Dead by Daylight: Dungeons & Dragons includes a new Killer – Vecna, The Lich – and new a Survivor – Aestri Yazar. The Forgotten Ruins Map is now available for all players.
Celebrate the legendary tabletop phenomenon with the new Dungeons & Dragons Collection, featuring new Very Rare Outfits:
The Lich – Whispered One
Aestri Yazar – Tale From The Sea
Baermar Uraz – Roadside Ambush
Meg Thomas – Sidetrack Archer
Mikaela Reid – Mystical Origins
Jeff Johansen – Reluctant Warrior
The Legion (Susie) – Backstabber
The Knight – Menacing Knight
Dead by Daylight is a multiplayer action/horror game where one player takes on the role of a brutal Killer and the other four play as Survivors. As a Killer your goal is to sacrifice as many Survivors as possible. As Survivors your goal is to work together to evade, escape, and most importantly – stay alive.
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Venture into Colovian West Weald and discover a region beset by the chaos of the Forgotten Prince’s return in The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road. Investigate the emergence of Ithelia, an all-new Daedric Prince, and create your own handmade abilities with the new Scribing system as you explore a world not seen since The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The next Chapter in The Elder Scrolls Online saga begins here!
The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road arrives for Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One on June 18, 2024
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The Final Shape has almost arrived in Destiny 2 – the highly anticipated expansion that sees the Guardians fight off against The Witness, the universe’s greatest threat to date.
Ahead of its launch tomorrow, we spoke with several developers at Bungie to ask about The Final Shape’s major new developments, including a brand-new playable location inside the heart of The Traveler, the fearsome new species lurking within, and the new Supers that Guardians can wield to take them on. There’s a lot to cover in The Final Shape, so we’ve broken down five of its most exciting new elements, with commentary from the team on how they came together.
Closer to the Heart
The Final Shape transports players to The Pale Heart, a brand-new location inside the heart of the Traveler. According to Dave Samuel, Art Director on Destiny 2, the studio’s aim was to encapsulate the profound memories that players have made along their decade-long journey with the game. Familiar locations and artifacts that fans of all tenures will recognize are woven into the surroundings – this is the visual culmination of your adventure in Destiny’s universe.
“We envisioned the original Destiny’s Tower as a beacon of hope and life, embodying a sense of purity amidst the metal and concrete, adorned with lush foliage and greenery,” Samuel says, to demonstrate an example of this. “This visualization serves as a poignant representation of the hope and genesis of the player’s expedition.”
However, as The Final Shape’s narrative progresses, these recollections begin to darken as The Witness and its darkness takes hold. Samuel describes the Cosmodrome, where the original Destiny story began, which is now fragmented and twisted. The Tree of Silver Wings, a symbol of Light in the universe, is now marred by the presence of the Hive. This isn’t just a representation of everything you’ve experienced – it’s also a vision of the world you’re here to save.
“Our creative intention was to present these potent memories in unexpected and unsettling ways, each transformation growing increasingly distorted and disconcerting as your odyssey leads you towards The Monolith,” Samuel adds. “The journey through The Pale Heart is intended to challenge and evoke a range of emotions, encapsulating the evolution and transformation of your experience within Destiny 2 over the past decade.”
A Dreadful Encounter
Once inside The Pale Heart, Guardians will discover the Dread – the first new species to be uncovered in the Destiny universe since the addition of the Scorn in 2019’s Forsaken expansion. The Dread are the most devoted followers of The Witness, and their design is mirrored to reflect the twisted and unsettling innards of The Pale Heart, and the grip that the darkness has on them.
Samuel takes us through three main keywords used to craft the visuals of the Dread – Pyramid, Vampiric and Chimeric. Via these inspirations, the team has taken core elements of the Witness’ design and adapted it to fit the Dread – abstract shapes, infusions of aristocratic elements, and subtle opulence. These creatures are unfamiliar and threatening, clearly molded in the Witness’ vision.
“Building up to this climactic confrontation in the heart of the Traveler was a big goal for us. We wanted it to feel like the Witness was pulling out all the stops, that it was arraying its grandest and most formidable army,” adds James Tsai, Creative Director.
