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First Xbox Game Pass wave of 2024 includes Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Hell Let Loose

Not a bad start to the year

Marco Wutz

First Xbox Game Pass wave of 2024 includes Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Hell Let Loose
First Xbox Game Pass wave of 2024 includes Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Hell Let Loose /

Microsoft has announced the first wave of Xbox Game Pass titles to join the service’s library in 2024. Available immediately on all platforms is Close to the Sun, a first-person horror adventure game that originally came out in 2019, but you won’t have to wait long for more: Hell Let Loose, the large-scale World War 2 first-person shooter game, is set to follow on January 4, 2024, in what should be a huge win for the game’s community, as fresh cannon fodder is always more than welcome.

Fans of blockbuster titles need not fret, however, as Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is scheduled to join Xbox Game Pass on January 9, 2024, bringing Eivor’s adventure to the subscription service, and Resident Evil 2 Remake is coming to the library on January 16, 2024, for a dose of horror.

Vikings battling on a field.
These people have booked the express ticket to Valhalla / Ubisoft

Here’s the full overview of games joining Xbox Game Pass in January 2024:

  • Close to the Sun (Cloud, Console, and PC) – January 3
  • Hell Let Loose (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – January 4
  • Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Cloud, Console, and PC) – January 9
  • Figment (Cloud, Console, and PC) – January 9
  • Super Mega Baseball 4 (Cloud, Console, and PC) EA Play – January 11
  • We Happy Few (Cloud, Console, and PC) – January 11
  • Resident Evil 2 (Cloud, Console, and PC) – January 16
  • Those Who Remain (Cloud, Console, and PC) – January 16

Naturally, there will be some losses in the upcoming days and weeks as well – and those include some pretty big names this time around:

  • GTA 5 (Cloud and Console) – January 5
  • Garden Story (Cloud, Console, and PC) – January 15
  • MotoGP 22 (Cloud, Console, and PC) – January 15
  • Persona 4 Golden (Cloud, Console, and PC) – January 15
  • Persona 3 Portable (Cloud, Console, and PC) – January 15

JRPG fans better clear their schedule for some additional gaming hours before January 15, 2024, comes around.

Video game release dates: every game coming in 2024

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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