What were your favorite announcements from the Xbox Developer Direct

What were your favorite announcements from the Xbox Developer Direct? That’s our question for this week’s poll. Microsoft gave us a closer look at upcoming Game Pass games like Doom: The Dark Ages and South of Midnight during its recent Xbox Developer Direct, and it also treated us to a surprise Game Pass drop for a fantastic Japanese action game.

What did you like about the Xbox Developer Direct

• The Xbox Developer Direct gave us release dates for three upcoming Game Pass games
• Team Ninja announced Ninja Gaiden 4 during the show
• Ninja Gaiden 2 Black shadow-dropped into Xbox Game Pass

This week’s Xbox Developer Direct was a big one, giving us release dates for games launching on Xbox and dropping into Xbox Game Pass in the next few months. Following rumors that a “legendary Japanese IP” would feature in the direct, we saw Team Ninja announce Ninja Gaiden 4 for Xbox Series X|S and PC, which will launch into Xbox Game Pass this fall. If that wasn’t enough for fans of the action franchise, Team Ninja also shadow-dropped Ninja Gaiden 2 Black on Xbox Series X|S and PC, dropping the game straight into Xbox Game Pass.

Elsewhere in the show, Compulsion Games announced that its stunning action-adventure game South of Midnight will launch on Xbox Series X|S and PC and joins Xbox Game Pass on April 8. Following that, Sandfall Interactive’s turn-based RPG, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, launches on April 24 for Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Xbox Game Pass.

Id Software also gave us a look at its brutal upcoming shooter, Doom: The Dark Ages, which launches on Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Xbox Game Pass on May 15 — if you want to know even more, take a look at our Doom: The Dark Ages hands-off preview for more tidbits.

For this week’s poll, we’d love to know: what were your favorite announcements from the Xbox Developer Direct? Let us know by voting in our poll and by leaving a comment below. Have a fantastic weekend, everyone!

With three awesome-looking games lined up for the service in the coming months, we could see a shake-up on our list of the best Game Pass games.