Microsoft has announced a price hike for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, raising the price by 50% from $20 to $30 per month. You do not have to pay that much everywhere, however. GameStop, for example, has ...

TL;DR: Microsoft has increased Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to $30 monthly, marking a 100% rise since 2019, alongside a rebrand introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate tiers. The update expands game ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Microsoft has announced a price hike for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, ...

Xbox Game Pass underwent an overhaul, effective October 1, 2025. Players can now subscribe to Essential, Premium, or Ultimate plans, each offering additional benefits. All plans are playable across PC ...

While Microsoft is no stranger to increasing prices in its Xbox ecosystem, most recently a severe series of hikes to its hardware, on Wednesday it decided to push its luck with its golden goose, Xbox ...

Some other Game Pass plans are being upgraded and will be renamed, but they aren't getting a price increase. Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in ...

Microsoft has announced another Xbox Game Pass price hike, with the Ultimate tier going up to $30/month. Microsoft is making this change just ahead of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's release in November.

Microsoft announced Wednesday it will be revamping its tiered gaming subscription service Xbox Game Pass with expanded game libraries, including PC titles, unlimited cloud gaming, new in-game benefits ...

Some things happen slowly and then all at once. So it appears to be with Xbox Game Pass. Once hailed as the “best deal in gaming,” it’s now best known as the deal that just keeps getting worse. A ...

From his earliest gaming memories playing Spyro 2 on the PlayStation, to being obsessed with the swing-out animations in Marvel's Spider-Man, Cameron has always been, and continues to be, in love with ...

It’s getting x-pensive to be an Xbox gamer. By Tony Maglio Xbox is raising its Game Pass prices ahead of the launch of two new handheld consoles on Oct. 16. The new breakdown across a trio of tiers — ...

If raising console prices wasn't enough to scare you away, Microsoft has also increased the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate by 50 percent. That makes the subscription cost $30 per month when it used ...