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Microsoft announced the release during this evening’sofficial Xbox podcast, in which the company also confirmed that four of their games would be coming to platforms other than Xbox and Windows. Phil Spencer declined to confirm which four games, saying the developers themselves would announce that later, but they are widely reported to beGrounded,Pentiment,Hi-Fi Rush, andSea of Thieves. Spencer did say thatStarfieldand thenew Indiana Jones gamewere not among those going multi-platform.

Diablo 4 launched in June last year via Blizzard’s own Battle.net store, thencame to Steamin October. Some of its post-release updates since then have had a rough reception, with season 3launching in January.

During the rest of the podcast, Microsoft affirmed their commitment to hardware, to platform exclusives, to backwards compatibility, and to the next-gen. That’s not really relevant to us PC players, but new first-party Microsoft games will apparently be announced this June, and more Activision Blizzard games are said to be on the way to Game Pass.