Overview
- Xbox announced the six new FanFest dates on Monday, expanding its 25th‑anniversary tour and naming Toronto for November 6.
- The scheduled stops include Cologne for Gamescom on August 26, Tokyo during Tokyo Game Show on September 17, London on September 26, Mexico City on October 17, Sydney on October 17, and Toronto on November 6, with Seattle still undated.
- Tickets for each city will be awarded through city-specific sweepstakes, which Xbox says will control access and for now have no public sale or full schedule of draws.
- Xbox is also rolling out digital anniversary activations that reach all players, including a curated Game Pass collection (examples include Fable Anniversary and Halo: The Master Chief Collection), community-designed profile themes, and an anniversary profile badge for anyone who signs in.
- The next FanFest stop is Gamescom in Cologne on August 26 and Xbox cautions that the large giveaway reported at the Los Angeles event was an outlier rather than a planned standard feature for the rest of the tour.