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Xbox’s Bright Future, and How We’ll Get There

Today, at Xbox Games Showcase and Starfield Direct, we showed the exciting future for players and game creators – dozens of new games, a new 1TB Series S console and new ways for players to get their games anywhere with PC Game Pass coming to NVIDIA GeForce NOW later this year. After our double feature, Head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox Creator Experience, Sarah Bond, Head of Xbox Game Studios, Matt Booty, and Game Director at Bethesda Game Studios, Todd Howard also addressed the future of gaming at Microsoft in our What’s Next for Gaming event.

Players are discovering and playing games like never before – we have reached new records for monthly active users and monthly active devices, and just last quarter we saw a 46% increase year over year in people playing PC games on Game Pass. Game Pass continues to grow – our revenue from subscriptions overall reached nearly $1 billion last quarter.

We’re excited about the future of Xbox, and we see the opportunity to grow not only our own business, but the entire industry as a whole – through creating groundbreaking new games, inviting creators to build their dream projects on our platform, and opening gaming up to everyone, no matter where they are in the world. These are our key pillars to help continue that growth.

Xbox players, across all formats, will see new exclusives arrive more reliably

We know that players choose to play Xbox because of great content. Our ambition is to release at least four first-party games a year- although we’ll also balance that out with careful consideration for each project’s needs. That’s on top of the work our teams are doing to grow our existing communities that we’ve fostered over many years like The Elder Scrolls Online, Sea of Thieves, Minecraft, Forza, and so on. In the last five years, our teams across Xbox Game Studios and Bethesda have shipped 10 games with over 10 million players each life to date, from new IPs like Sea of Thieves and Grounded, to franchise entries like Minecraft Legends and Elder Scrolls Online.

Our first-party games now have over 150 million monthly active users. We’re committed to investing in new franchises, taking risks, and creating the most diverse line-up of games from any company in the industry – and the likes of Fable, Clockwork Revolution, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II and more represent the most ambitious line-up of games we’ve ever presented.

Of course, Starfield is one of these games. With a simultaneous release on Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Steam – with Game Pass day one on Xbox, PC and Cloud – it’s our belief that Starfield will become the most-played Bethesda Game Studios title, ever. Bethesda Game Studios has built on the Xbox development platform for a long time, and now that Bethesda is a part of the Xbox family, we’ve been able to support them more than ever – and it’s allowed the team to create the most ambitious game in the studio’s history, inside their first new universe for over 25 years.

We enable creators of all sizes

In today’s Showcase, we included ID@Xbox games like Dungeons of Hinterberg, a game from a husband-and-wife duo in Austria, whose debut title shared a Showcase with Starfield. With our support, we allow creators of all sizes to create the games they want to, at whatever scale they need.

To do that we offer multiple paths into the business, and multiple paths to success. Our indie program, ID@Xbox, has now paid out over $4 billion to over 5,000 creators in over 100 countries. Our new Developer Acceleration Program is helping to bring new, less-heard voices into the space – we’ve already helped to fund projects from 30 underrepresented developers and are in contact with 250 more.

Game Pass offers a way to get games played by millions of members. One of Sarah Bond’s favorite notes coming out of the Showcase is that every one of the Game Pass titles featured this year comes from a creator that has previously released a game with Game Pass. We’ve also expanded PC Game pass to 46 more markets, bringing us to a total of 86, so game developers can reach millions of people in new countries.

There are currently more than 5,000 games in development for Xbox from developers across 100 countries – that’s more games in development from third parties than at any time in Xbox history. With this wellspring of games to come, our vision is to enable Xbox to offer the most diverse, easy-to-access line-up in the industry – you’re never far from finding your next favorite game.

We want to bring gaming everywhere

In today’s Showcase we showed Forza Motorsport, Starfield, South of Midnight, and more definitively next-gen games – titles that utilize the power of the Xbox Series X. Supply chain issues have now eased and we’ve been able to increase our supply globally making Xbox Series X easier to find than ever before, just in time for the line-up of exclusives we showed today to arrive.

We also offer the most affordable way into next-gen with the Xbox Series S, opening modern gaming up to more players than ever before. It’s a strategy that’s working – our data shows more than half of Series S buyers were new to the Xbox platform – and today we built on that strategy. We’ve heard your calls for more storage – with the new black Series S, we’ve introduced a version of the console with 1TB of space, perfect for those looking to build out a fuller library on their console. It will hit store shelves on September 1. We’ve also recently worked with our partners at WD and Seagate to bring down the price of our expandable storage and introduce more size options for our plug-and-play solution.

