Start your hype engines! Team green have announced their latest Xbox Developer_Direct for 2025 and we’ve got a whole slate of new games coming for us all to enjoy this year. The team break down all the possibilities in the XboxEra Podcast Episode 245!
Aside from some brief discussion on games like Eternal Strands, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, the majority of the show is discussing the vast possibilities available to us for the Xbox Developer_Direct 2025. South of Midnight, Doom: The Dark Ages and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are all on the docket, with a 4th mystery game on the way.
Even better, it’s a ‘brand new’ and ‘unannounced’ game, and the community is buzzing with all the possibilities. What do you think it could be? We also break down all of the subsequent rumours from Jez Corden and NatetheHate, with more first party Xbox titles going multiplatform in 2025.
Lastly, we celebrate our Patrons, without whom our continued existence would not be possible. This year, we’re bringing even more value and content to an XboxEra Patreon subscription, and if you love what we do, we wholeheartedly recommend signing up and supporting us directly via Patreon yourself.
Timestamps for the XboxEra Podcast Episode 245
00:00:00 – Going live for the XboxEra Podcast Episode 245!
00:13:45 – Intro
00:16:23 – Hi everyone!
00:18:15 – What have we been playing? Eternal Strands
00:23:30 – Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
00:25:30 – Assassins Creed Shadows tangent
00:26:46 – Other stuff we’re doing for the Patrons
00:31:45 – Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been delayed to March and Ubi wants to be bought
00:33:04 – Hi Destin!
00:35:35 – Back to Ubi’s troubles
00:41:27 – Xbox Developer Direct 25 if official, let’s talk about it
00:48:24 – What about the mystery 4th game?
00:58:00 – Could there be a 5th game?
01:10:30 – More multiplat rumours abound!
01:28:05 – Superchat about Xbox’s multiplat strategy and its effects going forward
01:41:35 – What about everything being an Xbox console
01:49:20 – Are the black hole Free to Play games too much of a problem? Is it dev costs?
01:57:20 – Please support us! We’re doing cool new stuff!
02:03:41 – The DICE Awards
02:08:35 – Oh yeah, CES happened
02:14:34 – Jason Ronald and the Xbox OS anywhere
02:22:10 – Transparent TVs
02:24:30 – Sony wants in on TV TV TV plus other random stuff
02:28:56 – Ex-Annapurna Staff bought Private Division’s Library
02:31:14 – Name A Game
02:46:50 – Patron Shout
02:52:24 – Community Question #1: JD – Will future Dev Directs do Game Pass drops?
02:53:45 – Community Question #2: Ass4ssin – Do we think Fable and Outer Worlds 2 are delayed? 02:57:00 – Community Question #3: Hyphen Gee – What’s the 4th game?
02:58:00 – Community Question #4: Hytham G – You guys smoke?
03:02:36 – Community Question #5: Poderick Payne – Nick, your favourite Apple TV Show?
03:08:23 – Community Question #6: DidactBRHU3 – Will 2025 be the year the sentiment around Xbox finally improve?
03:09:34 – Community Question #7: Omen – Could Switch 2 absolutely dominate the competition? 03:11:30 – Community Question #8: Good Old Collingwood – Could the answer to ballooning AAA budgets be to focus on other parts other than graphics?
003:13:58 – Community Question #9: 99ruken – Could Xbox license out their engines more?
03:18:21 – Community Question #10: LeeLayfield – I want the one console future, could the Switch 2 be it? 03:25:31 – Wrapping up
03:27:00 – Ciao for now!
