Xbox Game Pass is adding six new titles to the rotating library later this month and going into April, and the latest additions are especially great for sports fans. The Game Pass offerings change every single month, rotating older titles for new entries, allowing for new play experiences

The latest lineup is unusually themed, sticking heavily to sports games with the exception of Star Wars: Squadrons (though, that's racing, so if you squint your eyes...). For the full lineup of what's coming next, here's what Xbox had to share: 

What's coming:

• Madden NFL 21, console - Available now
• Football Manager 2021, PC - March 4
• Football Manager 2021 Xbox Edition, console and PC - March 4
• NBA 2K21, Cloud and console - March 4
• Star Wars: Squadrons, console - Sometime in March
• NHL 21, console - Early April

DLC and game updates: 

• Control DLC sale, 50% - Now until March 8
• Gears 5: Operations 6 DLC - Available now
• Minecraft: The Mountain - Available now

What's leaving: 

• Alvastia Chronicles, console and PC - March 15
• Astrologaster, PC - March 15
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, console and PC - March 15
• Kona, console - March 15
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, console - March 15

Interested in the Xbox Game Pass but not sure if you want to pull that trigger yet? No worries, here's what you need to know. With the Microsoft subscription service, there are two options to choose from: the Xbox Game Pass and the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Both offer Xbox players a chance to play over 100 titles at no additional cost, including day-one launches of first-party titles. 

Xbox Game Pass retails for $9.99 a month with the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate version coming in at $14.99, including Xbox Live Gold into that bundled price. It's a solid deal, great for those that don't care to own titles or intend to play through something more than once. It could get even better with the ZeniMax acquisition that is set in stone this month for titles under the id Software and Bethesda umbrellas.

What do you think about the latest titles to join the Xbox Game Pass in the coming weeks? Sound off in the comment section below with your thoughts and what you'd like to see added next!

It's been a long road for Madden NFL 21's franchise mode. On the heels of a community campaign to "#FixMaddenFranchise" when it was revealed that the latest edition of the game featured franchise changes that read more like patch notes than upgrades worthy of a new game, EA Tiburon unveiled a long-term vision for the series' franchise mode.

Now, following previous updates that added things like smarter CPU trade logic, playoff brackets, revamped player-stats cards, and additional commissioner tools, EA Tiburon and EA Sports have announced the final franchise update to Madden NFL 21's franchise mode. This latest update delivers on the promise EA Tiburon made to go further down the CPU trade logic and evaluations path, while also adding additional historical context to your league.

In any professional sports league, tradition and a sense of history is important. With this new update to Madden NFL 21's franchise mode, players can revisit the record books of seasons past to view a running log of key award winners, as well as conference and Super Bowl champions on a yearly basis. The records exist in a single hub with a way to filter by year for ease of finding exactly the record you're looking for. Unfortunately, the data will not exist for any award winners or champions that were already crowned, but any seasons you complete after the patch hits will be tracked going forward.

The big upgrades in this patch come in the way the CPU-run teams react to trade offers. One key area is in how star players are valued by the CPU general managers. Going forward, the CPU will consider notions of "reciprocation" when dealing star players away. Essentially, this means that to acquire a star, it will typically require a combination of high-value players and draft picks. If you happen to be the one trading away a star player, you can expect higher returns.

The patch also fixes several issues, including offensive linemen not being properly valued, players being evaluated at the wrong position in the depth chart, and issues involving trades for players at the same position. Franchise players can also be on the lookout for other improvements like a better picture of the actual value of the trade, Dev Traits playing a bigger role in a player's value calculation, and certain defensive positions carrying more weight depending on the scheme run by the team.

Teams will also have more nuanced perspectives of player trade values and draft picks to create situations like we see in the real-life NFL. Other updates include players being more valuable when they're rookies or in the first year of their contracts (as long as they aren't in a one-year contract), and a new age value curve where the older the player gets, the more age affects their value. In addition, top-tier quarterbacks are becoming more valuable. EA Tiburon also continued sharpening the draft logic of the CPU GMs, realigning the base value of draft picks to work with the new player value changes outlined above.

To close out the update, executive producer Seann Graddy delivered a brief video address talking about the improvements still to come as the team shifts its focus toward Madden NFL 22. In the video, Graddy affirmed the studio's renewed commitment to developing franchise mode alongside the rest of the modes in the Madden NFL series. He also said the team is gathering additional feedback from the community, including Game Changers, play testers, content creators, and more, to give players the franchise mode they've been clamoring for.

Only time will tell if EA Tiburon is able to deliver on the franchise mode improvements in Madden NFL 22. In the meantime, the final set of Madden NFL 21 franchise mode improvements arrive tomorrow. Madden NFL 21 launched last August on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The new-gen version, which added smoother gameplay, a new playcall system, and Next-Gen Stats integration, followed in December.

Don't let your dreams be dreams, kids, because Dead by Daylight's new killer is a K-Pop star with a serious grudge. Be that musically-included murderer you've always wanted to be with the newly announced Trickster killer. 

Revealed exclusively via IGN, the newest chapter on the way for Dead by Daylight fans is called All-Kill and its setting centers around a K-pop star that is overcome with jealousy. He wants to be front and center and he's not above murdering his fellow bandmates to get to where he wants to be. 

Is this a very different direction for the game, especially following the Silent Hill chapter? Absolutely. Is it kind of neat they went this far left field? You betcha! Part of what keeps this game alive is every chapter is different. Some chapters bring in iconic faces from the archives of horror legends, while others — like this — show off the more adventurous side of the team. 

We've got a small look at what's ahead with the teaser trailer seen below: 

The Trickster, as one could probably estimate from his extreme jealousy, is described as incredibly vain. His real name is Ji-Woon and his aspirations of being famous led him to "accidentally" letting his fellow bandmates burn alive. Driven by stardom wants, Ji-Woon goes on a series of kidnappings and murders and even uses the screams of those he takes and puts them in his own music in celebration. 

Creepy, right? 

With The Trickster being the new killer, a new Survivor is also on the way: a music producer named Yun-Jin. To make this K-Pop fantasy more rooted in reality, Behavior Interactive worked closely with Kevin Woo from the K-Pop group U-KISS and DJ Swivel, who worked with the famous BTS group. 

The latest chapter will be dropping later this month, but both the new killer and the new survivor are available now in the game's public rest build. You can also check out what else is new, including a recent graphics overhaul, right here with our previous coverage. 

[Source: IGN]