Xbox Games Showcase Reveals ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’ Release Date, ‘Doom’ Prequel, ‘Fable’ Reboot and More

Wind Breaker is getting a second season!

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Amazon Games has been quiet for the past few years. So quiet you might not have even known Amazon was working on video games, especially compared to the amount of marketing Netflix’s gaming division is putting behind all its titles.

The highly-anticipated Netflix adaptation of a popular book series is landing on Netflix this August.

Alex Ritman The Crawley family — and their assortment of maids, butlers, cooks, drivers, well-heeled relatives and other various moneyed associates — will be returning to the big screen next fall. Focus Features has slated “Downton Abbey 3″ for global release on Sept.

Downton Abbey 3 is coming!

Police have released CCTV footage of two men after a late-night attack in a bar in Edinburgh city centre.

Ben Croll A restless spirit with a roving imagination, Belgian filmmaker Michiel Blanchart, developed his feature debut “Night Call” while ever on the move. “I go crazy when sitting behind a desk,” he tells Variety at the Nouvelles Vagues Festival in Biarritz, France, where the movie had its world premiere this week.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Microsoft Gaming is taking a victory lap after an impressive Xbox Games Showcase presentation at the David Geffen Theater in Los Angeles on June 9, which was anchored by the reveal of “Call of Duty: Black Ops 6,” followed by major announcements across all of Xbox’s studios, including Bethesda, Activision and Blizzard, as well as collaborations with third-party developers. Xbox president of gaming content and studios Matt Booty sat down with Jennifer Maas, Variety senior business writer of TV and video games, to discuss highlights from this year’s presentation, the inner workings of Xbox post-Activision Blizzard, and more for Variety’s “Strictly Business” podcast.

Brad Pitt has been working on a Formula 1 movie for years now and we finally know when it will be released!

More than 60 food items have been recalled by manufacturers amid fears of a possible E.coli outbreak that has left people across the UK in hospital.

Shakira spilled some tea about her love life, celebrity friendships and more in a new interview with Rolling Stone.

Ellise Shafer Charli XCX‘s “Brat” is dominating TikTok in the U.K. and Ireland.

Activision has clarified that the size of the upcoming Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 won’t be as excessively large as previously advertised.Black Ops 6 was officially announced last month, with more details revealed at the Xbox Games Showcase over the weekend.Following the reveal, a listing for Black Ops 6 went live on the Xbox store but fans were worried about the 309GB size of the latest Call Of Duty title.“This is so egregiously ridiculous that I thought it was a joke. You need to fix this,” wrote one fan on social media.

Hallmark Channel fans are going to love this news: Lacey Chabert and Brennan Elliott are reuniting for another film!

Microsoft is making gamers very happy!

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 has been revealed – you can watch it below.Today (June 9), Activision kicked off the Xbox Games Showcase 2024 with the campaign gameplay trailer for Black Ops 6. In the action-packed trailer, we get a healthy mix of gameplay and in-game cutscenes, as we gain more information about the game.Black Ops 6 will be set after the Cold War, instead taking place during the Gulf War.

Doom game is in our hands.During the Xbox Games Showcase 2024 (June 9), id Software unveiled a brand new Doom title in the form of Doom: The Dark Ages.As revealed via the game’s trailer, and the official Doom website, Doom: The Dark Ages will serve as a prequel to Doom‘s 2016 reboot and Doom Eternal. It will follow Doom Slayer’s origins in the Dark Ages as he becomes the demon-slaying hero we’ve all come to know and love.In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood…Announcing DOOM: The Dark AgesLaunching 2025.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Warner Bros. Games has dropped the first trailer for its next video game in the Wizarding World universe: “Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions.” The studio released the footage out of Summer Game Fest on Friday, where it also revealed the launch date for the followup to the massively successful “Hogwarts Legacy” will release on Sept. 3.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Video game expo Summer Game Fest was packed with announcements and first looks Friday, featuring big IP including “Batman,” “Mortal Kombat,” “Power Rangers,” “Among Us” and “Harry Potter,” as well as indie titles — including an inaugural slate of games from Blumhouse. During the two-hour Summer Game Fest, which took place at the SoFi’s YouTube Theater in Los Angeles, trailers were revealed for “Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions,” “Batman: Arkham Shadow” and “Mortal Kombat 1‘s” marquee matchup between “The Boys” character Homelander and “Invincible’s” Omni-Man, the seventh “Civilization” game was confirmed, a new “Power Rangers” video game was announced, and PlayStation revealed its debuting “Lego Horizon Adventures” across PS5, Switch and PC.

Katcy Stephan Amazon MGM Studios’ “Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie” has wrapped principal photography and landed a worldwide theatrical release date of Feb. 20, 2026. The live-action comedy stars Hugh Jackman, flanked by an ensemble cast including Emma Thompson (“Matilda the Musical”), Nicholas Braun (“Succession”), Nicholas Galitzine (“The Idea of You”), Molly Gordon (“Theater Camp”), Hong Chau (“The Whale”), Tosin Cole (“Till”), Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (“Wonka”), Conleth Hill (“Game of Thrones”) and Mandeep Dhillon (“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”).