The Dread are not only formidable in their appearance, but in their abilities too. We’ve already seen them in action as the Tormentors – fast, hulking enemies that launch devastating projectiles, and can finish you off entirely in little more than one hit if they get hold of you. Each type of Dread enemy is built to feel like a similar threat – they’re made to feel like this is truly The Witness’ last line of defense and who will not go down without a fight.
“There’s a lot that goes into designing a combatant – or an entire encounter, for that matter,” Tsai explains. “You want that initial impression and that silhouette that appears on the horizon to be intimidating, if not terrifying, so you often lead with a strong attack or attention-grabbing entrance from that enemy. After that, it’s less about setting up an impregnable defense and more about creating a puzzle of sorts that can be figured out.”
Tsai adds that this can be a tricky challenge in Destiny 2 because the player has so many ways to approach the fight: different weapons, different abilities, supers, grenades, and incredible mobility: “As the Transcendent Guardian wielding Light and Darkness simultaneously, you have a lot of powerful tools – the Witness is sending its best to stop you.”
A Class of Your Own
In The Final Shape, Guardians will be able to wield the Prismatic Class, which allows Guardians to combine elements and abilities from existing Light and Darkness subclasses to craft unique, powerful combinations. While Prismatic is primarily a combination of existing skills, it’s built to feel like a new subclass with its own identity.
“The Prismatic subclass connects abilities and powers that were previously insulated from each other, so the player can generate very novel builds from that interplay,” Tsai explains. “Being able to combine the crowd-control properties of Stasis with a destructive Solar force, for instance, can lead to entirely new approaches in combat.”
The team began with fantasy statements for the first Prismatic builds: “We talked about the different ways the player would engage: ‘slow ‘em down, then blow ‘em up,’ or ‘get amped and go berserk.’ Even though the individual abilities were familiar, they pushed towards distinct styles in those initial combinations to elevate new strategies. But we know the community is going to find even more amazing combinations and tactics, especially once they start using the new Aspects and Fragments.”
Feeling Super
Destiny 2’s existing subclasses are also getting an exciting revamp in the form of several new Super abilities. Titans come armed with Twilight Arsenal, a potent new void Super, Hunters are freshly equipped with Storm’s Edge, a deadly new Arc ability, and Warlocks are bringing the heat with Song of Flame.
Much like the surroundings of The Pale Heart, these Supers also incorporate elements of classic Destiny abilities. For example, Storm’s Edge is described as similar to the Bladedancer ability for Hunters in the original Destiny.
“We wanted to deliver an experience that felt like it connected back to that classic Arc Hunter fantasy while also providing an aggressive, high-mobility playstyle,” says Samuel Dunn, Gameplay Feature Lead. “We knew we wanted to incorporate elements like the Arc Blade weapon itself as well as the powerful spin attack, but with the ability to rapidly zip in and out of trouble in the blink of an eye. Together, with the new air move from Ascension, you can chain together powerful aerial movement combos to keep your enemies on their toes.”
The Warlock Song of Flame Super also shares DNA with an original ability from Destiny – Sunsinger, which significantly improved all of the player’s other abilities while active.
“It felt fitting to echo that same gameplay here, by supercharging both versions of the Dawnblade melee with extra projectiles and creating a stylized, sentient-feeling ‘firebird’ grenade that will hunt down multiple enemies,” Dunn explains. “We also knew we wanted to create another support alternative to Well of Radiance, with a different and more mobile flavor that could integrate well into the rest of the Solar Warlock kit and provide powerful utility for allies via ability regen and Scorching weapon rounds.”
The Next Episode
The Final Shape’s epic campaign is just the start of another huge journey for our Guardians. After the events of the story mode, more tales will be told in the form of Episodes, which will replace Destiny 2’s existing seasonal structure. Three episodes, titled Echoes, Revenant and Heresy, will deal with the aftermath and consequences of the events of The Final Shape’s campaign.
Each Episode will contain three Acts, and will tell their own standalone stories that focus on other factions’ scramble for power in the wake of the Guardians’ showdown with The Witness. Acts will provide the same level of rewards found within Seasonal content – including new activities, quests, weapons, as well as the seasonal Artifact Mods that Guardians can use to fine-tune their playstyle.
