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Microsoft today unveiled a new subscription service that gives\u00a0Xbox owners another way to purchase and play games.<\/p>\n

Called \u201cXbox Game Pass<\/a>,\u201d the $9.99 per month program gives gamers access to a rotating library of more than 100 Xbox One and Xbox 360 backward compatible games like Halo 5: Guardians, NBA 2K16, Payday 2<\/em>, and others. Available games to play, which can be downloaded to your Xbox One (this is not a streaming service), will change each month, with some new titles coming in and other cycling out.<\/p>\n

\u201cGame Pass,\u201d available later this spring, also lets users purchase the games\u00a0(and related add-ons) for a discount if they want to keep the games permanently.<\/p>\n

\u201cXbox Game Pass is your ticket to endless play,\u201d Xbox leader Phil Spencer wrote in a blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Games from top publishers like Electronic Arts (which has a similar service in EA Access<\/a>), Ubisoft and Activision Blizzard aren\u2019t included as part of \u201cGame Pass\u201d \u2014 not yet, at least.<\/p>\n

Microsoft is testing the new service with Xbox Insider Program members and Xbox Live Gold subscribers.<\/p>\n

Sony has a similar service for Playstation 4 with PS Now, but that $100 per year\u00a0program is\u00a0a full-on streaming service.<\/p>\n

As part of its quarterly earnings report posted last month, <\/a>Microsoft said\u00a0Xbox Live monthly active users reached a record 55 million \u2014 up 15\u00a0percent from the\u00a0same quarter last year. Gaming revenue for the quarter clocked in at $3.6 billion \u2014 that\u2019s nearly 14 percent of Microsoft\u2019s total revenue for the quarter, which demonstrates the importance of the company\u2019s gaming arm.<\/p>\n

Microsoft will release a new console, Project Scorpio<\/a>, this holiday season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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