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Just Cause 4, the open-world sandbox game from Avalanche Studios, is now available in the Xbox Game Pass free game library. WindowsCentral discovered that the game is now available in the Xbox Game Pass library, following a teaser that the Xbox Game Pass account tweeted.

In a silly, fake email purporting to be from “Melissa McGamepass,” it’s revealed that a game starting with a “J” would come to Xbox Game Pass on March 7. As it turns out, that game is (likely) Just Cause 4, and it’s arrived a day early. The email image also says another game with a longer title is also coming to Xbox Game Pass on March 7, but it hasn’t been revealed yet.

Further out, Microsoft will announce another title coming to Xbox Game Pass in April later this month on March 12. Keep checking back with GameSpot for more on that.

Given that Just Cause 4 was only released commercially in December, it appears to be one of the newest titles in the Xbox Game Pass library apart from the first-party Microsoft games that release into Game Pass like Crackdown 3 most recently.

In February, Microsoft released a number of high-profile titles into the Xbox Game Pass library including Batman: Return to Arkham, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and Alien Isolation.

Xbox Game Pass offers all-you-can-play model where you can play more than 100 Xbox One and backwards-compatible Xbox 360 games as much as you for as long as your $10/month subscription remains active. Outside of this, Microsoft also offers Games with Gold for Xbox Live Gold subscribers, which grant a few games every month.

Nintendo has announced the free NES games being added to the library of freebies on Nintendo Switch for people who subscribe to the system’s Nintendo Switch Online membership.

Available starting March 13 will be two titles: Kid Icarus and StarTropics. Members in Japan are getting a different lineup of games. According to Gematsu, players in Japan will get Kid Icarus, but instead of StarTropics, they’ll receive Yie Ar Kung-Fu and Fire Emblem. It’s not uncommon for the NES Switch Online freebies to vary by region like this.

The NES library for Switch Online subscribers launched in 2018 with 20 big-name games, including Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Dr. Mario, Ice Climber, Metroid, and Donkey Kong. More have been added since, like Zelda II: The Adventures of Link in January and Super Mario 2 in February.

A subscription to Nintendo Switch Online costs $4 USD/month or $8 USD for three months. A 12-month membership is available for $20 USD, while a Family Membership for up to eight Nintendo Account members costs $35 USD for a year. New subscribers can sign up with a seven-day free trial. In addition to free NES games, subscribers get access to cloud saves and online play for many titles such as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Mario Kart 8 Ultimate.

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With Microsoft set to finally, maybe, talk about Halo Infinite at E3 this year, fans are understandably eager and excited to learn more about the long-in-development next Halo. One rumour about the game making the rounds is that Halo Infinite will be a “next-gen” game that skips Xbox One.

That’s not going to happen, Halo franchise development director Frank O’Connor says. Responding to someone on Twitter who mentioned this rumour, O’Connor said, “I have no idea what leak you’re talking about, but Halo Infinite will be released for Xbox One and appropriately spec’d PCs.”

The rumour in question may be based on comments from noted Microsoft insider Brad Sams. He recently said on his YouTube show that Microsoft focused on showing Infinite’s engine, SlipSpace, at E3 last year and not the game because the game itself looked … too good.

“They didn’t want to show off any part of the game because it actually looked pretty damn good and they didn’t want to make current-gen stuff look bad,” Sams said.

In the video, Sams never says Halo Infinite won’t be released on Xbox One, but you can imagine people making that connection regardless.

Microsoft is rumoured to announce new Xbox hardware at E3 this year, so that is also likely contributing to the worry about Halo Infinite not coming to the Xbox One hardware on the market today. However, none of the credible reports out there today are suggesting that will happen.

The Xbox One is now considered a “family” of devices. For example, games that play on the mega-powerful Xbox One X also work on the lower-power Xbox One S. Presumably this kind of compatibility between hardware options will continue with the new Xbox hardware set to be revealed at E3 in June. A disc-free Xbox One will be released in May, according to a new report. This kind of compatibility between generations of hardware has been commonplace and generally accepted in the mobile phone market for years, so it seems games are finally catching up.

Halo Infinite will be the first new mainline Halo game since 2015’s Halo 5: Guardians. It’s rumoured to be a launch title for the new Xbox hardware, and that would be notable given 2001’s Halo: Combat Evolved was the only time a Halo game was released as a launch title for new Xbox hardware; in that case it was for the original Xbox. The new Xbox consoles are reportedly scheduled to launch in Fall 2020.

In other news, Sams also reported on his show that Halo: The Master Chief Collection may finally soon be announced for PC. For lots more on all the ongoing Xbox rumours, check out this roundup of all the big news.