Microsoft has announced the primary wave of video games coming to Xbox Game Pass in March 2024.
Out at present, March 5, is Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun (Cloud, Console, and PC). This boomer shooter tackle Warhammer 40,000 obtained a 7/10 from IGN’s overview: “Retro-shooting and fast-paced arenas go well with the Warhammer 40K setting properly, however Boltgun falls wanting greatness as a result of its concepts peter out too rapidly. Some good stage design and good environments make up for a scarcity of selection.”
PAW Patrol World (Cloud, Console, and PC) hits Game Pass on March 7. Then, on March 12, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Backside – Rehydrated (Cloud, Console, and PC) launches on Game Pass. IGN’s overview returned a 5/10: “SpongeBob: SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Backside – Rehydrated sinks below its reverence to nostalgia.”
A day later, on March 13, Management Final Version (Cloud, Console, and PC) launches into Game Pass. Management Final Version comprises the primary sport and all beforehand launched expansions (The Basis and AWE). Our Management overview praised Treatment’s supernatural third- particular person action-adventure, saying it “creates a fascinating, oddball world that by no means loses the thread of its supernatural story.”
Then, on March 14, Game Pass will get No Extra Heroes 3 (Cloud, Console, and PC). This one obtained a 6/10 from IGN’s overview: “No Extra Heroes 3 is an amusing however extraordinarily uneven sequel, with its entertaining bosses separated largely by poor efficiency and barebones tedium.”
Lightyear Frontier (Game Preview) (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Sequence X|S) hits Game Pass on March 19 as a day-one launch. It’s an open-world farming exploration sport with crafting, useful resource administration and base constructing, wrapped in a mystery-driven narrative with a cosmic nation soundtrack.
And at last, the big-hitter: MLB The Present 24 (Cloud and Console) is obtainable on day-one with Game Pass from March 19. Game Pass members can unlock as much as 4 days early entry plus deluxe version bonus content material in the event that they purchase the Digital Deluxe Add-On Bundle.
Right here’s the Xbox Game Pass March 2024 Wave 1 lineup in full:
- Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun (Cloud, Console, and PC) – March 5
- PAW Patrol World (Cloud, Console, and PC) – March 7
- SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Backside – Rehydrated (Cloud, Console, and PC) – March 12
- Management Final Version (Cloud, Console, and PC) – March 13
- No Extra Heroes 3 (Cloud, Console, and PC) – March 14
- Lightyear Frontier (Game Preview) (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Sequence X|S) – March 19
- MLB The Present 24 (Cloud and Console) – March 19
As is customary, numerous video games go away Game Pass as new video games arrive. Right here’s the record:
Leaving Game Pass March 15:
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Shredders (Cloud, Console, and PC)
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