Xbox Game Studios’ Crystin Cox Says Microsoft Has “Over a Dozen Games Being Worked On

According to Microsoft’s Director of Live Game Operations at Xbox Game Studios, Crystin Cox,  more than a “dozen games” are being worked on for Xbox.

That’s what Cox said in a GDC talk last March about production and team leadership. In the GDC session, Cox and Microsoft’s General Manager of Xbox Game Publishing, Peter Wyse, attendees were given a behind-the-scenes look at how Xbox Game Studios Publishing helps developers put their games in players’ hands.

A video of the talk was recently uploaded by Microsoft on its Game Dev channel, and spotted by Twitter user ‘Idle Sloth’. We’ve included the timestamped video, in which Cox talks about Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studio publishing branch, below:

As revealed by Cox, Microsoft currently has over a dozen new unique titles that is being worked on for Xbox by external studios. “So there are quite a lot of projects that we’re working on right now and we have over a dozen games that we are currently working on”, Microsoft’s Director of Live Game Operations at Xbox Game Studios said in the session. She added, “Every single one of those projects is totally unique and we approach them in a very bespoke way.”

Interesting stuff from Cox for sure, and while we know about some of the projects that XGS Publishing currently has in the works, it’s likely that there are several titles that we don’t know about yes. Games that we do know about include Towerborne, Project Tatanka, Hideo Kojima’s game new project, possibly IO Interactive’s new game, the new rumored Gears project from People Can Fly, and various others. It should be noted that Cox is talking about Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios Publishing branch. As such, these ‘dozen’ titles aren’t internal projects from Xbox Game Studios, but project from other studios that Microsoft will be publishing under its own umbrella.

In this context, Microsoft recently teased that it has multiple games coming next year and in 2025 with Starfield being the start of a multi-year relay race. “This very much feels like the starting gun for this relay pass that’s going to take place over the next couple of years”, Microsoft’s Xbox Chief Marketing Officer Jerret West recently said. “So as a marketer, I’m super excited about that. And then if you layer in also, Game Pass and the third-party relationships that we have… Our third-party support that rolls into Game Pass – but also is just on our platform – is critically important too. So I think we are entering a period where this is the beginning of something that’s going to be really special over the course of the next several years.”