{"id":74780,"date":"2026-04-07T09:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=74780"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:45:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:45:56","slug":"microsoft-confirms-some-big-hitters-for-xbox-game-pass-april-2026-wave-1-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=74780","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Confirms Some Big Hitters for Xbox Game Pass April 2026 Wave 1 Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>April 2026 is shaping up to be a big month for Xbox Game Pass, with a number of high-profile games hitting Microsoft\u2019s subscription service.<\/p>\n<p>As detailed on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/2026\/04\/07\/xbox-game-pass-april-2026-wave-1\/\">Xbox Wire<\/a>, the PC version of DayZ kicks things off on April 8, joining Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, Game Pass Essential, PC Game Pass. On the same day, Endless Legend 2 (Game Preview) (PC) joins Game Pass Premium (it\u2019s already in Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass). Also on April 8, Remedy\u2019s FBC: Firebreak (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, and PC) joins Game Pass Premium (again, this one is already in Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass).<\/p>\n<p>A day later, on April 9, Frontier\u2019s Planet Coaster 2 (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, and PC) joins Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, and PC Game Pass. Then, on April 10, Tiny Bookshop (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC) hits Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, PC Game Pass.<\/p>\n<p>April 13 sees Football Manager 26 (PC) and Football Manager 26 Console (Cloud, Console, and PC) join Game Pass Premium (both were already on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass).<\/p>\n<p>April 14 is a big day, with Hades II (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 2026 is shaping up to be a big month for Xbox Game Pass, with a number of high-profile games hitting Microsoft\u2019s subscription service. As detailed on Xbox Wire, the PC version of DayZ kicks things off on April 8, joining Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, Game Pass Essential, PC Game Pass. On the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":74782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74784,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74780\/revisions\/74784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}