On December 5th, Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscribers can look forward to EA Sports WRC on cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X/S via EA Play. Overthrown also enters early access via Game Preview for the same platforms. December 9th sees the arrival of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, followed by Wildfrost on December 10th.

The second wave of titles for the month is unknown, but Microsoft already has the first week of 2025 outlined. It starts with Carrion for consoles, cloud, and PC across all Game Pass tiers on January 2nd, followed by Road 96 on January 7th for the same.

As for the titles leaving the service, there’s a double whammy of departures. The following titles will be gone on December 15th:

• Amnesia: The Bunker (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Forager (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Forza Horizon 4 (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Rise of the Tomb Raider (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Tin Hearts (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• The Quarry (Cloud and Console)

Then on December 31st, another batch of titles will no longer be available for subscribers:

• BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Close to the Sun (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Humankind (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Lego 2K Drive (Cloud and Console)
• McPixel 3 (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Party Animals (Cloud and Console)

On April 6th, Double Fine Productions’ Iron Bridge, which mixes tower defense and shooting, will be available for consoles and cloud devices. Ghostwire: Tokyo finally comes to Xbox on April 12th and is also playable on the cloud and PC. Its release coincides with The Spider’s Thread update, which adds a new mode, area, new Visitors to battle and much more.

NHL 23 is coming to consoles on April 13th via EA Play (available with Game Pass Ultimate). April 18th sees the arrival of Minecraft Legends for cloud, consoles and PC. Set in the world of Minecraft, it mixes action mechanics with real-time strategy gameplay and crafting.

In the meantime, the following titles will be leaving Game Pass on April 15th. Play them now while you still can:

• Life is Strange: True Colors (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Moonglow Bay (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Panzer Corps 2 (PC)
• Rainbow Six Extraction (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• The Long Dark (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• The Riftbreaker (Cloud, Console, and PC)

Goat Simulator

Explaining the sheer insanity that is Goat Simulator and it’s various add-ons would take too long. Playing fast and loose with physics is a given here, either due to numerous bugs or from the inanity of, say, a goat headbutting a gas station. There’s also that part where you do sick flips on a trampoline and lick a car to slingshot your goatly hide across the map. Need we say more?

Christmas may be past but PlayStation Plus is ringing in the new year with its next free offerings. Naughty Dog’s Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection and Coffee Stain Studios’ Goat Simulator will be available free to PS Plus subscribers. They’ll be available from January 7th to February 3rd.

Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection alone provides fantastic value. It’s a remastered collection of the first three games – Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. Remastered by Bluepoint Games, it’s the perfect introduction to the series and a collection of some of the best games ever made.

Goat Simulator is a different kind of revolutionary, as players control a goat in a world of awry physics. Stick your tongue on cars, bounce on trampolines and blow up gas stations. Why? Why not? As a jokey kind of game, Goat Simulator is great for killing a few hours. Check out the trailer below to see both titles in action.

Microsoft has announced four new games for its Xbox Game Pass service, two which are available right now. These are Capcom’s Resident Evil: Revelations and Rare Replay, the latter being a collection of 30 classic Rare games. You can download and play them right now if you’re currently subscribed to Xbox Game Pass (at $9.99 per month).

The other two games are inXile’s Torment: Tides of Numenera and Coffee Stain Studios’ Goat Simulator, which will be joining the service on June 27th. The former is a follow-up to the critically acclaimed Planescape: Torment and offers a surreal old-school RPG experience. Meanwhile, Goat Simulator lets you play as a goat, as the name implies, but things quickly take a weird turn.

Xbox Game Pass recently launched for PC, and Microsoft also introduced Xbox Game Pass Ultimate at E3 2019. The latter allows subscribers to get Xbox Game Pass for PC and Xbox One along with Xbox Live Gold for a month at $14.99. If you subscribe for the first month, it’s only $1.

"We're adding four more games very soon" – Xbox Game Pass (us) pic.twitter.com/qE49MRQ2WO

— Xbox Game Pass (@XboxGamePass) June 19, 2019

https://twitter.com/XboxGamePass/status/1141329112276992000

Coffee Stain Studios has long been associated with the Goat Simulator franchise which, as the name implies, is about playing as a goat. What started as an April Fool’s Day joke ultimately morphed into a full game and subsequent follow-ups. If you’ve been wondering whether the Sanctum developer has anything else up its sleeve, then Satisfactory may be the answer.

Revealed in a new teaser at GDC 2018, we see a small lizard-like creature on some alien planet eating some fruit/flower thing while construction goes on the background, off-camera. There’s not much to go off of here though it might have something to do with the “factory” part of Satisfactory’s name.

Coffee Stain is inviting players to sign up for Satifactory’s alpha which begins in May. It describes it as a “secret project – and with that comes extra prestige and risk! It’s a win-win!” It doesn’t seem like we’ll be getting many more details at this point. Regardless, head on over to the official site to sign up today.

Double Eleven announced on Wednesday that thanks to a collaboration with Coffee Stain Studios, the popular Goat Simulator is finally coming to the PS4 and PS3 on August 11. Since the game first launched on the PC it has been a surprise hit that allows players to do exactly what you would expect from a game that is called Goat Simulator. Of course, this isn’t just a game where you wander around a farm and eat whatever you can find.

Using this game, you can get yourself into all kinds of wacky adventures. On Sony’s official Morpheus page, Sony showed some of the features of the game, including the ability to either don a jetpack, or wrap your ridiculously long tongue around the bottom railing of a helicopter. The company also points out that you can blow stuff up, and then get up and walk away after you blow that stuff up. (Editor’s note: Yep.)

