Xbox Game Pass starts 2023 with Persona, Monster Hunter

Game Pass subscribers are getting their first new games of 2023. Xbox announced it’s adding three new titles to the service next week. It’s a smaller addition than usual for Game Pass, but this is somewhat mitigated by all three games being massive RPGs.

The titles are Persona 3 Portable, Persona 4 Golden and Monster Hunter Rise. The two Persona titles join their JRPG sibling, Persona 5 Royal, on the service on January 19. Both tell supernatural coming-of-age stories. Monster Hunter Rise, another RPG about (as the name suggests) hunting giant monsters, launches on the service on January 20.