Assassin’s Creed kicks off new Xbox Game Pass and Ubisoft partnership
And that’s only the beginning
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Microsofthas announced the next batch of titles hittingXbox Game Passthis month, as it rolls out the first fruits of its new Ubisoft partnership.
Assassin’s Creed Originsand For Honor: Marching Fire Edition headline the releases. According to anXbox Wireblog post, they’ll be available to play onXbox Series X|S,Xbox One, PC, andXbox Cloud Gaming.
They mark the start of a new partnership between Microsoft and Ubisoft that wasannounced back in April.Xbox Game Passcommunity lead Megan Spuur said Microsoft would be “working with Ubisoft to bring even more incredible games to the Game Pass Library”, telling us that “more Ubisoft Games [will be] coming to Game Pass” in the future.
Big changes are afoot
The full scope of that partnership hasn’t been fully detailed, but it could lead to some significant changes for the subscription platform. More legacy titles will likely be added to the service, such asAssassin’s Creed Valhalla, but it also opens the door to more launch day titles, too. Earlier this year, Ubisoft’sRainbow Six Extractionhit Game Pass on the same day of its retail release. If that trend continues, players will get to play forthcoming blockbuster Ubisoft games through their existing subscription – a major boon.
However, Ubisoft isn’t putting all of its pixelated eggs in one basket. In May,Sonyannounced it too had partnered with Ubisoft for its revampedPS Plusservice. Members of the PS Plus Premium tier willget access to Ubisoft+, handing them a slate of older Ubisoft titles to dig into. As it so happens, that will include For Honor and Assassin’s Creed Origins.
For now, it remains to be seen if either Xbox Game Pass orPS Pluswill be privy to triple-A Ubisoft titles on launch day. Such a partnership would especially be beneficial for Sony. The publisher has already said it won’t be adding its own first-party games to PS Plus on launch day for the foreseeable future, so any release day titles from other publishers will go far to improve the platform’s value.
Elsewhere in the blog post, it lists all the other games coming to Xbox Game Pass this month. They include:
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