Dying Light: The Beast Demo Crashes During Xbox Broadcast, Accidentally Reveals Game Is Running on Steam
Amid ongoing layoffs and internal changes, Xbox has faced several challenges recently. With Microsoft maintaining a significant Xbox presence at gamescom 2025, it should be the ideal venue for the company to promote its games and platform.
During the Xbox gamescom 2025 broadcast, it was revealed that the demo of Dyiing Light: The Beast was running on another platform, and not on an Xbox console.
Xbox gamescom 2025 Broadcast Backfires, Shows Steam Running Underneath
Yesterday, during the Gamescom 2025 broadcast, Xbox showcased a Dying Light: The Beast demo, where a crash revealed that the demo was running on Steam, not the Xbox version.
Mind, it’s common practice to run games on PC instead of consoles when in development, but this doesn’t look good for a variety of reasons.
Another funny detail is that Xbox did not mention Steam at all during the broadcast. If the game hadn’t crashed, none of us would have known about it, and most likely would have assumed the game was running on an Xbox devkit.
Hopefully, for Xbox’s sake, this is the last time this will happen at gamescom.
Dying Light: The Beast will be released on September 19, following a delay from its initial August release date. While you’re waiting on the standalone spinoff to be unleashed, Techland just rolled out an update for Dying Light 2 yesterday, and this improved stamina drastically for parkour, as well as other quality-of-life improvements.
In other Xbox news, a system update was released last week that introduced Play Anywhere filtering and more.
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Xbox is a PC now, not a big deal
lying trashbox
It’s a real shame that none of them clarified the game was actually running on PC via Steam. With the Xbox release coming next month, they clearly wanted players to assume this was console performance. That’s downright misleading and deceptive advertising. Really disappointing to see this coming from both Xbox and Techland.