Microsoft has also started trialing an Xbox Game Pass Friends & Family plan in select markets.

The company announced back in January 2022 that Game Pass had surpassed 25 million subscribers, though this number includes Xbox Game Pass, PC Game Pass, and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. In the coming months, Microsoft’s PC Game Pass service will be available in a total of 86 countries. The service is also available for a special discounted price for the first month of subscription. To sign up, Windows users need to download the Xbox Insider Hub app and opt-in for the Preview program. Meanwhile we updated almost the whole site, introduced a deals section for all the best discounts, as well as a troubleshooting category for those troublesome gadgets of yours.“Beginning on February 28, gamers in these new markets can sign up for PC Game Pass Preview program giving them immediate access to a library of hundreds of high-quality PC games on Windows including new Xbox Game Studios releases on day one, iconic Bethesda games, an EA Play membership, and member-only benefits in Riot Games,” the Xbox team explained today. At the same time, players only interested in the EA Play library will still be able to access it at a lower price, the two companies confirmed, in addition to promising that more details on this value-focused collaboration are to arrive shortly.Ī note from the editor of : Dear visitor, you’re going through an archived part of our gaming news category that was posted in 2020. markets in which the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription is currently available. The change will affect all 41 countries, i.e.

Of course, the timing of the announcement is also quite deliberate in the sense that it minimizes the the number of gamers eligible for an almost-free trial month of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which is still available to anyone who hasn’t tried the growing service in the last year for just $1 for the first month of service. This way, Xbox and EA are hoping to maximize its effect just in time for holiday season, traditionally a very shopping-intensive period of the year.

It was also confirmed by EA itself, with the actual change taking place six weeks from now, on the 10th of November. This quite a remarkable move was just announced by Microsoft Gaming Partnerships & Ecosystem CVP, Sarah Bond, in a blog post published on the official Xbox website. The entirety of Electronic Arts’ EA Play library offered as part of the company’s titular subscription service akin to Netflix is about to become available to all Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Members at no extra cost.

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