Advertisement

Read More: Everything At Sony’s Big Hour-Long PlayStation Showcase

The total list of Xbox-compatible games announced at the Showcase is as follows:

That’s a lot of games! It’s about half of what PlayStation announced, and you can already secure some of it—the digital-only Alan Wake 2 is available for pre-order on the Xbox store, as is the deluxe edition of Immortals of Aveum.

Advertisement
Advertisement

While it seems like Pirates of the Purribean and its PlayStation buddies have momentarily buried the console war hatchet, Xbox parent company Microsoft is still sweating in its quest to absorb even more video games by acquiring Activision Blizzard. Though United Kingdom regulators blocked the $69 billion deal, saying that “the merger would [...] substantially weaken competition in [an] important growing market,” the European Union approved the merger on May 15.

But Microsoft is nonetheless likely to miss the June window both it and Activision Blizzard hoped to finalize their deal in. Yesterday, May 24, Microsoft filed an appeal against the U.K.’s blockage, and, on the offensive team, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has a pending complaint against the merger due to it enabling Microsoft to “suppress competitors to its Xbox gaming consoles.” An evidentiary hearing for that complaint is currently scheduled for August 2.

Advertisement

For lower stakes, you can instead tune into the Xbox Games Showcase on Sunday, June 11 at 1 p.m. ET.