Xbox's 2026 Looks STACKED – Unlocked 697

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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This year's Xbox Showcase was very good, but next year's Showcase should be absolutely jam-packed with Xbox's A-listers, from Halo to Gears of War to Fable and Forza Horizon. And not just that, Fall 2026 should be one of the biggest quarter of releases in Xbox history. Plus: Xbox's curious collab with Meta Quest, our bigger-picture perspective on reportedly imminent Xbox layoffs, and more! 00:08:34 - Let’s talk about NEXT year’s Xbox Showcase 00:27:35 - What is Xbox's Genre Identity? 00:30:45 - What does Fall 2026 look like for Xbox? 00:43:54 - What does 2027 look like for Xbox? 00:52:53 - Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition 01:00:38 - Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 01:24:00 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up on this week's Unlocked, we will talk about not just next year's Xbox showcase
0:08.5	that's already looking pretty stacked, but next year's Xbox release list, it could be an all-time
0:15.5	fall 2026.
0:17.3	We'll tell you why we think that coming up on the show.
0:20.1	Plus, Microsoft has announced quite the crossover with MetaQuest, an Xbox metaQuest headset,
0:28.3	plus some terrible news apparently coming from Microsoft here with regard to job cuts.
0:34.5	But we'll talk about a bigger question regarding the Activision Blizzard acquisition.
0:39.3	All that and more coming up on Unlocked.
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