It looks like a little more Call of Duty games may soon be coming to Xbox Game Pass, but likely only on PC.
In January 2023, Xbox announced its plans the purchase of Activision Blizzard King for a total amount of $69 billion, which will be the largest video game industry acquisition in history. After almost a year court proceedings and hearings around the world, Microsoft has officially bought this major publisher in October 2023. A year after the deal was finalized, a collection of Activision games appeared on Game Pass, as did the latest one Call of Duty Diablo IV AND Crash Bandicoot. But one enormous portion of Activision’s back catalog that hasn’t been added to Game Pass is much older Call of Duty sports competitions. However, this may change soon.
On December 9 as spotted by Twitter user Knoebel, Activision has quietly added PC versions Call of Duty, Call of Duty United Offensive, Call of Duty 2, AND Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare to the Microsoft store. You can tell that they have just been added since each game’s release date is listed as December 9, 2024.
Currently, Microsoft doesn’t support linking Steam and Game Pass accounts, so it would be nice if Microsoft added this Cod and expansion into its own store should it want to add them to its PC Game Pass subscription service in the future.
Originally released in 2003, Call of Duty (and its expansion United Offensive) were never released on consoles. So unless Activision paid the studio to port these classic shooters to consoles, I doubt they’ll make it to Game Pass on Xbox. However, Modern warreleased in 2007, it was available on Xbox 360 and is backwards compatible on Xbox One and Series X/S consoles, so perhaps it will be added to both Xbox and PC Game Pass.
Of course Also it’s possible that these games have just been added to the PC store because Microsoft wants to bring more of its back catalog to its own platform. We’ll just have to wait and see. The Game Awards gala will be held later this week, maybe an announcement will be made there? Only Phil Spencer and Geof Keighley are certain at this point.
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