{"id":563140,"date":"2026-03-26T23:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/563140\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T23:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:56:12","slug":"xboxs-latest-games-showcase-had-hades-2-the-expanse-and-bluey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/563140\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox\u2019s latest games showcase had Hades 2, The Expanse, and Bluey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">It\u2019s a weird time for Xbox, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/882363\/xbox-microsoft-phil-spencer-out\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a big leadership shakeup<\/a> that has many wondering what the future of the platform looks like, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/883159\/phil-spencer-xbox-game-pass\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and what exactly it stands for<\/a>. In the meantime, though, Microsoft is forging ahead with announcements, and it just wrapped up its latest Partner Preview event, focused on upcoming titles from third-party developers. (A similar event for Xbox Studios releases <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/865573\/xbox-developer-direct-2026-the-biggest-games-and-announcements\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">streamed back in January<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Perhaps the biggest announcement was that Hades II is finally coming to the Xbox and PS5 next month. But while the rest of the show may have been devoid of big names, it did showcase a nicely varied lineup of games coming to Microsoft\u2019s gaming platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a weird time for Xbox, with a big leadership shakeup that has many wondering what the future&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,75,874,63,1660,3433,64,61,6734],"class_list":["post-563140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-gaming","tag-microsoft","tag-report","tag-roundup","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}