Exciting News for Gamers: Big Game from Activision-Blizzard Coming to Game Pass!

While they had already done a first Developer Direct last month, Xbox spoke again this evening following the extent of some rumors. During this Xbox Business Updates, the company was able to clarify its future plans, but also make a big announcement: Activision-Blizzard games are finally arriving in Game Pass!

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Blizzard makes its big debut on Game Pass

In recent days, Xbox has been at the center of attention in the world of video games. It must be said that big rumors concerning the arrival of some of their exclusives on other platforms had emerged, and that they were particularly credible. In order to cut short any speculation and other rumors, Phil Spencer and the rest of the thinking heads in Microsoft's gaming branch broadcast a video tonight at 9 p.m. on their official YouTube channel. They notably took the opportunity to confirm that four games should arrive on new platforms in the coming months, but also to emphasize the importance of Game Pass in their strategy. To reassure Xbox players, Sarah Bond (Xbox president) dropped some big news right in the middle of the video: Activision-Blizzard games are finally arriving on Microsoft's subscription service.

And the very first game that will initiate this movement is none other than the excellent Diablo IV, released last June. While Blizzard is currently working on the next expansion of this fourth opus of their flagship license, the base game will therefore integrate the Game Pass in just a few months, March 28 to be precise. Suffice to say that Microsoft's new acquisition is off to a strong start, even if there are still many games to integrate into the service. For now, Sarah Bond did not provide information on the rest of Blizzard games like Starcraft or World of Warcraft.

Call of Duty’s turn coming soon?

If this information was surely the most important of the evening with the arrival of the famous 4 Xbox exclusives on new platforms, it also raises several questions. First, if Diablo IV will finally be available in just a few months on Game Pass, when can we imagine seeing the rest of the Activision-Blizzard games? In fact, hack'n'slash has only been out for a few months and has not yet celebrated its first birthday. A strategy that perfectly corresponds to Xbox's philosophy which wants all “first party” games to be available from the first day of their release on Game Pass.

When will Call of Duty be on Game Pass?

Now that Diablo IV, Activision-Blizzard's latest big game, will finally be able to be played directly on Game Pass, players may wonder when the turn of the famous Call of Duty will come. If there is still no question of making this license a real exclusivity, at least for the next episode (as Xbox had promised at the time of the acquisition of Activision), nothing seems to prevent them from including the old ones. licensed games in Game Pass. If it is surely a little early to provide a precise answer to this type of question, there is no doubt that Microsoft will eventually remove the doubt on the question. Furthermore, Phil Spencer ended tonight's video by specifying that the next Xbox conference will take place in June. Maybe we will have news then? To be continued.