LIVE: Everything Announced at Xbox Developer Direct 2026

Microsoft is kicking 2026 disconnected with a caller Xbox Developer Direct showcase, which volition diagnostic immoderate of the biggest games it has coming retired this year.

Confirmed to look astatine the showcase is Playground’s Fable reboot, the UK studio’s different game, Forza Horizon 6, arsenic good arsenic Beast of Reincarnation, an enactment crippled from Pokemon developer Game Freak.

Could determination beryllium much to Xbox Developer Direct? Find retired close present with IGN. The enactment starts astatine 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK today, January 22.

Forza Horizon 6

Xbox Developer Direct 2026 kicked disconnected with a look astatine Forza Horizon 6 from the developers astatine UK workplace Playground Games. As we know, the crippled is acceptable successful Japan, wherever you commencement retired arsenic a tourist. Your archetypal extremity is to articulation the Horizon festival and advancement your vocation from there, unlocking caller areas arsenic you go.

Japan is the Horizon series' largest map, Playground said. The workplace worked with consultants to marque definite its practice of Japan was authentic arsenic possible. The developers themselves visited Japan to get plentifulness of notation material. There are hundreds of cars, with a amended balanced roster and caller cosmetic tyre wear.

Customizable garages are recovered astatine each playable house, Playground said. You tin invitation your friends implicit to spot what you've built, too. Your Estate starts disconnected bare and overgrown, but you tin physique straight successful the unfastened world, and everything tin beryllium visited by your friends. It each sounds precise Animal Crossing! Based connected the video shown during the Direct, Forza Horizon 6 looks awesome indeed. For more, cheque retired each the caller details connected Forza Horizon 6, which we've rounded up here.

Beast of Reincarnation

Next up was Beast of Reincarnation, a caller enactment crippled from Pokemon developer Game Freak. This is an wholly caller benignant of video crippled from the legendary studio. Directed by Kota Furushima, Beast of Reincarnation allows players to measurement into the relation of Emma the Sealer arsenic they travel done post-apocalyptic Japan to prevention humanity from extinction. It’s owed retired summertime 2026 crossed Xbox Series X and S, PC, and PlayStation 5. It's besides a day-one Game Pass title.

Here's each the caller details connected Beast of Reincarnation revealed today. We've got plentifulness much connected Beast of Reincarnation coming soon!

Kiln

Microsoft surprise-announced a caller crippled from Double Fine Productions, called Kiln. Studio main Tim Schafer revealed Kiln, which helium said was each astir creating with different players earlier destroying everything. Kiln is an online multiplayer "pottery" enactment brawler astir pots that alteration into playable characters via an in-game potter's wheel. Expect precocious energy, "expressive" multiplayer action, Schafer added. Kiln is really being re-revealed today. Double good publically talked astir it arsenic acold backmost arsenic 2017. Expect a motorboat successful outpouring 2026 connected Xbox Series X and S, PlayStation 5, and PC. Double Fine said it volition proceed to update the crippled pursuing launch, with a closed beta coming soon.

Fable

Microsoft ended its Xbox Developer Direct with the prima of the show: Fable. Playground Games (the aforesaid dev making Forza Horizon series) has built a caller squad to marque this Fable reboot, its archetypal unfastened satellite enactment RPG. It's carrying connected the enactment of Lionhead, which Microsoft unopen down successful 2016.

You statesman the crippled arsenic a kid gorwing up successful a sleepy agrarian village. You are Albion's archetypal leader successful a generation. You acceptable disconnected connected an adventure, venturing retired into the unfastened world. This is simply a existent unfastened world, Playground said, which means you're escaped to spell wherever you privation from the commencement of the game.

We got a decent look astatine quality customization, combat, and of course, kicking chickens. Combat combines melee and ranged attacks, arsenic good arsenic almighty spells. Hobbes return, arsenic you'd expect. Outside combat, you tin bargain a house, get a job, marque money, and romance a villager. You could bargain different house, bargain much houses, wed loads of radical and person adjacent much kids. It's a crippled wrong a game, Playground said.

The 'living population,' arsenic Playground calls it, includes 1,000 NPCs who spell astir their business. You tin speech to each of them successful fully-voiced conversations. You could adjacent prosecute them to enactment successful your businesses, oregon evict them arsenic a landlord. They'll remark connected your actions, too, arsenic portion of the caller estimation system. Some of your choices volition really alteration the satellite of Albion for the remainder of the game.

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