The Daily Populous Friday January 16th, 2026 morning edition
Authored by videogameschronicle.com and submitted by Darth_Vaper883

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the unannounced game was in development at a third-party indie studio. However, VGC sources have since clarified that the fourth Developer Direct game is a first-party studio title. We apologize for the error.

The upcoming Xbox Developer Direct will feature a currently unannounced fourth game.

The digital event will stream on Thursday, January 22, at 10 am Pacific / 1 pm Eastern / 6 pm UK and include new looks at Forza Horizon 6, Fable, and the new game from Pokémon developers Game Freak, Beast of Reincarnation.

Now it’s claimed that the show won’t only feature those three games. According to Shinobi602, who has a history of reporting confidential information about upcoming games, the show will feature “a ‘secret’ fourth game.”

VGC can corroborate this and understands that the fourth game is a smaller-scale original game from one of Xbox Game Studios’ first-party developers.

The fourth title will round off an event mainly focused on Xbox’s big first-party games planned for 2026. Forza Horizon 6, which was announced last year, and will take place in Japan, will be released on Xbox and PC before eventually coming to PlayStation 5.

Fable was announced in 2020 as part of the Xbox Games Showcase. The game, which is a reboot of the Lionhead RPG series, doesn’t currently have a release date. It’s understood Fable is also in development for PlayStation 5.

The Xbox Developer Direct will also include “the first in-depth look” at Beast of Reincarnation, the new game from Game Freak.

Game Freak is undoubtedly best known as the developer of the Pokémon series of RPGs. Game Freak, which was first founded as a magazine in 1982 and later re-formed as a game developer in 1989, has produced many games outside Pokémon over the years.

While the Pokémon titles are co-productions with Nintendo and The Pokémon Company, Game Freak titles, such as Pandoland, Pocket Card Jockey, and Tembo the Badass Elephant, are entirely independent.

TesticleezzNuts on January 11st, 2026 at 14:44 UTC »

Just give me some Starfield news already.

limelight022 on January 9th, 2026 at 18:06 UTC »

They should bring back Perfect Dark. It was looking good and far along it looked like.

App1elele on January 9th, 2026 at 15:42 UTC »

That they are gonna defund and shut down the dev process a year later? Yeah yeah.