Phil Spencer confirms Activision Blizzard games won\u2019t be on Game Pass for \u201cmonths\u201d The head of Xbox has confirmed that Activision Blizzard games like Call of Duty won\u2019t be hitting Game Pass for months. Phil Spencer, the head of Microsoft\u2019s Xbox division, has confirmed that Game Pass won\u2019t be getting Activision or Blizzard games for \u201cmonths\u201d. In a post on Xbox Wire, Spencer said: \u201cWe\u2019ll share more about when you can expect to play in the coming months. We know you\u2019re excited \u2013 and we are too.\u201d Game Pass is Microsoft\u2019s subscription service for PC and Xbox, with first-party titles from Microsoft\u2019s own development studios launching there first. The Activision Blizzard deal is assumed to be part of Microsoft\u2019s plan to bolster its Game Pass offering with one of the some of popular franchises in all of gaming. Game Pass won\u2019t be getting Activision Blizzard games for a while yet Speculation started to stir as soon as the deal was announced in 2021, with players questioning when Call of Duty will land on Game Pass. Activision\u2019s official X\/Twitter account stated on Monday, October 9, that the latest Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 3, will not land on Game Pass until sometime in 2024. Diablo 4 was also confirmed for not being distributed on the platform either. There are also complications from the deal\u2019s court trial. Sony has a new 10-year deal for bringing Call of Duty to PlayStation platforms, with clauses in the contract presumably preventing Microsoft from launching the latest game on Game Pass day and date. Spencer doesn\u2019t detail any information regarding King titles, nor any information about how Game Pass and World of Warcraft will intertwine. The $69 billion deal was closed today, with Microsoft securing this through selling off the streaming rights to Ubisoft. The French publisher will now handle streaming rights for Activision Blizzard titles outside of the EU. It\u2019s one of the largest tech acquisitions of all time, with Microsoft\u2019s previous massive gaming purchase being Elder Scrolls and Fallout developer, Bethesda and its parent company, Zenimax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Phil Spencer confirms Activision Blizzard games won\u2019t be on Game Pass for \u201cmonths\u201d The head of Xbox has confirmed that Activision Blizzard games like Call of Duty won\u2019t be hitting Game Pass for months. Phil Spencer, the head of Microsoft\u2019s Xbox division, has confirmed that Game Pass won\u2019t be getting Activision or Blizzard games for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}