“We wanted to ensure the events of The Final Shape had a lasting impact on the world,” says Robbie Stevens, Assistant Game Director. “Episodes introduce a new content cadence for Destiny 2 so that it’s clearer than ever when the next major update will occur.”
This is just a snapshot of the exciting updates heading to Destiny 2 with this expansion. Experience the explosive conclusion of the Light and Darkness saga when Destiny 2: The Final Shape launches on June 4.
Pre-order now to unlock the new Pyramidic Vessel Exotic ship, Exotic Ghost shell, and Legendary emblems.
The Standard edition of The Final Shape includes the new story campaign, three new Supers, a new destination, new weapons and armor to collect, and the first Episode in the year of The Final Shape.
Prismatic Subclass
For the first time ever, Prismatic empowers you to combine Arc, Solar, Void, Stasis, and Strand into a custom subclass of your design. Light and Darkness have no quarrel within you, Guardian.
Campaign
The Final Shape looms—a nightmarish calcification of reality into the Witness’s twisted design. Embark on a perilous journey into the heart of the Traveler, rally the Vanguard, and end the War of Light and Darkness.
New Supers
Defeating the Witness will require untold power. Arc Hunters, Void Titans, and Solar Warlocks; master a new Super within your arsenal and confront oblivion.
New Destination
Adventure through an impossible landscape that bends time and space. Follow the Witness and behold what lies within the Traveler.
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Destiny 2 may contain flashing patterns and images that may produce adverse effects for a small percentage of people sensitive to them.
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A Day in the Life of Sushi Bot, Rolling Hills’ Premiere Aspiring Chef
Brea Timmerman, Humble Games, Associate Director of Brand Marketing
Summary
Run a sushi shop as a robot chef in the cozy life sim Rolling Hills.
Make sushi, make friends, and make sushi bot’s restaurant-running dreams come true.
Rolling Hills will be available June 4, 2024, for Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC, and with Game Pass.
If you ever found yourself lying in bed at night pondering what life would be like as a sushi-making robot, the upcoming Rolling Hills is designed to answer that very question.
Developer Catch & Release, LLC’s wholesome blend of life sim and restaurant management game casts you in the “roll” of Sushi Bot, a cute aspiring chef who is granted the one-in-a-lifetime opportunity to open up a shop in a friendly little town.
Making sushi, making friends, and even solving a mystery or two for the townsfolk are some examples of how you might choose to spend your time in Rolling Hills — here’s what an average day might look like for a not-so-average robot.
To the market!
Every morning, your friendly neighborhood grocer Arman stocks his store with fresh ingredients to buy. Picking the right ingredients can make a world of difference for your sushi recipes, granting permanent upgrades that please more palettes and bolstering the special bonuses certain recipes provide when served — like making customers a bit more patient or auto-magically cleaning up dirty tables.
Tasks around town
You might not think so from Rolling Hills’ unassuming nature, but there are tons of unusual tasks to be taken care of around town. You never know when neighbors might ask you to grow a giant cucumber or find the perfect spot to plant a wi-fi antenna for the town. And the townsfolk just know there’s got to be something up with that mysterious shrine…
Go thrifting
If you need a new table to seat more patrons, fresh wallpaper to liven up the place, flooring to suit your culinary vision, or perhaps some bright new signage to signal you’re serious about your sushi, hop over the town’s river to Wren’s thrift shop which features a regularly rotating catalog of decor and furniture to deck out your restaurant. The right vibe can even increase profitability, make customers more relaxed, or give you a boost to your restaurant’s XP!
Coffee with a friend
Sushi Bot’s friend Maia runs the local coffee shop, which is the perfect place to make friends while hanging out over a cup of joe or a sweet treat. And when you treat your pals right, they’ll help you in return — offering new items in their stores, or maybe even using their fishing skills to snag strange items out of the local streams.
Let’s roll!
When dinnertime rolls around, it’s Sushi Bot’s time to shine! Here’s when all the day’s hard work pays off, as you serve up sushi from your growing recipe repertoire with the help of your automated culinary conveyor. Every patron has different tastes when it comes to the quality and flavor they look for – and some folks can be a bit messy or rude. But when the money and five-star reviews roll in, and word starts to spread about Rolling Hills, it’ll all be worthwhile!
