Xbox hosted its first showcase of 2026 last night (January 22) with a Developer Direct – here’s everything that was revealed during the livestream.
“2026 is going to be an incredible year for Xbox players – you might even call it a… fabled year,” wrote Microsoft, teasing the Developer Direct which included “news, gameplay and insights directly from the incredible teams working on titles coming this year.”
Broadcast at 6pm last night, the Xbox Developer Direct featured two big announcements from Playground Games.
The first was that the long-awaited Fable will definitely launch at some point this year. A reboot of the open-world action role-playing game was first announced back in 2020, 10 years after the last entry in the long-running series. The game had been due to launch last year but was delayed to give developers more time to work on it.
Fable will now launch in autumn 2026 for Xbox Series X/S, PC, and, for the first time in the franchise’s history, .
