{"id":265537,"date":"2025-10-08T15:40:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/?p=796431"},"modified":"2025-10-08T15:40:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:40:43","slug":"space-jam-a-new-legacy-is-getting-an-official-game-and-its-coming-to-xbox-game-pass-on-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/space-jam-a-new-legacy-is-getting-an-official-game-and-its-coming-to-xbox-game-pass-on-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Jam: A New Legacy is getting an official game, and it\u2019s coming to Xbox Game Pass on Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Space Jam: A New Legacy<\/a><\/p>\n

You may have heard about Space Jam: A New Legacy<\/strong>, a new film acting as a sequel to the classic basketball\/Looney Tunes crossover, but did you know there’s also a tie-in game coming, too?<\/p>\n

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Space Jam: A New Legacy – The Game<\/strong> will be a companion title to the new film, which is simply called Space Jam 2 by many fans, and today Microsoft has announced that the upcoming game will launch exclusively as part of its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Perks<\/strong> program on July 1. <\/strong>Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Perks are free benefits that make in-game add-ons, consumables, partner offers, and more available to Ultimate members. You may remember the Disney+ free trial<\/a> that was included as part of the scheme recently.<\/p>\n

Following its arrival via the program, the platform holder has said that the game will become “more widely available” as of July 15<\/strong> ahead of the film’s release in theaters and on HBO Max on July 16. <\/strong><\/p>\n

We know that it’ll go free to play on Xbox as of July 15, but whether that means it’ll come to other consoles in the future remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

As you can see in the trailer below, the game leans on the retro inspiration of the property and feels very much like a beat-em-up reminiscent of the 90s-era of arcade gaming. Battletoads fans, Streets of Rage stans, and so on, eat your heart out.<\/p>\n

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“Space Jam: A New Legacy – The Game features the beloved Looney Tunes characters Bugs Bunny and Lola Bunny and the newest member of the Tune Squad, LeBron James, as they face the Goon Squad in a wacky basketball beat ‘em up,” reads a press release on the Xbox Wire.<\/a><\/p>\n

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“A rogue artificial intelligence named Al G. Rhythm has trapped our heroes inside the Warner Bros. server, with little chance of escape. The Tune Squad must fight their way through a virtual army of Al G.’s creation while also searching for four pieces of “Legacy Code” that will allow them access to the nefarious villain’s secret location.”<\/p>\n

Three special edition controllers have also been added to the Xbox Store to commemorate the game’s arrival first on Xbox:<\/p>\n