Ready to live out the robot sushi chef life? Rolling Hills arrives on Xbox One, Series X|S, Windows PC, and with Game Pass on June 4, 2024!
As a state-of-the-art Sushi Bot, you’ve always dreamed of becoming a world-renowned chef and making your creators proud. As luck would have it, the friendly residents of Rolling Hills are looking for a rising star to take over the local sushi shop—presenting a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a one-of-a-kind robot to show the world what you’re made of.
Build your recipe repertoire, purchase the perfect ingredients, and help turn a cozy town into a can’t-miss culinary destination in Rolling Hills, a wholesome blend of life sim and restaurant management game about serving up life’s simple pleasures. Let’s roll!
Make Irresistible Sushi
Collect new recipes to suit the townfolks’ tastes, source fresh ingredients from the local market to improve your creations’ flavor and quality, and become a master sushi chef.
Make Fabulous New Friends
Build relationships with the residents of Rolling Hills over a cup of coffee, and help them with their own day-to-day needs. Together, you can make life better for everyone in town!
Make Your Restaurant Dreams Come True
Dive into the hustle and bustle as you serve customers to earn coins and stellar reviews. Customize your restaurant with decorations that grant bonuses and express your style.
Embark on an epic maritime journey in search of fame and fortune in Corsairs – Batlle of the Carribbean, available in 2025 on Xbox Series!
Corsairs – Battle of the Caribbean sees you navigate the stormy waters of the Caribbean, build a powerful fleet, and battle enemy ships. Explore the exotic islands of the Antilles to discover hidden treasures, recruit crew members for your ships, and struggle for the supremacy of your nation in the Caribbean as either the French, Danish, Spanish, British, or Dutch.
It’s almost time – this Sunday, June 9, we invite players from around the world to a huge double feature: the Xbox Games Showcase 2024, immediately followed by Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Direct. This will mark the first Xbox Showcase featuring games from our portfolio of studios across Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda and Xbox Game Studios, not to mention our incredible third-party partners. Plus, the Showcase will be immediately followed by a deep-dive into Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.
It’s our biggest moment of the year to show you the future of gaming with Xbox, and we hope you can join us. With that in mind, here are all the details you need to know ahead of Sunday:
What time does Xbox Games Showcase begin? The Showcase will take place on Sunday, June 9, beginning at:
PT: June 9, 10am
ET: June 9, 1pm
BST: June 9, 6pm
CET: June 9, 7pm
JST: June 10, 2am
AEST: June 10, 3am
What time does Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Direct begin? Immediately following the Xbox Games Showcase.
How do I watch the Xbox Games Showcase and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Direct? The Xbox Games Showcase and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Direct will be streamed live on official Xbox, Bethesda, and Activision Blizzard channels, including the below:
The show will also be streamed out simultaneously on regional Xbox and Bethesda channels around the globe.
Please note the /Xbox, /Bethesda and /ActivisionGames streams on YouTube will be in 4K at 60fps, while all other channels will be 1080p / 60fps.
Is the event available in languages other than English? We will be providing subtitle support in the following languages: Albanian, Arabic (MSA), Bangla, Bosnian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan), Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Filipino, French, French (Canadian), Gaelic (Irish), German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Māori, Norwegian, Persian (Farsi), Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese, Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish (Castilian), Spanish (Mexican), Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh and Zulu. While we expect to have all languages available with the show’s live broadcast, it is possible that select languages may need to be added in the days following the broadcast if they have not finished translating.
The easiest way to find your preferred language is to go to your region’s Xbox page, or by viewing on the official Xbox YouTube channel at YouTube.com/Xbox and clicking the gear icon in the lower right corner.
Is Xbox Games Showcase going to be Accessible to those with low/no hearing or low/no vision? There will be a version of the show with Audio Descriptions (AD) in English on the Xbox YouTube channel, American Sign Language (ASL) on Xbox’s YouTube channel and the /XboxASL Twitch channel, and British Sign Language (BSL) on Xbox On’s YouTube channel at YouTube.com/XboxOn.
