Next-Gen Console Project Helix Headlines First Xbox Game Dev Show Later Today

Microsoft volition further sermon its next-gen Xbox console plans today, with an instauration to Project Helix slated to header the archetypal Xbox Game Dev Update show.

The broadcast volition beryllium disposable to ticker via YouTube astatine 9am Pacific, 12pm Eastern oregon 5pm UK time, and we'll beryllium keeping an oculus retired for immoderate caller announcements.

Microsoft has said its caller Xbox Game Dev Update amusement is designed to item the ongoing enactment wrong Xbox connected its hardware platform, with a absorption connected the much method broadside of things. So, don't spell successful expecting to spot the adjacent Halo — though that definite would beryllium nice.

The amusement volition statesman with a conception introducing Microsoft's next-gen Xbox console, presently codenamed Project Helix, presented by Xbox veterans Chris Charla (GM, Portfolio & Programs) and Jason Ronald (VP, Next Generation) — the second of whom was promoted earlier this week to further oversee Project Helix and the Xbox platform.

"Chris and Jason volition locomotion done the details shared astatine GDC, offering a person look astatine Project Helix and what it represents for the aboriginal of Xbox," a Microsoft blurb for the amusement reads.

"What does Project Helix mean for developers? It's powered by a customized AMD-based SoC [system-on-a-chip] and co-designed for the next-generation of DirectX, arsenic portion of our ongoing concern to signifier the aboriginal of rendering and simulation. Project Helix volition make caller opportunities for you to optimize physique workflows, amended performance, and iterate much efficiently. Xbox is gathering for what's adjacent and we're inviting you to articulation america connected that journey."

Other sections of the amusement volition absorption connected caller Xbox developer tools, including developer-focused additions to the Xbox Marketplace, positive a treatment connected Direct X.

The show's debut follows a bid of changes from freshly-installed Xbox brag Asha Sharma. This has included a notable recommitment to the brand's next-gen console plans, the removal of the division's corporate-sounding Microsoft Gaming branding, a shiny caller look for the Xbox logo, and a chopped to the terms of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate (while booting caller Call of Duty games from the subscription connected time one).

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