{"id":30430,"date":"2026-01-25T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/?p=30430"},"modified":"2026-01-25T09:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T09:00:22","slug":"xeno-crisis-gets-first-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/collection\/xeno-crisis-gets-first-xbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Blaster Xeno Crisis Gets First Xbox Physical Release Plus PS5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Xeno Crisis<\/strong> is the gift that keeps on giving. <strong>Bitmap Bureau<\/strong>\u2019s highly popular retro shooter just can\u2019t stop being released on new systems and getting new physical releases. Last year, we <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/xeno-crisis-on-gameboy-advance-first-impressions\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the <strong>GBA<\/strong> version of the critically acclaimed pixel art masterpiece, and now we get to report on a new <strong>Xbox<\/strong> and <strong>PS5<\/strong> physical release announcement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a press statement, <strong>Bitmap<\/strong> said. \u201c<strong>Xeno<\/strong> <strong>Crisis<\/strong> has been an ongoing passion project for <strong>Bitmap<\/strong> <strong>Bureau<\/strong>, and the team is delighted to continue to make new formats available for fans who have been supporting the game since its first release.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new releases have been produced in collaboration with <strong>Reef<\/strong> <strong>Entertainment<\/strong>, who also worked with <strong>Bitmap<\/strong> <strong>Burau<\/strong> on the new <strong>Terminator 2D: No Fate<\/strong> game. The <strong>Xbox<\/strong> and <strong>PS5<\/strong> versions are set to be released on June 26th, 2026, with pre-orders open now on <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.bitmapbureau.com\/?omnisendContactID=66acf21c076b29d8879e474c&amp;utm_campaign=campaign%3A+Xeno+Crisis+Re-Release+%28696630ab6c00845029e416b8%29&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=omnisend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bitmap Bureau<\/strong>\u2019s store<\/a>. The pre-order doesn\u2019t currently include the USA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There was further news that reprints of the <strong>PS4<\/strong> and <strong>Nintendo Switch<\/strong> versions were also being produced, although the <strong>Switch<\/strong> one would be exclusive to Europe currently. Finally, the last piece of news in the <strong>Xeno<\/strong> <strong>Crisis<\/strong> update was that anyone who orders a physical edition of <strong>Xeno<\/strong> <strong>Crisis<\/strong> directly from the Bitmap store will receive the second collectible arcade token in their limited range.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Xeno Crisis - Re-release Gameplay Trailer (Xbox Series X, PS5\u00ae, PS4\u00ae, Nintendo Switch\u2122)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U8jOa7KhxQ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xeno Crisis is the gift that keeps on giving. Bitmap Bureau\u2019s highly popular retro shooter just can\u2019t stop being released on new systems and getting new physical releases. Last year, we reported on the GBA version of the critically acclaimed pixel art masterpiece, and now we get to report on a new Xbox and PS5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[148,150,130,151],"class_list":["post-30430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collection","tag-bitmap-bureau","tag-ps5","tag-xbox","tag-xeno-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}