We’re also making the Xbox console experience even faster and more user-friendly, working on an all-new Home User Experience. After testing in our Insider program for several months, and continuously refining through Insider feedback and user research, we will be bringing a fresh look anchored on discoverability that will begin rolling out to all users in the coming months.

Today we shared that Game Pass members will soon be able to stream select PC games from the library through Nvidia GeForce NOW. This will enable the PC Game Pass catalog to be played on any device that GeForce NOW streams to, like low spec PCs, Macs, Chromebooks, mobile devices, TVs, and more, and we’ll be rolling this out in the months ahead. We’re excited by our future – to grow the industry, bring great new first-party titles every year, give partners more ways to deliver and access games and offer multiple ways to play all of them, wherever our players want to play. We are looking forward to going on this journey together with our community.

Starfield Xbox Accessories Guide: Everything Available and Where to Buy

Starfield is officially getting its own limited edition Xbox accessories, and they’re all available to order right now, shipping within a few days. There’s a Starfield-themed Xbox controller, wireless headset, and external hard drive available right now.

We’re expecting these accessories to be incredibly popular and sell out fast, so we’ll leave some handy links just below if you’re looking to preorder ASAP. Preorders for the Constellation Edition ($299.99) are also live at GameStop for Pro Members, plus see everything else related to Starfield in our dedicated preorder guide. Plus, for more updates on preorders from other retailers like Amazon or Best Buy, stay tuned, or follow @IGNDeals on Twitter.

Where to Preorder Starfield Xbox Wireless Headset (Limited Edition)

Xbox Wireless Headset is also now available from Best Buy for $124.99, or the Microsoft Store as well for $124.99 / £114.99.

Where to Preorder Starfield Xbox Controller (Limited Edition)

The Starfield Xbox Controller is now available from Best Buy for $79.99, as well as the Microsoft Store for $79.99 / £69.99. The Starfield controller unfortunately leaked before the Xbox Games Showcase, but now it has been officially announced and looks to be a stylish if minimalist controller that should be a great addition to any collection.

Preorder Starfield Special Edition HDD (2TB-8TB)

The portable hard drives are externally based, featuring USB A and USB C ports, and are compatible with Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S. Each HDD also features Starfield’s signature logo and crisp white design. Preorders are now live.

More Xbox Deals

Xbox Deals Unlocked sale is also currently live, with deals on Xbox games, alongside various other discounts including the Electric Volt Xbox Controller coming down to just $39.99, dropping $25 in total during the sale. Best Buy also has the standard Seagate Game Drive for Xbox 2TB (without the Starfield theming) down to just $79.99 at the moment.

Starfield was originally planned to be released on November 11, 2022, but it was delayed back in May 2022. For more, check out Starfield’s official gameplay reveal from June 2022, everything we learned from our interview with Bethesda Game Studios’ Todd Howard about the game, and why we believe Starfield has to have a perfect landing, especially after the troubles of Redfall.

Robert Anderson is a deals expert and Commerce Editor for IGN. You can follow him @robertliam21 on Twitter.

Citizen Sleeper 2 is real and I couldn’t be happier

When solo developer Gareth Damian Martin started teasing they were working on another project together with Citizen Sleeper‘s composer Amos Roddy and character artist Guillaume Singelin last month, I didn’t even dare to hope that it might be another Citizen Sleeper game. I adored the first one – and even picked it for May’s RPS Game Club – but the prospect of a sequel seemed almost too good to be true. Happily, tonight’s PC Gaming Show brought the news I was waiting for. After a dramatic animated trailer reveal, I’m happy to report that Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is indeed a real thing, and I spoke to Damian Martin earlier this week to find out all about it.

Xbox Game Studios Head Says Xbox Has ‘Turned the Corner’ on First-Party Releases

Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty told an audience of media and content creators today that he believes Xbox has “turned the corner” on first-party releases, stating that the company is moving closer to a goal of four first-party releases per year.

In an Xbox panel entitled “What’s Next for Gaming?”, Booty was questioned about the company’s first-party slate, which has been under criticism throughout the last year due to a perceived dearth of major releases and weaker showings from major pillars such as Redfall.

