{"id":183564,"date":"2025-10-01T22:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T22:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183564\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T22:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T22:19:07","slug":"microsoft-raises-top-xbox-game-pass-subscription-by-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183564\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft raises top Xbox Game Pass subscription by 50%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reuters) -Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox has raised the price of the highest tier of Game Pass by 50% and expanded its offerings under the videogame subscription service to include more games, enhanced cloud streaming and a revamped rewards system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Xbox will now charge $29.99 per month for a Game Pass Ultimate subscription, $10 higher than earlier, the console maker said in a post on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">In return, these subscribers will get more than 75 first-day releases a year, including premium titles such as &#8220;Call of Duty: Black Ops 7&#8221;, and &#8220;Ninja Gaiden 4.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Microsoft had last month also announced price hikes for its consoles in the U.S. for a second time this year due to tariff-induced cost pressures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Xbox has made big bets on its subscription service by offering more premium titles and cloud gaming access, as it seeks to establish a foothold in the games-as-a-service industry to counter sluggish console sales and economic uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Alongside the price increase, the company rebranded its cheapest and middle tiers to &#8220;Essential&#8221; and &#8220;Premium&#8221;, and included unlimited cloud gaming in them, as a part of its push to allow gamers to stream titles anywhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Prices for the other two tiers remain unchanged, Xbox said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Zaheer Kachwala in Bengaluru; Editing by Leroy Leo)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Reuters) -Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox has raised the price of the highest tier of Game Pass by 50% and expanded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,63,77421,61,6734],"class_list":["post-183564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-microsoft","tag-subscription-service","tag-technology","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}