'Soulcalibur VI,' 'CrossCode' Headline Xbox Game Pass Titles For July

Microsoft has announced that “Soulcalibur VI” for console and “Out of the Park Baseball 21” for PC are the latest titles to join Xbox Game Pass for July. This comes ahead of “CrossCode” (console) and “Fallout 76” (console and PC) joining the subscription service on July 9.

On the DLC front, “Minecraft Dungeons: Jungle Awakens” launches today while “Sea of Thieves: The Greatest Tales Never Told” and “State of Decay 2: Green Zone & The Plunder Pack” will follow, says Video Games Chronicle.

Even as those are added, a few titles will leave Xbox Game Pass on July 15, namely “Blazing Chrome” (console and PC), “ Dead Rising 4” (console and PC), “Metal Gear Solid V” (console and PC), “Timespinner” (PC), “Unavowed” (PC), and “Undertale” (PC). Xbox Game Pass grants users access to a catalog of games from a range of publishers for a single monthly subscription price.

This past June, several titles were added to Xbox Game Pass. These were “No Man’s Sky,” “Bard’s Tale Remastered and Resnarkled,” “Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 & 2.5 ReMix,” “Thronebreaker,” “Night Call,” “Observation,” “Streets of Rogue,” and “The Messenger.”

“Soulcalibur VI” is a fighting game that continues the “Soul Edge”/”Soulcalibur” series from the original PlayStation. Developed by Bandai Namco Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, it serves as a reboot of the series, revisiting the events of the first “Soulcalibur” game.

“Out of the Park Baseball 21” is a text-based baseball simulation for career, historical, and fictional play developed and published by Out of the Park Developments. After getting Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball licenses for “Out of the Park Baseball 16,” the series has continuously kept the said licenses to enhance the pro baseball experience.

Developed by Radical Fish Games and published by Deck13, “CrossCode” is an action role-playing game released for Linux, macOS, and Windows in September 2018.

Finally, “Fallout 76” is a multiplayer action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks that serves as a prequel to previous games in the “Fallout” series. Released on Windows, PS4, and Xbox One in 2018, players explore an open world torn apart by nuclear war.

Video Games Chronicle reports that Microsoft also recently announced record engagement figures for gaming services including Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Live. Game Pass subscribers topped the 10 million mark and Xbox Live active users approached 90 million during the company’s third financial quarter that ended in March 2020.