Earlier today, Xbox held a roundtable discussion announcing that the acquisition of Bethesda is finally official. During the event, it was announced that over 20 classics from the much-beloved developer and publisher would be available on Xbox Games Pass starting tomorrow.
All of the following titles will be available through Cloud play for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members except for Morrowind, Oblivion, The Elder Scrolls Online and Fallout: New Vegas. The Bethesda games Xbox Game Pass:
- Dishonored
- Dishonored 2
- Doom
- Doom 2
- Doom 64
- Doom 3
- Doom Eternal
- Fallout New Vegas
- Fallout 4
- Fallout 76
- Prey
- Rage 2
- The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind
- The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion
- The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim
- The Elder Scrolls Online
- The Evil Within
- Wolfenstein: The New Order
- Wolfenstein The Old Blood
- Wolfenstein: Youngblood
During the roundtable event, Phil Spencer, Xbox head, somewhat addressed concerns surrounding the availability of future Bethesda games on other machines:
Obviously I can’t sit here and say every Bethesda game is exclusive. Because we know that’s not true. There’s contractual obligations that we’re going to see through, as we always do in every one of these instances. We have games that exist on other platforms, and we’re going to go support those games on the platforms they’re on. There’s communities of players, we love those communities and we’ll continue to invest in them. And even in the future, there may be things that have contractual things or legacy on different platforms that we’ll go do.
You can watch the full Bethesda acquisition roundtable here. The games listed above will be available on Xbox Game pass starting March 12th, 2021.
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