Thanks for 25 Years, XBOX Players — From Wolfenstein 3 and Halo Firefight to Classic XBOX Games on PC: Everything Announced Today

Twenty-five years after the very first XBOX launched, Team XBOX came home to Seattle, the city where it all began, to close out our eight-city FanFest tour. The celebration has always been about you. Every achievement, every midnight launch, every friend you made along the way: that’s what built XBOX. So before anything else, thank you.

Here’s everything we announced today:

XBOX Playback is here

Look back at your own history with XBOX, from your first game and total time played to your most-played game, top years and longest streak. Find out how to explore here.

Firefight comes to Halo: Campaign Evolved

Halo’s cooperative survival mode arrives as part of a free Winter Update. Attendees at today’s FanFest get to go hands-on tonight! Find out more in our XBOX Wire article.

25th anniversary in-game items

Players of this year’s biggest games can celebrate 25 years of XBOX in style:

• Forza Horizon 6 | GR GT Anniversary Livery: We are celebrating 25 years of XBOX the Horizon way with a new livery for Forza Horizon 6‘s cover car, the 2025 GR GT. This new livery features a unique design that calls back to the original XBOX’s colors and materials. Find it in the Gifts tab of the Message Center!
• Halo: Campaign Evolved | Damascus Prototype Armor Style: Embrace your inner “X factor” with the Damascus Prototype Armor Style, available to all Halo: Campaign Evolved players. Click this redemption link to unlock it on Halo Waypoint with code GWT9-DNBT-7X9S-DJCX-8KH3
• Gears of War: E-Day | XBOX Anniversary Weapons Skin Set: To celebrate 25 years of XBOX, players will be able to claim the XBOX Anniversary Weapon Skin Set for free in the Gears of War: E-Day in-game shop. Once our shop rotates the following Tuesday, November 17, the weapon will enter the player barracks where it can be acquired with our free-to-earn grind currency (Coins) or purchased with premium currency.
• Minecraft | OG Green Character Creator Item: Celebrate 25 years of XBOX in blocky style by claiming your free OG Green Character Creator item! This base player skin covers you from head to toe in the iconic XBOX green. You can wear whatever you want over it or keep it as is, the green translucent glow will let you shine either way! Claim it for free in the Minecraft dressing room between November 10 at 10 AM PT and December 10 at 10 AM PT. Requires Minecraft: Bedrock Edition (sold separately). 1 Character Creator item per person/account, must be redeemed by December 10, 2026 at 10 AM PT.
• Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | XBOX Anniversary Livery: Microsoft Flight Simulator pilots, get ready to celebrate a major milestone in gaming history. To mark the 25th Anniversary of XBOX, we’re excited to announce the release of four brand-new commemorative liveries that all throw back to the XBOX original logo and designs. Available automatically to all Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 owners, these commemorative liveries are available in the Aircraft Livery menu for the Boeing 737 MAX, XCub, Hot Air Balloon, and Skyship 600.
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 | Inner Circuit M4 Blueprint: Players who pre-ordered the game digitally on XBOX Series X|S will view the Inner Circuit Blueprint in a translucent OG Green visual treatment. Designed as a tribute to 25 years of XBOX, the Inner Circuit Blueprint takes cues from classic translucent Xbox hardware. Its transparent green finish exposes the weapon’s internal systems, turning the technology beneath the surface into part of the visual identity.

New Fable gameplay revealed

We saw new quest gameplay from Fable, featuring magical combat against cursed creatures, and new clues to the story surrounding this adventure. FanFest attendees will go hands-on with Fable tonight, and we’ll break the new footage down on the Official XBOX Podcast tomorrow.

DOOM: The Dark Ages’ Slaughter Mode

Slaughter Mode is coming to DOOM: The Dark Ages on November 16! The new mode is available at no additional cost to anyone who owns the Revelations DLC, the Premium Edition, or the Premium Upgrade of DOOM: The Dark Ages. Slaughter Mode introduces escalating rounds of randomized enemies, bosses and arenas in an endlessly replayable bloodbath with rewards that stack and grow the more you play. Get the full details on Slaughter Mode here.  Looking ahead, XBOX CEO Asha Sharma confirmed that id Software’s next project is now in development.

25 original XBOX games now available on PC, plus achievements

XBOX Backward Compatibility on PC now includes 25 original XBOX games, with classics like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind joining the lineup. Achievements have also been added to select OG XBOX games, including KOTOR. Read more on XBOX Wire.

Candy Crush Saga celebrates XBOX

Candy Crush Saga is joining the party with its Game On! season, adding in-game pins to collect and putting a sweet spin on music from some of XBOX’s most beloved franchises, including Halo, Fallout, Spyro, and more. Read more on XBOX Wire.

New console updates for Insiders

Rotating Home backgrounds, new ways to organize your library and more are coming to your console. Find out more in our full article. Read more on XBOX Wire.

Wolfenstein 3

As announced by Asha Sharma, Wolfenstein 3 is officially in production at MachineGames: “This is a franchise with an important place in gaming history, and I’m excited to see the team continue its story.” MachineGames confirmed they are hard at work on the next entry in the franchise with actors Brian Bloom and Debra Wilson reprising their roles as BJ Blazkowicz and Grace Walker.

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Twenty-five years in, and we’re just getting started. FanFest is just kicking off in Seattle, but the celebration doesn’t stop here: tune in to the Official XBOX Podcast tomorrow for a breakdown of that new Fable gameplay drop with Playground Games. From all of us at Team XBOX, thank you for an incredible quarter century. Here’s to the next 25!