Summer Game Fest 2025 is well underway, and if there's one event from the weekend that everyone's sure to be talking about, it's the Xbox Games Showcase.The livestream is scheduled for Sunday, June 8 at 1:00PM ET (10:00AM PT), and you can tune into it on the Xbox YouTube channel or Twitch, where ASL interpretation will be provided.Immediately after the Xbox showcase, there will be a separate presentation dedicated entirely to .
You can watch both the Xbox Games Showcase and Direct using the embedded stream below when it goes live.Our reporters on the ground, Jessica Conditt and Mat Smith, will be giving live updates in our liveblog below.Last year's showcase brought us news about the upcoming (since delayed until 2026), the next entry in the Gears of War series, , the recently released and much more.We may hear some fresh updates about those first two titles on Sunday, and possibly more about others like , , Hideo Kojima's and And of course, some new titles are likely to make their debut too.You can catch up here on everything we've seen at Summer Game Fest 2025, and follow along when the event begins for our on-the-ground coverage.Live8 updatesSun, June 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM EDTJessica CondittOctober 29!Sun, June 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM EDTJessica CondittWill it include a release date? Let's find out together.Sun, June 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM EDTJessica CondittHere we go! The show begins with an Outer Worlds 2 trailer, ahead of the full OW2 stream after this one.Sun, June 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM EDTJessica CondittDon't forget the irradiated fish! Microsoft's big setup at Summer Game Fest Play Days is a fishing experience with the Fallout 76 team, in celebration of the Gone Fission update that rolled out earlier this month.
Please, won't someone .Sun, June 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM EDT...And then, of course.There's .
There's always .Sun, June 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM EDTAs for what we're expecting today...we'd put good money on updates about , Arkane's Blade game, and Playground's reboot.We know Hideo Kojima is in town, so some more info on that game he's making for Xbox would be nice too.
After that it becomes a bit of a free for all.There are some long-in-development first-party titles like , and , and some reasonably strong rumors around a remake that might show up.Of course, there's always the small issue of , which we've heard nothing about in half a decade, and that rumored handheld console.Sun, June 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM EDTIt's been a pretty good year for Microsoft so far, with theand being great, the remake selling well, and and some of its third-party "Day One on Game Pass" bets like and really hitting the mark.
Amid all that, though, the company was forced to raise prices on its consoles, and has continued to bring its games to other consoles.hit PS5 back in April, and Gears of War is coming this summer.While that's great news for Microsoft's bottom line, it definitely dilutes the appeal of its own consoles.Sun, June 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM EDTWe'll get things started properly closer to 1PM ET, when the show is scheduled to begin.