Microsoft announced 11 new games coming to Xbox Game Pass in October, some of which are available starting today. These latest additions include a variety of genres, including shooters, fighting games, and fishing games. The most notable addition is Outriders, which is finally coming to PC.
Starting today, Xbox Game Pass subscribers can play indie-developed game Into the Pit and third-person shooter Outriders for PC. Into the Pit, a completely new addition to the service, comes to cloud, console, and PC. Outriders already launched on Game Pass for console, so now it’s more widely available than it already was.
Three more games wash in with the next wave on October 21. Dragon Ball FighterZ, Bandai Namco’s fighting game based on the iconic anime series, drops for cloud and console. Meanwhile, turn-based Echo Generation launches on day one for Xbox consoles, cloud, and PC. Lastly, Everspace 2 gives players a glimpse into a space shooter experience with a game preview.
The rest of the titles come to Game Pass on October 28. Highlights include Age of Empires 4, the latest installment of the popular real-time strategy series, which drops day one on Game Pass. The Forgotten City also stands out as a widely acclaimed time loop title.
Here’s a recap of all the upcoming games for Game Pass and their release dates:
Xbox Game Pass also reached a milestone by surpassing 100 touchscreen-enabled games for mobile. A few highlights include older Yakuza games and indie hit Boyfriend Dungeon. Subscribers can play these 13 titles starting today, plus the already extensive collection listed on the Xbox website.
Subscribers can access touchscreen-enabled games from the Xbox app for PC, the Xbox Game Pass mobile app for Android, or Apple devices. Let’s see if any of these new titles can beat out the best Xbox Game Pass games.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
Gaming laptops and I have a complicated relationship. One of my first gaming rigs was an Acer Predator that was already outdated when I bought it. I was a broke college kid, and that was the best I could afford. So trying out high-end gaming laptops is always fun. But ASUS' ROG Zephyrus G14 is a lot more than a laptop that can run AAA games. It is portable, so you're not lugging around a 2.5kg machine everywhere you go. It is built well, none of that plastic chassis, and can even function as a normal laptop outside of just gaming.
Google Play is borrowing one of the Nintendo Switch’s most useful little tricks. A new Sidekick tool called Playbacks captures a short clip after something interesting has already happened, sparing players from running a screen recorder throughout an entire game.
Playbacks is part of Google Play Store v53.8 and keeps saved clips on the phone. Google first announced it earlier this month, but the new Play Store update marks its arrival for players. Anyone who has watched a perfect win vanish because the record button came too late already understands the appeal.