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New Xbox games — September 2 to 8

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The new games just don’t stop coming! Next week, 22 new Xbox games launch for the platform across Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC. For the Xbox Game Pass subscribers out there, you have two upcoming Game Pass games heading your way.

Kicking things off next week on September 3 there is Star Trucker, which joins Game Pass on day one, Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions, and Behaviour Interactive’s new horror title, The Casting of Frank Stone. The following day on September 4, Age of Mythology: Retold makes its way to Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Game Pass. Finally, September 6 brings another load of goodies with Ace Attorney Investigations Collection and NBA 2K25.

Here’s a breakdown of everything coming to the world of Xbox next week. Let us know which of these you’re picking up in the comments!

September 3

Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Firebolt Supreme Broom Skin included with pre-order.

Your next chapter takes flight! Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of Quidditch by playing solo or sharing the magic with friends and family.

LIVE YOUR QUIDDITCH FANTASY
Take to the sky as one of the classic positions—Chaser, Seeker, Keeper, or Beater—each with their own unique play style. Soar into legendary Quidditch arenas, as well as maps that showcase never-before-seen areas of the wizarding world.

MULTIPLE WAYS TO PLAY
Career Mode: From backyard battles in the Weasley Burrow to high-stakes showdowns at the Quidditch World Cup, rise to become a champion either solo or in online co-op with teams of up to 3 friends.
Exhibition Matches: set your teams, map, and difficulty and play alone or on teams of up to 3 in online co-op.
Player vs Player: Test your skills in competitive online matches against other Quidditch teams.

YOUR QUIDDITCH YOUR WAY
Customize Your Approach: Level up and use skill points to tailor your play style for each role. Change your flight style by switching between and leveling up different brooms.
Play As Yourself or as Iconic Harry Potter Characters: cosmetic customization options and classic character designs allow you to express your game-time personality.

Star Trucker — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows

Haul cargo, trade salvage and keep your space suit close as you search for fame and fortune among the stars in a game that puts an interstellar twist on the truck sim genre.

The Casting of Frank Stone — Xbox Series X|S

The shadow of Frank Stone looms over Cedar Hills, a town forever altered by his violent past. As a group of young friends are about to discover, Stone’s blood-soaked legacy cuts deep, leaving scars across families, generations, and the very fabric of reality itself.

September 4

3XTINCTION — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

3xtinction is an Online Co-op Top Down Shooter with tactical and strategic elements. After a series of experiments on spiders gone wrong, the world is devasted by an outbreak. You and your friend will have to cooperate in order to complete missions. Prepare yourself before every wave, buy weapons, ammos and set up turrets to stay alive. Each wave, the Infecteds are more and more numerous.

Alpacapaca Dash — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Alpacapaca Dash is a 2D run and shoot game where you are the last hope of saving the Alpaca World from eternal darkness! Control the last alpaca and run through the world, using your mighty Alpaca Beam to destroy evil and your hooves to purify and restore the world to what it once was. Do you have what it takes to save the alpaca goddess?

Age of Mythology: Retold — Xbox Series X|S, Windows

From the creators of the award-winning Age of Empires franchise, Age of Mythology: Retold goes beyond history to a mythical age where gods, monsters, and humans collide.

Billy’s Game Show — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Billy’s Game Show is a Stealth Horror Game. Play against an AI that watches your moves through security cameras. Your goal is to find the 3 hidden heads and escape the horror of the show.

You’re the current contestant in a twisted game environment designed by Billy himself, for his own twisted enjoyment. Billy’s Game Show set is made for you to choose your own path, but remember, it’s Billy’s game, and he sets the rules. He will challenge you with traps, hidden paths, different puzzles, and most importantly, three generators which need you to consistently keep an eye open, otherwise, they will eliminate you.

Bunny Battle Nemesis — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Sci-fi, bloodthirsty bunnies, and the powers of a goddess at your disposal! This is Bunny Battle Nemesis. Experience intense action, explosions, and chaos as you defend the Bunny Kingdom from certain doom.

Elon and the Divine Proof — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows

Elon found himself on a beautiful beach with dozens of tasty burgers. He didn’t know how he got there. He decided to embark on a mission to collect all the burgers scattered around the island.