Booty replied by acknowledging that Xbox “had some gaps last year,” but added, “I think we’ve turned the corner.”

He called out Hi-Fi Rush, Minecraft Legends, Age of Empires, and the coming releases of Forza Motorsport and Starfield later this year as examples of recent benchmarks. And he pointed out that in the last five years, Xbox has shipped ten games with over 10 million players life to date apiece.

But then, Booty noted that in 2024, Xbox’s first-party slate “really kicks into gear.”

I think we’ve turned the corner.

He mentioned Towerborne, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, Avowed, Microsoft Flight Simulator, and “some other things we haven’t really talked about so far” planned for next year. Booty also called out Obsidian’s Avowed, inXile’s Clockwork Revolution, and Compulsion’s South by Midnight as the first games each studio has shown that “are beginning, middle, and end under the Xbox banner.”

“All of that is really part of our goal to get to at least four games a year,” Booty concluded.

Xbox’s showcase today featured a number of new announcements included, besides what Booty mentioned, the first look at Fable and a deep dive into Starfield gameplay and features. You can check out a full roundup of everything we saw right here.

Photo credit: Rebekah Valentine / IGN.

Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.

The Banner Saga devs announce a side-scrolling brawler that’s not as depressing as The Banner Saga

Looks like I won’t be regretting every in-game decision I’ve ever made with Stoic’s new game Towerborne. It’s an action RPG that looks much more light-hearted than the studio’s previous Viking-ish trilogy The Banner Saga, where I killed every character I loved and made a host of bad choices. Announced during the Xbox Game Showcase at this year’s not-E3, Towerborne looks much more family-friendly. Which is lucky because you’ll be wanting to grab family members, as it’s also a co-op adventure. Check out the trailer below.

Starfield Direct: Everything Revealed, Including Space Travel, Character Creation, Companions, and More

The long-awaited Starfield Direct has arrived following the Xbox Games Showcase and it gave us an extensive look at the much-anticipated game from Bethesda Game Studios.

The Starfield Direct lasted over 40 minutes and was packed with gameplay footage and developers discussing many of the game’s features, including combat, exploration, space travel, character creation, companions, outpost building, and so much more. It was a lot to take in, and this guide will break it all down for you!

Starfield Welcomes You to Visit Over 1,000 Planets and Fly Through the Stars on Your Own Ship

Starfield is going to be huge, there is no doubt about that, especially considering Bethesda has re-confirmed there will be over 1,000 planets for players to visit. While every planet won’t be filled with life-changing quests and some will barren besides some resources to collect, Bethesda has crafted a galaxy that is filled to the brim with places to go.

These planets will be a sight to behold, as well, as they will be filled with alien flora and fauna and the lighting on the planet will be determined by the type of star in the system and the atmosphere on the planet.

Bethesda also wants players to have unique experiences that are still hand-crafted, which means players may have different experiences from their friends who have visited the same planet. Bethesda’s planet tech generates the planet “as procedural content, but the hand-crafted content itself comes as the player explores.”

This means that Starfield will build a planet as players approach it by stitching together “a block of terrain.” Following that process, the game will add interesting places to explore and creatures to encounter and more around the planet that will keep things fresh and unique to each player. There will obviously be main story missions that all players will experience the same way, but exploring will be a whole different ball game.

Set up your home amongst the stars.

? Assign Crew and Companions
? Set up Extractors to harvest resources
? Establish cargo links to move resources between outposts
? Add crafting and research stations#Starfield pic.twitter.com/A67JsnC700

— Bethesda Game Studios (@BethesdaStudios) June 11, 2023

Once on a planet, players will have the choice to build an outpost that can be a home base of sorts. These can be built most anywhere on any given planet and can also be customized to make it a perfect place to relax among the stars. Building has also been given an upgrade and players can craft their outposts via a top down isometric view for building placement and big changes and via first-person for getting those finer details right.

Once they are built, players can assign their crew and companions to work there, set up Extractors to harvest resources, set up a system to send cargo between your outposts, and house crafting and research stations.

As if that wasn’t enough, players will also be able to fly through the stars on their very own ship that can be customized in a variety of ways. To give an example of how flexible the ship crafting system is, the Starfield Direct basically showed someone building a ship that looked like Optimus Prime.

