Microsoft announces the first wave of the December 2024 Xbox Game Pass lineup, which includes five new titles and several XGP Standard additions.

Xbox giveth and Xbox taketh away. November saw some big names come to the Game Pass subscription service, like Stalker 2, Flight Simulator 2024, and Aliens: Dark Descent, but December sees some some real bangers removed.

Game Pass Standard subscribers can now race over 500 real-world cars across different environments and famous race tracks, like Daytona International Speedway and Laguna Seca Raceway. Dynamic time of day and weather conditions add more challenges to each race and ensure that no two races are the same.

Fans should prioritize the games they want to play before they're gone.

A total of 6 additional games will leave on December 31. The list includes BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, Humankind, LEGO 2K Drive, Party Animals, and more. In total, Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass will lose 13 games this month. Below is the list of titles leaving at the end of December:

As usual, you can get a discount of at least 20% on these Xbox Game Pass titles until they leave in a few weeks' time, and some of them may be reduced even further - Party Animals, for example, has a 50% discount on the Xbox Store.

Some newly surfaced evidence suggests that yet another beloved platformer may be coming to Xbox Game Pass in the near future.

Microsoft added the remastered Spyro trilogy to Game Pass earlier in November, letting subscribers play as the iconic purple dragon. Now, Microsoft is taking subscribers back to the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in the sequel to the award-winning Stalker.

A Xbox Game Pass leak has revealed another major game coming to the subscription service, presumably after Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.