Various announcements have confirmed five games coming to the Xbox Game Pass subscription service in January 2025.

Now that Activision Blizzard is under the Microsoft umbrella, the publisher’s biggest franchise is part of Game Pass. And Black Ops 6 is the first new release to debut on the subscription service. That includes all of the game’s various modes: the cinematic single-player campaign, and multiplayer outings like Zombies.

No, there is currently no official word from Capcom of Monster Hunter Wilds coming to Xbox Game Pass when it launches on Xbox Series X|S on February 28, 2025. However, that isn't to say it won't come to Xbox Game Pass afterward as Monster Hunter Rise became available on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, and xCloud.

Here are the best Xbox games of 2024, and we're including some PC titles published by Xbox Game Studios. All of the games below are available in Xbox Game Pass, and all got review scores of 80/100 or higher on review score aggregator Metacritic — though we picked based on personal taste, too.

Xbox Cloud Gaming service has been down since Thursday, according to the official Xbox Support Twitter account. It appears that the service, which lets you play Xbox games on phones, tablets and other devices,