Microsoft has revealed the next wave of titles heading to Xbox Game Pass for console, PC and Xbox Cloud Gaming.
10.06.2024 - 13:00 / howtogeek.com / Xbox Game Pass / Sydney Butler
I have almost 1000 Steam games, hundreds of Switch games, and probably just as many PlayStation games. I couldn't finish all the games before the Grim Reaper comes to take me to the Great Arcade In The Sky, so why do we keep buying more? It's time to stop, and four things in particular convinced me to wake up and smell the fiscal responsibility by taking a year-long break from buying video games.
Yes, I know. Adjusted for inflation, video games are actually cheaper now than ever, but $70 is still a significant chunk of change! While I would love to try new games like Stellar Blade, I know it's going to cost half within a few months of launch and the only thing I get for that extra money is a way to avoid FOMO. While it feels nice to be keep up with the gaming Joneses, it's not worth the cost! Just buying one new game a month would get you close to $1000 a year, and you know just one isn't that much.
Our game-buying abstinence does not include game subscription services. PlayStation Plus and Game Pass are a part of my monthly subscription budget, and for the cost of one AAA game each, I can have an entire year of access to these libraries, which will do more than enough to satisfy my desire to play more recent titles. I know titles like God of War Ragnarök, which I will only play once anyway, will come to a subscription service eventually. So with just a bit of patience, there's no real pressure to buy anything outright.
I already alluded to this, but thanks to game bundles, free game giveaways on PC, and a never-ending procession of sales of older but still awesome games, I've built up an enormous library of digital titles over the last thirteen years since I first started buying digital games. Just my Nintendo Switch library alone would be enough to take me through the next decade, if I'm being honest.
With so many "bangers" (as the kids like to say) in my existing library, I feel like buying new games is plainly irrational. Especially since I can just wait until I have the actual time to play them, at which point they'll be much cheaper.
While I'm putting a moratorium on buying any games in our home, this is particularly aimed at new games which, apart from being too expensive at launch, are also at their absolute worst at launch. Every game I've bought at the time of release in the last five years has been a buggy mess. Especially if you're mainly a PC gamer like me. I paid a huge premium to play Diablo IV early, and for that entire early access period the game's performance made it unplayable.
By abstaining from new games for as long as possible, your first
Microsoft has revealed the next wave of titles heading to Xbox Game Pass for console, PC and Xbox Cloud Gaming.
The wave 2 games coming to during June 2024 have been announced, and they’re a mix of older faces, some returning games, and even a new addition to EA Play. The latter is the newly rebranded EA Sports FC 24, of course, but those who like city builders will be the players who benefit most from this month’s new games.
Microsoft has announced new titles coming to Xbox Game Pass in late June, which includes EA Sports FC 24, My Time at Sandrock, Robin Hood: Sherwood Builders, and more.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 developer Treyarch didn’t know whether the game was going to be on Xbox Game Pass until recently. In an interview with VGC, senior director of production at Treyarch, Yale Miller, talks about the studio learning that Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be on Game Pass, and how it is affecting development of the game.
It might feel like it’s been almost no time at all since the launch of Fallout 76, but what if I told you that it’s been over five years? You might feel yourself physically withering away, your face peeling away like it’s the claymation death of an Indiana Jones baddie, transforming you into a noseless Ghoul. Speaking of which…
Treyarch has discussed how Black Ops 6’s inclusion on Game Pass is impacting the final stretch of the new Call of Duty game’s development.
It's easy to get excited about a new game and jump the gun with a pre-order to secure your copy and take advantage of any pre-release bonuses. But this decision can sometimes come back to haunt you. In the modern era, there aren't a lot of reasons to pre-order games at all (in fact, there are more reasons not to).
Game Pass is going to get unquestionably its biggest release ever when Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 releases for the service day and date this October, though not every subscriber is going to get the entire experience, as it turns out. As part of a lengthy blog post, Activision has detailed exactly what elements of the upcoming first-person shooter will be available to Game Pass subscribers based on which tier of the service they’re subscribed to.
There are plenty of game subscription services vying for your money: Xbox Game Pass, EA Play, Ubisoft+, and PlayStation Plus to name a few.
Call of Duty Black Ops 6 will be released on Game Pass on day one, but the content available to subscribers will vary depending on their membership tier.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will launch day one into Game Pass on 25th October 2024, but with four different versions of Game Pass, Microsoft has given a handy explainer for what version you should subscribe to in order to get access to what for Xbox and PC gamers.
Microsoft has revealed the latest library update for Xbox Game Pass, which will include Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveler II. Both of these are available now. Additionally, the update will introduce The Callisto Protocol, Isonzo, Depersonalization, and Still Wakes the Deep to the collection through June.