Activision Blizzard Games Coming to Xbox Game Pass in the Coming Months - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 November 2023 / 10,032 Views
Microsoft today announced it had completed the Activision Blizzard acquisition following the approval from the UK regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
With the deal completed and Activision Blizzard officially part of Xbox the question some have asked when Activision Blizzard games will start appearing on Xbox Game Pass.
The official Twitter account for Xbox Game Pass has stated the team is working on bringing Activision Blizzard games to the service and more details will be shared in the coming months.
"Today, we can now begin the work of bringing Activision Blizzard King’s iconic and groundbreaking games to Xbox Game Pass," reads the tweet. "We can’t wait to share more details in the coming months."
The most well known IPs that are owned by Activision Blizzard include Call of Duty, Warcraft, Candy Crush, Tony Hawk, Diablo, Overwatch, Spyro, Hearthstone, Guitar Hero, Crash Bandicoot, and StarCraft. In total there are well over 30 IPs owned by Activision Blizzard.
Today, we can now begin the work of bringing Activision Blizzard King’s iconic and groundbreaking games to Xbox Game Pass. We can’t wait to share more details in the coming months. https://t.co/FMQdbnqlPb
— Xbox Game Pass (@XboxGamePass) October 13, 2023
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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The older back catalogue stuff will be the first to hit the service. I would also imagine there are ongoing contractual obligations that will be keeping some of the most recent CODs off gamepass for a while
I hope now the games are under their belt that they can maybe release 4k patches for these games. I would love to play some old COD games on 4K, as the stable 60fps is a given under the new machines.
I'm mostly interested in the Diablo stuff but also eagerly await CoD. I expect they'll probably do older games first then newer ones later.
latest possible CoD game is likely to come 1st. Expect a long list of games coming and spread out, which would fill 1 spot in the Game Pass schedule, over the next few months years.
River Raid on GP or no deal
COD Big Red One/COD 2 and more, Pitfall Lost Expedition, Prototype duology, TimeShift, Singularity, Geometry Wars, Blur and more I'm all for it IF THEY DO.
Sierra point and click titles or ones like SWAT Global Strike Team on current gen. Target Liberty for PSP to PS+ literally anything.
Guitar Hero/Tony Hawk I do wonder due to licensing (then again many racing games I'm surprised have been, no licenses sure but ones with car/music/billboards and more licensing I had wondered like Grid 2/Autosport and some others that had).
But source code/licensing/care at all who knows.
IF they would compare to the new entries only also GH due to peripherals they don't even support Kinect games so not expecting it to be the case here.
Just the current gen then sure I guess to Gamepass makes sense. Spyro 4 whenever that happens and IF it's good.
I hope OW2 comes with actual content but knowing modern Blizzard.
All I want is fable and hellblade 2 next year
Hellblade 2 likely. Fable is probably 2025.
