What a start to the week!
Yesterday, Xbox fans everywhere celebrated as Microsoft spent over two hours showing off more than 60 games at their 2019 E3 press conference. We saw updates on a ton of games we already knew about, reveals of some brand new, incredible looking titles, learned just a little more about Project xCloud, and are also now privy to the very first details about the next Xbox console, Project Scarlett.
Of the ~60 games showed off during the event, 14 of those titles come from the many developers that make up Xbox Game Studios, including the newly-acquired Double Fine Productions. 34 of the games that were shown off are set to debut on Xbox Game Pass, which is so. freaking. many.
The company also made available Xbox Game Pass for PC, which is… well, Xbox Game Pass for PC. The subscription service at this point includes over 100 titles, including popular titles like ARK: Survival Evolved, the phenomenal Metro: Exodus, and much more. There’s also a new Xbox Game Pass Ultimate option, which includes Xbox Live Gold, Xbox Game Pass, and Xbox Game Pass for PC for one stunningly low price.
That’s a lot of news, and I was so excited that naturally I had to record a podcast that basically sounds like a fluff piece where I talk about just how incredible Xbox Game Pass is (I promise that nobody paid me for it). My good friend John (who you’ll also here on this Wednesday’s theHunter: Call of the Wild episode) joined me to chat about the coolest things revealed during the show. You can listen right here, or look for links to subscibe to the show in your app of choice at the bottom of this article.
Upcoming games are awesome, and those new services sound sick, but for those of us looking for something new to play right now, Microsoft certainly filled our already-stuffed gaming bellies with more than 20 new additions to Xbox Game Pass.
Yep, over 20 new games that you can download on the service right now. Here’s the list and some trailers:
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Astroneer
Batman: Arkham Knight
Battle Chasers: Nightwar
Borderlands: The Handsome Collection
Bridge Constructor Portal
Everspace
Guacamelee! 2
Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition
Lichtspeer
Metro: Exodus
Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
Moonlighter
Neon Chrome
Old Man’s Journey
Riverbond
Shadow Tactics – Blades of the Shogun
Shenmue and Shenmue II
Silence
Smoke And Sacrifice
SteamWorld Dig 2
Supermarket Shriek
Thimbleweed Park
Wizard of Legend
So many of those games look so, so cool, and my backlog grows ever larger. Hopefully some of these are drawn for Xbox Game Passengers sooner than later, so that I don’t have any choice but to play them.
What just-added games are you most excited to play (you should probably start with Metro: Exodus)?
Want to hear me talk about all of these announcements and more? Or review a randomly-selected Xbox Game Passengers game (with a guest!) every other week? Here’s where you can subscribe to Xbox Game Passengers:
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