Xbox Game Pass adds Tales of Arise and Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun

Another expansion for the Game Pass library
Xbox Game Pass adds Tales of Arise and Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
Xbox Game Pass adds Tales of Arise and Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun /

Microsoft announced the second wave of Xbox Game Pass releases for February 2024, which also covers the beginning of March, detailing which games subscribers will be able to play over the upcoming weeks.

Available on PC, Xbox Series X|S, and Cloud on February 20, 2024 – that is, indeed, today – are first-person narrative adventure Return to Grace and Bandai Namco’s 2021 RPG Tales of Arise.

Tales of Arise screenshot.
Tales of Arise is available via Xbox Game Pass / Bandai Namco Entertainment

“As two worlds of conflict converge, two people from opposite walks of life join forces to challenge their fates and create a new future,” the official description of the title reads. “Along the way, meet up with a unique cast of allies, all with their own reasons to fight. Featuring a real-time combat system, battles are energetic and enthralling with countless combinations of skills and abilities.”

Additional highlights joining the Xbox Game Pass library are Madden NFL 24, EA Sports’ latest football simulation offering, sandbox sci-fi game Space Engineers, and the boomer shooter Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun.

Find the complete list of Xbox Game Pass additions announced today below:

  • Return to Grace (Cloud, Console, and PC) – February 20, 2024
  • Tales of Arise (Cloud, Console, and PC) – February 20, 2024
  • Bluey: The Videogame (Cloud, Console, and PC) – February 22, 2024
  • Maneater (Cloud, Console, and PC) – February 27, 2024
  • Madden NFL 24 (Cloud) EA Play – February 27, 2024
  • Indivisible (Cloud, Console, and PC) – February 28, 2024
  • Space Engineers (Cloud, Console, and PC) – February 29, 2024
  • Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun (Cloud, Console, and PC) – March 5, 2024

Microsoft also repeated the previous announcement that Diablo 4 would become the first Activision Blizzard game to join Xbox Game Pass since the company’s acquisition. The hack ‘n slay is set to become available to subscribers on March 28, 2024.

There will also be two losses at the end of the month with Madden NFL 22 and Soul Hackers 2 leaving Xbox Game Pass on February 29, 2024.

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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