Green Soldiers Heroes — Windows

After a long and intense war. The army has created a machine to regenerate the bodies of the best soldiers. But due to the chemicals used in the regeneration process, the soldiers’ skin turns greenish. Therefore, many of them do not return to society and live exclusively for military service.

Features:
– Third person shooter game.
– Easy and fun achievements
– Ideal for beginner players.
– Earn coins to unlock weapons and new clothing colors.
– Adjustable aim.
– Levels with increasing difficulty

Mining Mechs — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Dig deep and make it big as you pilot mining machines to collect subterranean resources in pixel art style!

Strange noises and weird activities have been detected underground and you’ve been called in to help! Mining Mechs is a retro 2D action game presented in fluid pixel art style! Commandeer a high-tech mining mech to dig deep into the earth and collect valuable resources. Sell those resources on the surface to earn money, which you’ll need to upgrade your mech or buy new ones.

Each mech has its own benefits and will help you explore the depths even further. Don’t think your quest will be easy, though. The deeper you get, the tougher it gets! Will you unravel the dark secrets of the underground, or will you come up against challenges that push your digging skills to the limit?

Offroad Mechanic Simulator — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

In Offroad Mechanic Simulator you are employed to modify offroad vehicles and prepare them for the toughest challenges they could face!

Accept contracts that go well beyond standard repair jobs. Equip the client’s cars with the best parts that far exceed their original capabilities and make sure they’re ready to travel the most difficult terrains possible. Get ready to install a higher suspension or add a snorkel when a client needs it. Choose the parts that will do the job without going over your budget.

Super Snake Block DX — Windows

Super Snake Block: Moves automatically and along the way there are coins, snake body parts, boxes, shield, magnet and scenery objects.

• Deluxe Version: High definition graphics and audio, enhanced visuals and fluid 60fps image.
• Relaxing gameplay
• Simple and addictive control
• Varied Stages: Forest, Desert, Graveyard and Snow
• Body Pieces: You need to pick them up to increase your size. Making it more resistant.
• Boxes: Use the snake’s body to break boxes and earn points. The speed increases with the number of points acquired during the match.
• Shield: Grants temporary resistance. Allows the player to break boxes without losing parts of the snake’s body.
• Magnet: Attracts all nearby coins for a short period of time.
• Coins: Use them to unlock new stages and more agile skins.
• Snake skins to unlock

Be careful with objects in the scenery. Even in the dark, the snake will lose body parts when colliding with the solid objects.

September 5

Paper Ghost Stories: Third Eye Open — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Third Eye Open is a supernatural narrative adventure about a young girl coming of age. The game is set in a small Malaysian suburb which the player navigates to speak to friends, families, and ghosts. Various minigames immerse the player deeper into the protagonist’s journey.

Shogun Showdown — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Shogun Showdown is a turn-based combat game with rogue-like and deck-building elements. Position yourself and attack at the right time, upgrade your tiles and combo them to get ready to face the Shogun!

September 6

Ace Attorney Investigations Collection — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Miles Edgeworth’s dramatic turnabouts take center stage!

Experience both Ace Attorney Investigations games in one gorgeous collection!

Investigate crime scenes and solve tough, intriguing cases through logic and deduction.

When Edgeworth’s past and present collide, his future begins!

Aero The Acro-Bat 2 — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

After managing to stop Edgar Ektor’s mad plans to destroy the world of amusement, Aero decides to investigate the madman’s museum of horror.

There here finds a strange floating magician’s box. When he gets inside to investigate it, he is suddenly transported to a mysterious place. However, unbeknownst to Aero, Edgar has managed to survive after being rescued by his minion Zero, and has asked him to execute the plan B, but what could this mysterious plan be?

Aero will need to escape the mysterious place he’s trapped in if he wants to stop Edgar Ektor’s new plan!

Features:
* Play through 8 areas with 3 stages each, including stages with rides
* Use Aero’s acrobatic skills to overcome all kinds of deadly obstacles and strange enemies
* Choose between the English and the Japanese version
* Rewind/Turbo function: repeat something till you achieve perfection or speed things up
* Save state function: save wherever you want and restart from that exact point
* Screen filters: select from several filters to modify the game’s looks (retro-style monitor, black-and-white, etc.)
* Gallery: check images from the original game’s illustrations, posters, box design, etc.
* Cheats function: activate several cheats that will make things easier (infinite energy, infinite lives, invulnerable, etc.)

