However, it also offers a considerably more limited scope than that higher tier, which provides access to a much larger game library (on both Xbox and PC) and includes an EA Play membership.

This new subscription tier will offer Xbox console gamers a cheaper way to play online than the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate tier. Microsoft will continue to add to the collection two to three times per year. The collection will start with a selection of more than 25 popular titles, including Gears 5, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Grounded and Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited. Subscribers will then get access to the new collection of Game Pass Core games. Any claimed Xbox 360 games will remain available even for users who don’t maintain a subscription. Players who claimed Xbox One games through the old service will continue to have access to them as long as they remain subscribed to Game Pass Ultimate or Game Pass Core. As such, Xbox Games with Gold will end Sept. The new service is also filling in for the Games with Gold benefit, which provided a small selection of games each month for subscribers to claim. Notably, Microsoft isn’t using this opportunity to raise prices like it attempted for Xbox Live Gold in early 2021 only to promptly back down. Active subscribers to Xbox Live Gold will automatically become members of the new service and continue to pay the same rate at $10 monthly or $60 annually. It will provide online console multiplayer and a selection of free games to play on Xbox Series X, Series S and Xbox One. Xbox Game Pass Core is effectively rolling up the features of Xbox Live Gold. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account

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