Xbox summer showcase reportedly set for June 9 with Gears of War, Call of Duty, and more

2024’s summer showcase schedule is filling up

Marco Wutz | Apr 6, 2024

Microsoft

Microsoft is reportedly aiming to hold its annual Xbox summer showcase on June 9, 2024, bringing a stacked line-up of games and announcements to viewers. The Verge reported that these plans are currently being finalized and that Microsoft is getting ready to announce a new entry into the Gears of War series at the event.

In addition, the reports says that there will be release dates for Avowed, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 as well as information about the next Call of Duty title – the first to be announced and released completely under Microsoft’s tutelage since the acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

The latest mainline entry into the Gears of War series was Gears 5 from 2019, with 2020’s Gears Tactics, a turn-based tactical twist on the formula, being the latest spin-off. Rumors around another Gears of War title resurfaced in March 2023 when job openings at developer The Coalition – responsible for the series since Microsoft bought the IP from Epic Games in 2014 – specified that the studio was looking for employees to work on a triple-A experience set in the franchise.

With Microsoft’s showcase date appearing to be set, this year’s season of summer broadcasts is getting some substance to it.

Ubisoft was the first big publisher to schedule its summer showcase for this year with Ubisoft Forward taking place on June 10, 2024, live from Los Angeles.

Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest 2024 is happening on June 7, kicking off an exciting time for video game fans worldwide.

E3, which traditionally took place around that time and is the reason why all of these showcases are scheduled for this period, won’t be around in 2024 – the organizers have officially thrown the towel last year after their repeated failure to bring the event back after the enforced break through the pandemic.

Published Apr 6, 2024

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg