{"id":626528,"date":"2026-06-07T21:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T21:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626528\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T21:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T21:03:13","slug":"xbox-fans-go-wild-as-asha-sharma-gives-free-consoles-to-everyone-at-fanfest-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626528\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Fans Go Wild As Asha Sharma Gives Free Consoles To Everyone At FanFest LA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Xbox Fans Go Wild As Asha Sharma Gives Free Consoles To Everyone At FanFest LA\" href=\"https:\/\/images.purexbox.com\/39b0ecd36e721\/xbox-fans-go-wild-as-asha-sharma-gives-free-consoles-to-everyone-at-fanfest-la.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/xbox-fans-go-wild-as-asha-sharma-gives-free-consoles-to-everyone-at-fanfest-la.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Xbox Fans Go Wild As Asha Sharma Gives Free Consoles To Everyone At FanFest LA\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, following the conclusion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/features\/heres-everything-that-was-revealed-at-the-xbox-games-showcase-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xbox Games Showcase 2026<\/a>, Xbox bosses Asha Sharma and Matt Booty addressed everyone in attendance at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/03\/part-of-the-return-of-xbox-asha-sharma-explains-why-fanfest-is-returning-to-la-this-summer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xbox FanFest LA<\/a>, and they treated them to an incredibly exciting surprise.<\/p>\n<p>While celebrating the event and discussing how it&#8217;s her first Xbox Games Showcase ever, Sharma threw in a mention that if you had &#8220;fan&#8221; on your badge (which seemingly everyone did), you&#8217;d be getting one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/06\/xbox-series-x25-limited-edition-console-and-controller-announced\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new Xbox Series X25 consoles<\/a> for free.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the clip below, this drew quite the wild reaction from Xbox fans!<\/p>\n<p>Asha and Matt XBOX Games Post-Showcase talk with the fans \ud83d\ude45\u200d\u2642\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Every fan at the Showcase gets a FREE XBOX SERIES X25 Limited Edition Console <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1Xt7yixpCa\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/1Xt7yixpCa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Idle Sloth (@IdleSloth84_) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IdleSloth84_\/status\/2063695274917392784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t seem like the consoles are actually in these Xbox fans&#8217; hands just yet (the Xbox Series X25 doesn&#8217;t officially release until November), but clearly, this is an amazing perk for anyone who was lucky enough to be in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard about this new console, it&#8217;s a limited edition variant of the Xbox Series X that&#8217;s been built to celebrate Xbox&#8217;s 25th anniversary, and it&#8217;s being accompanied by a special controller too.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, we&#8217;re mega jealous of these people &#8211; but huge congrats to them all the same!<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766613369_65_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Fraser Gilbert\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, following the conclusion of the Xbox Games Showcase 2026, Xbox bosses Asha Sharma and Matt Booty addressed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[127559,209437,59,86,56,54,55,183,177820],"class_list":["post-626528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-asha-sharma","tag-fanfest","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-xbox","tag-xbox-games-showcase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}