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Meta adds the Xbox Game Pass starter edition to its Horizon Plus plan, which costs $60/year or $8/month; the starter pass allows 10 hours of gaming per month (Scott Stein/CNET)
Meta has integrated Xbox Game Pass Starter into its Horizon Plus subscription for Quest headsets, offering cloud-based Xbox gaming with a 10-hour monthly limit at $8/month or $60/year.
Jul 21, 2026
Sources detail Xbox's big reset after its Game Pass strategy failed; Xbox spent nearly $80B on content deals, but gamers prefer to stick with a handful of games (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
Microsoft's Xbox division is undergoing a major strategic overhaul—including cutting 3,200 jobs and divesting studios—after its Game Pass subscription model failed to shift player behavior toward broader content consumption despite $80B in content spending.
Jul 9, 2026
Source: Xbox Game Pass currently has about 30M subscriptions; document: Microsoft had projected Game Pass subscriptions would reach around 77M this year (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass subscription service has approximately 30 million subscribers, falling significantly short of its internal projection of 77 million for the year, amid declining revenue in the company's gaming division.
Jul 8, 2026