Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, Microsoft are bringing Maneater back to Game Pass. Yesterday they unveiled the next batches of Game Pass additions and two are returnees, with the delightful fighty platformer Indivisible accompanying brutal shark 'em up Maneater. What's more important is that it's adding the game with the cutest little Nurglings, grimdark retro-styled FPS Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. The rhetoric of 'purging xenos and heretics' surely doesn't apply to these darling babies. Read on for all the games coming to (and going from) Game Pass over the next few weeks.

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Bandai Namco has announced that sales for Tales of Arise have passed 3 million copies. There is a new visual to commemorate this milestone, with all the party members (including Nazamil) thanking the player.

The art has a light, pastel aesthetic and shows “3M copies sold. Thank you!” at the bottom. It shows all of the main playable characters, including Alphen without his mask. Nazamil is at the back between Dohalim and Rinwell. She is a major character who appeared in the Beyond the Dawn postgame DLC.

Bandai Namco reached this sales milestone for Tales of Arise in the span of about 3 years. The game first came out in early September 2021 and it was a worldwide release. It reached 1.5 million sales in October 2021, about 48 days after its initial September 10, 2021 release. Then, less than a year later in April 2022, Bandai Namco announced that the game sold 2 million copies. We can see that sales significantly slowed down in between 2022 and 2024, even though the DLC for the game came out in November 2023.

Nonetheless, Tales of Arise is still the best-selling Tales game. It beat out Tales of Symphonia, which has 2.4 million sales, and Tales of Vesperia, which has 2.37 million sales. These numbers are from 2021.

Tales of Arise is readily available on the PS4, PS5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X, and Xbox One.

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Bandai Namco has lifted the streaming restrictions that were in place for Tales of Arise: Beyond the Dawn. Players will be able to upload content from all parts of the game now.

The rule regarding streaming and content creation based on the Beyond the Dawn DLC for Tales of Arise went into place on February 21, 2024. However, people should still put some sort of spoiler warning either in the thumbnail, the beginning of the video, or in the video description. This goes for screenshots as well. Companies usually ask this from fans even after they lift streaming bans so that players who are starting the game later or haven’t gotten as far yet will not spoil themselves on accident.

Beyond the Dawn is the post-game DLC for Tales of Arise. It introduces new character Nazamil, though she is not a playable character. While the DLC content takes place after the game, players are free to start it before they beat the main Tales of Arise story. Since you can’t use your own characters from the base game for the DLC, you won’t have to worry about their level or equipment.

Tales of Arise and the Beyond the Dawn DLC are readily available on the PS4, PS5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X, and Xbox One.

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The Xbox Game Pass update for the second half of February 2024 and early March 2024 is live, and the games mentioned include Tales of Arise and Soul Hackers 2. We already knew the one RPG would be arriving, and now we know the other is leaving.

Tales of Arise is the latest entry in Bandai Namco’s action-RPG series, and it is on both Xbox Game Pass and the PlayStation Plus game catalog for certain subscription tiers. It follows Alphen and Shionne as they go around their world, dealing with the Renan people’s abuse of power toward the Dahnan people. 

Meanwhile, Atlus’ Soul Hackers 2 is another Shin Megami Tensei series RPG spin-off that is leaving Xbox Game Pass on the last day of February 2024. It follows an AI entity named Ringo as she attempts to work with certain Devil Summoners to save the world.

Here is the full Xbox Games Pass game schedule for the rest of February 2024:

• Bluey: The Videogame (cloud, console, PC) - February 22, 2024
• Indivisible (cloud, console, PC) - February 28, 2024
• Madden NFL 24 (cloud, console, PC) - February 27, 2024
• Maneater (cloud, console, PC) - February 27, 2024
• Return to Grace (cloud, console, PC) - Available Now
• Space Engineers (cloud, console, PC) - February 29, 2024
• Tales of Arise (cloud, console, PC) - Available Now
• Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun (cloud, console, PC) - March 5, 2024

As for the two games leaving on February 29, 2024, those are Madden NFL 22 and Soul Hackers 2. The former is the EA Play title for consoles and PCs. The latter is the Xbox Game Pass title with cloud, console, and PC support.

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Fantasy role playing game Tales of Arise has sold three million copies ahead of arriving on the PlayStation Plus Games Catalog and Xbox Game Pass.

Publisher Bandai Namco announced the milestone on X/Twitter, sharing new artwork for the game in celebration. "Over three million of you have shown your support …

PlayStation Plus Game Catalogue and Classics titles for February 2024 are now available. This month, PS Plus Extra and Premium/Deluxe members will receive access to several titles, with some big names included, such as Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Need for Speed Unbound, and The Outer Worlds.

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Bandai Namco announced that Tales of Arise will join the Xbox Game Pass catalog in Japan on February 19, 2024, as well as the PS Plus Game Catalog on February 20, 2024. Other Tales titles will be joining the PS Plus Game Catalog as well.

Sony also detailed various other games that will be joining the PS Plus Game Catalogue on the same day. The PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium catalogue will include Need for Speed Unbound, and The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition for the PS5.

Tales of Arise, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and Roguebook will be added to both the PS5 and PS4 catalogues. Meanwhile, LEGO Worlds, LEGO Jurassic World, Rogue Lords, and Tales of Zestiria will be the PS4 games added. The PlayStation Premium Classics catalogue will add Resistance: Retribution, Jet Rider 2, Tales of Symphonia, and Tales of Vesperia.

Sony also announced recently that the three new PlayStation Plus February 2024 games are Foamstars, Rollerdome, and Steelrising. The three titles joined the subscription service on February 6, 2024.

Tales of Arise and the Beyond the Dawn DLC are immediately available for the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC. Tales of Arise will be available on Xbox Game Pass from February 19, and the PS Plus Game Catalog from February 20, 2024.

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