Six months into the yr, Xbox’s launch calendar is wanting slim. Contemporary off the heels of a completely banger 2021, Microsoft hasn’t launched a single first-party tentpole in 2022. However that’s all set to vary, Microsoft assured viewers immediately throughout its massive splashy advertising and marketing showcase about massive splashy video games on the horizon.

Midway via immediately’s present—which supplied long-awaited gameplay reveals for feverishly anticipated video games like Starfield and Redfall—Xbox boss Phil Spencer confirmed off a graphic indicating 50 new video games would come to Xbox inside the subsequent yr. Xbox’s official social media feed tweeted out a barely altered model of the graphic after the showcase ended:

There are some minor discrepancies between the 2. The graphic aired in the course of the present mentions Hey Neighbor 2 and Lightyear Frontier as due out this yr. The graphic revealed on social mentions neither, changing these two video games with Gotham Knights and Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare II.

The picture isn’t deceptive about Xbox’s lineup, per se, however it’s padded out with strategies which are actually…curious. To be crystal clear, Xbox, which counts greater than two dozen first-party studios in its portfolio, just isn’t making 50 video games over the following yr.

For one factor, Microsoft has included expansions on right here, counting the likes of Forza Horizon 5‘s Sizzling Wheels collaboration, The Elder Scrolls On-line’s journey into the Excessive Isle realm, and Fallout 76‘s foray into Pittsburgh alongside full releases. For an additional, the graphic additionally lists a number of third-party video games—like Gotham Knights and The Callisto Protocol—which are being developed independently of Microsoft. Certain, they’re coming to Xbox. They’ll be accessible in all places else, too.

Microsoft has additionally included plenty of free-to-play video games among the many checklist, even counting Halo Infinite’s incoming third season. (Halo Infinite’s second season added some cosmetics, a handful of modes, and two maps to the shooter’s free-to-play multiplayer mode, which launched final November.) The model of the graphic aired in the course of the showcase additionally counted Sea of Thieves’ seventh season on the checklist.

The graphic additionally appears to point S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2, at the moment being developed in Ukraine, has been additional delayed. (Developer GSC Recreation World beforehand delayed the sport from an April 28, 2022, launch.) Although S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2 is listed below the 2023 column of immediately’s graphic, present retailer pages for the shooter say it’s due out December 8, 2022. Representatives for each Microsoft and for developer GSC Recreation World didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

One final commentary: After Microsoft scooped up Zenimax, the mother or father firm of Bethesda, for a gazillion bucks, a ton of ZeniMax’s portfolio grew to become accessible on Recreation Go. Activision Blizzard’s greatest video games on the horizon—Diablo IV, Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare II, and Overwatch 2—aren’t listed as deliberate titles for Recreation Go. (Overwatch 2 shall be free-to-play.) In April, Activision Blizzard shareholders overwhelmingly voted to approve Microsoft’s small-European-country-GDP-sized acquisition of the troubled studio. However the deal nonetheless must cross regulatory approval.

Anyway, right here’s the total checklist of video games deliberate for an Xbox launch in 2022, with video games focusing on Recreation Go marked in parentheses:

• Naraka: Bladepoint (Recreation Go)
• The Elder Scrolls On-line: Excessive Isle
• As Nightfall Falls (Recreation Go)
• Forza Horizon 5: Sizzling Wheels
• Somerville (Recreation Go)
• A Plague Story: Requiem (Recreation Go)
• Valheim (Recreation Go)
• Warhammer 40K Darktide (Recreation Go)
• Grounded (Recreation Go)
• Fallout 76: The Pitt (Recreation Go)
• Overwatch 2
• Excessive On Life (Recreation Go)
• Scorn (Recreation Go)
• Atomic Coronary heart (Recreation Go)
• Gotham Knights
• Gunfire Reborn (Recreation Go)
• Persona 5 Royal (Recreation Go)
• Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare II
• Pentiment (Recreation Go)
• Halo Infinite: Season 3 (Recreation Go)
• Microsoft Flight Simulator: fortieth Anniversary Version (Recreation Go)
• Hogwarts Legacy
• Celebration Animals (Recreation Go)
• Slime Rancher 2 (Recreation Go)
• The Callisto Protocol
• Hey Neighbor 2
• Lightyear Frontier

And right here’s the checklist for 2023:

• Diablo IV
• Redfall (Recreation Go)
• Starfield (Recreation Go)
• Forza Motorsport (Recreation Go)
• Minecraft Legends (Recreation Go)
• Ara: Historical past Untold (Recreation Go)
• Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty (Recreation Go)
• S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2 (Recreation Go)
• Flintlock (Recreation Go)
• Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes (Recreation Go)
• League of Legends (Recreation Go)
• League of Legends: Wild Rift (Recreation Go)
• Valorant (Recreation Go)
• Teamfight Techniques (Recreation Go)
• Legends of Runeterra (Recreation Go)
• Ark 2 (Recreation Go)
• Resident Evil 4
• Persona 3 Transportable (Recreation Go)
• Persona 4 Golden (Recreation Go)
• Changed (Recreation Go)
• Ereban: Shadow Legacy (Recreation Go)
• Ravenlok (Recreation Go)
• Useless House
• The Final Case of Benedict Fox (Recreation Go)
• Cocoon (Recreation Go)

We’ll test again in a yr.