{"id":114472,"date":"2025-09-02T15:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/114472\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:09:08","slug":"silksong-and-i-am-your-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/114472\/","title":{"rendered":"Silksong and I Am Your Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Microsoft has <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/2025\/09\/02\/xbox-game-pass-september-2025-wave-1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:revealed;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">revealed<\/a> the first batch of Game Pass additions for September 2025 and there&#8217;s one hornet-shaped title that looms large over the others. After a seven-year wait, Hollow Knight: Silksong arrives on September 4. <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/hollow-knight-silksong-xbox-game-pass-171852706.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:We&#039;ve known for a few years;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">We&#8217;ve known for a few years<\/a> that the sequel to Team Cherry&#8217;s indie blockbuster would be on Game Pass on day one, and it&#8217;ll be available on the Ultimate and PC versions of the service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Xbox announced the Metroidvania&#8217;s future debut on Game Pass all the way back at its June 2022 showcase. At the time, it claimed every game shown at the event would be out within the following 12 months. That didn&#8217;t exactly happen in Silksong&#8217;s case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Team Cherry <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/hollow-knight-silksong-costs-5-more-than-the-original-120005386.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:confirmed pricing;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed pricing<\/a> for Silksong this week as well. It&#8217;ll cost $20 on all platforms. The developer <a data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/11662585\/hollow-knight\/posts\/4473863\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:added;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">added<\/a> that there will be a free Nintendo Switch 2 upgrade pack with &#8220;enhanced features&#8221; available for Kickstarter backers who receive a Switch key (it&#8217;s implied, but not confirmed, that anyone who gets the Switch 1 version will be able to upgrade for free later).<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">If you&#8217;re planning to dive into Silksong as soon as it goes live at 10AM ET on Thursday and you&#8217;re looking for something to play on Game Pass in the meantime, it&#8217;s maybe worth checking out I Am Your Beast. This is a fast-paced, covert revenge shooter from the folks at Strange Scaffold (<a data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/clickolding-from-the-i-am-your-beast-devs-looks-like-a-clicking-nightmare-180504296.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Clickolding;cpos:5;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clickolding<\/a>, <a data-i13n=\"cpos:6;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/pc\/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-tactical-takedown-comes-out-on-may-22-191533579.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:TMNT: Tactical Takedown;cpos:6;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TMNT: Tactical Takedown<\/a> and El Paso, Elsewhere). It&#8217;s dropping on the Ultimate, PC and Standard versions of Game Pass today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">On September 3, Nine Sols will join the Game Pass Standard lineup after being on the Ultimate and PC versions of the service since last November. This is a Metroidvania from Devotion developer Red Candle Games, and it was <a data-i13n=\"cpos:7;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/engadgets-games-of-the-year-2024-133005519.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:one of our favorite games of 2024;cpos:7;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of our favorite games of 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">The other Game Pass additions for the first half of September are:<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Real-time strategy game Cataclismo (PC) \u2014 September 4 on Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">3D action adventure Paw Patrol World (Cloud, Console, and PC) \u2014 September 10 on Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass and Game Pass Standard<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Disaster recovery\/construction sim RoadCraft (Cloud and Xbox Series X\/S) \u2014 September 16 on Game Pass Ultimate and Game Pass Standard<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Inevitably, a few games are cycling off of Game Pass too. All You Need is Help, Wargroove 2 and We Love Katamari Reroll+ Royal Reverie are all leaving the library on September 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft has revealed the first batch of Game Pass additions for September 2025 and there&#8217;s one hornet-shaped title&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,62654,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-114472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-game-pass","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}