Far Cry 6, Rise of the Tomb Raider, SteamWorld Build, and more come to Xbox Game Pass, while Xbox Game Pass Core gets its first new games
Dropping all at once.
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What you need to know
One last batch of games are on the way to close out Xbox Game Pass in 2023.
Unlike the usual strategy of splitting things up into two waves, Microsoft has instead opted to just launch all the December 2023Xbox Game Passadditions at once, as shared viaXbox Wire. A couple of new games are already available, withRemnant: From the Ashes and Remnant 2being added late Wednesday night.More games are coming soon, with Ubisoft’s open-world adventure Far Cry 6 alongside Rise of the Tomb Raider, the second entry in the more recent Tomb Raider reboot trilogy. Xbox Game Pass Core, the new name for Xbox Live Gold, is also getting a couple of new games, with subscribers able to access Chivalry 2 and Totally Reliable Delivery Service. Here’s when all these games are launching into Xbox Game Pass:
Today (but really last night)
December 1
December 5
December 6
December 7
December 8
December 12
December 14
Leaving December 15
As always, there’s a handful of games that are leaving Xbox Game Pass halfway through the month. If you want to continue playing these titles, you’ll need buy them, and you get a discount for buying them before they leave the subscription catalogue. Here’s the games saying farewell:
Analysis: Strong end to a solid year
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This is a fairly great mix of games to close out the year with, and announcing them all at once instead of drip-feeding through a month in which many people will be busy with the holidays is a good idea. I still haven’t played Far Cry 6 or Remnant 2, so both of those games are at the top of my list for this month.
Looking ahead into 2024, it’ll be interesting to see when Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard starts to bear fruit and we see (at least) some older titles make their way into the service forever.
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Samuel Tolbert is a freelance writer covering gaming news, previews, reviews, interviews and different aspects of the gaming industry, specifically focusing on Xbox and PC gaming on Windows Central. You can find him on Twitter@SamuelTolbert.
