20 Bethesda games are now on Xbox Game Pass
From Doom Eternal to Dishonored 2
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Xbox Game Passowners can now download Dishonored 2,Doom Eternal, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Wolfenstein: Youngblood and over a dozen other games at no extra cost.
Nearly all of Bethesda’s games released in the past 10 years will be coming toXbox Game PassandXbox Game Pass Ultimate, Microsoft announced in anXbox Wireblog post, and a handful of these games will also benefit from FPS Boost onXbox Series X, too.
All 20 games will be available to play on the console version of Xbox Game Pass, butMicrosoftsays 16 of those titles will also be available on PC, console and mobile devices as well through the cloud for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members, meaning it will be possible to play Skyrim andFallout4 on your mobile phone.
Here’s the complete list of included games:
What does the future look like for Bethesda?
The Xbox Game Pass news arrives just hours aftera tweetfrom the general manager of games at Xbox, Aaron Greenberg, told Twitter that there’d be a round table discussion with Xbox Chief Phil Spencer about Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Bethesda and its studios.
During the round table discussion, Spencer emphasized that the acquisition of Bethesda would be beneficial to Xbox gamers, but stopped shy of explaining what exactly is going to happen in the future with Bethesda titles – including the highly anticipated next game in The Elder Scrolls franchise,The Elder Scrolls 6, orStarfield. The big question that hasn’t been answered: will future Bethesda games only come to Xbox consoles?
“Obviously I can’t sit here and say every Bethesda game is exclusive, because we know that’s not true,” Spencer said. “There are contractual obligations that we’re going to see through, as we always do in every one of these instances. We have games that exist on other platforms, and we’re gonna go support those games on the platforms they’re on.”
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It seems unlikely that Microsoft will makeallBethesda games first-party exclusives, then, butMicrosoft has said recently that some new games will be exclusiveor have exclusive functionality on Xbox consoles like theXbox Series XandXbox Series S.
For Xbox gamers unacquainted with Bethesda’s back catalog of titles, however, their arrival on Xbox Game Pass is as good of a time as any to dive in.
Nick Pino is Managing Editor, TV and AV for TechRadar’s sister site, Tom’s Guide. Previously, he was the Senior Editor of Home Entertainment at TechRadar, covering TVs, headphones, speakers, video games, VR and streaming devices. He’s also written for GamesRadar+, Official Xbox Magazine, PC Gamer and other outlets over the last decade, and he has a degree in computer science he’s not using if anyone wants it.
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