The Xbox Games Showcase was full of announcements and surprises. From a full reveal of Fable to release windows for Avowed and Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, there’s plenty to be excited about if you’re an Xbox gamer.
But there are several Xbox Game Studios games announced previously over the last several years that have been MIA ever since. Here’s a list of Xbox Game Studios we know exist but were a no-show today.
MachineGames’ Indiana Jones
In early 2021, we learned Wolfeinstein: The New Order and The New Colossus developer MachineGames and Bethesda were working on an Indiana Jones game. Outside of the announcement, we have not heard much about the project.
We do know Bethesda Game Studios’ Todd Howard will serve as Executive Producer and that he pitched the game. Last year Howard went on Lex Fridman’s podcast and mentioned this untitled Indiana Jones game would be a “unique” mash-up of different genres.
State of Decay 3
Three years ago, an Xbox showcase previewed a list of games that would be available on the Xbox Series X/S consoles. State of Decay 3 was one of those games announced during that July 2020 showcase that has yet to be released.
State of Decay 3 has no release window and we have yet to see any gameplay of the third installment from Undead Labs’ third-person survival horror zombie game. The most recent news came from Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty, who confirmed State of Decay 3 was being made in Unreal Engine 5 and that The Coalition would be involved in development.
The Outer Worlds 2
At the 2021 Xbox Games Showcase, Obsidian announced it was developing a a sequel to its 2019 hit The Outer Worlds. Not much is know about it, which is not entirely surprising when you consider Obsidian has been busy with multiple projects.
From Grounded leaving early access last year, to its critically-acclaimed adventure game Pentiment launching last year, and Avowed currently slated to release next year, Obsidian has been keeping busy.
Perfect Dark
At the 2020 Game Awards, Microsoft revealed a new Perfect Dark game. It’s being developed by The Iniative a new studio formed by Microsoft back in 2018. A blog post published during its unveiling noted that this project is “aiming to deliver a secret agent thriller set in a near-future world”.
Everwild
At X019, Rare announced Everwild, a new IP that was in early development. While back in 2021, it was reported that Everwild was being completely rebooted, Matt Booty would go on to say in an interview with Kinda Funny that the report was “more definite and a little more extreme” than the truth.
With Rare working on this plus Sea of Thieves, which announced a new Monkey Island crossover at today’s Xbox Games Showcase, hopefully the legendary British studio will have more to share on Everwild soon.
Contraband
In 2021, Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios announced a brand new game called Contraband. It’s an open-world co-op game that will be an Xbox console exclusive (and its coming to PC, too). Xbox Game Studios is publishing the title, but outside of its reveal two years ago, we have not heard much about the game and no gameplay has been shown as of yet. We do know that the game will be using the latest iteration of Avalanche’s Apex Engine.
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at [email protected].
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