The HMS Liberty Optimus. #Starfield pic.twitter.com/km35Bg41Xp

— Bethesda Game Studios (@BethesdaStudios) June 11, 2023

Ships can be obtained in a variety of ways, including simply purchasing them as any upstanding citizen would or by stealing them if you want to get your hands a bit dirty. Once a ship is obtained, players will be able to actually pilot it and travel to their next destination, as opposed to simply pressing a button to fast-travel to a planet, which you actually can do as well.

Space isn’t always safe, and ship battles will come with the territory. Bethesda wants these combat encounters to feel “exciting and dangerous” while also giving players a ton of control with a power allocation system. This allows for players to boost power to the engines to make their ships faster or sacrificing some systems to keep their shields strong. Players also be able to target specific parts of enemy ships for some strategic victories.

Space combat is a dance between your piloting skills and power allocation. #Starfield pic.twitter.com/Bw2t5vUz0d

— Bethesda Game Studios (@BethesdaStudios) June 11, 2023

Oh, and if players don’t feel like engaging in a dogfight, they can head to an enemy ship and board it to take down the enemies within. After, they can claim the ship as their own and access it at any spaceport.

Creating Your Very Own Explorer, Building a Team, and Fighting Your Way Through the Galaxy

Bethesda games aim to put you as the main character in a world that feels as real as possible and allows you to live out your dream of living in a fantastical world. Living through those virtual dreams is wonderful, but its made even more special when you get to do it with a character you create that looks like you or a design you choose.

Starfield is no different and features Bethesda’s “most in-depth and diverse character creation system yet.” Players will be able to choose from 40 preset templates to be their starting point in character creation, and the customization just expands so greatly from there.

Character creation is also “more than how you look,” as players will be able to also choose their background and traits that will help define who you are in the world of Starfield. The backgrounds give you a little backstory along with three skills. For example, the Explorer starts with the skills Lasers, Astrodynamics, and Surveying. Some others include Beast Hunter, Bouncer, Chef, Cyber Runner, Gangster, Pilgrim, and Ronin.

Players will then be able to choose, if they want, three more traits to further customize their character. These traits come with advantages and disadvantages, so the choice is a bit tougher. One of these includes Hero Worshiped, which will cause an “adoring fan” to “show up randomly and jabber at you incessantly.” on the bright side, however, he can join your ship’s crew and give you gifts!

Character Customization in @StarfieldGame is more than how you look… it’s who you are. #Starfield pic.twitter.com/mebFzaek4I

— Bethesda Game Studios (@BethesdaStudios) June 11, 2023

Starfield also has skills that players can earn through gameplay, and completing challenges tied to them will level up their rank and make them better. For example, the Security Skill can be improved by picking locks, and each rank gained will let you pick even tougher locks.

There are five skill categories – Physical, Social, Combat, Science, and Tech – and they all do their part in making you… well… you!

Getting all powerful and exploring the galaxy is great, but it’s so much better when you have friends beside you. In Starfield, you will encounter a ton of people and robots who can join your crew and come with you on your adventures. These crew members will have unique skills that will be invaluable to you, and some of them are Sarah Morgan (Astrodynamics and Lasers), Sam Coe (Piloting and Rifle Certification), and Barrett (Starship Engineering and Particle Beam Weapon Systems). Some companions can even join you in the field, like Vasco – a robot who was designed “around the core basics of a NASA machine.”

You’ll encounter some crew members as you progress the story, and more can be recruited at spaceports and other areas. And don’t worry, there will be romance options for companions.

Combat also got an overhaul in Starfield and is much faster paced that that found in Fallout. As is clearly a pattern, there is a ton of customization and options in regards to weapons, and this is seen in an extensive mod system, energy and mag weapons, different types of rounds like the explosive type, jetpacks you can use to your advantage in battle, and more.

Combat in @StarfieldGame features a variety of weapons, mods, enemies, and environments to keep you on your toes. #Starfield pic.twitter.com/o7AOoBJw0u

— Bethesda Game Studios (@BethesdaStudios) June 11, 2023

Battles, and the whole game for that matter, can be player in either first-person or third-person, and some weapons will even shoot you back when you are in zero-g, so it’s important to take into consideration a ton of factors before engaging a foe.

There is so much more to Starfield, and this is only a short look at what will be waiting for players on September 6, 2023.

