Two Upcoming Xbox Game Pass Titles Win Big At Australian Game Awards Show

This past weekend, Australian gaming show SXSW Sydney 2025 took place, highlighting a bunch of new and upcoming titles across the industry - and a pair of Xbox Game Pass upcomers won big during the event's awards show.

Those two games are upcoming narrative title Mixtape — which is still due out in 2025 — and the highly-anticipated adventure Way To The Woods, which we've been looking forward to for years at this point. Mixtape won Game of the Year, whilst Way To The Woods took home the People's Choice award.

Now, we're not exactly sure how these games have been judged given that neither of them are out and fully playable yet, but we're going to assume they won based on early looks and hands-on previews. Both games had demos at the SXSW Sydney 2025 event, which seemingly led to the pair of them taking home these awards. Congrats to the teams involved!

As for when we might be able to go hands on with them, including via Xbox Game Pass of course, none of them have solid release dates just yet. At the time of writing, Mixtape is due out in "2025", while Way To The Woods is simply "To Be Announced" right now. Either way, we're looking forward to both of them - and as for Mixtape specifically, well, it sounds like Xbox boss Phil Spencer is also pretty excited to see that one.

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