Xbox Developer Direct 2025: where to watch and what to expect

The Xbox Developer Direct event is a chance for Microsoft to showcase some of its first-party games. Last year, we got to see the likes of Avowed, Hellblade 2, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

Given that Microsoft owns some of the biggest franchises in gaming, there’s usually a little bit of hype around it. This year is unlikely to be an exception, with the 2025 showcase kicking off in just a few hours (at the time of writing). It’s scheduled to go ahead at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK.

If you want to check out Xbox Developer Direct, there are plenty of ways you can do this. For example, if you’re on YouTube, you can go to either the official or channels. If Twitch is more your style, again, you can either favor or . There’s also the as well.

Don’t fancy either of those websites, well, the event is also being streamed over on , as well as on . It’s even coming to the Bilibili platform, if you’re watching from China. Basically, you won’t be stuck for places to check it out.

What can we expect from Xbox Developer Direct 2025?

As mentioned above, Developer_Direct (as it’s typically stylized) promises to show off games that are coming up. According to a recent post on , we’ll be getting insights into Compulsion’s third-person action game South of Midnight and Sandfall Interactive’s RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

However, I’d wager the one that many will be looking forward to the most is Doom: The Dark Ages, the third entry in the reboot of id Software’s legendary franchise. A release date for the new Doom game has already been leaked ahead of the showcase, with it possibly coming in May. But we’ll know in due time how accurate this information was.

Additionally, Xbox is planning to reveal details about a mysterious fourth game. One can only speculate on what this will be. I’d wager you have your own theories. Again, all in good time.

Xbox Developer Direct will be airing in English. However, ꦏthe event will support live captions for other languages, 𒊎including:

Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, French, Canad🌳ian French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Persian (Farsi), Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Castilian Spanish, Mexican Spanish꧟, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese

Do note that some of the languages listed above may not be available at the time of the broadcast going live. However, Xbox says it will add them to YouTube “at the earliest opportunity.”