Microsoft has today announced some of its plans for Call of Duty on Xbox Cloud Gaming. Beginning with the launch of Black Ops 6 later this month, the series will be making its Xbox Cloud Gaming debut across three separate titles.
Those titles are the aforementioned Black Ops 6 (of course), alongside last year's Modern Warfare 3 and the free-to-play battle royale Call of Duty: Warzone. Warzone will mark just the second free-to-play game for Xbox Cloud Gaming - following the partnership struck with Fortnite back in 2022.
What's more, this represents quite a big milestone in regards to ActiBlizz titles getting Xbox Cloud Gaming support. If you remember, there was a whole ordeal with the merger and how Microsoft could leverage it to gain a big foothold in the cloud gaming market - an ordeal that led to Ubisoft scooping up the rights for ActiBlizz cloud games.
To be honest, we still don't fully understand Ubisoft's role in hosting cloud titles from the Activision and Blizzard teams - it's said to be "licensing" them from Xbox. We'd assume the company has now worked with Microsoft to start rolling this out - with these three Call of Duty titles being Xbox Cloud Gaming compatible starting October 25.
Will you be making use of Xbox Cloud Gaming for these titles? Tell us down in the comments.
[source news.xbox.com]
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@DoctorJohnDisco Agreed. I had fully expected the previous Black Ops games to release on Game Pass before BO6. I'm half in, because I only finished BO1 when it released and have no idea what the plot is now, but I want to give this campaign a go. I may just check it out really quick and wait for the others to play them in order.
Tried this cloud gaming on my series x now I have 200mb/sec. UK.
Yes I got to the game quick it started quick.
But the quality was absolutely shockingly bad, they are a million miles away from 4K HDR, Dolby atmos sound etc etc.
I could not think of a worse way to play a game.
It was really bad good knows what it is playing in. It smeared and blurry etc. I tried a few all with the same results.
Nothing for decades will replace a full powerful console under my TV.
— ‘Did you get Call of Duty on Game Pass?’
– ‘Yes.’
— ‘What did it cost?’
– ‘Everything’.
Can't lie, if/when they release World at War on gamepass I will go crazy. Seeing those servers full again... it'll bring a tear to my eyes.
Now just put the damn DLC on sale! Blops2 season pass goes on sale, and original MW2 dlc is given away for free. Why no others?
But warzone is free this is so crap where's all the 360 games for gamepass you c***s🤬
Better Xcloud app is the way to go but Xcloud itself is chuffing awful.
It’s inexcusable that Microsoft haven’t improved the performance from day one, it really is. It’s all well and good having them available on cloud, but the performance needs to be better. Has to be better.
I can't think of a time I used Xbox Cloud Gaming for anything but doing a Game Pass Quest w/o installing things.
Get ready to lose your digital rights on purchases with this set up of cloud + licensing + subscription based service, no way they can mess that up right?
@Ricky-Spanish This is about Cloud gaming not Game Pass though. So soon you'll be able to play Warzone through the Cloud on mobile, Samsung TVs, old laptops, etc.
They did the same with Fortnite, and I've found that useful as it gives you much better graphical quality than other methods like Nvidia and mobile apps.
I thought they weren't allowed to put new Call of Duty (or other ActiBliz titles) on Cloud gaming though. They sold the rights to Ubisoft. Is this just another example of MS just bulshitting their way through anti-monopoly rules?
I swear M$ leadership doesn't know wtf they're doing after acquiring all those studios, smh... Freaking missed opportunity to re-release some of COD's older back catalogue.
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