Xbox Game Pass reaches 25 million subscribers

Xbox Game Pass reached 25 million subscribers, Microsoft confirmed via Xbox Wire on Tuesday. Previously, the service reached a benchmark of 18 million subscribers in January. 2022. This is an increase of seven million subscribers a year afterward.

The news of this new milestone came accompanying the annunciation that Microsoft is acquiring Activision-Blizzard, a gaming publisher known for titles similar Call of Duty and Globe of Warcraft. Microsoft is spending almost $70 billion in greenbacks to consummate the purchase, which is expected to go through regulation and finalize onetime before June 2023. Microsoft plans to add games from Activision-Blizzard's catalog to Xbox Game Pass one time the deal is finalized.

Microsoft is aggressively expanding in guild to grow its gaming content and attract more subscribers to Xbox Game Laissez passer, previously acquiring Zenimax Media, parent company of Bethesda Softworks, for $7.5 billion Sep. 2022. That deal closed in March 2022, and is seeing several Xbox console sectional games in development, including Bethesda Game Studios' Starfield and Arkane Austin's Redfall.

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