Control and MLB The Show 24 join Xbox Game Pass in March 2024

Lightyear Frontier coming as Day 1 Early Access title

Marco Wutz | Mar 5, 2024

Control and MLB The Show 24 join Xbox Game Pass in March 2024 /

Microsoft has revealed the next batch of new Xbox Game Pass additions. In March 2024, subscribers can expect games from a variety of genres to show up in their library without any further cost to themselves – and, no, Activision Blizzard titles are not among them just yet. Call of Duty fans will need to be a bit more patient.

Fitting perfectly with the newest limited edition Xbox Series X, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated is joining Game Pass on March 12, 2024. It features all original voice actors from the cartoon and multiplayer for some undersea fun with friends.

Lightyear Frontier screenshot of a farming mech on an alien planet. — Exchange your tractor for a cool mech in Lightyear Frontier :: Amplifier Studios / Flame Break

Things get a bit more serious with Control, a supernatural third-person action-adventure made by the creators of Alan Wake. In fact, Remedy Entertainment just bought back the rights for the Control IP from publisher 505 Games. The game’s Ultimate Edition is slated for its Game Pass debut on March 13, 2024.

Everyone looking for more of a fresh experience should keep their eye on Lightyear Frontier, a sci-fi farming simulator with mechs instead of tractors. Releasing in Early Access on March 19, 2024, it will be a Day 1 Game Pass title. The same goes for MLB The Show 24, which is going to make sports game fans very happy on the same day.

Xbox Game Pass – March 2024

Games coming to Xbox Game Pass in March 2024:

Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun (Cloud, Console, and PC) – March 5
PAW Patrol World (Cloud, Console, and PC) – March 7
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated (Cloud, Console, and PC) – March 12
Control Ultimate Edition (Cloud, Console, and PC) – March 13
No More Heroes 3 (Cloud, Console, and PC) – March 14
Lightyear Frontier (Game Preview) (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – March 19
MLB The Show 24 (Cloud and Console) – March 19

Games leaving Xbox Game Pass in March 2024:

Hardspace: Shipbreaker (Cloud, Console, and PC) – March 15
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered (Cloud, Console, and PC) – March 15
Shredders (Cloud, Console, and PC) – March 15

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Published Mar 5, 2024

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