Xbox has confirmed rumours that the first Call Of Duty game to be added to Game Pass will appear this week, but it’s hardly the best one to start with.
It’s been rumoured for weeks now, but Xbox has confirmed that Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will be available via Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, and Xbox Game Pass for Console from Wednesday, July 24.
It’s the first time one of the Call Of Duty games has been available via Games Pass and while it’s logical that it should be the most recent, it’s unfortunate that last year’s game is widely viewed as the worst in recent history.
Rumours suggest that the campaign for Modern Warfare 3 was only ever intended to be DLC and the whole package was slapped together at short notice, which is certainly what it feels like. Thankfully though, while it will be the first entry on the service it won’t be the last.
Since Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard makes it a first party game, this year’s Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be available day one for every tier of Game Pass, except for the cheaper Xbox Game Pass Standard.
The Standard tier doesn’t start until September 12, but Modern Warfare 3 would almost certainly be available through it anyway, because it’s an older title.
It’s assumed that all Call Of Duty games will become available via the service eventually, although Microsoft has given no indication how long that might take to happen.
Rumours of Modern Warfare 3 coming to Game Pass this week has been leaked multiple times but the other rumour that accompanied it was that the beta version of Valorant on consoles would also become available on Friday, July 26.
There’s no sign of that so far but that’s not believed to be exclusive to Xbox or any other console. Since Valorant is free-to-play it doesn’t need Game Pass either, so it should be available for anyone to download, just in time for the weekend.
In theory, Xbox could make any Activision Blizzard game available via Game Pass but as the changes to the subscription tiers imply, they’ve released that that cuts into their full-price sales.
So far, Diablo 4 is the only other major title to appear on the service, since the $69 billion acquisition, and it remains unclear what else can be expected.
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