X018 recap: everything Microsoft announced at its Xbox event

Yesterday Microsoft held the X018 event, which also included a special two-hour episode of Inside Xbox, broadcast live directly from the event.
At X018 Microsoft dropped plenty of news for Xbox fans.

– Xbox Game Pass

The first piece of news announced was that PUBG will be added to Xbox Game Pass on November 12.

And that the first month of the service for those who are not yet subscribers is costing just $1.00 until the end of December.

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During the two hours of presentation, 15 other games were confirmed for the service. See the full list below:

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (will be added on December 17)
Void Bastards (day one on Xbox Game Pass, in 2019)
Ori and the Blind Forest
Ori and the Will of the Wisps (day one on Xbox Game Pass, in 2019)
Thief of Thieves: Season One
Kingdom: Two Crowns
Aftercharge
Supermarket Shriek
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
Pathologic 2
Secret Neighbor
The Good Life
Agents of Mayhem
MXGP3
Thomas Was Alone

– Tons of Trailers

A new Crackdown 3 trailer was released, showing the game’s multiplayer mode, called “Wrecking Zone”, a Team Deathmatch with two teams of 5 players, with the same fully destructible environment mechanics.

Crackdown 3’s release date was moved up by a week, from February 22 to February 15. And the first game in the franchise is available for free on Xbox Live until November 30. Just go to the store and grab your copy.

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A new, previously unseen Kingdom Hearts III trailer was released, confirming that the 100 Acre Woods world will be back, in addition to showing new scenes related to the game’s story.

Also related to JRPGs and Square Enix, the games of the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy (XIII, XIII-2 and Lightning Returns) will arrive on backward compatibility on November 13, with enhancements for the Xbox One X.

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Sea of Thieves and State of Decay 2 also had news, and will receive new free content in 2019.

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Just Cause 4, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Devil May Cry 5 also received new trailers: Just Cause 4 showing more destruction with the giant hurricane, Tomb Raider showing its additional DLC content to be released on November 13, and DMC5 showing its “training mode”, which will be called The Void.

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The Spartan Collector’s Edition of Metro Exodus was shown, as well as the Fortune Island expansion for Forza Horizon 4, which will be released on December 13.

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– End of the Event

Microsoft announced during X018 that during Black Friday (in the US), the Xbox One X will get a $100.00 price cut and will be sold for $399.00.

Finally, it announced the acquisition of two more studios: inXile Entertainment and Obsidian Entertainment, both with vast experience in RPGs

inXile Entertainment is responsible for the games Wasteland 2, Torment: Tides of Numenera, The Bard’s Tale IV, and the upcoming Wasteland 3.

Obsidian Entertainment was the developer of the games Star Wars KOTOR II, Fallout: New Vegas, South Park: The Stick of Truth and Pillars of Eternity I and II.