On Wednesday morning, the team at Xbox rolled out news for a data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-game-pass-october-2025-changes” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-game-pass-october-2025-changes”>series of changes coming to Microsoft’s subscription service, Xbox Game Pass.
There are a number of improvements across different tiers (PC titles and data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/cloud-gaming” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/cloud-gaming”>Cloud gaming are notably available at every level, to some extent), while the high-end data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/xbox-game-pass” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/xbox-game-pass”>Xbox Game Pass Ultimate tier received a number of new perks meant to justify an eye-popping new price tag of $30 a month, which is a 50% price hike in the U.S.
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To say it’s been poorly received by hardcore…

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