We Have Every Different: Celebrating Delight By way of Play

Xbox believes within the energy of connection — and through Delight Month, we honor LGBTQIA+ individuals who have lengthy proven the world what it means to construct a group that transcends borders and expectations.

LGBTQIA+ people have shaped networks of help and deep friendships rooted in love, resilience, and care. They remind us of the significance of group, connection and chosen household that encourages, uplifts, and cares for each other. Xbox celebrates precisely that: affection, help, and a shared perception that everybody deserves to be seen and celebrated by their communities.

In some ways, gaming gives new methods to attach with the group.

Whether or not you’re teaming up on-line, voice chatting in a comfortable co-op farming sim, or constructing complete worlds collectively, video games create areas the place connection thrives. For LGBTQIA+ gamers, these experiences typically transcend enjoyable — they can assist fill the necessity to discover belonging.

This Delight Month, Xbox is proud to focus on a group of video games from LGBTQIA+ creators — tales that discover identification, rejoice self-expression, and replicate the gorgeous complexity of the LGBTQIA+ expertise. These creators are serving to us see the world by totally different views — telling tales the place everybody can really feel at dwelling.

We’re dedicated to creating gaming for everybody, which incorporates supporting LGBTQIA+ creators and communities — not simply throughout Delight, however all 12 months lengthy. For greater than 30 years, Microsoft and our workers have stood alongside LGBTQIA+ communities, contributing over $17 million to organizations advancing fairness, dignity, and human rights. Final 12 months, we gave greater than $1.3 million to help this work globally, and this 12 months we’re deepening that dedication with an extra $100,000 donation to organizations doing vital work for the group.

From the video games we characteristic to the applications we help, our aim is to proceed fostering a platform the place everybody can play, create, and join authentically. That’s the guts of what we’re celebrating this Delight: the facility of group, constructed by selection and strengthened by care.

We now have one another.

Present Your Delight in Overwatch 2

Delight returns to Overwatch 2 with extra significant methods to rejoice and join! From free rewards and a festive fan-favorite map, to a charity event with Twitch drops, plus group art work and new narratives, Delight 2025 is a second to replicate, categorical, and commemorate everybody who makes our world—and the sport—stronger. Whether or not you’re rocking the Resilient Soldier: 76 pores and skin, skipping by Midtown celebrating after a parade, or just displaying up as your genuine self, this occasion is about standing proud and honoring our numerous group.

So, we’re celebrating our heroes, gamers, and tales with heartfelt touches, artistic moments, and an area to be precisely who you might be. You belong right here, and we’re proud to compete by your facet.

Present Your Delight: Log in in the course of the Delight occasion to immediately unlock the Resilient Soldier: 76 pores and skin and matching emote as thanks for serving to to construct this wonderful group.

Midtown Parade: Step into the Delight Pageant Midtown map, again in rotation and searching extra joyful than ever. Have a good time after the Delight parade with whimsical rainbow crosswalks, confetti-covered sidewalks, and love within the air.

Delight Ahoy! A Celebration Fer All Crews in Sea of Thieves

Throughout Delight Month, pirates crusing in Sea of Thieves can decide up the Progress Delight Flag from the ever-reliable Larinna outdoors the tavern! Proud pirates in taking part territories will now be capable to connect this fabulous material to their flagpole forevermore. Whereas launched as a part of Delight Month 2025 actions, this lovely banner is a everlasting addition to Sea of Thieves and will likely be accessible to say from the shipwright at any Outpost after June has handed.

Sowin’ Seeds of Delight in Farm Heroes Saga

Farm Heroes Saga is celebrating Delight Month with a vibrant Delight Season that sows the seeds of group, visibility, and joyful self-expression. Now in its third 12 months, this celebration brings a recent crop of Delight-themed occasions and mini-games to gamers world wide. From nurturing a magical Rainbow Superfruit in 1-2-3 Develop, to amassing cropsies within the Farmer’s Market and unlocking particular rewards within the colourful Choo Choo’s Problem; there’s one thing for each hero on the Farm.

With the Delight-themed Farm Go and the premium Golden Go, gamers can earn much more farmtastic rewards. Whether or not you’re digging by the Hidden Backyard, taking part in Amelia’s Arcade, or making needs on the Wishing Properly, this month is all about rising love, celebrating identification, and having a fabulously good time.

Inform Me Why – Free This Month

Inform Me Why, the award-winning narrative journey from Don’t Nod Leisure and Xbox Recreation Studios Publishing, will likely be accessible without spending a dime on Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox PC, and Steam for the whole month of June 2025. As in previous years, the Inform Me Why crew encourages gamers to offer what they might have spent on the sport to an impartial trans creator or a trans-inclusive charity of their group.

Uncover Video games Formed by the LGBTQIA+ Neighborhood

This June, immerse your self in a curated assortment of video games that spotlight the unbelievable creativity and storytelling from LGBTQIA+ builders and creators. These video games supply a window into the varied experiences of the LGBTQIA+ group, showcasing how their distinctive views proceed to form and enrich the world of gaming.

Try a number of highlights from our full Xbox Recreation Collections celebrating Delight Month:

Inform Me Why – This celebrated narrative journey sport comes from Don’t Nod, the studio behind the beloved franchise, Life is Unusual. On this intimate thriller, reunited twins Tyler and Alyson Ronan use their supernatural bond to unravel the recollections of their loving however troubled childhood. Set in lovely small-town Alaska, Inform Me Why options true-to-life characters, mature themes and gripping selections. As you conjure up recollections of the previous, your selections will have an effect on the twins’ relationship, decide the energy of their bond, and form the course of their lives.  Play Inform Me Why At present

Overwatch 2 – An always-on and ever-evolving free-to-play, team-based motion sport set in an optimistic future, the place each match is the last word 5v5 battlefield brawl that includes new heroes and maps, other ways to play, and distinctive cosmetics! Lead the cost, ambush your enemies, or assist yourallies as one in every of Overwatch’s 40 distinct heroes. Staff up with mates, take them into battle throughout 25+ futuristic maps impressed by real-world places, and grasp a number of distinctive sport modes.

