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X019: ‘The Witcher,’ ‘Final Fantasy,’ ‘Yakuza,’ and More Coming To Xbox Game Pass
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Xbox revealed some of the many titles coming to their game streaming service, Xbox Game Pass, during the X019 event today, and there are some big names incoming.

Among the games coming to the service there are some available right now such as RAGE 2, and some coming in the future including a few surprise big ones like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, nine Final Fantasy titles, and three Yakuza games.

You can find many more of the over 50 titles coming to Xbox Game Pass below, along with a pair of videos.

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Blu-ray Review: Retaliation
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Retaliation
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Director: Yasuharu Hasebe
Screenwriter: Yoshihiro Ishimatsu, Keiji Kubota
Cast: Akira Kobayashi, Jô Shishido, Hideaki Nitani
Arrow Video
Rated | 94 Minutes
Release Date: May 11, 2015

With 1968’s Retaliation, director Yasuharu Hasebe (Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter) reunites with the inimitable Jô Shishido (Branded to Kill, Youth of the Beast) for a follow up to their 1967 yakuza hit Massacre Gun.

A tale of gang warfare in Japan, Retaliation stars Akira Kobayashi (Battles Without Honor and Humanity, The Flowers and the Angry Waves) as Jiro Sagae, a yakuza lieutenant who returns from prison to find his gang dispersed and his aging boss in his deathbed.

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Tom Hardy To Star In Takashi Miike’s English-Language Debut ‘The Outsider’
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Quentin Tarantino once referred to the Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike as “the godfather of ultra-violent, get-under-your-skin movies.” Since his debut in 1991, Takashi Miike has created some of cinema’s most and controversial films, including Gozu, Audition, Ichi the Killer, and 13 Assassins.

After 22 years of directing feature films in Japan, Miike is now in talks to make his English-language debut with The Outsider, based on an original script developed by John Linson and written by Andrew Baldwin, with Tom Hardy attached to star.

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