Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature, we cover all the new games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Windows PC as well as upcoming Xbox Game Pass and soon-to-be released ID@Xbox games! You can get more details on these games below and click their profiles for pre-order details when available (release dates are subject to change). Let’s jump in!

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2021 was an eventful year for members of Xbox Game Club. For those you don’t know, we’re a community of Xbox gamers who play, share, and discuss a new featured game every week or two. I’m a Senior Community Manager on staff for the program and that means I have the awesome responsibility of playing our featured games and helping facilitate our book club-style conversations about them.

While Xbox Game Club officially kicked off in 2020, 2021...

An unknown party has shifted the map into a new location. Meanwhile, Mad Maggie joins the Apex Games and ends up playing the villain.​

Respawn Entertainment has released the launch trailer for Apex Legends’ next Season, Defiance. It starts on February 8th and sees Mad Maggie, Fuse’s old friend, joining the Apex Games in violent fashion. However, it’s not long before she stumbles on a strange plan that results in Olympus being...

Standard Edition owners have been upgraded to the Deluxe Edition while Deluxe Edition and Hitman Trilogy owners get the Seven Deadly Sins Collection free.​

IO Interactive’s Hitman 3 arrived on Steam last week along with the launch of the Hitman Trilogy for all platforms (including Xbox Game Pass). However, there was significant backlash against the Steam version due to its pricing, especially after it was exclusive to the Epic...

The mecha title can be claimed for free on PC until February 10th. Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is also confirmed as the next free EGS game.​

Marvelous First Studio’s Daemon X Machina is now available for free on the Epic Games Store. It can be claimed from now until February 10th, after which Playtonic’s Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair will replace it as the next free offering.

Set in the future where a strange...

The prequel's remaster receives its first gameplay with visual improvements for the cast, along with a trailer comparing cutscenes with the original.​

After finally unveiling some new gameplay and a cutscene comparison trailer for Life is Strange Remastered, Deck Nine has released similar trailers for Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered. Once more, we get a look at the improved visuals for characters and environments...

There have been very few updates on when both games will launch, but Warner Media CEO Jason Kilar seems to have given assurances that neither will be delayed.​

If things had gone according to plan, WB Games would have launched two major titles in 2021, but Gotham Knights and Hogwarts Legacy both failed to hit their originally intended launch windows, with both getting pushed back into 2022 instead. Even so, updates on both...

Sonic Team's creative officer Takashi Iizuka says the development team wants to "create a totally new type of open-zone experience."​

At The Game Awards in December, Sega fully unveiled Sonic Frontiers, which, with its open world setting, is going to try and reinvent the long-running platforming series in drastic fashion. Series fans are obviously excited about the direction the upcoming game’s taking, and it seems Sega...

The delay will ensure the developer has the time "to get things just right." A new trailer and pre-order details will be revealed in February.​

Though it seemed likely to release in February, Saber Interactive’s Evil Dead: The Game has been delayed again. It’s now set to release on May 13th which should provide the team “the time they need to get things just right,” as per the developer on Twitter.

Pre-order information and a...

Extensive footage of the open world title running on PS4, PS4 Pro, Xbox One and Xbox One X is revealed ahead of its launch on February 4th.​

In its final episode of Dying 2 Know, Techland provided a sneak peek at Dying Light 2 Stay Human running on previous-gen consoles. It’s now released a more extensive trailer which showcases the open world zombie title running on PS4, PS4 Pro, Xbox One and Xbox One X. Check it out...

"We want players to use their cunning, study the game, memorize what’s happening, and learn from their mistakes," says Hidetaka Miyazaki.​

Grueling difficulty has been a defining trait of FromSoftware games ever since Demon’s Souls first launched in 2009, and that’s something that has been abundant quality in each of the studio’s mainline releases in the years since then. Soon, the studio will be expanding into new...

Venture to Siberia to hunt for General Brand across five new levels with new weapons, gadgets and vehicles. New side missions and characters also await.​

Croteam’s standalone expansion Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem is now available for PC via Steam. As a follow-up to Serious Sam 4 co-developed with Timelock Studio, it sees Sam “Serious” Stone venturing to Siberia to hunt down General Brand. It starts out on the coastline but...