For more, check out the details from the gameplay trailer at the Xbox Games Showcase, how Bethesda made the watch from Starfield in real life, and the news that Starfield’s more expensive editions grant five days early access.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Jumplight Odyssey is just the right balance of spaceship pressure cooker

I’ve been itching to get my hands on League Of Geeks’ new roguelike colony sim ever since I first clapped eyes on its 70s anime-infused visuals back in November last year. The good news is that you’ll soon be able to do exactly that, as tonight’s PC Gaming Show confirmed that Jumplight Odyssey will be getting a Steam Next Fest demo on June 19th. That’s just over a week away at time of writing, and having played an early version of that demo myself, I’m pleased to report that it’s shaping up very nicely indeed – even if my first attempt ended in catastrophic disaster after I was boarded by half a dozen crews of angry green alien lads.

Soapbox: Modern Zelda Bosses Are Getting Harder, But They’re Nothing Compared To The Oldies

Fairies at the ready.

Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Jim gets bossy…

Note. This article discusses certain elements of some Regional Phenomena boss battles, including tactics and screenshots. If you are still maintaining an internet blackout for the game, then we suggest tackling them before coming back to this article.

Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Everything You Need to Know About Forza Motorsport, Coming October 10 to Xbox Series X|S and PC

Today at the Xbox Games Showcase we revealed that Forza Motorsport is coming October 10, 2023, to Xbox Series X|S, Windows 10 and 11 PCs via the Microsoft Store and Steam, and with Xbox Game Pass, PC Game Pass, and support for Cloud Gaming (Beta).

We also shared more details on Forza Motorsport’s cover cars. The stunning 2023 No.01 Cadillac Racing V-Series.R racecar and 2024 Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray will be available for fans to drive in Forza Motorsport at release.

The Forza Motorsport community is fueled by its passion for competition. We can’t wait for you all to experience these innovative and ultra-modern cars from General Motors in our game.

In addition to this closer look at Forza Motorsport’s cover cars, we also revealed our latest trailer during the Xbox Games Showcase, which was captured in-game on PC:

Experience Over 500 Cars at Launch

As we mentioned in January, Forza Motorsport launches with 20 completely rebuilt tracks from around the world with multiple layouts, including 5 never-before-seen tracks in a Motorsport game. Each feature fully dynamic time-of-day with weather, living crowds, and tracks that rubber in and react to temperature changes.

Screenshot of a racetrack from Forza Motorsport

As for the cars you’ll be racing on these tracks, Forza Motorsport starts with over 500 cars at release including modern race cars. You’ll have spotted a few in our new trailer and the latest screenshots we’ve featured in this blog! Here’s a snapshot of the cars we showed today:

A collection of cars available in Forza Motorsport

Wield Specialized Track Competitors in the Builders Cup Career Mode

Out-build the competition by earning over 800 performance upgrades and race our most advanced AI opponents yet in an all-new, fun and rewarding single-player campaign, the Builders Cup Career Mode.

We’ll properly introduce you to this single-player car building experience, including a full walkthrough with actual gameplay in our next Forza Monthly livestream on Tuesday, June 13 at 11:00am PDT / 6:00pm UTC following the Xbox Games Showcase Extended. We’ll see you there!

Race the World Alongside Your Friends

Compete for the podium in Featured Multiplayer events with a race weekend inspired structure or create the racing you and your friends desire in Free Play.

Online racing is safer, more fun, and more competitive with AI-powered Forza Race Regulations, tire and fuel strategy, and new driver and safety ratings.

**Pre-order Forza Motorsport to Receive Early Access**

Pre-order the Forza Motorsport Premium Edition and be first on the starting line with 5 days of early access beginning October 5, 2023. Xbox Game Pass members, as well as Forza Motorsport Standard Edition and Deluxe Edition players, can upgrade to the Premium Add-Ons Bundle to receive early access and all other add-on content included in the Premium Edition.

Steam players, add Forza Motorsport to your wish list starting today to be notified when pre-orders are available and follow the game to receive the latest news and announcements delivered to your Steam library.

