Earlier today, Microsoft dropped its December Xbox Game Pass roundup - with 14 games coming to multiple tiers of the service in the next few weeks. The update stops at December 11th with the addition of Bratz: Rhythm & Style, and that's seemingly going to be our final XGP update for 2025 as the team begins to tease its 2026 lineup.
Yep, snuck at the bottom of today's Xbox Wire roundup is a little closing message regarding Xbox Game Pass in 2025 and 2026. The team wishes us all "a chill rest of your December", before mentioning that our next XGP update will be coming in "early 2026".
"We hope you have a chill rest of your December. May your batteries be always charged, your sessions always end in GG’s, and you always have the perfect game queued up next. We’ll be back to talk about what’s coming soon in early 2026! Cheers!"
In this case, then, it's looking like we won't be getting any further Xbox Game Pass updates in December - as opposed to every other month in the year where we get a second roundup during the middle of the month. All eyes are on 2026 now then, we suppose!
And, it sounds as though we've got a big year ahead of us on Xbox Game Pass. Not only might we see at least five major first-party games drop next year, but October's XGP overhaul also noted that we can now expect "75+ day one games a year". That's a lot to play on Game Pass Ultimate over the next year or so!
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