Microsoft to hold ‘Xbox Games Showcase: Extended’ event on June 17

Microsoft will hold an ‘Xbox Games Showcase: Extended’ event on Thursday, June 17.

Kicking off at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST, the “special showcase” will be hosted by Kinda Funny Xcast’s and Gamertag Radio’s Parris Lilly.

It will feature conversations with first-party studios like Double Fine, Obsidian, Ninja Theory and Rare, plus global development partners.

Microsoft held the Xbox and Bethesda games showcase on Sunday, which featured 27 titles headed to Xbox Game Pass on the day of release.

They include Bethesda’s new sci-fi RPG Starfield, which Todd Howard described as “like NASA meets Indiana Jones” with a Skyrim structure, open-world racer Forza Horizon 5, which takes place in Mexico, and a vampire-themed co-op FPS called Redfall, developed by Dishonored studio Arkane.

Microsoft also revealed The Outer Worlds 2, A Plague Tale: Requiem, and Contraband, a new IP from Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios.

Xbox and Bethesda E3 2021 news

• Starfield trailer confirms Xbox exclusive console release in 2022
• Halo Infinite’s free-to-play multiplayer gets reveal trailer and holiday 2021 release
• Forza Horizon 5 is officially set in Mexico and coming this year
• Redfall is Arkane’s new vampire-themed co-op Xbox Series X/S exclusive
• Xbox announced 41 new games for Game Pass in its E3 Showcase
• Stalker 2 gets first gameplay trailer and April 2022 release for Xbox Series X/S and PC
• Warner confirms day one Game Pass release for Back 4 Blood
• Jack Sparrow is coming to Sea of Thieves later this month
• Here’s the first look at real Battlefield 2042 gameplay
• 10 more Bethesda titles are coming to Game Pass today
• Psychonauts 2 will be released in August 2021
• Hades will be coming to Xbox Game Pass in August
• Xbox shares new look at ex-Playdead boss’s Somerville
• A Plague Tale: Requiem will be on Game Pass at launch
• Diablo 2 Resurrected trailer confirms release date and open beta
• The Outer Worlds 2’s comedy trailer says the game’s nowhere near ready
• Flight Simulator console release date and Top Gun expansion confirmed
• Microsoft revealed the Xbox mini fridge during its E3 showcase
• Just Cause studio reveals Xbox exclusive ‘co-op smuggler’s paradise’ Contraband
• Shredders is an Xbox Series X/S snowboarding game inspired by the Amped series
• Starfield is ‘like NASA meets Indiana Jones’ with a Skyrim structure
• Microsoft to hold ‘Xbox Games Showcase: Extended’ event on June 17