The last 24 hours have been dominated by talk of Xbox Game Pass, all fueled by the itty bitty news that Activision Blizzard is getting bought by Microsoft. While Phil Spencer ponders the future of the platform, an all-new batch of this month’s selections has been announced for Game Pass across cloud, console, and PC. Highlights include quite a variety of genres from Pokémon Snap-like photography to high-octane competitive frisbee wars.

First up, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Anniversary Edition and quirky dungeon crawler Nobody Saves the World were made immediately available to subscribers. Arriving on January 20th, 6 games see their entry, including Zelda-esque afterlife story Death’s Door, murder sandbox Hitman Trilogy, doggo-snapping sim Pupperazzi, alien outbreak FPS Rainbow Six Extraction, a PC Game Pass debut for Rainbow Six Seige, and chaotic frisbee sequel Windjammers 2. Vibrant rhythm game Taiko no Tatsujin: The Drum Master finishes things off on January 27th.

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With the announcement of so much new Xbox content in the last day, I suppose someone forgot to inform the “leaving” section of Game Pass, as only four titles are slated to leave for the rest of the month. Departing January 31st, cyberpunk action platformer Cyber Shadow, apocalyptic card battler Nowhere Prophet, management sim Prison Architect, and throwback twin-stick shooter Xeno Crisis will each no longer be available on the service.

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A rundown of the latest and leaving can be viewed below. A full look at the Xbox console, Cloud Gaming, and PC versions of Game Pass can be viewed in our respective lists.

 

Xbox Game Pass – January 2022

New on January 18th

• Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Anniversary Edition (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Nobody Saves the World (Cloud, Console, and PC)

New on January 20th

• Death’s Door (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Hitman Trilogy (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Pupperazzi (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege: Deluxe Edition (PC)
• Windjammers 2 (Cloud, Console, and PC)

New on January 27th

• Taiko no Tatsujin: The Drum Master (Console and PC)

Leaving January 31st

• Cyber Shadow (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Nowhere Prophet (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Prison Architect (PC)
• Xeno Crisis (Cloud, Console, and PC)

 

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