Play Overwatch 2 At present

Thirsty Suitors  – From Outerloop Video games, Thirsty Suitors is a classy, story-driven journey that unfolds by turn-based battles, skateboarding, and cooking. Assist Jala confront her errors, make up together with her exes, reconcile cultural variations, and turn into the individual she was meant to be. Simple, proper? Play Thirsty Suitors At present

Dragon Age: The Veilguard – Enter the world of Thedas, a vibrant land of rugged wilderness, treacherous labyrinths, and glittering cities – steeped in battle and secret magics. Now, a pair of corrupt historical gods have damaged free from centuries of darkness and are hellbent on destroying the world. Thedas wants somebody they will rely on. Rise as Rook, Dragon Age’s latest hero. Be who you wish to be and play the way you wish to play as you struggle to cease the gods from blighting the world. However you’ll be able to’t do that alone – the chances are stacked in opposition to you. Lead a crew of seven companions, every with their very own wealthy story to find and form, and collectively you’ll turn into The Veilguard.

Play Dragon Age: The Veilguard At present

Spirit Swap: LoFi Beats to Match-3 To – Samar is a younger witch working the spirit-swapping night time shift within the japanese outskirts of Demashq. A latest spike in spirits crossing over from one other dimension breaks the coolness ambiance of their night time shift, so together with her trusty FamiliarZ by her facet, she units off into the town to search out out what’s occurred. With a preferred band scheduled to kick off their huge comeback tour in Demashq, Samar must work shortly earlier than the town is overrun with stans and spirits alike! Play Spirit Swap: LoFi Beats to Match-3 To At present

Psychroma – A psychological horror side-scroller set in a haunted cyberpunk home. Gather playing cards and discover the recollections saved on them to piece collectively your previous. However the deeper you go, the extra you expose your self to the brightest warmth, the warmest colour… Uncover the hidden corridors and uncover the sordid previous of a home out of time and place inside a futuristic cyberpunk metropolis. Gather the reminiscence playing cards of three most important characters, An underground cultist, an bold philanthropist, and a drifter.

Play Psychroma At present

Xbox Gear Store

The Xbox Gear Store is celebrating Delight 2025 by bringing again our hottest designs for a restricted time! These basic designs had been made by and with the LGBTQIA+ group, and will likely be accessible by Delight month solely, and solely within the Xbox Gear Store!

Blizzard Gear Store

Have a good time Delight month with the brand new Blizzard 2025 Delight Assortment solely on the Blizzard Gear Retailer!

Led by the Blizzard LGBT+ Worker Community, this 12 months’s Delight Assortment options all-new emblem designs for every of our video games, accessible on t-shirts, lengthy sleeve shirts, and hoodies—all benefitting* GLAAD from June 2 by June 30, 2025.

*From June 2, 2025, to June 30, 2025, Blizzard Leisure will donate 100% of the quantity Blizzard receives from Blizzard’s e-commerce retailer operator from the sale of every of the merchandise from the 2025 Blizzard Delight Assortment to GLAAD. This represents roughly 25% of the acquisition worth (much less any chargebacks, refunds, and Worth Added Taxes (VAT), or comparable taxes paid.)

Gaming with Impression

Rewards members in the USA can earn and donate factors to organizations supporting LGBTQIA+ communities with Xbox. The organizations beneath will likely be accessible on the Rewards hub:

GLAAD: Based in 1985, GLAAD – the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy group – works with tv, movie, video video games, Spanish-language media, journalists, and social media to inform tales and seek the advice of on LGBTQ media illustration. GLAAD tackles powerful points and provokes dialogue that results in cultural change by elevated media accountability, public campaigns, company engagement initiatives, and advocacy applications that assist to make sure 100% inclusion and acceptance of the LGBTQ group. (US)

Outright Worldwide: Outright Worldwide is devoted to working with companions across the globe to strengthen the capability of the lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) human rights motion, doc and amplify human rights violations in opposition to LGBTIQ individuals, and advocate for inclusion and equality. (US)

Advocates for Trans Equality Training Fund: Advocates for Trans Equality fights for the authorized and political rights of transgender individuals in America. Leveraging many years of expertise on the frontlines of energy, we shift authorities and society in direction of a future the place we’re at least equal. A4TE was based in 2024 because the Nationwide Heart for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and Transgender Authorized Protection and Training Fund (TLDEF), two long-time champions for the trans group, merged collectively as one group. A4TE builds on their successes to boldly think about a world the place trans individuals stay our lives joyfully and with out boundaries. In a time of elevated extremism in opposition to trans individuals and our allies, defending and increasing our freedom to be who we’re has by no means been extra necessary.

Xbox gamers 18 and older can earn Rewards factors in varied methods, similar to taking part in video games, finishing Recreation Go Quests (phrases apply), and buying video games and different eligible objects on the Microsoft Retailer (exclusions apply). Begin incomes for affect immediately and redeem your factors for excellent rewards. Donate your factors on the Rewards hub or on the Rewards redeem web page.

Wallpapers and Dynamic Backgrounds

The Xbox Delight Month design is out there immediately as an Xbox wallpaper and dynamic background on console – observe these steps to use the dynamic background:

Press the Xbox button in your controller to open the information.

Choose Profile & system > Settings > Common > Personalization > My background > Dynamic backgrounds.

You possibly can select between Video games, Xbox, or Summary dynamic backgrounds. Select the background artwork that you really want with the A button.