Atomic Heart headlines the February Xbox Game Pass calendar

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Xbox has unveiled its Game Pass lineup for the next few weeks of February, including one of its biggest new releases: first-person shooter Atomic Heart. Other games coming out this week and next include Cities: Skylines and Shadow Warrior 3.

The first additions to Game Pass, launching on February 9, are the football simulation Madden NFL 23 and the multiplayer gundam RPG SD Gundam Battle Alliance. The next addition comes on Valentine's Day when strategy title Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord launches on Game Pass, followed by Cities: Skylines - Remastered on February 15 and action game Shadow Warrior 3: Definitive. Edition on February 16.

The latest Game Pass release on the slate is the aforementioned Atomic Core. It is also the sole launch title for this collection of releases. This action FPS is set in a 1930s Soviet Union, and the player is a special ops officer sent to contain an unstable science facility with malfunctioning robots and other horrors. They must improvise and upgrade their weapons to adapt to changing environments. It will launch on Game Pass (and everywhere else) on February 21.

Our sacrifice of other games on Game Pass includes the Besiege preview, as well as Infernax, Recompile, Skul: The Hero Slayer, and The Last Kids on Earth. CrossfireX is also on the chopping block, and of all games it's the least likely to return. The game must stop in May.

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