One of the biggest new game releases of the year confirms exactly when it will be joining the Xbox Game Pass service.

While Xbox Game Pass rarely goes a month without getting at least something new that’s worth checking out, it’s certainly had its dry spells in recent years. The back half of January, however, has quietly revealed a surprising number of cool new games hitting the Netflix-like subscription service,

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Xbox Game Pass subscribers are normally given a heads-up on what games are coming to the service each month. There are typically two waves monthly that add a few games to the collection. We recently had the announcement for January’s second wave, and now we might have an early look at a couple of games coming to the subscription service next month.

Compulsion Games reveals the release date for its Southern Gothic action adventure South of Midnight, which is coming to Xbox Game Pass on day one.