Earlier this week, immoderate folks checking Microsoft’s Cloud Gaming beta website noticed thing weird: listings for games similar Elden Ring and Grand Theft Auto V not lone said they were portion of the company’s Game Pass offering, but would besides beryllium playable connected the cloud.

Here’s a screengrab of Elden Ring’s page taken by @klobrille, intelligibly showing some the “GAME PASS” badge and the information that it’s playable connected the Cloud Gaming beta:

Listings for Grand Theft Auto V (which has already been connected the work and left) and, weirdly, Soul Hackers revealed the aforesaid thing, successful that nary of the games had antecedently been disposable either connected Game Pass oregon connected Cloud Gaming, but present present they were. Even weirder is the information that nary of those things had ever been announced, which you’d deliberation would beryllium the lawsuit fixed the prominence of some Elden Ring and GTA V.

There’s a crushed for that, of course, due to the fact that Microsoft have since told Eurogamer that the listings were a “bug”. “We’re alert of a bug that incorrectly displayed immoderate titles arsenic disposable with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate,” a typical says. “We rolled retired a hole and this is present updated.”

Normally this benignant of administrative, backend worldly wouldn’t beryllium that exciting, but what got radical funny present is that GamesCom is little than 2 weeks away, with Microsoft owed to marque a important quality (and a unrecorded presentation). And successful June, Microsoft announced that Xbox Game Pass Ultimate users would beryllium capable to play “select” titles they ain via Cloud Gaming, adjacent if they weren’t portion of the Game Pass catalogue.

Put those 2 things unneurotic and it seemed wholly plausible that Microsoft had simply jumped the weapon connected a mates of GamesCom announcements. Calling these listings a “bug” surely seems to enactment a dampener connected that enthusiasm, but GamesCom kicks disconnected connected August 22 conscionable successful lawsuit you privation to support an oculus connected things anyway.