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Xbox Game Passmembers can playJourney to the Savage PlanetandNickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2as part of their subscription starting today. These are the first two titles to reachXbox Game Passin July 2024.
Microsoft’s popular subscription service added 84 games in the first half of the year, averaging exactly 14 new releases per month. The company is looking to maintain that momentum in July, having already announcedeight games that will be coming to Xbox Game Passin the first half of the month.
The first two of those additions have now arrived in the form ofNickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2andJourney to the Savage Planeton July 3. The former’s debut will not come as a surprise to the most attentive of fans, as theXbox Game Pass release ofNickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2had already leakedback in June. But its arrival ended up being slightly later than first reported, as it was initially pegged for June 2024.
🆕Journey to the Savage Planet
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While Nickelodeon’s 2023 fighting game needs no special introductions,Journey to the Savage Planetmay not boast as much brand recognition. But this humorous sci-fi action adventure is no less worthy of attention, with both of the July 3 additions to Xbox Game Pass boasting “Very Positive” player reviews on Steam and comparable critical scores.Journey to the Savage Planetalso happens to be the first and last title from Typhoon Studios, a Canadian developer that was shuttered following the closure of the Google Stadia Games and Entertainment division in 2021.
In an interview with Game Rant, former Typhoon Creative Director Alex Hutchinson revealed thatGoogle closed the studio on the day they shippedJourney to the Savage Planet. The project hence ended up being the first and only game internally published by the internet giant due to the company’s pivot to a different content strategy following the global pandemic, which eventually led it to shuttering the entirety of the Stadia cloud gaming initiative in early 2023. Fortunately for gamers,Journey to the Savage Planetlives on thanks to a publishing deal with Digital Bros subsidiary 505 Games, which was signed a year ahead of the studio’s 2019 Google acquisition.
Half a dozen more titles are set to reach Microsoft’s subscription service in the coming weeks, starting with the July 9 arrivals ofCricket 24andThe Case of the Golden Idol.Xbox Game Pass will also lose five titles on July 15.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is the highest tier of Microsoft’s flagship game subscription service that offers over 100 game titles that you can play with a single purchase, making it one of the most outstanding value propositions of the Xbox ecosystem to date.
