Microsoft has announced its annual Xbox Games Showcase, which is the company's biggest livestream of the year, will take place on Sunday, 7th June 2026. As its games increasingly become third-party efforts with a PS5 version, you can expect to see many future PlayStation titles during the broadcast.
On the Xbox Wire website, Microsoft reveals that the show will have "first gameplay looks and huge news on upcoming titles from our first-party studios across the Xbox family, as well as our third-party partners around the globe – from the biggest franchises to soon-to-be indie darlings".
Directly following the livestream, there'll be a Direct all about Gears of War: E-Day. The prequel hasn't been confirmed for PS5 yet, but following the release of Gears of War: Reloaded last year, the new entry is expected to release on PS5.
The showcase will begin at the following times:
- North America: 10am PDT / 11am MDT / 12pm CDT / 1pm EDT
- UK/Ire: 6pm BST
- Europe: 7pm CEST / 8pm EEST
- Asia/Oceania: 2am (Mon) JST / 1am (Mon) AWST / 3am (Mon) AEST
In terms of Xbox titles already announced for PS5, the show will likely have news and updates on Forza Horizon 6, Halo: Campaign Evolved, and Fable. In addition to brand new announcements, the likes of Clockwork Revolution are yet to be confirmed for a PS5 release.
If the plan from Sony is the same as the past handful of years, then there'll be a substantial State of Play livestream in late May from PlayStation, a few weeks before this Xbox showcase. It's usually one of the brand's biggest livestreams with important updates from PlayStation Studios and third-party developers.
Will you tune in for the Xbox Games Showcase in June? Let us know in the comments below.
[source news.xbox.com]
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So looking forward to Gears of War: E-Day I have well over 2000 hours in Gears 5 alone, and probably something like 5000 hours across the entire franchise. Simply my favourite games...
Gears of War was the one Xbox franchise I felt I’d like, so I played through Reloaded in January and wasn’t that impressed tbh. In fairness, although it had a nice lick of paint it is essentially a 20 year old game , so I will give any subsequent Gears games that release on PlayStation a go… with lower expectations this time though.
Oh niceee was hoping we'd get sth on gow this years
@Fiendish-Beaver damn bro 2000 hours in gears 5 is crazy 😭
It’ll be interesting to see if MS does cross-platform releases in the future with the new CEO. With the “This is an XBox” promotion being killed by the new head (and thank goodness, that was such a dumb thing), they might be rolling the cross-platform releases back as well. Maybe we won’t get E-Day for PS5 after all.
I definitely hope I’m wrong, but still!
Very hyped for gears E-day very hopeful the campaign will be good and very much looking forward to the multiplayer and horde mode.
@psmr give the newer ones a change if you can. Each of the original trilogy gets better with each release, and although 4 and 5 aren’t as groundbreaking they play really well compared to the original.
@ChopperCampbell yeah I will mate… and in fairness, I did enjoy the co-op playthrough of Gears more than my solo run, so it wasn’t all bad. The mp grind for the platinum nearly killed me though 😅
No interest in Gears, but hopefully Fable and Halo are ready to go this year. Hopefully it’s a solid showcase.
I hope they don't make the same tone deaf decision they made last year regarding having the "one more thing" announcement be yet another CoD game. If CoD is present it should be just a random trailer in the middle.
I hold out a bit of tentative hope that the new Fable will be great. I liked the original, but really didn’t care for any of the sequels. The new one looks to recapture most of the quirky charm that made the original so good. Having just rewatched the IT crowd again, I’m also quite looking forward to Moss being a part of the new game.
1PM on the first Sunday in June. MS doesn't think any of its fans have ever touched grass, nor do they ever want them too. 🌞
Nearly all of it in Horde, @Cherip-the-Ripper. I don't play any PvP games. I am currently Re-Up 57, and hoping to hit Re-Up 60 before E-Day comes out (I should do). The Re-Up 60 Achievement has only been unlocked by 0.11% of gamers...
Curious to see if fable gets delayed to 2027.
@psmr I've tried several times since 2006 to get into Gears on Xbox 360, Xbox one and now PS5. I couldn't get into it in 2006, 2015 & 2025. Just not for me unfortunately.
Can't wait for Fable and Halo on PS5 though
I'll do what I normally do and just watch the videos after for the games I'm interested in. Will be interesting to see if MS start backing away from multiplatform releases now. Or if they continue. I'm got GPU for another 2 years but I kind of want to pay and play Horizon 6 on the PS5 Pro because Horizon 5 looks and runs better on it. Haven't really used the series X in a long time and even the last 6 months was only turning it on to get the daily reward points but I've even stopped doing that.
Guess at this point I will just play 2&3 on Xenia.
@Fiendish-Beaver oh yh horde was good fun tbf, at one point I played it lots with a blind friend of mine
i do hope they do remasters of gears, 2, 3, 4, 5, and judgement on PlayStation
This should be a pretty great showcase, even if the games weren’t coming to PlayStation. It’s weird, I’m primarily a PS and Nintendo guy, but I’ve been in an Xbox mood lately, particularly with their recent game pass additions. I think I’ll actually boot up my Series X and play there for a while. Plus, I’ve been wanting to jump back into the Division, and my friends all play it on the Xbox. And I’ve also been hankering for a replay of the Gears of War trilogy.
I’ve had an Xbox since the OG, except for this gen, but i’ve never been interested in the Gears and Halo franchises. I’ve only played Halo, and only watched other people play Gears, and i respect them as great franchises, but somehow these games have never appealed to me
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