To help you decide which version of the game is best for you, check out the contents of the Forza Motorsport Standard, Deluxe, and Premium Editions below:

Forza Motorsport Premium Edition

Xbox Game Studios

☆☆☆☆☆

★★★★★

$99.99

Pre-order

• The Forza Motorsport Premium Edition includes the full game with 5 days early access, the Race Day Car Pack, Car Pass (30 cars delivered to your game weekly, one per week), VIP Membership and Welcome Pack. 
• Out-build the competition using more than 800 performance upgrades in the all-new, fun and rewarding single-player experience, the Builders Cup Career Mode. 
• Race alongside your friends in adjudicated multiplayer events with tire and fuel strategy, a race weekend inspired structure and new driver and safety ratings. 
• Compete with cutting edge AI opponents, advanced physics, powerful assists, new damage and dirt systems and photorealistic visuals with real-time ray tracing on-track. 
• Immerse yourself in over 500 real cars across 20 world-famous environments, including fan favorite locations and multiple track layouts, each featuring fully dynamic time-of-day with weather and unique driving conditions.

Race over 500 real-world cars including modern race cars and more than 100 cars new to Forza Motorsport. Make every lap count across 20 living environments with fan-favorite locations and multiple track layouts to master, each featuring live on-track scoring, fully dynamic time-of-day with weather and unique driving conditions that ensure no two laps ever look or play the same. 

Experience a cutting-edge simulation with incredible photorealistic visuals that deliver real-time ray tracing on-track, new damage and dirt accumulation systems, and massively upgraded physics featuring powerful assists and a 48x improvement in tire fidelity. 

Out-build the competition by earning over 800 performance upgrades and race our most advanced AI opponents yet in an all-new, fun and rewarding single-player campaign, the Builders Cup Career Mode. 

Compete the podium in Featured Multiplayer* events with a race weekend inspired structure or create the racing you and your friends desire in Free Play. Online racing is safer, more fun and more competitive with AI-powered Forza Race Regulations, tire and fuel strategy, and new driver and safety ratings.

Immerse yourself in an expanding world of motorsport. New career championships and online events will be regularly introduced offering unique challenges, incredible new cars and tracks, and exciting new gameplay experiences for years to come. Forza Motorsport Premium Edition includes the full game with 5 days early access, Race Day Car Pack, Car Pass, VIP Membership and Welcome Pack. 

Race Day Car Pack features 8, new-to-Forza cars built exclusively for the racetrack including high-performance machines; Car Pass delivers 30, new-to-Forza cars to your game weekly, one per week, for you to collect, build and race (available as released); Welcome Pack jumpstarts your career with 5 immediate car unlocks and bonus credits that you can use towards purchasing the car of your dreams; and VIP Membership provides a PERMANENT 2X CREDITS BOOST, 5 Forza Edition cars reserved for VIP Members, VIP Driver Gear with 5 colorways to choose from, the VIP Player Card, VIP Crown Flair, VIP-exclusive Rivals events and more.

*(online console multiplayer requires Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or Xbox Live Gold, sold separately)

Forza Motorsport Deluxe Edition

Xbox Game Studios

☆☆☆☆☆

★★★★★

$89.99

Pre-order

• The Forza Motorsport Deluxe Edition includes the full game and Car Pass (30 cars delivered to your game weekly, one per week).
• Out-build the competition using more than 800 performance upgrades in the all-new, fun and rewarding single-player experience, the Builders Cup Career Mode.
• Race alongside your friends in adjudicated multiplayer events with tire and fuel strategy, a race weekend inspired structure and new driver and safety ratings.
• Compete with cutting edge AI opponents, advanced physics, powerful assists, new damage and dirt systems and photorealistic visuals with real-time ray tracing on-track.
• Immerse yourself in over 500 real cars across 20 world-famous environments, including fan favorite locations and multiple track layouts, each featuring fully dynamic time-of-day with weather and unique driving conditions.

Out-build the competition by earning over 800 performance upgrades and race our most advanced AI opponents yet in an all-new, fun and rewarding single-player campaign, the Builders Cup Career Mode.

Compete for the podium in Featured Multiplayer* events with a race weekend inspired structure or create the racing you and your friends desire in Free Play. Online racing is safer, more fun and more competitive with AI-powered Forza Race Regulations, tire and fuel strategy, and new driver and safety ratings.

Forza Motorsport Deluxe Edition includes the full game and Car Pass.

Car Pass delivers 30, new-to-Forza cars to your game weekly, one per week, for you to collect, build and race (available as released).

