If next month’s free Xbox One titles for Xbox Live Gold subscribers aren’t enough, Microsoft has announced some of the new games coming to Xbox Game Pass in August. Tomorrow, Ashes Cricket and Pandemic will be available for Xbox Game Pass on console. PC players can get their hands on the awesome side-scrolling platformer Downwell.

On August 8th, party game Jackbox Party Pack 2 becomes available for Xbox One, while Space Hulk Tactics is added to PC. Both console and PC players will have reason to rejoice on August 14th though, because Mega Crit Games’ Slay the Spire becomes available. If you crave a rogue-lite, dungeon crawler with deck-building, this is the game for you.

It’s worth noting that Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will get access to all of the above releases as well. You can also avail of other benefits, like playing The Coalition’s Gears 5 four days earlier than its official launch date. And of course, with Xbox Live Gold included in the plan, you can get a head-start on playing multiplayer as well.

Ojiro Fumoto, the creator of the hit vertical platformer Downwell, which is available on iOS and Android mobile devices, as well as on PS Vita and PS4, has apparently landed himself a gig at Nintendo. Speaking on Twitter, Fumoto-san confirmed that he is now working for the legendary Big N.

Fumoto-san is a great get for Nintendo- he has a mastery over controls and mechanics, which is the kind of thing that Nintendo emphasizes in its games. He is very clearly talented, and will find others of his ilk at Nintendo, who are, after all, home to arguably the best developers on the planet. It is unclear what his projects with Nintendo may be- but reasonably speaking, you can expect that they won’t include a Switch port of Downwell (though, who knows, that might still happen anyway).

Nintendo has started to greatly emphasize new talent and developers in the last few years, which has led to fresh games like Splatoon coming out of them- it will be interesting to see what comes out of Fumoto-san in the coming years.

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