Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III is coming to Xbox Game Pass on July 24, 2024, to both console and PC
Confirming our previous reports, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III will be dropping into Xbox Game Pass on July 24, marking the franchise’s first modern Xbox Game Pass outing.
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What you need to know
If you ever looked at Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and thought “wow, $70 is too much,” well this news is for you.
Last week,we corroborated reports that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from last year would be hitting Xbox Game Passthis July. Microsoft’s all-you-can-eat gaming subscription service has been on a good run this summer, dropping excellent titles likeDungeons of HinterbergandKunitsu-gami: Path of the Goddessinto the library. With Call of Duty hitting the service, July 2024 could prove one of the service’s biggest months for growth, maybe ever.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 comprises the standard modern Call of Duty experience, with campaign, zombie horde modes, and its much-loved multiplayer experiences. The game’s price has rarely come down from its standard $70 price point, as is typical for Activision games. There’s a large cohort of users inXbox Game Passwho will likely be trying it out for the first time now, giving Modern Warfare 3 a big boost.
The game has had various high-profile seasonal cross-overs of late, including recent features with Fallout, The Boys TV show, and WWE wrestlers.
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Dropping Call of Duty in early could serve as something of a test run for Microsoft, who have invested a lot in integrating the Call of Duty HQ app into the Xbox Game Pass system. Going in without a full-bore without a proper testwhen Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 launches later this yearprobably wouldn’t have been the smartest thing to do.
Unfortunately, though, it seems Xbox Cloud Gaming is going to be left out of the fun. PerMicrosoft’s Activision-Blizzard acquisition agreements with the UK regulator CMA, Ubisoft owns the rightsto where Activision-Blizzard games appear in the cloud, sadly. This is why we have yet to see Diablo IV hit a cloud service, despite its popularity on console and PC, and despite how obviously great itwouldbe on mobile devices.
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Still, getting Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III onto Xbox Game Pass early gives us a taste of what the future of Activision-Blizzard titles will be like for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate users, who now get new games day and date exclusivelysince Microsoft’s recent Xbox Game Pass changes.
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