Xbox Series X is Microsoft's boxy new console, coming holiday 2020

Xbox boss Phil Spencer was on hand at The Game Awards on Thursday night with a big surprise: a first look at the next Xbox.

Xbox Series X is its name, and it looks like a tall, black box with a small slit where discs will go. There's a trailer. Look at it here.

Not much to go on! But there's a whole, entire year for Microsoft to share more info. The presence of what looks to be a disc drive means disc-based games aren't going anywhere with the Xbox Series X (which shouldn't be confused with the Xbox One X).

It also looks the widely loved Xbox controller design isn't changing much. The one that pops up in the trailer looks almost like an Xbox One trailer, except there's a slightly different directional pad and a seemingly new button placed right in the center of the controller, below the Xbox button.

Spencer didn't have anything more to share on the console itself during a brief appearance on the Game Awards stage. He did, however, give viewers a first look at a work-in-progress trailer for one of the games coming to Xbox Series X. Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, a sequel to Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.

Check out that trailer here.

That's all! Expect plenty more info to spill out over the next 12 months.