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Top 10 NEW Xbox Series X Games From The Xbox Event [4K Video]

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Microsoft just handed Xbox Series X its entire launch-year identity in one hour.

The Xbox Games Showcase aired on July 23, and within minutes of the broadcast ending, gameranx had already cut together its verdict on which reveals actually mattered. The channel’s video, “Top 10 NEW Xbox Series X Games From The Xbox Event,” runs down the announcements that defined the stream — from the Halo Infinite campaign debut to the surprise cinematic return of Fable. It’s a fast, opinionated recap for anyone who didn’t sit through the full hour themselves.

• 343 Industries opened the show with the first extensive Halo Infinite campaign gameplay, set on Zeta Halo, confirming a holiday 2020 launch alongside the console.
• Playground Games unveiled a cinematic reboot of Fable, while Turn 10 Studios teased a next-generation reboot of Forza Motorsport and Undead Labs revealed State of Decay 3’s snowbound, infected-wildlife setting.
• Microsoft confirmed every first-party title shown will launch day one on Xbox Game Pass, built to hit 4K resolution, 60-120 FPS, and take advantage of the console’s direct-to-storage architecture.

Halo Infinite Leads the Charge

There was no mystery about who was getting top billing. Halo Infinite kicked off the presentation with an extended slice of campaign gameplay on Zeta Halo, the ring-world setting 343 Industries has been building toward since Halo 5. The demo leaned on open combat encounters and traversal tools rather than a tightly scripted set-piece, and Microsoft used the moment to lock in the game’s holiday 2020 window — meaning Halo Infinite is still positioned to launch alongside Xbox Series X itself. For a franchise that effectively defined the original Xbox brand, that pairing is deliberate. Readers looking for the raw footage rather than a highlight reel can find the full hour broken down in the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase recap.

Fable’s Comeback and the Legacy Franchises

The showcase’s biggest gasp came from Playground Games, the Forza Horizon studio, revealing a new Fable with a fully cinematic teaser rather than gameplay — a reboot of Lionhead’s cult-favorite Albion series that Xbox fans had been requesting for years. Turn 10 Studios followed with a brief teaser confirming a next-generation Forza Motorsport is in development, without gameplay attached. Undead Labs closed that stretch of legacy announcements with State of Decay 3, pivoting the zombie-survival series into an eerie winter wilderness stalked by infected wildlife.

Every first-party game shown was confirmed to launch day one into Xbox Game Pass — built from the ground up for 4K, 60 to 120 FPS, and direct-to-storage speed.

New Studios, New Worlds

Beyond the established names, Microsoft used the stream to spotlight the internal studios it’s been quietly building out since acquiring them. Obsidian Entertainment showed Avowed, a first-person fantasy RPG that immediately drew comparisons to Skyrim, while Rare unveiled Everwild, an atmospheric open-world project with no combat shown and a heavy emphasis on wildlife and exploration. Neither title got a release window, but both signaled the kind of first-party depth Microsoft has been promising since it went on its studio-acquisition spree. Anyone tracking which of these were rumored ahead of time can compare the predictions in 6 MASSIVE Xbox Series X Games We Could See During Microsoft’s Digital Showcase Event.

Third-Party and Timed-Exclusive Support

The showcase wasn’t purely first-party. Bloober Team’s psychological horror project The Medium got stage time as a console-exclusive showcase piece, joined by S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 and Sega’s Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis among the third-party and timed-exclusive lineup Microsoft used to pad out its Series X launch window. Combined with the Game Studios reveals, the stream was built to answer a single question hanging over the console generation: whether Xbox actually has games to justify the new hardware.

Microsoft didn’t give a release date for Fable, Everwild, or Avowed, and Forza Motorsport got nothing beyond a logo and a promise — which means the real test of this showcase isn’t the hour that just aired, it’s whether any of those three show actual gameplay before Series X ships this holiday alongside Halo Infinite.