{"id":87064,"date":"2026-08-04T11:24:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87064"},"modified":"2026-08-04T14:37:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:37:48","slug":"gears-of-war-e-day-open-beta-leads-xbox-game-pass-august-2026-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87064","title":{"rendered":"Gears of War: E-Day Open Beta Leads Xbox Game Pass August 2026 Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>The first half of August will see a long list of games join Xbox Game Pass, as well as the Gears of War: E-Day open beta for Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>This early trial of E-Day will include the new Horde Siege PvE mode, which transports the series&#8217; traditional co-op wave survival offering to larger settings, and support for more players. <\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, today sees the day one arrival of Beast of Reincarnation, a brand new game from Pok\u00e9mon developer Game Freak. Indie household object romance simulator Date Everything! turns up on August 11, meanwhile.<\/p>\n<p>Sports fans get Cricket 26 on August 13, the same day that indie factory game Sandustry turns up in Game Preview. The full list of games, courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/2026\/08\/04\/xbox-game-pass-august-2026-wave-1\/?ocid=Announce_soc_omc_xbo_tw_Photo_lrn_8.4.1\">Xbox Wire<\/a>, is below.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"the-100-best-xbox-games-of-all-time\" data-value=\"the-100-best-xbox-games-of-all-time\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">Xbox Game Pass August 2026 Wave 1 lineup:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/heretic-hexen\">Heretic + Hexen<\/a> (Cloud, Console, Handheld, and PC) \u2013 August 4, Now with Game Pass Premium; joining Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/beast-of-reincarnation\">Beast of Reincarnation<\/a> (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC) \u2013 August 4, Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/gears-of-war-e-day\">Gears of War: E-Day<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/gears-of-war-e-day\"> Open Beta<\/a> \u2013 Early Access starting August 6, Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/monsters-are-coming-rock-road\">Monsters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first half of August will see a long list of games join Xbox Game Pass, as well as the Gears of War: E-Day open beta for Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass subscribers. This early trial of E-Day will include the new Horde Siege PvE mode, which transports the series&#8217; traditional co-op wave&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":87066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87064"}],"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\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87068,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87064\/revisions\/87068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}