*(online console multiplayer requires Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or Xbox Live Gold, sold separately)

Forza Motorsport Standard Edition

Xbox Game Studios

☆☆☆☆☆

★★★★★

$69.99

Pre-order

• Out-build the competition using more than 800 performance upgrades in the all-new, fun and rewarding single-player experience, the Builders Cup Career Mode.
• Race alongside your friends in adjudicated multiplayer events with tire and fuel strategy, a race weekend inspired structure and new driver and safety ratings. 
• Compete with cutting edge AI opponents, advanced physics, powerful assists, new damage and dirt systems and photorealistic visuals with real-time ray tracing on-track. 
• Immerse yourself in over 500 real cars across 20 world-famous environments, including fan favorite locations and multiple track layouts, each featuring fully dynamic time-of-day with weather and unique driving conditions.

Out-build the competition by earning over 800 performance upgrades and race our most advanced AI opponents yet in an all-new, fun and rewarding single-player campaign, the Builders Cup Career Mode. 

*(online console multiplayer requires Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or Xbox Live Gold, sold separately)

October 10 is only the start of this journey. Forza Motorsport will continue to evolve and expand after its release with regular new career championships and online events, incredible new cars and tracks, and exciting new gameplay experiences over time.

There is so much about Forza Motorsport that we can’t wait to show you. From our new online racing mode to all the technical and gameplay innovations, as well as our car and track reveals, the next few months will be exciting!

Stay tuned to Forza.net and our Forza Monthly livestreams to ensure you don’t miss a beat, and as a reminder, we’ll be live on Tuesday at Twitch.tv/Forza, YouTube.com/Forza and Steam to give you a full walkthrough of our single-player gameplay.

Persona 3 Reload Won’t Include Content from FES or Portable, Including the Female Protagonist

The Persona 3 remake has long been one of Atlus’ worst-kept secrets, but Persona 3 Reload was finally officially announced at today’s Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase. The game’s first trailer showed combat and graphics updated to resemble Persona 5, but fans noticed that something big was missing.

Namely, Persona 3 Reload appears to miss the additional content from Persona 3 FES and Persona 3 Portable, which includes the option to play as the female protagonist. In an interview with IGN, Persona 3 Reload producer Ryota Niitsuma and chief director Kazuhisa Wada confirmed that Persona 3 Reload only features content present in the original release of Persona 3.

“So first I’d like to mention that since the basic concept of the Persona 3 remake was to remake the Persona 3, we don’t have the FES and Portable contents included,” Niitsuma said. “We wanted to really genuinely work on recreating the Persona 3 experience.”

Persona 3 originally released on the PlayStation 2 in 2006. Persona 3 FES is a 2007 add-on disc with updates to the original game, while Persona 3 Portable is a PSP release that added features like directly controlling party members beyond the main character. The female protagonist also first appeared in Persona 3 Portable, but it seems players won’t have the choice to play as her in Persona 3 Reload.

“So we can’t really go into the details at this point yet, but we have remade basically everything from scratch as for Persona 3 the original version,” Niitsuma said. “So we have newly recorded voices, we have new scenes and events. We also have both new and arranged music. We’ll be kind of releasing that information, following everything. So please look forward to that.”

“We wanted to really genuinely work on recreating the Persona 3 experience.

Persona 3 Reload will be a faithful remake of the original version, which is sure to be disappointing for fans hoping to play as the female protagonist, and players who wanted to experience all of the content different versions of Persona 3 have offered over the years.

It’s certainly possible Atlus will release another version of Persona 3 a few years from now that features the missing content — as they’ve done with Persona 5 Royal and Persona 4 Golden — but Atlus obviously isn’t saying anything about that now.

Instead, Niitsuma and Wada are focusing on the updates added to the original version of Persona 3 that make it more in line with Persona 5.

“So the basic concept of recreating the Persona story was that we wanted to keep everything from the original version, but update everything to the modern day,” Wada said. “So at the same level of Persona 5, basically. So we have the newest graphics, we have updated the system to the newest usability… We have the voice lines in [both Japanese and English.] We also have the text available in 13 languages. So you should be able to have similar experiences to that of Persona 5.”

Persona 3 Reload is set to launch in early 2024 on Xbox and PC, although more console announcements may be forthcoming. It’ll also be available day one on Game Pass. For more, check out everything announced at the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase.

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