{"id":817904,"date":"2026-08-18T18:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/817904\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:08:08","slug":"heres-your-next-batch-of-xbox-and-pc-game-pass-games-for-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/817904\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s your next batch of Xbox and PC Game Pass games for August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next batch of Xbox and PC Game Pass games has been announced, detailing what&#8217;s arriving in the latter part of August.<\/p>\n<p>The undoubted focal point is the day-one addition of Asobo&#8217;s new Plague Tale game, Resonance: A Plague Tale, which spins a prequel tale &#8211; across dual timelines &#8211; on the island of Crete.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/a-plague-tale-resonance-preview-impressions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;ve played Resonance: A Plague Tale and was enthusiastic about it<\/a>. The series has ditched stealth gameplay and gone all-in on combat to great effect. Combine handsome set-pieces, tricky puzzles and incredible ruins, and you&#8217;ve got an appealing Tomb Raider and Uncharted-like adventure.<\/p>\n<p>To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/p>\n<p>Manage cookie settings <\/p>\n<p>Resonance: A Plague Tale.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D2Meem1Ehx8\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another day-one Game Pass release to potentially get excited about is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6HLT0-Dv3VI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blood Dungeon<\/a>, the new game from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/nidhogg-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nidhogg<\/a> creator Messhof. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/nidhogg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nidhogg<\/a> was a low-fi swashbuckling duel game that was a riot in a local co-op party setting. It sounds like Blood Dungeon is a Metroidvania kind of idea.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also worth noting that the Remastered edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt<\/a> leaves Game Pass at the end of the month, so if you&#8217;ve never taken the plunge, you&#8217;ve still got time &#8211; and a good reason with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/rumoured-witcher-3-third-expansion-announced\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a new expansion on the way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Available on Game Pass now<\/p>\n<p>Egging On (Cloud, Xbox Series X\/S, Handheld, and PC) \u2013 August 18, new on Game Pass Premium, already on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass<\/p>\n<p>Coming to Game Pass soon<\/p>\n<p>Vapor World: Over the Mind (Game Preview) (Cloud, Console, and PC) \u2013 August 19, Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass<br \/>\nBlazBlue Entropy Effect X (Cloud, Xbox Series X\/S, and PC) \u2013 August 19, new on Game Pass Premium, already on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass<br \/>\nRelooted (Cloud, Xbox Series X\/S, and PC) \u2013 August 19, new on Game Pass Premium, already on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass<br \/>\nStarsand Island (Cloud, Xbox Series X\/S, and PC) \u2013 August 20, new on Game Pass Premium, already on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass<br \/>\nAerial_Knight&#8217;s DropShot (Cloud, Xbox Series X\/S, Handheld, and PC) \u2013 August 25, new on Game Pass Premium, already on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass<br \/>\nBlood Dungeon (Cloud, Xbox Series X\/S, and PC) \u2013 August 25, Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass<br \/>\nResonance: A Plague Tale Legacy (Cloud, Xbox Series X\/S, Handheld, and PC) \u2013 August 27, Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass<br \/>\nYoung Suns (Cloud, Console, and PC) \u2013 August 31, new on Game Pass Premium, already on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass<br \/>\nShelldiver (Cloud, Console, and PC) \u2013 September 1, Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, PC Game Pass<\/p>\n<p>Leaving Game Pass August 31<\/p>\n<p>Another Crab&#8217;s Treasure (Cloud, Console, and PC)<br \/>\nI Am Your Beast (Cloud, Console, and PC)<br \/>\nNeon Abyss (Cloud, Console, and PC)<br \/>\nOne Lonely Outpost (Cloud, Console, and PC)<br \/>\nThe Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt &#8211; Remastered Edition (Cloud and Console)<br \/>\n(Leaving 6th September) NBA 2K26 (Cloud, Console, and PC)<\/p>\n<p>Games with a &#8220;handheld&#8221; designation are optimised for handheld play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The next batch of Xbox and PC Game Pass games has been announced, detailing what&#8217;s arriving in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-817904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}