{"id":843410,"date":"2026-08-04T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/843410\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:42:10","slug":"cricket-26-date-everything-and-more-are-coming-to-game-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/843410\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket 26, Date Everything, and More Are Coming to Game Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cricket<\/p>\n

Microsoft revealed today the first wave of new Game Pass games<\/a> for the month of August. The headliners are Cricket 26 and the sandbox dating simulator Date Everything. Sandustry, a new factory game with sand physics, is also coming to Game Pass on day one through the Game Preview program.<\/p>\n

I wrote about it earlier today, but Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscribers will also get access to the Gears of War: E-Day\u00a0early access beta beginning August 6. An open beta will also follow next week on August 13-17.<\/p>\n

This was announced last month, but Best Beast of Reincarnation, a new action RPG from Game Freak, the developer of the Pok\u00e9mon games on Nintendo consoles, is also coming to Game Pass on day one today. The game mixes real-time and turn-based combat, and its action is set in a post-apocalyptic Japan.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

You can find the full list of new Game Pass games below:<\/p>\n

Heretic + Hexen (Cloud, Console, Handheld, and PC) \u2013 Available today with Game Pass Premium
\nBeast of Reincarnation (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC) \u2013 Available today with Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass
\nMonsters are Coming! (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC) \u2013 Coming to Game Pass Premium on August 6
\nPowerWash Simulator 2 (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, and PC) \u2013 Coming to Game Pass Premium on August 6
\nBounty Star (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, and PC) \u2013 Coming to Game Pass Premium on August 11
\nDate Everything! (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC) \u2013 Coming to Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, and PC Game Pass on August 11
\nGrounded 2 (Game Preview) (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC) \u2013 Coming to Game Pass Premium on August 11
\nBall x Pit (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC) \u2013 Coming to Game Pass Premium on August 12
\nCricket 26 (Cloud, Console, and PC) \u2013 Coming to Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, and PC Game Pass on August 13
\nMio: Memories in Orbit (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC) \u2013 Coming to Game Pass Premium on August 13
\nSandustry\u00a0\u00a0(Game Preview) (PC) \u2013 Coming to Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass on August 13
\nEgging On\u00a0(Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC) \u2013 August 18<\/p>\n

Lastly, the Xbox team also announced that Menace, Atlas Fallen, Aliens: Fireteam Elite, and Firewatch will leave the Game Pass library on August 15. As usual, Game Pass subscribers can purchase them with a 20% discount before they leave the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft revealed today the first wave of new Game Pass games for the month of August. The headliners…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,120145,85,7476],"class_list":["post-843410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-game-pass","tag-sports","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}