Game Pass News August 3-10: New Releases, Announcements, Rumors, and More

The week of August 3-10 was interesting in terms of Game Pass subscription news. Despite the small number of announced and added titles, Microsoft’s service was supplemented with several cult titles. At the same time, one game was announced for 2025 and it was confirmed that projects would be removed from the subscription in mid-August.

New Games in Game Pass

This week Game Pass added 3 titles, but 6 games:

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is a collection that contains remasters of 3 games from the popular franchise:

Crash BandicootCrash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes BackCrash Bandicoot 3: Warped

The DOOM + DOOM II collection was unexpectedly announced and released immediately. It contains 2 remastered games in the series, but with a lot of new content.

Subscription Announcements

Not counting the games already added to Game Pass, only one project was announced for the first half of August last week:

Mafia: Definitive Edition (Xbox, PC, xCloud) – August 13

But the release of the remake of the first Mafia in Game Pass was already known, so this announcement cannot be called complete yet.

Also for 2025, the game Descenders Next was presented and immediately announced for the Game Pass subscription. It is a continuation of the hit Descenders, which has already been played by more than 30 million players.

Descenders Next – 2025 years

At this time, only the debut trailer for Descenders Next has been shown; more details about the project will be released at Gamescom.

Game Pass Game Rumors

Renowned gaming insider eXtas1s, who has repeatedly provided precise information about games that will be added to Game Pass, announced the release of another project. According to him, Expeditions A MudRunner Game will become part of the Game Pass subscription “soon”, but he could not specify when this will happen.

Expeditions A MudRunner Game is developed by Saber Interactive and released in early 2024. The game is a spiritual sequel to SnowRunner and MudRunner, with a greater focus on exploration.

Will be removed from Game Pass soon

This week it was officially announced which games will be removed from the Game Pass subscription starting August 16:

Airborne Kingdoms (Xbox, PC, xCloud)Offworld Trading Company (PC)Shadow Warrior 3 (Xbox, PC, xCloud)The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Xbox, PC, xCloud)

Other news and materials

The week of August 3-10 was interesting in terms of Game Pass subscription news. Despite the small number of announced and added titles, Microsoft’s service was supplemented with several cult titles. At the same time, one game was announced for 2025 and it was confirmed that projects would be removed from the subscription in mid-August.

New Games in Game Pass

This week Game Pass added 3 titles, but 6 games:

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is a collection that contains remasters of 3 games from the popular franchise:

Crash BandicootCrash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes BackCrash Bandicoot 3: Warped

The DOOM + DOOM II collection was unexpectedly announced and released immediately. It contains 2 remastered games in the series, but with a lot of new content.

Subscription Announcements

Not counting the games already added to Game Pass, only one project was announced for the first half of August last week:

Mafia: Definitive Edition (Xbox, PC, xCloud) – August 13

But the release of the remake of the first Mafia in Game Pass was already known, so this announcement cannot be called complete yet.

Also for 2025, the game Descenders Next was presented and immediately announced for the Game Pass subscription. It is a continuation of the hit Descenders, which has already been played by more than 30 million players.

Descenders Next – 2025 years

At this time, only the debut trailer for Descenders Next has been shown; more details about the project will be released at Gamescom.

Game Pass Game Rumors

Renowned gaming insider eXtas1s, who has repeatedly provided precise information about games that will be added to Game Pass, announced the release of another project. According to him, Expeditions A MudRunner Game will become part of the Game Pass subscription “soon”, but he could not specify when this will happen.

Expeditions A MudRunner Game is developed by Saber Interactive and released in early 2024. The game is a spiritual sequel to SnowRunner and MudRunner, with a greater focus on exploration.

Will be removed from Game Pass soon

This week it was officially announced which games will be removed from the Game Pass subscription starting August 16:

Airborne Kingdoms (Xbox, PC, xCloud)Offworld Trading Company (PC)Shadow Warrior 3 (Xbox, PC, xCloud)The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Xbox, PC, xCloud)

Other news and materials