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Former PlayStation posterboy is coming to Xbox Game Pass with classic trilogy

A certain marsupial is coming to Game Pass in August 2024

Marco Wutz

Microsoft

Update (August 21, 2024): Wave 2 of the Xbox Game Pass additions for August has been revealed, bringing with it just a few more games. Coming to Game Pass in the back half of the month are Star Trucker, Atlas Fallen: Reign of Sand, Core Keeper, and the open beta for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.

Microsoft has announced the first wave of additions to Xbox Game Pass in August 2024 – and among them is a trilogy of classic games featuring a character that’s counted among the most beloved PlayStation mascots: Originally created by Naughty Dog and exclusively available for PlayStation consoles, the Crash Bandicoot games are making their way onto Microsoft’s big subscription service.

Table of Contents

  1. New on Xbox Game Pass in August 2024
  2. Leaving Xbox Game Pass in August 2024

The Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, which contains Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, and Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped will be available for subscribers on PC, console, and cloud starting on August 8, 2024. 

Though originally made for Sony’s console, Crash Bandicoot as a franchise is actually owned by Activision and thus came into Microsoft’s possession last year – how the tables have turned.

That said, the August 2024 additions to Xbox Game Pass aren’t exactly numerous. Only two other games are coming to the service in the first half of the month aside from the trilogy.

New on Xbox Game Pass in August 2024

  • Creatures of Ava (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – August 7
  • Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy (Cloud, Console, and PC) – August 8
  • Mafia: Definitive Edition (Cloud, Console, and PC) – August 13
  • Atlas Fallen (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – August 22
  • Core Keeper (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – August 27
  • Star Trucker (Cloud, Console, and PC) – September 3
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Early Access Open Beta (PC Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate only) – August 30

Leaving Xbox Game Pass in August 2024

  • Airborne Kingdoms (Cloud, Console, and PC) – August 15
  • Offworld Trading Company (PC) – August 15
  • Shadow Warrior 3 (Cloud, Console, and PC) – August 15
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Cloud, Console, and PC) – August 15
  • Atomic Heart (Cloud, Console, and PC) – August 31
  • Guilty Gear -Strive- (Cloud, Console, and PC) – August 31
  • NBA 2K24 (Cloud and Console) – August 31

Strategy game fans should make sure to play some Offworld Trading Company before it leaves the survives – it’s an excellent board game-inspired title about economic domination and making Mars a livable home for humankind.

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Marco Wutz

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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