Xbox Adds More Classic Bethesda Bangers To Game Pass - Kotaku

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An Elder Scrolls Legend: BattlespireScreenshot: Bethesda

PC Game Pass users present person entree to much classical Bethesda and id Software games, including immoderate aged Elder Scrolls spin-offs and old-school shooters, like Wolfenstein 3D. And that’s not all. Bethesda is besides offering immoderate older games for escaped successful the Microsoft Store connected PC.

Announced earlier contiguous arsenic portion of the commencement of QuakeCon, Microsoft has expanded the PC Game Pass room to see 5 caller titles. If you don’t remember, Microsoft bought Bethesda past twelvemonth after regulators approved the billion-dollar deal. So now, Microsoft tin pump Game Pass afloat of vintage Bethesda games, which they are continuing to bash today.

The database of PC Game Pass games added contiguous includes immoderate genuine classics from some Bethesda and Doom developers id Software. Here’s the afloat list:

  • Wolfenstein 3D
  • Return to Castle Wolfenstein
  • Quake 4
  • An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire
  • The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard

While astir of these games person been precise casual to bargain and play connected modern PCs earlier this news, it’s inactive bully to spot much of Bethesda and id Software’s backmost catalog marque the leap to Game Pass. I bash wonderment if we’ll ever spot these games get ports to Xbox, but for now, these are lone for Game Pass users connected PC.

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On apical of the caller titles added to Game Pass, Microsoft besides announced that some The Elder Scrolls: Arena and The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall, the archetypal and 2nd entries successful the phantasy RPG series, volition beryllium escaped to download and play via the Microsoft Store connected PC.

Confusingly, this doesn’t look to widen to the Xbox App Store connected PC, arsenic erstwhile I searched for either rubric determination I got nothing. Only erstwhile I searched for the games successful the Microsoft Store did I find them. Weird stuff!

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