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Xbox Games Showcase 2026 Recap: Gears E-Day, Clockwork Revolution and New Xbox Console

6/7/202633 min

The Xbox Games Showcase 2026 was packed with major reveals, world premieres, release dates, and surprise announcements. In this complete recap, we cover everything shown, including Gears of War: E-Day launching October 6, Halo: Campaign Evolved and its prequel missions arriving July 28, Fable releasing February 23, 2027, Persona 4 Revival, Persona 6, State of Decay 3, Metro 2039, Wo Long 2, Minecraft Dungeons 2, Spyro: A Realm Beyond, Clockwork Revolution, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 DMZ, and much more. We also break down the biggest Xbox Game Pass news, new gameplay reveals, and every trailer shown during Microsoft's massive 2026 showcase.

Other highlights include Resonance...

Clips

Tears Over Persona 4
Persona 6 Grows Up
Calling In Fable Fever
Gears Gore Enthusiasm
Translucent Xbox Nostalgia Hit

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Steve Downes· Soundbite0:00

    This is Steve Downes, the voice of Master Chief, Sierra 117, and you're listening to Podcast Unlocked, the world's number one Xbox podcast. Now, finish this fight. Master Chief out.

  2. Ryan McCaffrey· Host0:16

    [upbeat music] [cheering] Hello once again. [cheering] I'm Ryan McCaffrey, host of IGN's weekly Xbox show, Podcast Unlocked. And joining me now to break down everything revealed during the Xbox game showcase, Miranda Sanchez, Michael Higham, and Destin Legarie. [cheering] Love the energy from the IGN live crowd right now. Uh, so quick impressions. First of all, just what did we think of the conference? Miranda, I will start with you.

  3. Miranda Sanchez· Host0:50

    Well, no one can say that Xbox doesn't have games.

  4. Ryan McCaffrey· Host0:52

    [laughs] That is true.

  5. Miranda Sanchez· Host0:53

    There were so many games. A lot of updates, which is what we were asking for, it's like, let's get release dates, get, get timelines for a lot of these things, 'cause, you know, the ... As we were saying in the pre-show, um, when are, when are things coming out?

  6. Ryan McCaffrey· Host1:04

    Yeah.

  7. Miranda Sanchez· Host1:04

    And we got a lot of that, which is good, but also I know me and my team are gonna be very busy in September and February.

  8. Ryan McCaffrey· Host1:10

    Oh, February, yeah.

  9. Miranda Sanchez· Host1:11

    [laughs] So I guess I won't be sleeping for a while, but- [laughs] ... that's, it's, it's best when I'm not sleeping, 'cause I'm playing a lot of video games.

  10. Ryan McCaffrey· Host1:16

    Michael, how was this conference for you?

  11. Michael Higham· Host1:18

    Great showcase, and it had the two things that I cared about most. [laughs] No clown makeup today, man. [laughs] I was right. We had P4, we had P6, I'm gonna talk all about that later, but- Yeah, we'll get to that ... they had the things

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