Xbox Partner Preview Showcase Set for This Week, Microsoft Promises 'New Reveals'

Microsoft has announced an Xbox Partner Preview showcase for this week. It’ll supply updates for a fig of games, and bring with it “new reveals.”

As a Partner Preview, this showcase focuses connected games coming from third-party publishers, truthful don’t expect quality from Microsoft’s assorted first-party studios. However, what we volition get is an update connected Stranger Than Heaven, the caller third-person action-adventure crippled developed by Yakuza/Like a Dragon creators Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, the Mass Effect-style crippled from Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader developer Owlcat Games, and GSC Game World’s Stalker 2. It'll past astir 30 minutes, Microsoft said.

In Microsoft’s announcement, it teased “new reveals” successful summation to the aforementioned updates, truthful hopefully we’ll get caller crippled announcements, too.

"As always, Xbox Partner Preview is wholly focused connected sharing breathtaking crippled quality from our talented partners crossed the world," Microsoft said, possibly managing expectations that determination won't beryllium immoderate hardware news. "During Xbox Partner Preview, you’ll get aggregate satellite premieres, archetypal looks astatine gameplay, and updates connected different large titles coming to Xbox, including immoderate that volition beryllium disposable with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate connected time one."

Xbox Partner Preview is acceptable for 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UK clip this Thursday, March 26.

The Xbox Partner Preview comes blistery connected the heels of Microsoft's Game Developers Conference 2026 keynote, during which it provided caller details connected the next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix. And it besides comes pursuing Microsoft's determination to propulsion backmost from its arguable 'This Is An Xbox' selling campaign, with caller gaming brag Asha Sharma already making an impact.

Xbox has been successful the headlines pursuing the caller absorption upheaval that saw Phil Spencer retire, Sarah Bond resign, and Asha Sharma named arsenic Microsoft's caller gaming boss. Reports detailing what had led to the reshuffle, and successful peculiar the abrupt exit of Sarah Bond, suggested that the "This Is An Xbox" run had been launched nether her watch, and had been unpopular among different Xbox unit members. It volition beryllium absorbing to spot if Spencer is simply a portion of the Xbox Partner Preview, oregon if Sharma hosts proceedings.

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