One neat feature unveiled for the PS4 and PS3 is that the game will have local multiplayer, which means up to four people on the PS4 (and two on the PS3) will be able to take the reigns of their very own goat and just start creating chaos. The game has been available for the Xbox One and Xbox 360 for a little while now and it only seems fair that the game is finally launching on Sony’s hardware.

The game has been available for the Xbox One and Xbox 360 since April and has been available on PC and mobile platforms even longer than that. Once the game launches on the PS3 and PS4 on August 11 it will basically be on every platform you can think of.

Coffee Stain Studios has always had a weird sense of humour, especially when you factor in the developer’s non-sensical and oddball Goat Simulator franchise. The game has had its share of poking fun at pop-culture and even released a new update called GoatZ, mimicking the popular DayZ franchise.

However, one of the odder references made by the indie dev was to Metal Gear Solid 5 director Hideo Kojima, who is listed under the “Special Thanks” section. Silent Hills is also featured with Coffee Stain saying “Please bring it back. Pretty please?”

The dev noted on its Facebook page that, “We heard that Hideo Kojima was removed from the credits for Metal Gear Solid V so we added him to the credits for Goat Simulator.”

It hasn’t been confirmed if Konami actually removed Kojima’s name from the credits but it has been striking his name off of promotional material left and right. The publisher also dissolved Kojima Productions in Japan and cancelled development of Silent Hills.

Still, at least Coffee Stain is open to hiring Kojima when he (allegedly) leaves Konami. Thoughts on this? Let us know in the comments.

Coffee Stain Studios’ Goat Simulator is finally out on Xbox 360 and Xbox One, co-developed by Double Eleven (which has handled various ports like Limbo for PS Vita, PS4 and Xbox One).

You’ll find the Xbox One version’s page live with the Xbox 360 version to follow shortly after. For those living under a rock, Goat Simulator is a…well, it’s an exaggerated, halucinogenic, almost nightmarish version of what it would be like to play as a goat. This particular version will sport split-screen co-op and feature such nuanced gameplay features as jet-packs (can’t be controlled) and slow-mo (even less chance of being controlled).

If you don’t own an Xbox console, then cheer up – Goat Simulator is also available on iOS, Android, PC, Mac OS X and Linux. There is truly no escape from the goats, no matter where you go.

What are your thoughts on having Goat Simulator for Xbox One? Let us know in the comments.

The Xbox One will be receiving over 50 indie games, Microsoft announced at GDC as part of their ID@Xbox initiative. The list of indie games coming to the platform includes titles such as Wasteland 2. Goat Simulator, and, the best indie game from last year, and probably one of the best games from last uyear overall, Shovel Knight.

The best part about Shovel Knight is that it will be starring the Battletoads as guest characters (which makes so much more sense than Kratos in the PlayStation versions).

The full list of games coming to Xbox One under ID@Xbox is:

• • Knight Squad (Chainawesome Games)
  • Gunsport (Necrosoft Games)
  • Aritiana & the Harpy’s Feather (Duaik)
  • Inside My Radio (Seaven Studio)
  • Anarcute (AnarTeam)
  • Screencheat (Surprise Attack)
  • Tower of Guns (Grip Digital)
  • Tumblestone (The Quantum Astrophysicists)

• Soul Axiom (Wales Intractive)
• Bedlam (RedBedlam)
• Beyond Eyes (Team 17)
• ClusterPuck 99 (PHL Collective)
• Cuphead (Studio MDHR)
• Earthlock: Festival of Magic (Snowcastle Games)
• The Flame in the Flood (The Molasses Flood)
• Fortified (Clapfoot Games)
• Game 4 (The Behemoth)
• Goat Simulator (Double Eleven)
• LA Cops (Team 17)
• Magic Duels: Origins
• Mighty No. 9 (Comcept)
• Pixel Galaxy (Serenity Forge)
• R.B.I. Baseball 15 (Serenity Forge)
• Rivals of Aether (Dan Fornace)
• Shadow Blade: Reload (Dead Mage)
• Shovel Knight (Yacht Club Games)
• Submerged (Uppercut Games)
• Super Dungeon Bros (Reach! Games)
• Swordy (Frogshark)
• The Sun and Moon (Digerati Distribution)
• Zheros (Rimlight Studios)
• Wasteland 2 (InXile Entertainment)
• Blues and Bullets (A Crowd of Monsters)
• Quest of Dungeons (David Jose Lourenco Amador
• Commander Cherry’s Puzzled Journey (Grande Games)
• Hyperdrive Massacre (34 Big Things)
• Red Out (34 Big Things)
• Starpoint Gemini 2 (Little Green Men)
• The Little Acre (Pewter Game Studios)
• Space Dust Racers (Space Dust Studios)
• The Adventures of Pip (Tick Toc Games)
• Paranautical Activity (Digerati Distribution)
• Slain (Digerati Distribution)
• Gear Gauntlet (Drop Dead Interactive)
• Draw a Stickman: Epic (Hitcents)
• Reagen Gorbachev (Team2Bit)
• Twin Souls: The Path of Shadows (Lince Works)
• Raging Justice (Makin Games)
• Grabbles (Noble Whale)
• Run (Torch Games)
• World of Diving (Vertigo Games)
• Luna’s Tale: The Curse of the Forgotten Doll (Maestro Game Studio)
• Standpoint (Unruly Attractions)

So yeah, it looks like they have made strides in this area.

Stay tuned to GamingBolt for more coverage. And for crying out loud, buy Shovel Knight, all Xbox One owners.