Lots of hacking, slashing, and demonic pulverisation featured throughout the January 2025 Xbox Developer Direct, as several of the company’s studios showed their games in great detail.
Between the likes of Texas and Montpellier, each studio showed in-depth gameplay and behind-the-scenes development and confirmed release dates. We now know that some major titles, including Doom: The Dark Ages and Ninja Gaiden 4, are only months away.
Here’s every game shown at the January 2025 Xbox Developer Direct presentation and their accompanying release dates.
Ninja Gaiden 4 brings back an action classic
Today’s surprise announcement was Ninja Gaiden 4, the return of a decade-dormant action game. Born out of a collaboration between Japanese powerhouses Team Ninja and Platinum Games, Ninja Gaiden 4 looks like a welcome return to the series’ speedy combat and deadly finishers.
Advertised as launching “Fall 2025”, Australians can expect Ninja Gaiden 4 to release during our spring months this year. It’s coming to Xbox Series X and S, PC, and PlayStation 5, in addition to the Xbox Game Pass subscription platform.
Ninja Gaiden 2 Black gets surprise launch
Surprise! Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, an Unreal Engine 5 remaster of the 2008 game, is out today. It’s on Xbox Series X and S (including Game Pass), PlayStation 5, and PC.
So, if you want to whet your hack-and-slash appetite ahead of the new game, this looks like one heck of an entree.
South of Midnight brings gothic mythology soon
Set in the American South, South of Midnight is a spooky Gothic third-person adventure game filled with all sorts of weird and wonderful mythical creatures. It’s fascinating to look at in motion, basing its art direction on stop-motion animation, meaning the characters move in an interesting puppet-like way.
South of Midnight launches on 8 April 2025, for Xbox Series X and S, and PC. Plus, it’ll be a day-one game for Xbox Game Pass subscribers.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a French twist on JRPGs
What do you get when you combine a Japanese RPG (or JRPG) with French developers? I don’t have an answer to this because I’m genuinely asking. Is it a JFRPG? Whatever the answer, that’s what Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is.
A turn-based RPG with plenty of cinematic flourishes, it looks like what would happen if you gave the Persona series to a French studio. I’m entirely here for it.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 launches on 24 April 2025 for Xbox Series X and S, PlayStation 5, and PC. Xbox Game Pass subscribers also get to play it on launch day.
Doom: The Dark Ages lets you ride a damn dragon
A prequel to 2016’s Doom, id Software’s latest hellbound shooter cranks the action up to 11. Designed to evoke the nostalgia of the original first-person shooter, Doom: The Dark Ages appears to adopt a real stand-and-deliver style. Armed with a chainsaw-adorned shield, you have an increased focus on parries and strafing between hellish fiends to rip and tear them asunder.
Running and gunning isn’t your only approach this time around; The Dark Ages sees you take the helm of a 30-storey-tall mecha and a Gatling gun-toting cybernetic dragon. Extremely cool. As the game’s developers told GamesHub, the blend of sci-fi and medieval fantasy is something they’ve wanted to make “from the beginning”.
You won’t have to wait long to ride the robo-dragon either; Doom: The Dark Ages launches on 15 May 2025 for Xbox Series X and S, PlayStation 5, and PC. It’ll also be available for Xbox Game Pass subscribers at launch.
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