I’m not going to be able to watch, where can I find out what was announced? As announcements roll out during the broadcast, the Xbox Wire team will be publishing detailed blog posts for key announcements right here on Xbox Wire (with localized versions in Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, LATAM Spanish, and Japanese to follow). A full show recap will be published on Xbox Wire immediately following the end of Xbox Games Showcase, and a separate recap for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Direct will go live after that show ends. Plus, stay tuned to Xbox Wire in the days following the show for more exclusive articles.
Will Xbox be broadcasting post-show content? Starting from Monday, June 10 and running throughout that week, the Official Xbox Podcast will be airing a series of special episodes offering updates and deeper dives into titles featured during Xbox Games Showcase. These shows will be published daily on Xbox’s YouTube channel and podcast services, with accompanying articles on Xbox Wire. We look forward to sharing more details after the Showcase concludes.
Co-streamer and content creator notes for the Xbox Games Showcase and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Direct: We at Xbox greatly appreciate any co-stream efforts and aim to ensure you have a smooth experience if you choose to do so. However, due to forces beyond our control, we cannot guarantee that glitches or disruptions by bots and other automated software won’t interfere with your co-stream. For those planning to create post-show breakdowns of the Xbox Showcase in the form of Video on Demand (VOD) coverage, we recommend you do not use any audio containing copyrighted music to avoid any action by automated bots, and to also consult the terms of service for your service provider.
We can’t wait for you to join us for Xbox Games Showcase, followed by Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Direct on Sunday, June 9.
Together We Thrive: Celebrating the Joy of the LGBTQIA+ Community in Gaming
Team Xbox
Summary
The Trevor Project and the Gaming Safety team are partnering to create a safer, more inclusive gaming community.
Explore Games Curated by LGBTQIA+ Communities at Microsoft.
Discover Pride Gear.
Games can be a powerful medium to express and explore one’s identity in a creative and safe environment. Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind allows players to romance and marry characters regardless of their gender. Overwatch features openly LGBTQIA+ characters, such as Tracer, who is heroic, strong, and prominently featured in the game. Tell Me Why tells the story of Tyler, a transgender man, with sensitivity and depth. Games can be a powerful way to explore identities within the safety of creative play while enabling all players to experience new perspectives that may be different from their own.
This Pride month, we invite you to join us on this journey of learning, growing, and thriving. Gaming is for everyone, and together, we can work towards creating a gaming community that is welcoming to everyone and is inclusive of people with a wide range of perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. That meaningful work is achieved through people impacting others through education, appreciating the lived experiences of others and building empathy with members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
We believe it’s important to support organizations that uplift, empower, and address the needs of the LGBTQIA+ community. In the last 30 years, together with our employees, Microsoft has donated over $16M to organizations that support the LGBTQIA+ community, and in the last year alone, we donated over $1.3M. This year Xbox, along with Microsoft, is thrilled to continue these efforts with a $200K contribution to multiple organizations supporting the LGBQTIA+ community to help inspire conversations, rally community actions, and empower people to share their Pride.
Additionally, Xbox Game Studios Publishing is proud to continue partnering with GLAAD to produce more inclusive games from conception to design to development. Xbox is partnering with The Trevor Project to help connect LGBTQIA+ players with valuable resources that help support well-being and safety as they play within the Xbox community. Every player has a unique story, and we look forward to future projects where people across the rainbow spectrum may experience the same empowerment. Read on to learn more about how we are celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community this month and beyond:
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Spotlighting Xbox’s partnership with The Trevor Project
Gaming has long been a source of fun, community, and self-expression for the LGBTQIA+ community. According to GLAAD, LGBTQIA+ gamers are 24% more likely to use gaming as a support to help get them through tough times – with 66% of LGBTQIA+ players sharing that gaming allows them to express themselves in a way they don’t feel comfortable doing in the real world.
This impact is not lost on us. At Xbox, we are committed to creating gaming experiences that are welcoming for all players, and that includes providing a safe and inclusive space where everyone can be their authentic selves.
That’s why we’re proud to spotlight Xbox’s standing partnership with The Trevor Project, a U.S. nonprofit that provides lifesaving and life-affirming services to LGBTQIA+ young people. Since 2019, Xbox and its safety teams have been partnering with The Trevor Project to connect players with resources to support their well-being and ensure they feel safe and welcome when they play on Xbox.
