FAR: Changing Tides is available for Xbox Game Pass for console and cloud as well as PC Game Pass starting today, while Microsoft Flight Simulator is available now via Xbox Cloud Gaming. Meanwhile, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13 will come to Game Pass for console and PC on March 3.

Century: Age of Ashes is not mentioned, contrary to the leak, though Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will get in-game perks in the multiplayer dragon battle title.

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Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy turned out to be far better than most people had expected, and word of mouth for the game has been strong even months on from its launch. Square Enix, sadly, hasn’t been satisfied with the game’s commercial performance– though the action-adventure title might soon be opening the gates for a much larger player base to dive in and experience its offerings.

Dealabs user billbil-kun has become something of a prominent and reliable leaker in recent months, having accurately leaked the monthly lineup of free PlayStation Plus games on a number of occasions (including as recently as a few days ago for the month of March). Recently, they emerged again to spill the beans on something on the other side of the console spectrum.

According to the user, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy will be added to the Game Pass catalog in the month of March. Additionally, several other major names are going to be included in the batch of games to be added to the service in the first half of the month, including FAR: Changing Tides, Century: Age of Ashes (which will be launching for Xbox soon), Kentucky Route Zero, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13, and Young Souls.

Exactly which of this games will be coming to Xbox Game Pass for console and cloud and which will be coming to PC Game Pass hasn’t been specified. Microsoft will soon be making the official announcement for the upcoming batch of Game Pass games soon though, so we should know more soon enough. Stay tuned for those details.

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.