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Microsoft’s plans for Xbox Game Pass in November are full of treats, but there’s always a bit of a nasty trick, as games leave the subscription service’s library. On 15th November, there’s a batch of games that will be departing, so what are they?

Microsoft has revealed and confirmed a whole host of big games coming to Xbox Game Pass through the first half of November 2023, and it’s a pretty great crop of games, many of which are coming to Game Pass on day one.

Publisher Private Division and developer Roll7 will release third-person action shooter Rollerdrome for Xbox Series on November 28, the companies announced. It will also be available via Xbox Game Pass for Console, PC, and Cloud.

Microsoft has announced new titles coming to Xbox Game Pass in early November, which includes Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, WILD HEARTS, Football Manager 2024, and more.

Microsoft has announced the next batch of Xbox Game Pass games being added to the service starting today.

We did the podcast live this week immediately following Xbox's Partner Preview livestream, and we spent the entire episode being pleasantly surprised by both the things Microsoft promised would be there (like Alan Wake 2, Ark: Survival Ascended, and Dungeons of Hinterberg), and the things that were surprises (like Metal Gear solid Delta, Still Wakes the Deep, and The Finals). Plus, we give some constructive criticism on Xbox's latest presentation format.

A recent SEC filing by Microsoft has revealed that CEO Satya Nadella’s pay targets this time around have reduced growth targets for the company’s Xbox Game Pass subscription service. Spotted by Axios, the new target for Nadella’s performance-based incentive for the last fiscal year, which ended on June 30, 2023, was a growth of 4.4 percent for Xbox Content and Services revenue.

Microsoft's acquisition of Activision-Blizzard is finally done, and so we can finally stop talking about it! Or, well, at least we can stop talking about the annoying will-they-or-won't-they regulatory side of it. Now it's time to talk about the games! We discuss Activision-Blizzard games in the back catalog that we'd like to see lightly refreshed for the Xbox Series X|S (similar to the recent Quake 2 remaster), before taking turns talking about which of their IPs we'd like to see Microsoft bring back as a brand-new game. Plus: Starfield tops the sales charts, Bethesda's "Uncle Pete" Hines says goodbye, and more!

Call of Duty and other Activision Blizzard games won't appear on Xbox Game Pass until next year. On the Official Xbox Podcast, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer claimed that players wouldn't be seeing a big drop of those titles immediately, due to the lengthy regulatory challenges the company faced in its buyout attempt. Since it was uncertain whether the acquisition would be approved by Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) until recently, Xbox wasn't able to do the groundwork for adding the catalogue to their gaming subscription service. Ahead of the deal's closure, Activision Blizzard confirmed on Twitter that the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and newly-launched Diablo IV won't be coming to Game Pass soon, but Spencer's statement covers older titles as well.

Microsoft has confirmed the list of new wave 2 games coming to throughout the final weeks of October 2023. The highlight of the list is Cities: Skylines 2 on PC, although there’s also the addition of Dead Space Remake on EA Play.

By Tom Warren, a senior editor covering Microsoft, PC gaming, console, and tech. He founded WinRumors, a site dedicated to Microsoft news, before joining The Verge in 2012.

Microsoft has confirmed the remaining batch of games that will be joining the Xbox Game Pass library through the rest of October 2023, headlined by the Dead Space remake, F1 Manager 23, Like a Dragon: Ishin! and the big new release of Cities: Skylines 2.