The calendar has flipped over to December, and while Microsoft isn't ready to reveal all the games headed to Game Pass this month, the company has announced one: Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled. The racing game from Activision hits Game Pass on December 4. [ Update: Microsoft has since announced lots of games coming to Game Pass in Decembe r].

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled for Xbox One will be available via Game Pass Standard and Game Pass Ultimate starting December 4, Microsoft announced.

Microsoft has announced the games coming to Xbox Game Pass in December 2024, headlined by Indiana Jones and the Great Circle but also including the likes of Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled.

All of the games listed as “Game Pass Standard” in the bullet points above can also be found through Game Pass Ultimate. In addition to these new titles, three existing Game Pass Ultimate titles will be made available on Game Pass Standard on December 4th: Forza Motorsport (Xbox Series X|S), Hauntii (Console), and Humanity (Console).

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled - the spruce-up of the racer once referred to as "objectively loads better" than Mario

Activision has today announced that yet another Crash Bandicoot game will be making its way to Xbox Game Pass. This time it’s Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled which will be hitting Xbox Game Pass on December 5th.

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled has been confirmed for Xbox Game Pass, and will arrive on the service on December 4th.

This has now been announced by Microsoft, who adds that we don't have to wait for the fun either. Already tomorrow, December 4, it's premiere time. We gave Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled a very high score at the time, and in our review you can read, among other things:

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled features classic Crash-themed kart racing, across a variety of tracks in both single-player and multiplayer - with online play a brand-new feature for the remake. CTR Nitro-Fueled also contains a bunch of courses from the game's OG Xbox sequel; Crash Nitro Kart.

As happens every month, the company has announced a new batch of games coming to Xbox Game Pass in December 2024. Every month, Microsoft adds a host of games to its Game Pass subscription service — usually split up into two batches of announcements,

Game Pass is losing a total of 13 games in December including Forza Horizon 4, but a lot of new games are on their way in.