Xbox reviews the best moments of 2025: don’t miss it

The Xbox team takes stock of the year with announcements, games and events that have marked 2025.

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Xbox has published a new video on its official YouTube channel, where it reviews some of the most important moments of 2025 for the brand. In the usual format of This Week on Xbox, the team takes a quick tour of announcements, releases, events, and collaborations that have marked the year within the Xbox ecosystem.

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The video serves as a symbolic closure of 2025, condensing many of the most talked-about projects into a few minutes, from major first-party games to notable appearances at international fairs and the most important events on the calendar.

The most powerful games and announcements of the year on Xbox

Throughout the video, Xbox reviews a very varied selection of titles and moments that have defined its year, which can be summarized as: games, games, and more games.

• Avowed, one of the most anticipated RPGs in the catalog

• A Minecraft Movie, the long-awaited cinematic adaptation

• South of Midnight and its artistic bet

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, one of the biggest surprises of the year

• The Xbox Showcase 2025, with multiple major announcements

• Grounded 2, expanding the universe of the original

• The curious collaboration Halo x Helldivers 2

• Hollow Knight: Silksong, which made an appearance again

• Xbox’s presence at the Tokyo Game Show

• Battlefield 6, one of the biggest multi-platform releases

• ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X, the portable bet

• The Outer Worlds 2

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 7

• Gaming Copilot, one of the biggest new features

• The Game Awards 2025

• The renewed weight of Fallout within the ecosystem

• The 25th anniversary of Xbox, one of the emotional axes of the year

The video concludes with a promotional block that reinforces the idea of continuity towards 2026, making it clear that many of these projects will continue to have a leading role in the coming months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLlEjintSKg

This review leaves a clear sensation: 2025 has been an especially active year for Xbox, both in games and in hardware initiatives, services, and events. A good summary for those who want to remember (or catch up) with everything that the year has brought within the brand.