(Pocket-lint) - Xbox Game Pass for PC was ever a spot of a mouthful - the work was precise overmuch attached to the mainline Xbox Game Pass experience, but Microsoft was intelligibly alert of the somewhat clumsy quality of its name, and consequently its logos.
It's taken the accidental of past nights Game Awards to denote a alteration to that sanction with contiguous effect, rebranding the work to the simpler and much descriptive PC Game Pass, the benignant of alteration that's a no-brainer erstwhile you perceive astir it.
Really ace important spot notes that volition alteration everything you’ve ever known astir Game Pass #PCGamePass pic.twitter.com/rSq4FhtO7i
— PC Game Pass (@XboxGamePassPC) December 10, 2021The alteration is axenic branding, too, with thing caller connected the work side, meaning that this is simply a elemental 1 if you're already a subscriber oregon were reasoning of dipping successful - everything you thought was bully astir Xbox Game Pass for PC is inactive bully astir PC Game Pass.
On apical of that, though Microsoft has besides elaborate a fewer upcoming games that'll travel to PC Game Pass, including the following:
- Total War: WARHAMMER III
- Redfall
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl
- Atomic Heart
- Slime Rancher 2
- A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Starfield
- Pupperazzi
- Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator
- Replaced
- Somerville
- Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising
- Scorn
It besides sneakily confirmed immoderate longer-term games that volition deed the service:
- Sniper Elite 5
- Pigeon Simulator
- Trek to Yomi
- Unannounced crippled from Hugecalf Studios
Sniper Elite 5 really hasn't been formally unveiled by Rebellion yet, but it's intelligibly connected the mode and the workplace has intelligibly signed up with Microsoft, truthful there's thing other to look guardant to.
Writing by Max Freeman-Mills. Originally published connected 10 December 2021.