NBA 2K25 — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Compete your way as you define your legacy in MyCAREER and MyTEAM, and experience MyNBA and The W on Xbox Series X|S or MyLEAGUE on Xbox One. Express your personality with an array of customization options and explore an all-new City (Xbox Series X|S) or urban metropolis in the Neighborhood (Xbox One).

Perennial Order — Xbox Series X|S

Perennial Order is a 2D plant horror boss rush, set in an atmospheric Dark Age world plagued by nature-infested horrors. Explore a lore-filled and eldritch land alone or with a friend, all in a realistic painterly style.

Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 — Xbox Series X|S

Dust off your torch and hammer – it’s time to get back to work, you have a new job to do. Visit the new beach coast with the largest, biggest ship graveyard in the world, dismantle huge ship parts and collect tons of precious steel. Roll up your sleeves, it’s time to get back to the business.

In the game, you can expect new bigger ships, new gameplay mechanics, features and improvements, but also well-known mechanics from the first game that have been significantly improved.

IT’S GOOD TO BE BACK IN THE BUSINESS!
Ship Graveyard Simulator is back bigger than before and it doesn’t matter if you’re a veteran in the game or for the first time you will have a hammer and a torch in your hands there are a dozen of kilometers of wreckage on the coast, and thousands of tons of steel – you will get into this business.

DISASSEMBLE BIG SHIP PARTS
Large ship parts? Oh yes! You will need a special crane and a large container for it. Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 will have large fragments, modules and wreck components available for demolition, including engines, pumps, control panels, and much more.

HUGE SHIPS
Order new ships waiting for demolition via the computer in your home, and with the new ship, you will receive a new task! Collect all the necessary steel, aluminum, or copper parts, even a small part has its own value. There will be several types of ships available in the game, which will be divided into individual categories – some of them are real colossi.

DESTRUCTION
Your main task in the game is to dismantle ships into small parts. Some of them will be small, but a huge challenge awaits you, which will be the disassembly of real giants, and hiring workers who will be able to help you. Use the available tools – hammer, saw, torch, etc. – to disassemble individual pieces of the ship into smaller pieces, collect as many of them as possible and develop your business!

DANGERS
Remember that you are doing one of the most dangerous jobs in the world and you disarm the biggest shipwrecks in the world, so what could go wrong? In Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 there are many dangers waiting for you – gas leakage, electric shock from cable, and poisoning with toxins in unsecured rooms. Do you remember about large fragments and ship modules? You’d better have your helmet on.

This game include Warships DLC as part of the base game, included ships are:
-Chevy
-Fuso
-Wicher

SUNSOFT is Back! Retro Game Selection — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

SUNSOFT is back and it’s bringing some of its 8-bit classics to the West for the very first time!

In SUNSOFT is Back! Retro Game Selection, discover three of the legendary Japanese publisher’s 8-bit games and play them in English for the first time ever!

The three games included are: The Wing of Madoola, Firework Thrower Kantaro’s 53 Stations of the Tokaido and Ripple Island.

Dive into SUNSOFT’s rich history by playing those Action and Adventure gems from the 1980s!

About the games included:

The Wing of Madoola: Help fierce warrior Lucia retrieve the powerful Wing of Madoola from the evil King Daltos.

Firework Thrower Kantaro’s 53 Stations of the Tokaido: As fireworks maker Kantaro, prevent evil merchants from turning his creations into weapons!

Ripple Island: Play as Kyle, a young boy dreaming of a better life, who answers King Dotella’s call for help against the nefarious Emperor Groaker.

In addition to giving brand new localizations to all three titles, multiple quality of life features have also been added to make the gameplay experience more pleasant, and less unforgiving, to modern gamers.

Features:
-English localization created for all three games
-Save States
-Rewind
-CRT Filter
-Multiple aspect ratios and borders
-Gallery Mode showcasing art and promotional material
-3D models of the original game cartridges

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