Xbox Game Pass kicks off 2026 with 11 ‘large’ free video games | Gaming | Entertainment | EUROtoday

The inaugural 2026 Xbox Game Pass replace has arrived in blockbuster fashion, headlined by the large arrival of the newest Star Wars recreation to the service. Microsoft has confirmed a staggering 11 video games will be a part of the subscription platform this month

The centerpiece is undoubtedly Ubisoft’s open-world galactic journey, Star Wars Outlaws. Subscribers will not have to attend lengthy to leap into the cockpit, because the headline titles are set to drop properly earlier than February begins. Another huge gaming franchise could have its latest entry on the service in January, too.

But Star Wars Outlaws leads the cost, touchdown on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass on January 13. As the first-ever really open-world Star Wars expertise, the sport permits gamers to discover the outer rim in a high-stakes story set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

Compatible with Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X/S, this arrival presents the right alternative for followers to expertise the lifetime of scoundrel Kay Vess with out the premium price ticket. However, the Force is not the one main energy making its option to the service this month.

While Outlaws dominates the sci-fi entrance, horror followers are additionally being handled to an enormous franchise entry. Ahead of the extremely anticipated Resident Evil Requiem subsequent month, Microsoft is bringing Resident Evil Village to the library on January 20.

Joining the service for Ultimate and PC subscribers, Village supplies the “thrilling” conclusion to Ethan Winters’ story. It serves as the right primer for these trying to refresh their reminiscence of the sequence’ lore earlier than the ninth installment arrives in February.

Among the opposite video games becoming a member of Game Pass is MIO: Memories in Orbit – a day one launch on Ultimate and PC. A 2D remaster of the unique Final Fantasy recreation can also be set to reach on Game Pass Ultimate, Premium and PC on January 8.

Atomfall, an RPG set in an alternate model of northern England within the Nineteen Sixties, has been accessible for Ultimate subscribers for some time. However, now Premium gamers could have the chance to delve right into a recreation the place the Windscale nuclear catastrophe reworked a lot of the area right into a quarantine zone.

The 5 video games you’ve gotten simply days left to play

With 11 video games being added to Xbox Game Pass within the first half of the month, practically half as many are set to go away the service. Gamers have just a few days left to play 5 titles that might be faraway from the platform by 15 January.

Alternatively, subscribers can benefit from as much as 20% off when buying a digital model of the departing video games. The video games leaving the Game Pass embrace:

• Flintlock The Siege of Dawn (Available on Cloud, Handheld, PC, and Xbox Series X|S).
• Neon White (Available on Cloud, Console, Handheld, and PC).
• Road 96 (Available on Cloud, Console, Handheld, and PC).
• The Ascent (Available on Cloud, Console, Handheld, and PC).
• The Grinch Christmas Adventures (Available on Cloud, Console, Handheld, and PC).