Microsoft has debuted a brand new commercial for Xbox Game Pass aimed toward reminding folks that they do not have to attend very lengthy to play extra video games. The “New Games Added All The Time” advert focuses on a sad-looking, drained particular person sitting inside a disc-return field ready for somebody to return a recreation to allow them to play it. That is meant to focus on how folks used to hire video games at locations like Blockbuster however needed to wait, in some instances no less than, for folks to return their copies.
“That was then,” the advert states earlier than slicing to the particular person sitting at their desk at house and booting up a recreation from the Game Pass library. “Now, new video games are added on a regular basis,” the advert says.
Microsoft usually provides video games to Game Pass throughout two waves every month, and there are at present more than 850 titles out there to Game Pass Final subscribers.
Whereas it is true Microsoft provides increasingly more video games to the Game Pass library on an ongoing foundation, the corporate additionally removes video games twice a month as effectively. For October, one of the titles set for removal is Stalker 2, and a few individuals are complaining about this given it was closely promoted by Microsoft as an Xbox console unique.
It is being eliminated this month presumably as a result of expiration of an settlement, as the sport lands on PS5 on November 20, which is strictly one 12 months after the sport got here to Xbox Sequence X|S.
Microsoft just lately introduced an enormous value hike for Xbox Game Pass Final, elevating the month-to-month value from $20 to $30. Most main retailers haven’t adopted the value hike, although, as Game Pass Final stays $20 at GameStop, Amazon, Greatest Purchase, and others.