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Xbox Developer Direct in January 2025: start times and what to expect

Learn when you can watch the latest showcase from Microsoft

Marco Wutz

Microsoft

Microsoft has announced a new Xbox Developer Direct for January 2025, which will bring fans a closer look at some upcoming games for PC and Xbox Series X|S – and it’s a fine line-up that’s already been confirmed for the showcase.

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  1. Xbox Developer Direct in January 2025: start times
  2. Xbox Developer Direct in January 2025: where to watch

The Developer Direct will feature Canada-based Compulsion Games with its action-adventure South of Midnight as well as French studio Sandfall Interactive with the highly-anticipated Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which features a star-studded cast. Fans interested in something more bloody and brutal can look forward to a look at Doom: The Dark Ages from the iconic id Studios. Going by the teaser image there will be one or two surprises waiting as well.

Find the Xbox Developer Direct January 2025 start times and streams below.

Xbox Developer Direct in January 2025: start times

The Xbox Developer Direct is scheduled to take place on January 23, 2025, at 10am PST. Take a look at what that means for your timezone below:

  • January 23, 10am PST
  • January 23, 12pm CST (Central)
  • January 23, 1pm EST
  • January 23, 3pm BRT
  • January 23, 6pm GMT
  • January 23, 7pm CET
  • January 23, 11:30pm IST
  • January 24, 2am CST (China)
  • January 24, 3am KST/JST
  • January 24, 5am AEDT
  • January 24, 7am NZDT

Xbox Developer Direct in January 2025: where to watch

You can watch the Xbox Developer Direct broadcast on the official YouTube and Twitch channels of Xbox. We’ve embedded the YouTube stream below for your convenience:

We’ll keep you up to date with any new details emerging around the showcase.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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