Microsoft has a name — or at least a code name — for the next-generation Xbox console: Project Helix. The working title for the company’s Xbox Series X successor was announced Thursday by newly appointed Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma.
“Great start to the morning with Team Xbox, where we talked about our commitment to the return of Xbox including Project Helix, the code name for our next generation console,” Sharma said in a post on X. “Project Helix will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games. Looking forward to chatting about this more with partners and studios at my first GDC next week!”
The official Xbox X account unveiled the Project Helix code name with an animated logo: a double helix that forms an X shape within a circle (sound familiar?). That new logo may imply that the stands of the double helix represent the PC and Xbox games that will be playable on the next-gen Xbox.
Microsoft will have a big presence at next week’s GDC Festival of Gaming, the event formerly known as the Game Developers Conference. At GDC, Microsoft will hold a session titled “Building for the Future with Xbox,” with Jason Ronald, vice president of next generation at Xbox, will detail how “Xbox is empowering creators with a more flexible, connected ecosystem.”
