Xbox Game Pass for PC Rebranded to PC Game Pass

Last Updated on December 10, 2021 by Anu Joy

Microsoft has announced that it’s changing the name of its Xbox Game Pass for PC to simply PC Game Pass. The rebranding was made public during The Game Awards on Thursday. Its logo, however, still sports the Xbox symbol.

It appears that the company’s gaming department is going for a platform-agnostic approach, with its push towards dropping ‘Xbox’ to a simpler ‘PC Game Pass’. It also rolls off the tongue better. Prior to this, Microsoft offered the Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Game Pass for PC, and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions. The naming convention wrongly led you to believe that they were exclusively for Xbox games.

Xbox Game Pass gives you access to console games, Xbox Game Pass for PC gets you PC games, and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate lets you play both console and PC games. However, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate has not been rebranded yet, which could still result in some confusion.

The tweet shows the list of games you can expect to see on the PC Game Pass on day one:

• 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

And some new games coming in the future:

• Sniper Elite 5
• Pigeon Simulator
• Trek to Yomi
• Unannounced game from Hugecalf Studios

Which of these games are you looking forward to? Let us know in the comments.