Greatest Games Lineup in Xbox History Extends to 2016

In an announcement from Mike Nichols, Corporate Vice President of Marketing for Xbox, Microsoft shared that 2015 was the biggest year in Xbox history with record global engagement and sales. On December 28 there were more gamers using Xbox Live than any other day in Xbox history. Every title in Microsoft’s exclusive 2015 holiday games line-up – Halo 5: Guardians, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Forza Motorsport 6 and Gears of War: Ultimate Edition – sold over 1 million units, and the number of Xbox One gamers who played Microsoft Studios-published titles more than doubled compared to 2014. Microsoft also shared that there is even more in store for fans in 2016 offering a glimpse of new exclusive titles scheduled for this year:

• Gears of War 4 (Xbox One) – Multiplayer Beta in Spring 2016/Launch in Fall 2016
• Quantum Break (Xbox One) – April 5, 2016
• Halo Wars 2 (Xbox One & Windows 10) – Fall 2016
• Crackdown 3 (Xbox One) – Multiplayer in Summer 2016
• Fable Legends Open Beta (Xbox One & Windows 10) – Spring 2016
• ReCore (Xbox One & Windows 10) – 2016
• Sea of Thieves (Xbox One & Windows 10) – 2016
• Gigantic (Xbox One & Windows 10) – 2016
• Killer Instinct: Season 3 (Xbox One & Windows 10) – March 2016
• Gears of War: Ultimate Edition (Windows 10) – Spring 2016
• Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition (Xbox One & Windows 10) – Spring 2016
• Cobalt (Xbox One, Xbox 360 & Steam) – February 2, 2016