Game Pass Minute: Xbox Game Pass For PC Launching With Over 100 Games

Xbox Game Pass has brought some incredible value to the Xbox platform since its launch two years ago.

Since its launch, we’ve spent hundreds of hours in dozens of games that we may never have had the opportunity to discover otherwise, but in many of these cases, PC players have felt a little left out.

Subscribers to Xbox Game Pass who also own a PC have been able to enjoy a smattering of ‘Play Anywhere’ titles, like Sea of Thieves, Gears of War 4, Forza Horizon 4, and Wargroove, among others, but the service has never been worth subscribing to if you’re only a PC player.

That’s all about to change, as Head of Xbox Phil Spencer has just taken to Xbox Wire to admit that “We’ve not always lived up to our aspiration of keeping gamers at the center of everything we do when it comes to the experience they’ve had on Windows,” and to reveal a few ways that they plan to make the Windows gaming experience even better.

The biggest announcement is a specific Xbox Game Pass for PC, a new subscription service that will launch with a selection of over 100 games, from publishers like Bethesda, Deep Silver, Devolver Digital, Paradox Interactive, SEGA, and more. Spencer also notes that “it is our intent to include new games from Xbox Game Studios in Xbox Game Pass for PC the same day as their global release, including titles from newly acquired studios like Obsidian and inXile,” so just like Xbox players, Xbox Game Pass for PC subscribers are about to save a lot of money on Microsoft titles. The company is working with over 75 developers and publishers on the service, so I imagine we’ll see a massive variety in the titles offered from day one.

No games were revealed in today’s announcement, but Microsoft notes that more information will be announced during Microsoft’s E3 briefing on June 9th.

On top of the Game Pass for PC announcement, Microsoft has also revealed that they plan to bring more Microsoft Studios published titles, like Gears 5 and Halo: The Master Chief Collection to Steam, giving gamers more choice as to where they play their games, and also that full support for Win32 titles is coming to the Windows store.

In any case, if exciting news like this is being revealed before E3, I cannot wait to see what’s announced during it.

Look for a special E3 recap episode of our newest gaming podcast, Xbox Game Passengers, which focusses on a randomly-selected Xbox Game Pass game each episode shortly following Microsoft’s presentation! For now, you can listen below to our newest episode, in which Horror Movie Night’s Matt Kelly and I discuss the lauded walking simulator, ‘What Remains of Edith Finch’.

If you like what you’ve heard, here’s where you can subscribe to the show:

Anchor
Apple Podcasts
Breaker
Castbox
Google Podcasts
Overcast
Pocket Casts
PodBean
RadioPublic
Stitcher
Spotify
TuneIn