With Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard being finalized, CoD fans are wondering when games like Modern Warfare 3 will be🍉 added to Xbox Game Pass, so here’s everything we know.
On October 13, 2024, Microsoft officially announced that Xbox has acquired🍉 Activision Blizzard King following the end of the lengthy 633-day process, welcoming all the publisher’s studios and popular IPs, such🍉 as Call of Duty, Overwatch, and Diablo, among others to Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios.
Now that the deal has come to🍉 an end, CoD fans are eagerly anticipating the potential benefits of this merger for their beloved series. Fortunately, both Microsoft🍉 and Activision have provided significant insights into the franchise’s future, including whether Call of Duty games will be available on🍉 Xbox Game Pass.
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Here’s everything you need to know about Call of Duty games coming to Xbox Game🍉 Pass.
Is Call of Duty coming to Xbox Game Pass?
Following Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision, Call of Duty will make its way🍉 to Xbox Game Pass.
The Xbox Game Pass X account shared that they’ve started the work to bring Activision Blizzard’s games,🍉 including the iconic CoD franchise and Diablo 4, to the service. They’ll be sharing more details “in the coming months.”
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When is Call of Duty coming to Xbox Game Pass?
Activision Blizzard “do not🍉 have any plans to put Modern Warfare 3 and Diablo IV into the Game Pass this year,” but they confirmed🍉 in an X post on October 9 that they will work alongside Xbox to bring the company’s titles to the🍉 service “sometime in the course of next year [2024].”
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Speaking on the Xbox Podcast on October 17, Xbox🍉 CEO Phil Spencer reaffirmed the 2024 release window, telling players not to expect any surprise drops this year.
“The regulatory process🍉 took so long and frankly there was a lot of uncertainty in that process up until, really, a week before🍉 we closed, or the week of, when the CMA finally came down to their decision, that we weren’t able to🍉 get in and work with mostly Activision Blizzard in this case on that back catalog work,” he explained. “I would🍉 love it if there was some kind of secret celebration drop that’s coming in the next couple of weeks—there’s not.”
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With the deal’s closure, many CoD fans are interested to know if classic CoD titles will be🍉 added to the Xbox Game Pass. While there’s been no official confirmation yet, the significant matchmaking fixes plus the ownership🍉 transfer to Microsoft, make this entirely possible to happen.
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The introduction of Call of Duty into the Xbox🍉 Game Pass would allow fans not only to save money but also provide significant day-one access, particularly valued by longtime🍉 Call of Duty players.
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