Xbox Game Pass really is the gift that keeps on giving. Tonight at X019, Microsoft has announced more than 50 new titles headed to the service in the coming months.

From a collection of Final Fantasy games and The Witcher 3, to indie gems like My Friend Pedro and Phogs, it looks like there's a little something for everyone on the way - and a bunch of new games have even arrived on Game Pass today.

And, separately, Phil Spencer has said a cross-platform Final Fantasy 14 is coming.

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Forget any announcements ahead of E3 - the biggest news of the week is soundtracks to pretty much every Final Fantasy game are on Spotify and Apple Music.

The collection is pretty comprehensive - there's every mainline Final Fantasy game, several PLUS albums (bonus or unreleased tracks for games like 9, 11, 13 and 13-2), expansions for MMOs 11 and 14 and a variety of spin-offs, from Crisis Core to Tactics and more recent efforts such as Dissidia, Brave Exvius and World of Final Fantasy.

Even the Spirits Within is on there, for those pining to hear the score of an underappreciated cinema classic.

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Legendary video game composer Nobuo Uematsu has announced he can no longer continue with his current projects due to ill health.

Writing in a post on his blog today, Uematsu declined to state the nature of his condition, except to say it had affected him now for a couple of years.

Placing his career on hold indefinitely, Uematsu wrote that his return to work would be depend on his recovery. He did not want to continue working while ill and produce subpar music not up to his usual standard.

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