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Xbox Games Showcase 2025 & Outer Worlds 2 Direct Announced - Livestreaming on June 8

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Make some space on your calendar—the Xbox Games Showcase 2025 will be livestreamed on Sunday, June 8, starting at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK time. Following in the footsteps of the 2023 Starfield Direct and 2024 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Direct, this year we will again have a double feature, with the Xbox Games Showcase immediately followed by The Outer Worlds 2 Direct. It all begins with our annual Xbox Games Showcase, bringing you a look at upcoming titles from across our first-party studios, in addition to incredible new titles from our third-party partners across the globe.

This year, the show will be digital-only—our livestream will bring you everything you'll need to know about what's next for Xbox, no matter where in the world you're watching. Immediately following Showcase, The Outer Worlds 2 Direct will bring you inside the walls of Obsidian Entertainment, revealing new gameplay, details, and developer insights, straight from the people making the sequel to the award-winning, first-person sci-fi RPG.




You'll be able to enjoy our June 8 double feature through a variety of outlets, in over 40 languages, as well as American Sign Language, British Sign Language and English Audio Descriptions. These include (but won't be limited to):

Airtime for the Xbox Games Showcase followed by The Outer Worlds 2 Direct in local time zones:
  • PDT: June 8, 10am
  • EDT: June 8, 1pm
  • BST: June 8, 6pm
  • CEST: June 8, 7pm
  • JST: June 9, 2am
  • AEST: June 9, 3am

Join us on June 8 for the Xbox Games Showcase followed by The Outer Worlds 2 Direct. Be sure to check back here on Xbox Wire for more information and tune-in details ahead of the show.

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Looking at Avowed i have little hope for The Outer World 2
 
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Recently tried to do a playthrough for Outer Worlds and played maybe about 20 hrs before dropping off. The gameplay is fun enough and some of the quests are fun but it couldn't hold my interest to completion. The crafting is extremely simple and honestly not sure why it's a part of the game, and I found it difficult to use any other form of combat except guns (melee and stealth being the other options). The companions are fun, though.
 
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Looking at Avowed i have little hope for The Outer World 2

- Playing The Outer Worlds left me with little hope for The Outer Worlds 2.

Obsidian went from having janky games with really crunchy punchy stories and characters to having technically solid games with the blandest and most forgettable stories and characters and settings.

You'd be hard pressed to believe the same studio that made Fallout New Vegas, Tyranny, Alpha Protocol etc made The Outer Worlds and Avowed...
 
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- Playing The Outer Worlds left me with little hope for The Outer Worlds 2.

Obsidian went from having janky games with really crunchy punchy stories and characters to having technically solid games with the blandest and most forgettable stories and characters and settings.

You'd be hard pressed to believe the same studio that made Fallout New Vegas, Tyranny, Alpha Protocol etc made The Outer Worlds and Avowed...
The folks responsible for the magic that is found in FO:NV, Tyranny, and Alpha Protocol, have left.
 
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Yeah, Outer Worlds was not bad by any means, but it was definitely a game to be played just once. If you made it to the end you more or less had seen it all.
 
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