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\nThis week on the Eurogamer Newscast<\/a>, we discuss everything shown at the Xbox Showcase last night<\/a>: one of the best summer preview events in recent years, and one of Microsoft’s best ever. <\/p>\n

On the one hand, perhaps the trove of upcoming titles should be expected. After all, this is what you should<\/em> get when you spend nearly $100bn buying up swathes of the games industry. On the other, well, Microsoft has seemed to perenially exist on promising that next<\/em> year’s crop of first-party games will finally be where its acquisition spree pays off, where Game Pass truly hits the big time, and where it at last starts clawing back some market share. <\/p>\n

After watching the avalanche of announcements last night (Doom! Gears! Perfect Dark!) alongside everything else we knew was coming (Fable! Indy! More Diablo!) it’s hard to see how the next 12 months couldn’t make an impact – let alone the boost of launching Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 into Xbox Game Pass. Could Xbox finally feel like it’s hitting its stride this console generation, after numerous misfires? Joining me this week are Eurogamer’s Ed Nightingale and Victoria Kennedy to discuss.<\/p>\n

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This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss everything shown at the Xbox Showcase last night: one of the best summer preview events in recent years, and one of Microsoft’s best ever. On the one hand, perhaps the trove of upcoming titles should be expected. After all, this is what you should get when you spend nearly $100bn buying up swathes of the games industry. On the other, well, Microsoft has seemed to perenially exist on promising that next year’s crop of first-party games will finally be where its acquisition spree pays off, where Game Pass truly hits the big time, and where it at last starts clawing back some market share. After watching the avalanche of announcements last night (Doom! Gears! Perfect Dark!) alongside…<\/p>\n

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