Xbox Game Pass in 2026: every tier, price, and change explained
Microsoft significantly restructured Xbox Game Pass on October 1, 2025, introducing new tiers, bundling additional services, and increasing prices, with Ultimate jumping 50% to $29.99 per month. The service now offers Essential ($9.99), Premium ($14.99), PC Game Pass ($16.49), and Ultimate ($29.99), with day-one access to first-party titles like Call of Duty restricted to Ultimate and PC Game Pass. The changes reposition Game Pass as a premium entertainment bundle, omitting a family plan and annual subscription options.
- Entities
- Game: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Company: Electronic Arts
- Company: Microsoft
- Company: Activision
- Game: Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- Platform: Xbox
- Game: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
- Topic: Game Pricing
- Game: Hogwarts Legacy
- Person: Hideo Kojima
- Company: Bethesda
- Game: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
- Topic: Day-One Releases
- Game: Avowed
- Topic: Subscription Services
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