{"id":115729,"date":"2017-03-01T12:30:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T10:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=115729"},"modified":"2017-03-01T10:47:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T08:47:02","slug":"xbox-unveils-game-pass-subscription-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/115729-xbox-unveils-game-pass-subscription-service","title":{"rendered":"Xbox unveils Game Pass subscription service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced its new <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US\/games\/xbox-game-pass\" target=\"_blank\">Game Pass<\/a><\/strong> subscription service for Xbox, which allows gamers to enjoy a large library of games for a monthly fee.<\/p>\n<p>Xbox Game Pass gives users access to over 100 Xbox and backward-compatible Xbox 360 for a monthly subscription fee of $9.99.<\/p>\n<p>Popular games which will be available on the Game Pass service at launch include Halo 5: Guardians, Payday 2, NBA 2K16, and SoulCalibur II.<\/p>\n<p>Game Pass subscribers are able to download games to their device and will enjoy discounts on all titles featured in the Game Pass catalogue.<\/p>\n<p>New games will be added to the Game Pass every month, while some older games will cycle\u00a0out of the programme.<\/p>\n<p>The Xbox Game Pass is currently available to select members of the Xbox Insider Program and will become available to all Xbox users in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/200920-xbox-launches-netflix-style-game-subscription-service.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/200730-twitch-to-sell-video-games-online.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Twitch to sell video games online<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced its new Game Pass subscription service for Xbox, which allows gamers to enjoy a large library of games for a monthly fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":94911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[24079,243],"class_list":["post-115729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-xbox","tag-game-pass","tag-xbox-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}