Microsoft has introduced the Xbox Game Pass Wave 2 October 2024 lineup.
The headline right here is of course the October 25 launch of Black Ops 6, the primary Call of Responsibility recreation to launch day-one on Game Pass. It comes a yr after Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which has additionally seen the likes of Diablo 4 and Trendy Warfare 3 arrive on Game Pass, and can, in November, see StarCraft: Remastered and StarCraft 2: Marketing campaign Assortment hit the subscription service.
Black Ops 6’s launch straight into Game Pass is a giant gamble for Microsoft. It hopes the ability of Call of Responsibility will increase subscriber numbers and income (itself bolstered by the current Game Pass value rise and restructure), but it surely comes with the chance of shedding gross sales of the full-price recreation. Whereas Xbox executives have insisted gross sales might be boosted by a recreation’s presence on Game Pass, some publishers stay unconvinced. Former Activision boss Bobby Kotick, for instance, was at all times towards placing Call of Responsibility into subscription companies. Not like Microsoft, console rival Sony doesn’t launch its new exclusives straight into its subscription service.
In an interview with IGN final yr, Xbox boss Phil Spencer was requested how he’d deal with his and Kotick’s completely different ideologies after the deal to purchase Activision Blizzard closed. “Properly, there is a completely different particular person making the choices,” Spencer laughed.
Within the shorter time period, tomorrow, October 16, South Park: The Fractured however Complete (Cloud, Console, and PC) hits Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass, and Game Pass Customary. A day later, on October 17, Donut County (Cloud, Console, and PC) returns to the Game Pass library by way of Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass, and Game Pass Customary, and MechWarrior 5: Clans (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Sequence X|S) hits Game Pass Final and PC Game Pass as a day-one launch.
Then it’s the large one: Call of Responsibility: Black Ops 6 (Cloud, Console, and PC) on October 25 by way of Game Pass Final and PC Game Pass solely. Additionally on October 25, final yr’s Call of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare 3 (Cloud) by way of Game Pass Final, and battle royale Call of Responsibility: Warzone (Cloud) by way of Game Pass Final.
Transferring on from October 25 and Call of Responsibility, Ashen (Cloud, Console, and PC) returns to Game Pass by way of Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass, and Game Pass Customary on October 29.
And eventually for October, Lifeless Island 2 (PC) enters Game Pass for PC avid gamers by way of Game Pass Final and PC Game Pass on October 31 (it’s already out there on Game Pass by way of Cloud and Console).
Microsoft additionally talked about StarCraft: Remastered (PC) – November 5 (Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass) and StarCraft 2: Marketing campaign Assortment (PC) – November 5 (Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass), that are set to kick off Wave 1 of November 2024’s Game Pass lineup.
(*6*)Xbox Game Pass October 2024 Wave 2 Lineup:
- South Park: The Fractured however Complete (Cloud, Console, and PC) – October 16
Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Customary - Donut County (Cloud, Console, and PC) – October 17
Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Customary - MechWarrior 5: Clans (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Sequence X|S) – October 17
Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass - Call of Responsibility: Black Ops 6 (Cloud, Console, and PC) – October 25
Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass - Call of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare III (Cloud) – October 25
Game Pass Final - Call of Responsibility: Warzone (Cloud) – October 25
Game Pass Final - Ashen (Cloud, Console, and PC) – October 29
Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Customary - Lifeless Island 2 (PC) – October 31
Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass - StarCraft: Remastered (PC) – November 5
Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass - StarCraft II: Marketing campaign Assortment (PC) – November 5
Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass
As traditional, a quantity of video games depart Game Pass as new titles arrive.
(*6*)Right here’s what’s leaving Xbox Game Pass on October 31:
- Frog Detective: The Total Thriller (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Headbangers (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Inkulinati (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Lonely Mountain’s Downhill (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Mineko’s Night time Market (Cloud, Console, and PC)
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