began to reverse a little. He focused only on games that will be released in the next 12 months.. He ignored many of the names from last year’s and even the year before last presentation. These are projects that players are looking forward to.

What didn’t we see? adventure event Indiana Jones Name: MachineGameswhere another Wolfenstein is to be born. Perfect darkness from an ambitious new team, The Initiative, led by a former head of development for the modern Tomb Raider series. There were talks about the departure of the game director, which was somewhat confirmed by help from Crystal Dynamics.

There was no zombie survival by name Decay State 3. We have yet to wait for more information about the return Fablewho is in charge of Playground Games (Forza Horizon series). The Outer Worlds 2 and universally recognized from Obsidian (more about it below), or a new part of the shooter Gearsa new project by these creators, or a somewhat speculated Halo: The Master Chief Collection-style Gears collection.

An unpleasant surprise was the absence Senua Saga: Hellblade 2. Everyone was waiting for a great action and atmospheric thriller from Ninja Theory, but we should have enough of the first gameplay footage from the end of last year or recent (but interesting) fragments from development.

Why didn’t we mention this, you ask? Elder Scrolls 6? Well, few people expected this, because Bethesda made it clear that Starfield will be released first and only then will it receive more attention from the fantasy RPG sequel. It makes sense.

At the end of our list, he’s still here. Everwild. From the creators of Sea of ​​Thieves at Rare Studios, this adventure is set to undergo a dramatic transformation following the departure of the creative director. Apparently, this project should be counted on no earlier than 2024.

The absence of Avowed confirms previous rumors about problematic developments. They were commented on by well-known journalist Jason Schreier, who has very good behind-the-scenes resources.

We got to know the fantasy action movie Avowed from Obsidian Entertainment in July 2020. In 2021, we needed to find out more information, but this did not happen. Schreier, citing several people, reported that Avowed has undergone a relaunch at the turn of 2020 and 2021. Several development managers changed at the same time.

“Interviews with several non-Obsidian people other than Chris Avellone reveal that Avowed has gone through several restarts and lost/replaced several directors and development leads in the past year.” the journalist found out.

Avowed is currently curated by Carrie Patel, who has been with Obsidian since 2013 and has participated in both Pillars of Eternity and The Outer World.

If such problems are confirmed, You can’t expect Avowed to be released at the end of next year.. Instead, we can expect Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2. The sequel to the action movie could be the main iron in Microsoft’s fire at the end of 2023 (while it will be Starfield in the first half). How things are with other games that we are waiting for remains a mystery for now.

Undoubtedly, all of the Xbox Game Studios teams are hard at work trying to create the best and most exciting games for Xbox, PC and the cloud that will be available with Game Pass on release day.

Despite all this, the first half of 2023 will be interesting for Microsoft. Only from Xbox Game Studios will come a co-op shooter Redfallspace adventure RPG Starfieldcompletely new Forza Motorsport as well as Minecraft legends as an action strategy.

Added to this is the expected STALKER 2 and other names that you can see here in the picture.

We can say that Microsoft has changed a bit compared to previous years. But when we look at upcoming games, we can relate that he didn’t even need to show the aforementioned titles. Their time is yet to come.