The game for February 2025 is Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, which was the surprise shadow drop at last month's Xbox Developer Direct. It's available on Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC and via Xbox Cloud Gaming. You'll find the newly-refreshed forum thread to get involved below:

Post the Ninja Gaiden 4 announcement, Xbox's chief shares the company's enduring push for a new sequel in the long-running action series.

Xbox kicked January off with a banger Developer_Direct presentation, and yes, Ninja Gaiden 4 is real and is coming to Xbox Game Pass.

This week, Digital Foundry has been back at it, testing out the recent Ninja Gaiden 2 Black remaster that shadow dropped onto Xbox Game Pass last month. In short, DF says that this new version of the Xbox 360 classic "isn't perfect - but it's the best version yet", which we'll absolutely take.

A solid action game to play after Ninja Gaiden 2 Black is Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance for numerous reasons. For one, the game packs a ton of fun, depth, challenge, and hype in

In fact, it's a rare occurrence for a title on Game Pass to even have PS5 controller support since a lot of them don't have allowances for different button glyphs to appear on screen. Thankfully, Ninja Gaiden 2 Black's settings allow you to completely swap out the typical X, Y, B, and A buttons for PlayStation's.

At the end of the reveal of Ninja Gaiden 4, Team Ninja revealed that they remastered Ninja Gaiden 2 with Unreal Engine 5, and this new version was Microsoft’s second ever stealth drop, after Hi-Fi Rush. They call this version of the game Ninja Gaiden 2 Black.

Say what you will about Ninja Gaiden 2, the game commits to its ridiculous over-the-top action tone. I never grew up with Ninja Gaiden. The original games came before my time, and the rebooted franchise was synonymous with the Xbox 360,

Ninja Gaiden 2 Black - Unreal Engine 5 powers a brand-new remaster and 120fps is the target... but is it achievable?

Ninja Gaiden is one of the most popular and longest-enduring ninja game franchises. Ryu Hayabusa's exploits began in the arcades in 1988 and have continued across numerous console generations. The modern trilogy of Ninja Gaiden games began with the reboot in 2004.