Xbox is back in the game

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Well, Game-Reveal Week 2023 was pretty good, don’t you think?

Not E3-at-its-best good, but still pretty good. And that was without much of a showing from Sony and nothing at all from Nintendo. Third-party studios mostly delivered, and indies put on a good show as always, but it was Microsoft that really came out swinging.

The Xbox Showcase was one of its best showings for as long as I can remember - a show filled with quality and quantity that suggests Microsoft’s absurd investments into other studios are finally starting to bear fruit.

Most of the talk this week has been about Starfield. Which, quite frankly, looks remarkable - the best of No Man’s Sky, Mass Effect and Skyrim all rolled into one bafflingly ambitious sci-fi extravaganza. But there were also impressive (if brief) showings for a number of other Xbox exclusives. Something Microsoft hasn’t been in a position to boast about for far too long.