Xbox Live Gold, Games With Gold Finally Being Phased Out In Favor Of Xbox Game Pass Core

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Game Pass Core costs $10/month and gets you access to 25+ titles at launch and more every year.

By Eddie Makuch on

Microsoft has announced a new version of Xbox Game Pass that will replace Xbox Live Gold and confirmed that the Games with Gold program is ending later this year.

Xbox Game Pass Core is a new offering that costs $10/month or $60/year, and comes with a collection of 25+ games on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One. The program launches on September 14 with games like Gears 5, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Grounded, Halo 5, Inside, and Elder Scrolls Online in the library. After that, new titles will be added 2-3 times per year. You can see a list of all the confirmed Xbox Game Pass Core titles below, but note that Microsoft will announce more for the catalog before the offering goes live in September.

Xbox Game Pass Core also includes access to online multiplayer on console and various deals and discounts. It does not, however, include access to the full Game Pass library, including day-one releases like Starfield. The announcement of the Core version of Game Pass comes not long after Microsoft raised prices on Xbox Game Pass to $11/month and Game Pass Ultimate to $17/month.

Existing Xbox Live Gold members will be converted into Game Pass Core subscribers once the new service launches.

In addition to announcing Xbox Game Pass Core, Microsoft confirmed that the Games with Gold program will end on September 1. «We wanted to use this opportunity to re-imagine how to include content with this subscription,» Microsoft said. «We found that the answer to the most compelling catalog was to leverage select titles from our Xbox Game Pass catalog.»

All Xbox One games that players redeemed through Games with Gold over the years