Month: October 2019

A new month has arrived, and that means a new round of games are coming to Xbox Game Pass. Microsoft has announced a new handful of titles being added to its subscription service on Xbox One in October, and they include some great releases.

First, Arkane’s acclaimed stealth game Dishonored 2 joins the Game Pass lineup on October 3. The following week, October 10, brings two more titles: the third-person zombie shooter World War Z and the retro-style 3D platformer Yooka-Laylee.

Three more games are being added to the service on October 17. First is the charming Felix the Reaper, which joins the Game Pass library the day it launches. Rounding out that day’s additions are two backwards-compatible titles: Fallout: New Vegas and the original Xbox classic Panzer Dragoon Orta.

Those aren’t the only games coming to Game Pass this month. The Outer Worlds, the new sci-fi RPG from Fallout: New Vegas developer Obsidian, is also joining the service on both console and PC the day it launches, October 25, and there may yet be more Game Pass games announced partway through the month. In the meantime, you can read more about October’s new Game Pass games on the official Xbox website.

Xbox Game Pass Console Additions – October

October 3

• Dishonored 2

October 10

• World War Z
• Yooka-Laylee

October 17

• Felix the Reaper
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Panzer Dragoon Orta

October 25

• The Outer Worlds (also on PC)

Michael Bay is best known these days for the Transformers movies, but he also has a long list of hugely successful, non-robotic action movies on his filmography. From The Rock and Armageddon to Bad Boys and its sequel, Bay’s brand of big budget over-the-top mayhem defined Hollywood action in the ’90s and beyond. His next film returns him to his roots; it’s titled 6 Underground and hits Netflix in December. The first trailer has been released.

6 Underground stars Ryan Reynolds as part of a wealthy vigilante gang who fake their own deaths in order to go under-the-radar and take down a criminal group. It looks ridiculous in all the right ways, with exotic locations, incredible stunts, and the sort of wise-cracking dialogue you’d expect from Deadpool writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. Check it out below:

6 Underground also stars Dave Franco (Neighbors), Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds), Adria Arjona (Pacific Rim: Uprising), Ben Hardy (X-Men: Apocalypse), and Corey Hawkins (BlackKklansman). It hits Netflix on December 13.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Bay spoke about how the film gets him back to the type of movie he made his name with. “My crew would call it ‘the old-school Bay,'” he said. “It’s like the movies I did way back when where it’s got real action, it’s tough, it’s funny, it’s got an interesting style to the movie. The writers, Wernick and Rheese, who I’ve always wanted to work with, they’ve got a great sense of humor and there’s a great style we created for the movie.”

In related news, there’s also a third Bad Boys movie on the way. While Bay directed the first two films, Bay Boys For Life is helmed by Bilall Fallah and Adil El Arbi. It reunites Will Smith and Martin Lawrence and arrives in January 2020. Check the first trailer out here.

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It’s been more than a decade since Mario and Sonic first laced up their shoes and competed against each other at the Olympic Games, spawning what would become a regular crossover franchise. But while the venue changes each time the mascots meet, the underlying game has largely remained the same over the past 12 years, and that holds true for this year’s installment, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.

Like previous entries in the series, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 features a varied selection of new and returning Olympic events to compete in, ranging from classics such as the triple jump and 100m dash to new Dream Events like karate and hoverboarding. The biggest addition this time around, however, is the brand-new story mode, which introduces a handful of retro-inspired 2D events to the mix as well–and they’re the clear highlights of the package.

The story begins with Bowser and Dr. Eggman joining forces to finally defeat Mario and Sonic, and before long, the mascots are transported back in time to the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, complete with retro 2D visuals. There are 10 2D events in total in the game, running the gamut from diving and vaulting to volleyball and judo. Much like the 3D events, they’re all simple to grasp, and coupled with the retro visuals, they immediately bring to mind Konami’s classic Track & Field.

The presentation is a large part of why the 2D events are so amusing. Sonic and company take on their classic 16-bit looks, while Mario and the rest of the Mushroom Kingdom gang revert back to their 8-bit incarnations. These sprites don’t feature any new animations, so Princess Peach and Bowser will humorously bob up and down to “run” around the track.

We recently had a chance to go hands-on with the new Mario & Sonic game, and you can check out a handful of 2D events we played during our demo session in the video above. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 launches exclusively for Nintendo Switch on November 5 in North America and November 8 in Europe. You can read more about the title on its official website.