Plus, Microsoft's cloud service, Cloud Gaming, is part of Ultimate at no extra cost. As mentioned, it includes Xbox Live Gold, Xbox Games Pass for PC and EA Play.

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is priced at $16.99 or £12.99 a month. The standard version of Game Pass includes access to hundreds of games with new additions all the time, and costs $10.99 or £8.99 a month - however, it doesn't include online multiplayer access. It's not live yet, and for now is still called Xbox Live Gold, but Game Pass Core launches on 14 September 2023 and will cost $9.99 or £6.99 each month (or $60/£50 a year) for access to online multiplayer in your games, and a roster of over 25 Game Pass games. When Game Pass Core launches in September 2023, there will be three tiers of Game Pass available - check out the cost of each, below.

The included Xbox Live Gold also gives subscribers exclusive discounts on many games on the Xbox Store. It could also include all of Activision Blizzard's vast back catalogue of titles, when Microsoft's acquisition completes, including legacy and new Call of Duty games. This includes Halo Infinite and Bethesda's new, forthcoming sci-fi RPG, Starfield. Microsoft adds releases of its own and many third-party games on the same day they are released in stores. Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and original Xbox games are part of the line-up, the latter two through backward compatibility, so there are plenty of top titles to choose from. Some titles might become unavailable as others are added, but you also have the option of buying any of the collection outright at discounted prices.

You can download the games and play them as often as you like, as long as you continue to pay the monthly fee. If you upgrade to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, you also get Xbox Live Gold, PC Game Pass, EA Play and access to Xbox Cloud Gaming, all for the same price.

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