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Rec Room shutting down. Survios getting wiped out. Horizon Worlds walking out of VR for good in June, after Meta had already tried it once and backed off. A Township Tale going dark in the same week three other studios did. Hyper Dash putting a date on its own ending in November. Every one of…

August 2026 is the first month Game Pass Ultimate has to prove its $22.99 premium over the $9.99 Essential tier without Call of Duty waiting at the end. After Microsoft removed future Call of Duty titles from day-one access in April 2026 — the change that followed a 50% price hike in October 2025 and…

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate finally has new day-one games that have the attention of subscribers. Fittingly, at the top of the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate “Most Popular” chart are three recent day-one games, which is to say, games that were added to the expensive tier of the Microsoft subscription service the moment they launched, and…

Party games in “Roblox” are at their best when a simple plan can fall apart in seconds, and “Pass or Explode” captures that chaotic fun perfectly. Each match puts players in a tense race against time as they try to pass a ticking bomb to someone else before it finally explodes.

Xbox Game Pass users are praising a recently released RPG which just hit the service this month.

Jump into Halo: Campaign Evolved and many other great games for significantly less than the normal monthly cost.

‘An experience I have smelled’ … Oli Colin Darbyshire/Alamy Stock Photo/Alamy Live News.‘An experience I have smelled’ … Oli Colin Darbyshire/Alamy Stock Photo/Alamy Live News

A California man who bought an Xbox game console that was marked up amid President Donald Trump’s tariffs regime is suing Microsoft, claiming the company pocketed government refundsand never distributed them back to consumers.

Then you read the second paragraph of the announcement and find the number that actually defines this deal. Ten hours of cloud gaming per month.

A couple of months ago, Microsoft launched Game Pass Starter Edition, an even cheaper version of the Game Pass service intended to be bundled with other subscription services. Game Pass Starter Edition first became a free add-on for Discord Nitro subscribers but now, it is also being made available to Meta Quest VR players too.