Beyond these four games, Microsoft has a busy year ahead of it: Avowed, Fable, and The Outer Worlds 2 are all slated for 2025, too, though they weren’t showcased during the Thursday Xbox Developer Direct. Here’s what was.

It’s January, and that means Xbox held another one of its annual Developer Direct showcases to talk about some games coming to Xbox Series X/S and Windows. We knew a few games that would be featured,

The Xbox Developer_Direct 2025 livestream showcased five upcoming Game Pass games including Doom: The Dark Ages, South of Midnight, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and the just-announced Ninja Gaiden 2 Black and Ninja Gaiden 4.