Microsoft’s October 2024 ‘Xbox Partner Preview’ event revealed: Alan Wake II expansion, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, and much more
Find out what’s next for Xbox’s publishing partners at the latest Xbox Partner Preview event, set for October 17, 2024.
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What you need to know
The rumors are true! Xbox is having a shiny new Partner Preview showcase on October 17, 2024, at 1PM ET / 6PM UK.
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Microsoft’s most recentXbox Partner Preview event took place last Marchif you’re not counting the third-party heavyXbox Showcase from last June. The difference here is that these Partner Preview events are usually entirely comprised of third-party content, giving Xbox Series X|S and Windows PC players a glimpse at the future of the platform.
Last March, Microsoft showed off games likeKunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess,Frostpunk 2,The Alters, Persona 3 Reload DLC, andThe First Berserker, which should give you an idea of the expectations you should set for this event. To that end, Microsoft also offered a glimpse at what is on the docket for this October’s event.
We should be getting new trailers for Alan Wake II DLC, “The Lake House,” as well asLike a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. We’re getting a boss battle trailer for the dark Chinese soulslikeWuchang: Fallen Feathersand a range of newXbox Game Passinserts to boot. Microsoft says there will be “multiple world premieres,” too.
Alan Wake 2 is a survival-horror and investigative narrative adventure from Remedy of Max Payne and Control fame. The game has been grabbing a steady stream of DLC post-launch to pack in additional story beats, and The Lake House is the latest part. Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is a soulslike in essence set during the Ming Dynasty period in China and could be Xbox’s answer toBlack Myth Wukong, which is still conspicuously missing from the Xbox platform.
There’s every possibility that Microsoft may use the event to drop some hints about upcoming Xbox platform features as well. Xbox president Sarah Bond recently revealed thatXbox Cloud Gaming will finally get “bring your own game"and buy-to-own Xbox game features starting in November. Perhaps Microsoft will detail exactlywhichgames will be included in the first wave of accessible titles will be, given that our sources indicate it won’t be thefulllibrary of Xbox games, at least not to start with.
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So, how can I watch the Xbox Partner Preview October 2024 event?
The Xbox Partner Preview (October 2024) event goes live on Thursday, October 17, 2024, at 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 6PM BST, across all of Xbox’s main streaming platforms. You can watch it onYouTube.com/Xboxas well asTwitch.tv/Xbox, and across all the regional Xbox channels on YouTube as well. Microsoft is also streaming the event on LinkedIn for all you ‘LinkedInfluencers’ out there atLinkedIn.com/showcase/Xbox.
For accessibility, Microsoft will also have an American Sign Language offering atTwitch.tv/XboxASL. There will be a British Sign Language version up onYouTube.com/XboxOn. Subtitles will be offered in:Arabic (MSA), Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, French, Canadian French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Castilian Spanish, Mexican Spanish, and Turkish.
If you can’t watch the stream live, we’ll be running a blog post here on Windows Central to capture all of the Xbox and Windows PC trailers and details for you, so stay tuned for that.
Microsoft might be saving the truly “huge” Xbox game announcements for The Game Awards, which is slated for December 12, 2024. Microsoft has a variety ofupcoming Xbox gamesfrom first-party for the near future, includingCall of Duty: Black Ops 6,Avowed,Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, as well as a major timed exclusive inStalker 2.
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