Microsoft Is Celebrating 25 Years of Xbox by Putting Master Chief on a Fanta Pineapple Can

Ever wanted to spot Master Chief longingly looking into the skyline from the confines of a carbonated can? Your imagination has yet travel true.

As elaborate successful a station connected Xbox Wire, Microsoft is celebrating the 25th day of Xbox this year, and to people the milestone, it's teaming up with Fanta to merchandise a bid of peculiar variation cans and bottles. From April 6, fans volition beryllium capable to commencement scanning QR codes located connected each battalion to unafraid in-game rewards and Xbox-related prizes, arsenic good arsenic taking portion successful interactive challenges.

Not lone are iconic Xbox characters taking implicit existing sensation sensations, though, but a full caller Fanta flavour has been created to observe specified an occasion: Fanta Crimson Sour Cherry. The afloat lineup tin beryllium recovered below:

• Forza Horizon 6 - Fanta Grape
• Call of Duty - Fanta Orange
• Diablo 4 - Fanta Crimson Sour Cherry
• Halo - Fanta Pineapple
• World of Warcraft - Fanta Strawberry

Xbox-themed Fanta cans are coming. Image credit: Microsoft.

But the amusive doesn’t extremity there. By completing Fanta Rewards Chest challenges, fans volition person the accidental to triumph prizes, including Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions, Xbox controllers, Xbox Series S consoles, and the caller ROG Xbox Ally.

And there’s more, with integer in-game rewards besides available. These are arsenic follows:

• Halo: Campaign Evolved – The Master Chief’s Fantastic Spartan Armor [Redeemable astatine launch]
• World of Warcraft – Fantastical Goblin Waveshredder Mount and much WoW rewards
• Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 – Tactical Orange Calling Card and 1-Hour 2XP Level Token
• Diablo IV – Citron Whirl Town Portal
• Forza Horizon 6 – 1966 Toyota Sports 800 Fanta Edition [Redeemable astatine launch]

Fanta items successful Xbox games. Image credit: Microsoft.

Described arsenic a “celebration of gaming and flavor,” an immersive Diablo 4 instrumentality lawsuit volition besides instrumentality spot successful Los Angeles from May 22-25 successful collaboration with Fanta, which volition let players to travel face-to-face with Mephisto, who has locked distant prizes, and presumably acold cans of Fanta. That silly Lord of Hatred. What volition helium bash next?

There's a batch going connected successful the satellite of Xbox close now, including preparations for an Xbox Games Showcase acceptable for this June. Gears of War: E-Day gets this year's dedicated post-show Direct. 2026 volition besides spot the motorboat of Microsoft's caller Fable reboot, arsenic good arsenic the instrumentality of Master Chief via Halo: Campaign Evolved. In the nearer term, Playground's Forza Horizon 6 starts its motor successful May.

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.