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Microsoft has lined up plenty of indie games for the Xbox One X

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Microsoft doesn’t have a ton of exclusive games coming for the November 7 launch of the Xbox One X game console. But it does have a lot of independent games coming via its indie games self-publishing label, ID@Xbox.

More than 600 games have shipped on the label since it began in 2014. And there are more than 1,500 games in development. In the past 12 months, more than 200 games have been published, and Chris Charla, director of ID@Xbox at Microsoft, said in an interview with GamesBeat that rate is continuing.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.