The macabre Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator goes live on December 7th while Halo Infinite’s campaign finally launches for cloud, consoles and PC on December 8th (check out the launch trailer here). On December 9th, the Strawhat Pirates join the party as One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 becomes available for consoles, PC and cloud. Aliens: Fireteam Elite and Among Us round out the first wave upon releasing on December 14th.

Of course, there are also a number of titles that will be leaving the service in December. Check out the full list below:

• Beholder (Cloud and Console)
• The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan (Console and PC)
• Guacamelee! 2 (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Unto The End (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Wilmot’s Warehouse (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair (Cloud, Console, and PC)

With The Game Awards 2021 coming up on December 9th, it wouldn’t be completely out of left field for Microsoft to announce even more additions to the service. Stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks.

Kingdom Hearts 3: ReMind

As a series, Kingdom Hearts has its fair share of cryptic secret endings that required an extraordinary amount of effort to unlock. Kingdom Hearts 3’s Remind DLC is no different – in order to unlock the Secret Episode and receive the “true” ending, you first had to defeat all 13 bosses in the Limit Cut. That means being level 99 with the best equipment and dealing with high damage unblockable attacks. Once that’s done, you face Yozora from Verum Rex in a much tougher fight than anything before. Depending on whether you win or lose, the ending will be slightly different but the scene with Yozora, waking from a dream while in a vehicle is a dead ringer for Final Fantasy Versus 13. How? Why? No one but Nomura can answer that question.

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In November 2019, Microsoft announced that a large number of Final Fantasy titles would be coming to Xbox Game Pass in the future. Since then, of the ones that are confirmed, a few (Final Fantasy 7, Final Fantasy 8 Remastered, Final Fantasy 9, and Final Fantasy 15) have been added to the service’s catalog, but many others remain missing.

Final Fantasy 10, Final Fantasy 10-2, Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age, Final Fantasy 13, Final Fantasy 13-2, and Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13 were all also among the games that were confirmed for Xbox Game Pass, but these haven’t yet shown up in the service’s library. However, Microsoft confirms that though their arrival will be a bit belated, they’re still planned for Game Pass, and will be coming in 2021.

A Microsoft spokesperson said to True Achievements: “As we announced at X019, we are excited to bring the Final Fantasy franchise to gamers with Xbox Game Pass. We have done so throughout 2020 and will continue to do so in 2021 and beyond. We look forward to announcing specific launch dates for more Final Fantasy titles in the future.”

Meanwhile, Microsoft and Square Enix have also been in discussions to bring Final Fantasy 14 to Xbox One for some time now, so here’s hoping that happens sooner rather than later. Whenever that does happen, it’s unlikely it will come to Xbox Game Pass.

At X019, Square Enix was on hand to announce that numerous Final Fantasy titles would be coming to Xbox Game Pass. This includes Final Fantasy 7, Final Fantasy 8 Remastered, Final Fantasy 9, Final Fantasy 10 and 10-2, Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age, Final Fantasy 13/13-2/Lightning Returns and Final Fantasy 15. But wait, there’s more.

For the first time ever, Kingdom Hearts will be coming to Xbox One, with Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix and Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue coming to the platform. Even more amazing is that there will be a demo for Kingdom Hearts 3 available today.

The above Final Fantasy games will arrive on Game Pass, along with the Kingdom Hearts titles on Xbox One, some time in 2020. Kingdom Hearts 3 is currently available for Xbox One and PS4 and will receive some new DLC in December with ReMind. This adds new story content, new bosses and additional scenarios to play as other characters. Stay tuned for more details and updates from X019 in the meantime.

At their recent X018 event, Microsoft announced that the entire Final Fantasy XIII trilogy – which encompasses Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2, and Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII – would be made playable on the Xbox One through their backward compatibility program, and that all three games would also be receiving Xbox One X enhancements.

All three games were already pretty good looking when they each originally launched on the PS3 and the Xbox 360, but it seems they’ve received a significant bump on Microsoft’s enhanced console. More specifically, YouTube channel VG Tech has uploaded a video (which you can view below), that demonstrates what kind of enhancements Final Fantasy XIII has received on the One X.

For starters, the game has two graphical modes on the system- there’s the Graphics Mode, which prioritizes resolution, and the Performance Mode, which, as the name suggests, prioritizes frame rate. Obviously frame rate is much more stable in the latter, and while the former sees some frame rate drops, it sports a higher pixel count.

In Graphics Mode on the Xbox One X, Final Fantasy XIII renders at a native resolution of 3072×1728. In Performance Mode, the resolution drops down to 1024×576, which is the same as the Xbox One S, and the original Xbox 360 as well. Both modes on both variants of the Xbox One, however, also use higher quality pre-rendered cutscenes.

You can watch the full analysis below.

Deus Ex Human Revolution

Deus Ex: Human Revolution shared with players a dystopic future with questions of transhumanism that we may very well be answering in the real world soon enough as technology seems to rapidly develop. With such fantastic base concept, and the Illuminati stoking the fires of the war to come between the Augmented and the normal humans, what did the title have to say about the whole debate it presented? It just asks you to pick a button to decide your ending. We never asked for this.

This DLC will bring the pretty popular N7 Armour from Mass Effect 3.

FINAL FANTASY XIII–2 is the sequel to  FINAL FANTASY XIII, which was released in North America in March 2010 and has shipped 6.2 million units worldwide. The sequel has evolved beyond its predecessor, with an extraordinary level design encouraging exploration, a new battle system allowing players to command monsters and a variety of options that support multiple playthroughs.

Stay tuned to GamingBolt for more updates.

The Final Fantasy XIII-2 Collector’s Edition will only be available while supplies last, so it is first come first serve. I would pre-order it now if you intend on getting it on top of the fact that it will only be available at GameStop, Amazon.com and Best Buy running you only $79.99.  This Limited Collectors Edition of the game is a North American exclusive.

The Collector’s Edition will include a 4-disc official soundtrack as well as a collection of full color concept artwork with material from the making of Final Fantasy XIII-2, including a variety of never-before-seen illustrations, environments and more. If you don’t want to shell out the extra money for the Collector;s Edition these specific retailers are offering free content just for pre-ordering the game with them.

GameStop
Receive an exclusive in-game item by pre-ordering at GameStop
– Alternate costume for Serah, visible throughout the game

Amazon
Exclusive Omega Boss Battle
– Unique coliseum battle against boss enemy “Omega,” who joins the player’s party afterward

Best Buy
Collectible Hardcover Book
– FINAL FANTASY XIII – Episode I: Novella, an original story that ties together the events of FINAL FANTASY XIII and FINAL FANTASY XIII-2

Square Enix has confirmed that their upcoming RPG, Final Fantasy XIII-2, will be supported with DLC after its release. Downloadable costumes, monsters and weapons will be part of the DLC packs, producer Yoshinori Kitase said at the Tokyo Game Show (via Siliconera).

Some of the downloadable content, though, will be available as exclusive stuff to only those who pre-order the game before its January release date.

This comes as somewhat of a shock, because Square rarely releases DLC for Final Fantasy games. Final Fantasy XIII, of which XIII-2 is a sequel (duh), got no DLC.

“Regarding the DLC content, we feel that the final product is 100 per cent enjoyable… it’s the complete package. So we’re not planning any DLC at this time,” Kitase said.

Stay tuned to GB, and we’ll keep reporting more stuff on this as new updates come our way.