{"id":88659,"date":"2026-09-01T13:47:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T17:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88659"},"modified":"2026-09-01T14:48:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:48:01","slug":"xbox-game-pass-september-2026-wave-1-lineup-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88659","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Game Pass September 2026 Wave 1 Lineup Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Microsoft has announced the Xbox Game Pass September 2027 Wave 1 lineup, and it includes a Call of Duty blockbuster.<\/p>\n<p>Available today on all major Game Pass tiers, Shelldiver is an incremental game about a senior turtle trying to start a business selling jellyfish. It sounds odd, but its Steam reviews look promising, so maybe this is one worth hauling in.<\/p>\n<p>Later this week, Speedrunners 2: King of Speed launches straight into Game Pass, bringing a second helping of competitive co-op platforming action. Game Pass premium members also gain access to Dice a Million, the roguelike deck builder already on other tiers.<\/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=\"\">\n<p>Perhaps this batch&#8217;s biggest inclusion is Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, which is the Raven Software-made instalment that arrived back in 2020. We gave the game&#8217;s single-player a 7\/10 in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-campaign-review-2\">campaign review<\/a>, though its multiplayer modes lagged behind that a little. There have been better CODs, in other words, though there have also been worse.<\/p>\n<p>Later this month sees the addition of The Royal Writ, another roguelike deck builder, though this time with a medieval twist. Then there&#8217;s Virtua Fighter 5, or Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage, to give its full name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced the Xbox Game Pass September 2027 Wave 1 lineup, and it includes a Call of Duty blockbuster. Available today on all major Game Pass tiers, Shelldiver is an incremental game about a senior turtle trying to start a business selling jellyfish. It sounds odd, but its Steam reviews look promising, so maybe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":88661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88659","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\/88659"}],"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=88659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88663,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88659\/revisions\/88663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}