In the spirit of Pride, we want to share the following safety tips to help players get the most out of their gaming experience:
Explore your user settings. Xbox offers settings that allow players choice in how they play. Players can select whether to make their friends list visible, choose to receive messages from people who aren’t friends, or block content they don’t wish to view.
Take comfort in knowing Xbox has your back. To support the broader player-base and LGBTQIA+ community, we take player safety seriously. This includes:
In-game reporting tools to help players flag issues of inappropriate behavior or content. Xbox invests in 24/7 coverage globally to help respond to and investigate reports.
Moderation tools that work across text, images video and voice, to block harmful content before it reaches players.
Access to automatic text filters, which empowers players to customize their gaming experience and decide what content is not okay to receive – these filters automatically block content before it reaches the player.
Continuing to create proactive measures to block hate speech and invest in technologies to help moderate potentially toxic communications, while allowing individual expression.
Gaming and Impact with Rewards with Xbox
Rewards members in the United States can earn and donate points to organizations supporting LGBTQIA+ communities with Xbox. The organizations below will be available on the Rewards hub:
GLAAD: Founded in 1985, GLAAD – the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization – works with television, film, video games, Spanish-language media, journalists, and social media to tell stories and consult on LGBTQ media representation. GLAAD tackles tough issues and provokes dialogue that leads to cultural change through increased media accountability, public campaigns, corporate engagement initiatives, and advocacy programs that help to ensure 100% inclusion and acceptance of the LGBTQ community. (US)
Outright International: Outright International is dedicated to working with partners around the globe to strengthen the capacity of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) human rights movement, document and amplify human rights violations against LGBTIQ people, and advocate for inclusion and equality. (US)
National Center for Transgender Equality: The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) advocates to change policies and society to increase understanding and acceptance of transgender and non-binary people. In the nation’s capital and throughout the country, NCTE works to replace disrespect, discrimination, and violence with empathy, opportunity, and justice. (US)
Xbox players can earn Rewards points in various ways, such as playing games, completing Game Pass Quests, and purchasing games and other eligible items at the Microsoft Store (exclusions apply). Start earning todayand redeem your points for great rewards. Donate your points on the Rewards hub or on the Rewards redeem page.
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Tell Me Why Available for Free in June on Xbox Consoles, Microsoft Store, and Steam!
Tell Me Why, the award-winning narrative adventure from Don’t Nod Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios Publishing, will be available for free on Xbox consoles, Windows PC, and Steam for the entire month of June 2024. As in past years, the Tell Me Why team encourages players to give what they would have spent on Tell Me Why to an independent trans creator or a trans-inclusive charity in their community.
Explore Games Curated by LGBTQIA+ Communities at Microsoft
Xbox invites you to play with pride.
During June and beyond, check out a variety of game collections that showcase LGBTQIA+ creators, lead characters, and games with inclusive gender and relationship options. Available on the Microsoft Stores on Xbox and Windows, check out the transgender and non-binary community games collection and the LGBTQIA+ community games collection. These collections will exist year-round as part of our ongoing work to create more inclusive gaming ecosystems and elevate content that resonates with communities. For Xbox Game Pass members, explore what games are available to play in the Xbox Game Pass collection and the PC Game Pass collection.
Featured titles within the collections include:
Need for Speed Unbound (Available with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on Console, PC, and Cloud) – Need for Speed Unbound’s character creator allows for multiple gender expressions via clothing, hair, and voice options that aren’t limited to the gender binary. The game also features racing rival, Justicia, a trans woman voiced by trans actress, Sena Bryer, in addition to including LGBTQIA+ iconography in the streets and as decals for your cars.
Starfield (Available with Xbox Game Pass on Console, PC, and Cloud) – In this role-playing game set amongst the stars, create any character you want and explore with unparalleled freedom as you embark on an epic journey. Starfield boasts an impressive character creation tool with multiple body types, skin tones, hairstyles, non-gendered features, and they/them pronoun options. Exploration options include pursuing romantic relationships regardless of gender.
Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical (Available on Console) – Play as star and stagehand as you determine the story through conversation and song in this video game for musical lovers. Written by the iconic and openly gay narrative designer, David Gaider, you’ll craft not only a unique narrative, but a soundtrack to your own musical experience based on your choices. Forge your own story and decide who to romance.
The Quarry (Available with Xbox Game Pass on Console and Cloud) – Play solo or in a group of friends as any of nine camp counselors in this thrilling cinematic experience that leads down a tangled web of possibilities based on your choices. Enjoy a night of fun before a party quickly turns into an unpredictable night of horror and your relationships are tested by unimaginable life-or-death decisions.
This Bed We Made (Available on Console) – Chloe Lussier, CEO and co-founder of Lowbirth Games, wants to tell impactful stories that feature unconventional heroes. Set in the 1950s, the story that unfolds in This Bed We Made is tied to real history when being a member of the LGBTQIA+ community was criminalized. Step into the role of Sophie, an indiscreet chambermaid at a hotel filled with secrets, in this third-person mystery narrative game that explores the lengths people have had to go to pursue loving relationships as their authentic self.
Celebrate Pride in Forza Horizon 5
This year’s Pride-themed Xbox art will be added to Forza Horizon 5 as a vinyl: an in-game decal that you can use to customize any car. Show off this unique design on your car using #ForzaRainbow on social media for a chance to be featured! (The vinyl will be available starting June 7 from the Forza Horizon accounts on Instagram and X.)
Overwatch 2 Celebrates Pride with In-Game Map and Calling All Heroes
Overwatch 2 celebrates Pride this month with the return of a fan-favorite map and Calling All Heroes. All month long, the Pride festival returns to Overwatch 2’s Midtown map. Players can look forward to playing on this map as they queue for Unranked and Competitive games and directly in a dedicated play card on the Arcade. Calling All Heroes is Overwatch 2’s competitive Esports series that provides an inclusive environment to aspiring competitors of marginalized genders, including those who present themselves as Trans, Non-Binary, and Genderqueer. This competition returned last weekend, and everyone who tunes in at twitch.tv/ow_esportswill be able to earn new drops like the new Monarch Venture skin.
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Xbox Gear Shop
Show your love and support for Pride 2024 with our new limited-edition t-shirts, hoodies and more – designed by and with the LGBTQIA+ communities. Get your Pride gear now!
Celebrate Pride with the new 2024 Pride Collection exclusively on the Blizzard Gear Store! Led through the Blizzard LGBT+ Employee Network, the Blizzard Pride Collection features Pride-themed apparel benefitting The Trevor Project from May 15 through June 30, 2024.
Explore Xbox’s Kingdom of Color
In celebration of Pride, the Xbox logo was reimagined as a crystal radiating with power at the top of a magic staff. The storybook-inspired image also includes a castle with festive rainbow banners and fireworks. The artist, who is part of the LGBTQIA+ community, imagines the Kingdom of Color as a place where people who identify as LGBTQIA+ rule and the magic of Pride is spread to every corner of the realm. Right from the pages of a leather-bound book filled with colorful art and calligraphy text, this image evokes not only familiar stories of dragons, knights, and wizards, but launches those stories into a more inclusive future in which all players find their magic.
Xbox Ambassadors Celebrate Pride 2024
The Xbox Ambassadors Program is celebrating Pride by spotlighting members of the Xbox Ambassadors community who responded to a recent survey about their experiences as gamers.Read the Xbox Ambassadors blog to hear community members sharing their favorite memories playing video games, recommending games that do a good job representing LGBTQIA+ people and experiences, and offering tips on how to stay safe when gaming online.
Pride Dynamic Background and Wallpaper Available Now
The Pride Month Xbox design is available today as an Xbox wallpaper and dynamic background on console – follow these steps to apply the dynamic background:
Press the Xbox button on your controller to open the guide.
Select Profile & system > Settings > General > Personalization > My background > Dynamic backgrounds.
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Radical Joy with Microsoft
In the face of adversity, existence itself can be resistance and spark change. This Pride, LGBTQIA+ people at Microsoft share the meaning of joy and invite everyone to spread acceptance, abundance, and harmony everywhere. Join us and discover more at Microsoft.com/pride.
