During its first few years of existence, Xbox Game Pass was often referred to as the best deal in gaming, but Microsoft has been chipping away at the service’s benefits. First, the company decided to ...

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GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. The second wave of games coming to Xbox Game Pass in September has ...

Xbox Game Pass could reportedly stop offering day-one releases in 2027 as part of a major overhaul to Microsoft’s subscription service. According to a new leak, Xbox is planning to replace its current ...

Is Game Pass still worth it? It's an open question. After a big price increase and another confusing restructure of the subscription service's various tiers in late 2025, the price was reduced, but ...

Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of GameRant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011 and joined the GameRant team in 2015. Having written thousands of game reviews and ...

In 2020, Microsoft announced that Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions would include unlimited access to its new Xbox Cloud Gaming service (then still known as Project xCloud). Now, that kind of streaming ...

Set to go into effect on September 15th, Cyberpunk 2077 will be leaving Xbox Game Pass. CD Projekt Red’s acclaimed sci-fi RPG was just added to Game Pass back in March 2026, where those across Xbox ...

Microsoft has announced the Xbox Game Pass August 2026 Wave 2 lineup, and it includes a number of day-one releases. Available tomorrow, August 19, is Vapor World: Over the Mind as a day one launch on ...

Available today, you can jump into some old-school first-person spellcasting action with Heretic + Hexen. A re-release of the classic shooters, each game has been updated with several new features and ...

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Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of GameRant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011 and joined the GameRant team in 2015. Having written thousands of game reviews and ...