Microsoft has announced that three major Call of Duty games will be available on Xbox Cloud Gaming as part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate later this month. This includes the all-new Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 launch on day one, October 25.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023) and the free-to-play Call of Duty: Warzone will be available to stream via Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and will be made available to all players from 6pm BST on October 25.
Xbox Cloud Gaming is of course available on Xbox consoles, PCs, Android and iOS devices, but is also available on select Samsung TVs, Amazon Fire TV and Meta Quest.
The compelling thing is that for this to happen, Microsoft will have to conclude an agreement with Ubisoft. Last year, the company had to sell streaming rights to Activision Blizzard’s game catalog to Ubisoft in a move intended to appease regulators into allowing them to complete the purchase of the Call of Duty publisher. Of course, it worked, and Microsoft was able to close the deal almost exactly a year ago.
Modern Warfare III is already available on Game Pass from July, although not for streaming. The biggest announcement from earlier this year was that Black Ops 6 would be available from day one as part of Xbox Game Pass, with Microsoft betting on the streaming platform’s potential growth and involvement over the truckloads of money it would initially lose money on. every subscriber… except they then changed the deal on what you get with Game Pass. You now need Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to launch the game on day one.
Black Ops 6 builds on all the tropes and expectations typical of the Black Ops series, with a double-crossing ruse and more in a campaign set in the 1990s after the end of the Cold War. George H. W. Bush is president, and there are plenty of lies to immerse yourself in. The campaign is sure to be another wild ride full of gunfire and explosions, and will definitely carry over to full multiplayer as well as a zombie mode with a circular base.
Source: Xbox
