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Tom Orry @ Eurogamer.net 1 place · today 09:41 EDT

If Xbox Game Pass dies then we'll have lost one of gaming's best tools for discovery

I'm not going to argue that Game Pass, following its recent price hike, is cheap. It's not. It's creeped into the "hmm" category, similar to the £35 a month phone contract I'd scowl at every time I looked over my bank statement, which had actually gone from "mmm" to "mmm?" and was followed by a cost-cutting exercise that has now made me £28 a month better off, albeit with an old phone. At £22.99, Game Pass Ultimate is right on the precipice of doom - or in other words, me considering if I really need this e

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