Microsoft’s new Xbox Game Pass Core will replace Xbox Live Gold in September

[Dead2009]

Microsoft’s new Xbox Game Pass Core will replace Xbox Live Gold in September

Games with Gold is being replaced with more than 25 Game Pass games.

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Microsoft is launching a new Xbox Game Pass Core subscription to replace Xbox Live Gold. This new Game Pass Core offering will include the usual Xbox online console multiplayer support, deals and discounts, and a new small catalog of more than 25 games — including Gears 5, Forza Horizon 4, and Psychonauts 2.

Existing Xbox Live Gold members will be automatically transferred across to Xbox Game Pass Core on September 14th, with the service priced at the same rate of $9.99 per month (or $59.99 per year) as Xbox Live Gold.

As part of this replacement subscription, Microsoft is discontinuing Games with Gold on September 1st, the perk that has allowed Xbox owners to grab free games monthly for a decade and add them to their content library. Any Xbox 360 titles that were redeemed in the past will be permanently kept in a library, but Xbox One titles will rely on an ongoing subscription to Xbox Game Pass Core or Game Pass Ultimate.

The more than 25 games that Microsoft is including in Game Pass Core are designed to replace Games with Gold, and Microsoft says it will add new titles two to three times a year.

This catalog of games will be a lot more limited than the full Xbox Game Pass subscription ($10.99 a month), and Microsoft is only confirming 19 of the launch list titles today:

Among Us
Descenders
Dishonored 2
Doom Eternal
Fable Anniversary
Fallout 4
Fallout 76
Forza Horizon 4
Gears 5
Grounded
Halo 5: Guardians
Halo Wars 2
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Human: Fall Flat
Inside
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Psychonauts 2
State of Decay 2
The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited

 

[Smokey]

I have read about this. I think it's a solid idea. I still think it's worth spending the extra couple of bucks and just going the Ultimate route myself.

 

[Shortie]

I read about this yesterday and I will admit, I found that the Games for Gold was getting a little stale and the titles they were releasing for that were something most people were not interested in.

I am very much looking forward to seeing when it releases and seeing how it works out and whether the offerings are better than they were when it was Games for Gold.

 

[Soulwatcher]

I have read about this. I think it's a solid idea. I still think it's worth spending the extra couple of bucks and just going the Ultimate route myself.

I have to agree, I think it's worth it to spend the extra $5 a month so you can have 100+ games, PC game Pass, and Game Pass on your phone or PC to stream games.