Talking Point: What Are Your Plans For The Xbox Games Showcase 2026?

Watching alone? With friends? In a cinema?! Tell us!

by Fraser Gilbert
46 mins ago

Talking Point: What Are Your Plans For The Xbox Games Showcase 2026? — *Image: Asha Sharma on Twitter/X*

We're just under two weeks away from the Xbox Games Showcase 2026! The biggest event on the calendar promises to bring us countless reveals from first and third-party Xbox games including Fable, Halo: Campaign Evolved, Gears of War: E-Day and much more, and it also marks Asha Sharma's very first major showcase — we can clearly see in the image above that she'll be making a public-facing Xbox appearance for the first time!

In some ways, this is one of the most important Xbox showcases in history. Not only do they need to knock it out the park with the first-party lineup (which to be fair, they already are), but the new Xbox boss needs to make a great impression here, they'll possibly want to start building more hype for Project Helix as well, and they'll also be keen to continue celebrating the 25th anniversary of the brand.

With that in mind, it feels like we must be getting at least one or two big surprises in this year's show...

Of course, as usual, we'll be hosting the full 4K, 60FPS livestream for you here at Pure Xbox on June 7th (1pm EDT / 6pm BST), and we're expecting the chatroom to be quite lively as well, so we hope we'll see you next Sunday! For those who won't be around, or don't want to watch it all the way through, we'll also be rounding up all the announcements immediately following its conclusion, and that goes for all the big showcases during Summer Game Fest.

You've still got the best part of two weeks to come up with a plan, but before we get there, we'd love to hear what you're currently planning to do for XGS 2026 on the 7th. Will you be watching it with us? Chilling out in front of the TV? Watching with friends? Maybe even attending some kind of special event? We'd love to hear about it down below!

Let us know about your Xbox Games Showcase 2026 plans in the comments section.

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RiverGenie
34 mins ago

Play games and wait for the summary to be posted on PureXbox. Thx guys 👍🙂

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Bleacdemon
33 mins ago

I am going to look up al the news on Pure Xbox!

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Lup
12 mins ago

Alone, or with a friend if I can convince one.
I'd like to watch it with an online friend I have, but we have very different timezones.

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Balaam_
9 mins ago

Fable looks great, Gears looks like it has big potential, and Halo looks different enough compared to the Halo we all know that I’m interested in trying it. I’m sure there will be at least one or two other surprises as well.

But what I’m most interested in is concrete info about Helix. Not rumors, not speculation, not assumptions; actual features and the degree of pc integration. It’s probably too early to expect that sort of talk, but they may surprise everyone and start building hype sooner rather than later. I want an explicit confirmation of whether all my Steam games will be fully playable and that I can access the storefront and buy more Steam games on Helix. No verbal gymnastics, no coy hints. I want that full disclosure announcement, that permanent receipt. Say the name. ‘You will be able to purchase new Steam games and play your entire Steam library on Project Helix straight out of the box.’

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somnambulance
9 mins ago

I plan on watching it at a slightly delayed time, so I can skip stuff if I’m not interested in a specific game. I’ve found that watching these showcases a half hour late usually saves me a half hour of stuff I don’t care to see, but I still get that surprise factor where the internet isn’t ruining what I do want to see. Hopefully this year the 30 minutes I don’t want to see though is just the Gears stuff. Sorry, but I can’t stand Gears. Wish that time was saved for Fable or Halo.